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Warner partners We7 to offer free music
Warner Music UK has partnered with ad-funded music service We7 to offer music from its roster of artists for free, in exchange for receiving ads.
Netimperative |
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Folkies add finishing touches
With ticket sales up over last year, a solar-powered stage, a new shuttle bus service and music lovers already pitching tents in local campgrounds, the buzz is building for the start of Summerfolk on Friday. "We're down to the last minute details -- the tents are going up, [...]
Owen Sound Sun Times |
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Christian music festival keeps getting bigger
It started when a Christian couple in Hunterdon County set out to provide some contemporary but wholesome music to local kids.
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Downtown Summer in the City festival a success for Marion-Polk Food Share
Last weekend's Summer in the City Music and Wine Festival in Salem is being called a success by Marion-Polk Food Share, co-sponsor with Go Downtown.
Salem Statesman Journal |
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Britney Spears: Happy being a mom and an aunt
Associated Press - August 14, 2008 6:24 AM ET NEW YORK (AP) - Britney Spears says she's making the best music of her life and she was a little shocked when her little sister got...
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Fun at a glance
Those who know their way around ducks won't want to miss the Oregon Waterfowl Festival. The highlight will be the duck-calling contests, which will run from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday and 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sunday. If you're feeling competitive, there's also a blind and decoy-carving competitions, as well as carving demonstrations, custom call-making demos and vendors.
Salem Statesman Journal |
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Eugene wine festival to include music, art
Different regions of Oregon wine country will be featured at Eugene's Savor the Vine Festival, which will run from 6 to 9 p.m. Aug. 22, 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Aug. 23 and noon to 6 p.m. Aug. 24 at 296 E Fifth St. in Eugene.
Salem Statesman Journal |
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Annual pops concert has a female bent
The sounds of the '40s will swing at the Newport Performing Arts Center this weekend as the Lincoln Pops Orchestra puts on its annual concert.
Salem Statesman Journal |
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The Welwyn and Hatfield Times
A future with the Royal Marines beckons for Tewin girl Natalie Wade. A school spokesman said: "As an accomplished musician, Natalie is now hoping to join the Band of the Royal Marines, based in Portsmouth and also study for a music degree.
The Welwyn & Hatfield Times |
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Thousands due at beach festival
Thousands of music fans are expected to attend a four-day music extravaganza at a North Yorkshire resort.
BBC News |
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Top-Hatz at Colony Hotel
On Sunday, Aug. 17, the popular duo Top-Hatz will again present a free concert of the greatest music from the 1920s and#8212; 1960s in the grand dining room at the Colony Hotel at 140 Ocean Ave. in Kennebunkport, from 5 to 6 p.m.
York County Coast Star |
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Summer of my new addictions
I have a confession to make. As my mother tells me, I have a tendency to obsess over things. That is, if I like something, I REALLY like it and immerse myself in it for hours at a time. This happens with books, hobbies, music (this summer I've been...
York County Coast Star |
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Sonya Kitchell Storms The States
Singer/songwriter Sonya Kitchell will follow this summer's turn as featured vocalist in Herbie Hancock 's band with a fall tour celebrating her latest release, This Storm . Kitchell, who will be backed on the trek by Montreal-based trio The Slip , kicks off her headlining run September 24 at Higher Ground in Burlington, Vt., Colony Café in Woodstock, N.Y. (September 27), World Café Live in ...
POLLSTAR |
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U.S. women have only themselves to blame for 2nd-place finish
Four years of anticipation came down to the floor exercise, on a blue mat with white lines, and as the music swelled, the crowd screamed and the TV cameras zoomed in, the American gymnasts stumbled. Three missteps and a fall, and the gold medal was gone. The U.S. women's gymnastics team was best in the world, and Beijing was supposed to be the place where it would return to Olympic glory. ...
Lexington Herald-Leader |
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Barlist for August 18
A list of live music and specials at some of Gainesville's popular night spots.
The Gainesville Sun |
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Swing dance to benefit Myanmar relief
KENNEBUNKPORT and#8212; Join Chris Humphrey and his 15-piece band as he presents a concert of new and traditional swing and Big Band music to not only entertain the family but to benefit the continued cyclone relief efforts so desperately needed to help...
York County Coast Star |
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Editor's Picks: Things to do in York County this week
Grab your cowboy (or girl) and head on over to the 10th anniversary Cowboy Ball on Saturday, which will feature musical entertainment by the Don Campbell Band, dancing, mechanical bull riding, the Birdcage Casino, a raffle and a country-style barbecue...
York County Coast Star |
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Rock Hall in a N.Y. state of mind
NEW YORK – The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is going on the road to New York – the city that spawned hip-hop and gave Bob Dylan and the Ramones their start. Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced Wednesday that the Cleveland-based museum is opening an annex in downtown Manhattan. Photo caption: Joel
Fort Wayne Journal Gazette |
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Lacking punch, Giants begin youth movement
HOUSTON — The San Francisco Giants' youth movement just wrote a whole new stanza, even if the music wasn't so sweet last night.
Honolulu Advertiser |
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NEWS: De La Soul, Naughty By Nature & Cypress Hill Among Honorees At '08 VH1 Hip Hop Honors
Executive Vice President and General Manager of VH1, Tom Calderone said, “Now in its fifth year, the ‘VH1 Hip Hop Honors’ has come to represent the pinnacle of innovation and achievement in hip hop music.
SOHH.com |
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Galway Leaving Certs among the highest achievers in the country
Donald Courtney (600 points), Colm Harrington (600 points), Laura Whitla (700 points), Kate Dineen (600 points), Sam Forde (600 points), Michael Higgins (600 points), David Alani (600 points) from Yeats College in Galway city who received their Leaving Certificate results yesterday.
The Galway Advertiser |
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Phil Spector's lawyer asks for stay in murder retrial
Phil Spector's lawyers asked a judge on Wednesday for an indefinite stay of the music producer's murder retrial so they can appeal the case on double jeopardy grounds. Defense attorneys Dennis Riordan and Doron Weinberg want an assurance that prosecutors will not ask jurors to convict Spector on lesser offenses of voluntary or involuntary manslaughter. Spector's first trial resulted in a jury ...
Moldova.org |
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A LITTLE OF EVERYTHING ON DEBUT CD
It's kind of a shame that the catchiest, most repeatedly listenable song on Sean Stokholm's debut album is the unlisted hidden track. According to the liner notes, the album, titled Devils, Do-Gooders and Me, has only eight songs. Not true.
Guelph Mercury |
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POINTED SONGS FROM SHARP PENS
In the nine years since his last proper album, Randy Newman has not been short of work. His Tin Pan Alley songwriting has been put to good use in countless Hollywood projects, finally landing the prolific writer an Oscar in 2002 for Monsters Inc.
Guelph Mercury |
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A LITTLE POP THROWN INTO DAWSON ALBUM
Vancouver's Steve Dawson is a music-making machine. Whether as a producer, musician, composer, singer/songwriter or driving force behind Black Hen Music, Dawson is a force to be reckoned with in Canadian music.
Guelph Mercury |
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