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Willows reveling in the return of sunny weather
SALEM and mdash; There weren't many free benches at the Salem Willows yesterday, and that's the way the local shops and attractions like it. The memories of rainy summer days were washed away over the weekend as people flocked to the oceanside park to enjoy ice cream, popcorn, live music and other old-fashioned summer fun.
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Drive-By Truckers Hold Steady
The Hold Steady and Drive-By Truckers have announced a run of fall co-headlining dates. The 23-show tour kicks off October 30 at Coyote's Music & Dance Hall in Louisville, K.Y., and will hit theatres across the country though the end of November.
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Bartlett Will Join Pittu in What's That Smell, Spoofing Musical Theatre Types
Peter Bartlett, the effete and dryly comic actor of Off-Broadway's The New Century and Broadway's The Drowsy Chaperone, will star opposite David Pittu in Pittu's comedy with music, What's That Smell: The Music of Jacob Sterling, a portrait of a musical theatre artist you've never heard of, for Atlantic Theater Company.
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Public Enemy to Perform During DNC
DENVER - A protest group says Public Enemy will play a concert in a downtown Denver park during the Democratic National Convention.
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Energetic veteran artist Hammond makes sweet love songs sound profound
At times during his Sunday night concert at Symphony Hall in Newark, reggae singer Beres Hammond seemed like a hyperactive kid. He'd bounce up and down in time with the music, or pump his fist to punctuate a point.
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Exeter/Hampton/Rockingham area news in brief
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The Old South Lives on in Brazil
Surprisingly, at a cemetery in Brazil, in the interior of Sao Paulo state, the pre-Civil War American south is kept alive in songs, music, food and dance. Women in hoop skirts, and men in confederate uniforms eat the foods, dance the dances and listen to the music of the Old South.
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Seventh Sister presents Molière's 'Tartuffe' at Gretna
In a first-of-its kind collaboration, Theater of the Seventh Sister with Music at Gretna will perform Molière's "Tartuffe" at Gretna Playhouse."It's a very classic comedy with relevance for the 20th century," director Michael Swanson, associate professor ...
Lancaster Online |
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Neil Young and Band Announce Fall North American Tour With Special Guests: Wilco or Death Cab For Cutie and Everest
Live Nation announced today that music icon Neil Young will embark on a North American tour commencing October 14th in St. Paul, Minnesota and continuing for eight weeks, culminating at New York's Madison Square Garden on December 15th.
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'New' Gershwin a hit
Director John Command's "Crazy for You" is a song-and-dance extravaganza at Bloomington Civic Theatre.
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Jack Zink, South Florida Entertainment Critic and Columnist, Dies at 61
Jack Zink, a major voice in South Florida entertainment coverage for more than three decades, died Aug. 18 from cancer. He was 61, and most recently served as the theatre and classical music critic and cultural affairs writer for The South Florida Sun-Sentinel in Fort Lauderdale.
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Joanna Glass' 'Palmer Park' Makes World Premiere in Ontario
Joanna McClelland Glass' Palmer Park, a look at post-riots Detroit, when "white flight" was rampant, opens Aug. 16 at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival in Ontario.
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All Hail: Plummer Is 'Caesar', Opening at Ontario's Stratford Festival
Tony Award winner and Stratford Festival veteran Christopher Plummer has returned to his old Ontario stomping ground to play Julius Caesar - Shaw's Caesar, not Shakespeare's.
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Panych's 'Moby Dick' Surfaces at Ontario's Stratford Festival
Morris Panych's new stage production of Moby Dick, adapted from the novel by Herman Melville, opens Aug. 17 at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival's intimate Studio Theatre following previews from July 22.
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Veteran Distribution Executive Michael Bull Joins The Orchard
NEW YORK, BUSINESS WIRE -- Following its July 2008 purchase of TVT Records, a leading U.S. independent record label, The Orchard, a global leader in digital music and entertainment services, today announced the hire of veteran music distribution executive Michael Bull. Bull will serve as the General Manager of TVT Distribution, The Orchard's newly unveiled physical distribution platform.
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Disc Makers Launches New Elite Artist Services For Those Looking To Go Indie
Just two weeks after their recent acquisition of CD Baby , the largest independent music seller in the world, Disc Makers today announced the launch of Elite Artist Services , a new division geared towards major artists who want to go independent.
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In Brief - August 18, 2008
Jeff Gillis joins RCA/J Records as Sr. Director of Rock and Alternative Promotion, Charise Fruge adds PD duties at KLLC/San Francisco, Allison Levy joins Universal Motown for National Top 40 Promo duties, CCR-TTN adds 15 markets
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Chattanooga’s Live Music Scene: Cadas To Benefit From John Hiatt Concert
Grammy winner John Hiatt and The Ageless Beauties will play the Tivoli Theater on Friday, Sept. 19, along with Randall Bramblett, with proceeds to benefit the Council for Alcohol and Drug Abuse Services (CADAS) and is a non-profit drug and alcohol treatment center servicing the Chattanooga community.
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ARTS & CULTURE
In the best and worse of ways, Smashing Pumpkins are bonafide rockstars. Stage attire such as a shimmery man-skirt is perfectly acceptable and making people shell out $40 for a souvenir t-shirt is understood.
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Music Review - The Baseball Project - Vol. 1: Frozen Ropes and Dying Quails
Both baseball fans and music fans will enjoy Steve Wynn and Scott McCaughey's baseball-themed release. As the story goes, in 1992 Steve Wynn (Dream Syndicate) and Scott McCaughey (Minus 5 and Young Fresh Fellows) met for the first time in the bathroom of a concert venue in Seattle. They eventually discovered a shared interest in baseball and planned to create an album that focused on the ...
Blogcritics.org |
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Music Review: Made Out of Babies - The Ruiner
These punks will wreck your night and leave you bloody and begging for more. Brooklyn’s Made Out of Babies seems to be the type of band that waits outside your house, kicks you in the teeth, and steals your car for a joyride down to the corner store to pick up smokes and porn. With their third studio album, The Ruiner, these punks aim to wreck your night and leave you bloody, battered and ...
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It's Happening - Scarborough
EAST SCARBOROUGH FESTIVAL Market, fresh fruits and vegetables, entertainment, children's activities, vendor tables, barbecue and flea market. St. Margaret's in the Pines, 4130 Lawrence Ave. E., every Thursday until Sept. 18 from 3 to 6 p.m. Call 416-847-4144.
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Phelps' swim coach has Clover, S.C., ties
As Michael Phelps stroked his way to Olympic immortality, folks in Clover, Rock Hill and Columbia anxiously stared at their televisions. They weren't just looking for Phelps, the American man-fish who swam his way to a record eighth gold medal over the weekend in Beijing. They were also waiting for the camera to find Bob Bowman, a 43-year-old guy from Clover who guided Phelps to international ...
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Audubon Quartet offers a trio of concerts
As an outdoor festival held each summer, Music at Gretna may have a venue with no walls, but its firm foundation was laid by the Audubon Quartet.Carl Ellenberger, founder of the festival, recalls that in 1976, "Among the single factors necessary to establish Music at Gretna, in additi...
Lancaster Online |
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Pandora Founder Says Rising Fees Threaten Webcaster
A report has surfaced that Pandora -- the popular music-mix service for computers and mobile devices such as the iPhone -- may have to stop music streaming as royalty fees drain its cash.
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