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Win tickets to Outside Lands from BART ... and take public transit to get there!
Don't have tickets yet for Outside Lands? There's still time to win them from BART. The music and arts festival Aug. 22-24 is encouraging people to take public transit to Golden Gate Park, and BART can help you get there.
BART
Lawyer to lend his voice to the fight against violence
Michael Rosenfeld’s best vocal work is often reserved for the shower or while travelling in the car. But at the end of the month the East Maitland man will join one of Australia’s finest tenors in taking centre stage for a concert in support of Maitland women fleeing domestic violence.
The Maitland Mercury
Win tickets to Citizen Cope!
"When I was a kid, I was a listener," says Clarence Greenwood, a.k.a. Citizen Cope. "Music was something coming out of a radio or off a record, something that made me feel these things I couldn't explain. It was magical to me, and I thought it was something you had to be ordained with."
San Diego Reader
Charitable arts group to kick off another performance
By Josh McCann Community Impact Productions will hold a kickoff meeting Saturday for potential participants in its upcoming musical variety presentation “’Tis The Season of Joy.” The production offers the opportunity to perform with special guest and multiple Grammy award-winning gospel recording artist Larnelle Harris in November.  Areas of participation include a mass choir, vocal ensemble, ...
Harrisburg Horizons
George Steel Leaving Columbia for Dallas Opera
The Dallas Opera, a high-profile regional company that moves into a new Norman Foster-designed home next year, yesterday appointed George Steel as its new general director. One of New York's leading specialists in contemporary music, Mr. Steel, 41, will join London-born Graeme Jenkins, 49, who has been music director of the company since 1994, at a key juncture in its history. In October 2009, ...
The New York Sun
14-Year-Old Composer Wins $50K Award
A 14-year-old pianist and composer, Conrad Tao, will be honored as a 2008 fellow laureate of the Davidson Institute for Talent Development, an honor that includes a $50,000 prize, the organization announced today. Fellows of the program, designed to help the creative development of gifted youths from a variety of fields, receive awards ranging from $10,000 to $50,000. Mr. Tao, a New Yorker, ...
The New York Sun
The Guardian (UK) 08/13/08
Why Is Music For Theatre So Bad? "I genuinely can't understand why this is so. Because no good composers are working in theatre? Because directors are worried it'll somehow dominate, or turn it into opera - or, worse, a musical? Surely it can't be because they don't know any better? Can it?"
Arts Journal
Lionel Loueke & Richard Bona at Jazz at Lincoln Center
Who/What: Guitarist/vocalist Lionel Loueke from Benin and bassist/vocalist Richard Bona from Cameroon are instrumentalists fluent in the folkloric music of their African homelands and contemporary American jazz vocabulary.
All About Jazz
Music draws family and fans to Olalla
Gig Harbor’s Dewhirst family will be performing at this weekend’s festival. Mom Erin, Kaiti, 12, Luke, 14, Jake, 16, and dad Gary stopped into AllStar Guitar last week to get new strings for their instruments.
Peninsula Gateway
Madden NFL 09 PSP Entertainment Pack Now Available
Centered on the 20th Anniversary edition of the popular sports franchise, the Madden NFL 09 bundle showcases the multi-functional features of the PSP system, from gaming to videos and music, while delivering great value to consumers.
GameInfoWire
Retail music for farmers
Calcutta, Aug. 13: Farmers in Bengal will be told of the benefits of food retail in a language they understand and by voices they are familiar with.
The Telegraph
(WWE) Chris Jericho To Host New Television Show; Details
-- WWE Superstar Chris Jericho has signed on to host a new television show named "Shame 2 Fame" which will air on the Fuse network. The show will follow ten aspiring female singers as they compete for a record deal and their own music video which will also air on the network.
The Wrestling News Page
It's New trueWidget Wednesday: Six New Artists and More Than 50 Tracks "Up for Grabs" at trueAnthem.com
It's Wednesday and that means new trueWidgets will be released today at trueAnthem.com. This week, Bag of Toys, Brian Chartrand, The Distance, Matt Hartke, Killola, and This World Fair will release exclusive new music with trueAnthem, the breakthrough modern music label that is monetizing the social networking music scene.
PRWeb via Yahoo! News
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TORONTO - The runner-up on "How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria?" has been cast as an "alternate Maria" for the upcoming Toronto stage production of "The Sound of Music."
Brandon Sun
What's up tomorrow?
The Bart Crow Band with Texas Renegade will play Brewster Street Ice House, 1724 N. Tancahua St. Music starts at 9 p.m. Cost: $8.
Corpus Christi Caller-Times
H-Town Rock
For the Weekend of August 14th-17th, 2008 Hello there Houston and welcome to what you have all anticipating for the entire week: the newest installment of H-Town Rock. Here at Houstonist, we look forward to bringing our dozen or so readers the best and brightest upcoming musical performances in, around, and about our beloved Bayou City. It is our perpetual wish for each and every one of ...
Houstonist
Billboard.com -- Thievery Corporation Plots 'Retaliation'
Thievery Corporation's fifth album, "Radio Retaliation," will emerge Sept. 23 on CD via the duo's own ESL Music, with a digital release scheduled for two weeks earlier.
Billboard.com
Zoo’s Australian Exhibit Named Best In Nation
FORT WAYNE, Ind. (Indiana's NewsCenter) -- The Fort Wayne Children’s Zoo was named the country’s Number One Zoo for Australian Animals and Exhibits by the authors of America’s Best Zoos.
Indiana's NewsCenter
Tropic Thunder – Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Review
The Crystal Method remix rules this collection of tunes from the film. August 13, 2008 - As can be expected from a movie-within-a-movie about a movie being made about the Vietnam War, the accompanying soundtrack is gonna be chock full of requisite music of the '60s and '70s, echoing the anti-war sentiments that surrounded the period as well as songs that strive to capture the wet, dirty, and ...
IGN Music
CMT brings Jason Aldean to TPAC
CMT announced today it will bring country music singer Jason Aldean to Topeka for a Nov. 6 concert in the Topeka Performing Arts Center.
The Topeka Capital-Journal
Nashville named finalist to host NCAA Women's Final Four
Music City is one step closer to hosting an NCAA women's basketball Final Four.
The Tennessean
Gustafson leaves CU opera program
William Gustafson, director of opera studies in the College of Music at the University of Colorado since 2002, has resigned from the faculty to accept a new position as assistant dean of the School of Visual and Performing Arts at Long Island University in New York.
Colorado Daily
Talk of the Town Aug. 14
Milpitas' senior citizen center celebrated a milestone Tuesday with food, music and even some dancing as its nutrition program turned 30 years old. Senior center staff marked the anniversary during a lunchtime program.
The Milpitas Post
Time to Tie a String Around That Strad
Why do musicians keep getting separated from their precious, often priceless instruments?
New York Times
Video Music Awards negotiations under way for Britney Spears
Britney Spears may get a shot at redemption at this year's MTV Video Music Awards.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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