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An Old Rocker Gets Digital
An article last Sunday about the online music ventures of Peter Gabriel misstated the year when he bought half of Solid State Logic, which makes high-end recording studio consoles. It was 2005, not 1995.
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Chester music festival draws thousands
CHESTER -- Brian Fitzpatrick of West Milford was a solo artist at the first Black River Music and Art Fest two years ago and appeared a second time Saturday with a full band, including a drummer, bass guitarist, fiddler and accordionist.
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Singer-songwriter To Perform 'Acoustic Mellow Rock'
Chaos. Anyone who has ever had an unsuccessful relationship can identify with that title of a Jayne Kelli song. According to Kelli, the lyrics tell the story of "trying really hard for someone to understand you, and they just never do."
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MIXist: Advanced Afrobeat For Beginners
"Botswana '06" by Matt Craig I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: “It was the sound of post-independence Nigeria, not Vampire Weekend.” Suffice it to say that Afrobeat has become an increasingly prominent element in today’s fusion music. Yet we seldom stop to think where these unique tones originated. So this compilation marks the beginning of a series dedicated to investigating the ...
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This Weekends Events
Until 27 Sep 2008 An exhibition exploring artists' books and book making, book as subject, object and theme.... more details Until 31 Dec 2008 Resident DJ's playing a wide range of music....
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Surprising season in store
A clown and a new music director will be among the talent vying for your attention at the Dewan Filharmonik Petronas during the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra’s Season 2008/09.
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Guitarist Tommy Emmanuel's Center Stage DVD
Tommy Emmanuel c.g.p. Favored Nations Acoustic presents two new projects from virtuoso guitarist Tommy Emmanuel c.g.p. (certified guitar player): Center Stage a live two CD set, followed by a full length concert DVD.
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Blueprints of Jazz CD Series, from Talking House Records
Talking House Records announces the launch 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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Dave Valentin; Jammin on the Hudson
For Our final Concert of this Season, We Present; one of the only remaining Latin Kings of Jazz on the scene today, who came up in that tradition with Tito Puente, and Mario Rivera & the Salsa Refugees.
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Australia's Giants of Jazz
QPAC is getting all jazzed up to host some of Australia's biggest names in jazz. For an entire weekend in August, jazz fans will be treated to two days of non-stop music by some of the country's finest performers and bands.
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Proud Spell wins $600,000 Alabama Stakes in stretch battle with Music Note
Associated Press - August 16, 2008 6:55 PM ET SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. (AP) - Proud Spell won the $600,000 Alabama Stakes for 3-year-old fillies by a head over Music Note on Saturday at Saratoga...
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Proud Spell digs in gamely in Alabama to silence Music Note
Kentucky Oaks (G1) winner Proud Spell showed she was up for a challenge in the stretch of the $600,000 Alabama Stakes (G1) on Saturday at Saratoga Race Course, turning back multiple Grade 1 winner Music Note to prevail by a head.
Thoroughbred Times |
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DJ K-Swift's Final Set, the New Dru Hill, and Other Artscape Highlights
We'd already started writing up our memories of this year's Artscape when we received some shocking news this morning about a performer who was responsible for one of our favorite moments from the festival.
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Yes, we were the original Spinal Tap, says Rick Wakeman of Seventies prog-rock supergroup
He was the alcoholic, meat-loving Tory in a band of right-on vegetarians, an outrageous autobiography reveals.
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www.kentonline.co.uk - your gateway to Kent
THE UK'S biggest free music festival, famed for attracting top acts from around the world, is coming to Maidstone. The town has been chosen as the venue for Radio 1's Big Weekend , a two-day extravaganza involving the cream of international music talent.
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Gas up . . . fiddle festival is a go
Sturgeon Falls Step Dance and Fiddle Festival organziers, worried record-high gas prices would hurt this year’s attendance, couldn’t have been more wrong. Festival chairman Charlie Lang said the number of people who rolled into town for the annual event this year was actually up compared to 2007 despite soaring [...]
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Clarissa Street Reunion Celebrates the Past
An old Rochester neighborhood turned back the clock to celebrate its past this weekend. For the 13th straight year, thousands returned to the city's southwest side to enjoy some music, food and crafts.
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Tickle Me Pink highlights rain-soaked day at NewWestFest
Fort Collins rock band Tickle Me Pink returned to the stage in Fort Collins this afternoon for the first time since its bassist died earlier this summer.
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The beat of an unheard music
It’s drizzling outside and the first floor room in New Alipore is full of shadows. One wonders if Tapan Sinha would have thought the light suitable for a shoot.
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Proud Spell edges Music Note in Alabama Stakes
Proud Spell got the best of 2-5 favorite Music Note to capture Saturday's $600,000 Alabama Stakes at Saratoga. The two fillies are considered two of this year's best three-year-old females in training.
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Local Notes
College Forms Jazz Band BENTONVILLE - NorthWest Arkansas Community College offers a course in jazz education. "Jazz Band" is a performance-based lab for students of all instruments and skill levels. The course includes techniques, jazz theory, harmony and improvisation strategies. Students supply their own instruments, and public performances are required.
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Skin no sin for China's beach babes 17 Aug 2008, 0358 hrs IST,REUTERS
BEIJING: Beach volleyball fans are getting more bikini bliss for their buck in Beijing, thanks to cheerleading Chinese "beach babes" who are baring nearly all to help their country stage a colourful Olympics.
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Rockers who lead lives away from the stage
For these musicians, life is a bigger concert. They're magicians, professors and, well, you name it. IN APRIL, Greg Graffin, a professor in the UCLA life sciences department, arrived on the campus of Harvard University to accept an Outstanding Lifetime Achievement Award in Cultural Humanism, an honor that had gone to Salman Rushdie the previous year. The studious-looking Graffin stood at a ...
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Nico Muhly looks for that radical sound
The composer's young career shows an adventurous streak, including stints with Philip Glass and Björk. His newest is 'Mothertongue.' THE FIRST vocal lines of young composer Nico Muhly’s new album, "Mothertongue," consist of a seemingly arbitrary list of numbers and addresses. Sung by mezzo-soprano Abigail Fischer over aching strings and a distorted sub-bass synthesizer, the arrangement feels ...
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Book Festival publishes a new work for the first time
International Book Festival is usually where writers arrive after the long and often painful process of finding a publisher for their master work, writes Edd McCracken.
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