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Idols Roll In To Tampa, Again
Here comes "American Idols Live," aka America's largest cover group. Since the tour kicked off on July 1, the 10 finalists from the show's seventh season have been on the road, playing venues large and small, singing established songs that fit their various strengths and styles.
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TNA Impact Results 8/14/08
We get a video package from Hard Justice! Lauren meets with Joe and Nash as they arrive. She asks about the guitar, and Joe says if Booker and Sting want to play, he’s ready. Things are getting interesting around here, everyone is coming out to play.
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Music: A river runs through it
A seductive and charming body of water flows through Woodwork Roadshow. It’s as if the trio of alt-newgrass musicians wrote their new album while wading in a river, listening and feeling the current. “(The river) is a sign of renewal,” said John Satterfield, Woodwork’s guitarist and singer. “It’s where people go to relax.” The river also is where Woodwork, a moodily dynamic band that also ...
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Music: Hootie drummer follows his own beat
Jim “Soni” Sonefeld, Hootie and the Blowfish’s drummer, is singing to a different beat: his own. At Hootie shows, Sonefeld recently began selling copies of his debut CD, “Snowman Melting,” under the name James Sonefeld and The Christmas Brass. The CD will be on iTunes later this month. Sonefeld mines heavier topics including sobriety, lost and found love and Christianity. He sounds vulnerable ...
The State |
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Island entertainer Tommy Beaumont celebrates his 50th
Tommy Beaumont remembers when you could count the number of places to catch live music on Hilton Head Island on one hand.
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On the Scene: Guns, pornos and play dates
BACK OUT AGAIN: When American Gun released “The Means & The Machine” in February, the folk, Americana, rock and alt-country album (yes, they do it all, and well) received some stellar reviews. The glowing press piqued the interest of Red Wax Music , a Memphis, Tenn.-based label that will rerelease the album nationally Tuesday. On Saturday, American Gun will play at Art Bar, where the ...
The State |
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Festival report: Gullah/Geechee Nation International Music & Movement Festival
The three-day Gullah/Geechee Nation International Music & Movement Festival brings out the "authentic traditions keepers of the Gullah/Geechee Nation," said Marquetta Goodwine, a historian and founder of the Gullah/Geechee Sea Island Coalition and chief priestess of the Gullah/Geechee nation.
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On the Scene: This week’s highlights
PICKS OF THE WEEK 7 tonight: Highland Dance with Rathkeltair and Tori Anderson at Columbia Museum of Art. Anderson will perform artful solo dance accompanied by the Celtic band Rathkeltair, which plays traditional Scottish music. The museum is at Main and Hampton streets. Free with $5 museum admission; (803) 799-2810 8 tonight: DubConscious at Headliners. DubConscious, the Athens, ...
The State |
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First Look: i-Kit, iPod FM transmitter
If you have a portable digital music player like an iPod or iPhone, you can take your music everywhere you go. Unfortunately, the only place where you often canít listen to your music on these players is in your own car, where earphones can be a safety hazard. While some of the newer cars offer built-in ports for plugging in an iPod or cellular pho...
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Three-alarm blaze damages Concord music studios
CONCORD — A three-alarm fire heavily damaged a music rehearsal studio Thursday evening.The fire broke out at 8:05 p.m. at California Rehearsal Studio, located at 2565 Cloverdale Ave.
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Music and the brain
We've been hearing for years that if our children grew up listening to Mozart they'd be smarter and do better in school. There's some truth to that according to researchers at Cleveland Clinic. But it's not the most important thing they're finding out about how our brains are affected by music. And the brain scientists are getting help in their research from the Cleveland Orchestra. WKSU's ...
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Opry is back in Victoria
For its 23rd anniversary, the Victoria Country Opry is coming back home. Tonight, the long-running show will take place in Victoria for the first time in more than a year after it was relocated to DaCosta in the spring 2007.
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Tazewell County Fair Wraps Up Saturday
Fair goers are enjoying the rides, food and music.
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Briefs: Aug. 14, 2008
The Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum unveiled a new exhibit Thursday in honor of the Queen of Country Music. The Kitty Wells Exhibit runs through next summer.
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Three Chicks Who Sing
Threatening rainstorms moved tonight’s Levitt Pavilion program indoors to the Saugatuck Elementary School auditorium where three vocalists known as Three Chicks Who Sing--Sue Broudy, Karen Parrella and Cindy Vaccaro all from Weston--performed “The Power of Love.” The program of love songs was supported musically by noted jazz and gospel musician Chris Coogan on keyboards and Funkamus Maximus, a ...
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Sebring Music Boosters to host Taste of Pizza fundraiser
Photo By Gayle Agnew/The Review Displaying a slice of Pizza Joe's ultimate pizza are, from left, Sebring music students Katie Nezbeth and Anthony Christani. Pizza Joe's supervisor Lisa Kosko shows the fresh baked pie along with a pepperoni roll.
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Carnation Car Show participation rises as 230 take part in event
Photo By Ed Hall Jr./The Review Glamorgan Castle is seen from the air in this Review file photo. The Castle Crusaders raised more than $2,000 by giving tours of the building last weekend.
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Conchords take flight with TV show
Irreverently droll. That adjective just about describes the New Zealand music-comedy duo Flight of the Conchords, wryly billed as “formerly New Zealand's fourth most popular guitar-based digi-bongo a cappella-rap-funk-comedy folk duo”.
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5 things to do this weekend
1A car show with music is set for 8 p.m. today, Aug. 15, at Bar-B-Q Junction, 4750 Roosevelt Blvd., Middletown. For information, call (513) 217-0813.
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Music and movies on tap for summer nights
The Prairie Center for the Arts in Schaumburg has some outdoor entertainment lined up for families this summer.
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Eatery backs Idol hopeful
Pam McLay wants everyone to make the Wright choice for Canadian Idol. The owner of Jazzmyn’s Tapas & Taps in Owen Sound is a huge fan of Collingwood’s Drew Wright, one of five contestants remaining on the popular CTV singing competition. McLay said the 28-year-old house painter has [...]
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Can they stop the run? Raiders ready to face the music
Take three returning linebackers, add strong safety Gibril Wilson, carry over Michael Huff to free safety, multiply defensive tackle Tommy Kelly's contract 10 times over, divide snaps between nose tackles Terdell Sands and Gerard Warren, exchange Fabian...
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Indigo Girl Amy Ray Releases Electric Solo CD
With Didn't It Feel Kinder, songwriter and erstwhile Indigo Girl Amy Ray's third solo release and her most ambitious to date
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Blueprints of Jazz
Talking House Records announces the release of Blueprints of Jazz, a series of recordings that shines the spotlight on some of the lesser known innovators and style-setters in jazz.
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Group targets drugs, alcohol dangers
BRIDGEPORT — Although some of the drummers had a hard time staying in sync with the rest of the group, the rhythm — a combination of drums, maracas and brass bells — made Baba David
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