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Media Alert
The evening, entitled Lyrics By Don Black, was recorded for broadcast Aug. 22 on BBC Radio 2 as part of Friday Night is Music Night.
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Plaza Live! draws crowd
More than 2,000 students mingled among booths and lounged around the Ferguson Center Plaza Sunday night, listening to music and eating barbecue.
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National Artist for Music Lucrecia Kasilag, 90
National Artist for Music and former Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP) president Lucrecia Roces Kasilag passed away due to a lingering illness Saturday. She was 90 years old.
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India's day of independence celebrated
Against a backdrop of traditional Indian music and Bollywood hip hop, Indian-Canadian children of all ages dazzled a crowd at the Manitoba legislature Sunday afternoon with lively dance in brightly coloured dress in celebration of India's 61st Independence Day as one of the world's largest democracies. After wrapping up a week at Folklorama, the children said they were just as excited to perform ...
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TODAY’S BEST BET
An improvisatory music concert will be held tonight at 8 p.m. at St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church, 35 S. Franklin St., Wilkes-Barre. The concert will feature the talents of special guest jazz trumpeter and flugelhornist Herb Robertson, bassist Joe Michaels and experimental pianist Ron Stabinsky. Donations will be accepted. For information, call 574-2252.
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Flea market raises $1,500 for Hope House
DOVER -- The lawn outside the headquarters of Hope House at 19-21 Belmont Ave. was filled with the sights and sounds of fun and commerce on Sunday as the Hope House organization held a flea market to raise funds to support its many programs.
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Morris Brothers to play for free at YMCA
The Emmy Award-winning Morris Brothers will give a free concert from 7 to 8 p.m. Tuesday at the Family YMCA of the Desert.
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Fundraiser, lessons signup at Preucil
To kick off the new school year, a book sale fundraiser for Preucil School of Music, 524 N. Johnson St., will be from 9 a.m. to noon Saturday.
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SLAIN BOXER'S 'DANCE' OF DEATH
Dancing to blaring music from his hours-old car stereo sparked the murder of rising South Bronx boxer Ronney "Venezuela" Vargas, his grieving older brother said yesterday. Vargas, 20, was standing outside the red 1998 Honda Civic he'd bought with...
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PrepArts briefs for Monday, Aug. 18
Performing Arts Workshop registering students
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Perfect 10: This week's news & to-dos
Bryant Park's Summer Film Festival wraps with the late, great Christopher Reeve's iconic turn in "Superman" with Marlon Brando and Gene Hackman.
New York Daily News |
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Events for Monday in New York
Bill Bob Thornton fronts his band The Boxmasters for a concert at the Highline Ballroom. A self-proclaimed "electronic hillbilly" music group, The Boxmasters integrate upbeat rhythms and catchy guitar riffs with contrasting, dark lyrical themes.
New York Daily News |
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PROFILE: China's suffering golden boy remains a hero
Beijing - State broadcaster China Central Television set the tone for the country's 1.3 billion people on Monday after Liu Xiang's injury forced him out of his heat. CCTV's Olympic channel showed the whole press conference live, including Liu's coach...
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Check It Out
(IsraelNN.com) The twenty-first Klezmer Festival begins today (Monday) in Tzfat (Safed) in northern Israel. The three-day, free festival will encompass seven main open stages and hundreds of performers from Israel and abroad.
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EXOTIC DISHES LURE VISITORS TO VINELAND : International festival is in 2nd year
VINELAND -- With a little help from the Irish, the Puerto Ricans and the Japanese, downtown Vineland's biggest supporters have done it again.
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Strong, elegant finale
GREAT BARRINGTON — The Aston Magna Festival season ended Saturday with a typically daunting concert called "The Operatic Art of Monteverdi's Late Madrigals."
Berkshire Eagle |
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Clubber stabbed to death
A murder inquiry is under way after a nightclubber was stabbed to death at an all-night music event.
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Beach music festival a blast on Jekyll
By MICHAEL HALLThe Brunswick NewsThe Jekyll Island Beach Music Festival was a step back in time for John Vinson. "I love it," he said, controlling his stout bulldog Zeek, with a piece of rope wrapped around his hand.
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Happy Birthday, Compact Disc. Now Go Away
On Aug. 17, 1982, Sony and Philips Consumer Electronics released the first CDs to the German public, forever changing the way music would be distributed, marketed, consumed and appreciated. But the CD's era has come to an end.
Wired News |
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Brazilian Singer Caymmi Dies
Brazilian singer-songwriter DORIVAL CAYMMI has died. He was 94. Caymmi died of multiple organ failure at his home in the Copacabana district of Rio de Janeiro on ...
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G. Love's homecoming resplendent
From the full house at Festival Pier to the full moon to the fireworks popping on the Camden side of the Delaware, it was a perfect Saturday night for a homecoming for the hip-hop and sloppy pop of Philadelphia's G. Love & Special Sauce.
The Philadelphia Inquirer |
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Beauty of music matched by visuals
Radiohead's performance 'the most beautiful show I've ever witnessed at the Molson Amphitheatre'
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Arkansas bluegrass festivals still taking place
Q: A few weeks ago you wrote about a Bluegrass Festival in northern Arkansas. The one I remember coming up is in Eureka Springs, but you didn't mention it. Is it still on? There's also another one at or near a farm north of Little Rock that I hear got hit by a tornado. I heard it's not going on, but then I heard it got changed, so whatever you can find out I'd appreciate it.
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Live music
Tune in to midweek music -- here are a few of this week's highlights:
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Amy escapes boos a second time
Amy Winehouse impressed fans at her second V Festival set, despite being booed the night before. The troubled soul singer was jeered by fans when she arrived late on stage at the event in Weston Park, Staffordshire.
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