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Country music's standout steel guitarist plucked his grand ole Gibson to the end
Don Helms, the steel guitarist whose aching instrumental cry gave musical voice to the anguish and the joy in virtually all the key recordings by country music titan Hank Williams, has died of a heart attack in Nashville in the United States. He was 81.
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Marley statue unveiled in Serbia
A statue of late reggae legend Bob Marley is unveiled at a rural Serbian rock festival as a token of peace and tolerance in the Balkan region.
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Vibrant history show at the Circus
VIBRANT live and film performances of dance, song and music at Stratford Circus yesterday presented the history of African and Caribbean culture and its impact on the country.
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Beijing Olympics 2008
The symbolic handover of the Olympic flag to London took place tonight during a celebratory closing ceremony in Beijing. The Beijing Olympics began as they finished, in a spectacular fusion of colour, light, fireworks, music, dance and technology.
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Serbs unveil statue to Bob Marley
A Serbian village has unveiled what it said was Europe's first statue to the late Jamaican reggae star Bob Marley, aimed at promoting tolerance in a region still recovering from war.
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Music Reviews: Extreme, Regurgitator, Todd Rundgren, Delight, Rogue Male, and Control Denied
Extreme to Control Denied... now with extended review goodness. After a bit of back and forth with my kind editor here at Blogcritics, we have decided to tweak the column a bit. Now I started this tweak last week with the overhang of stuff that was bubbling over on my blog. This week we shall start the "feature review" where I will devote a few more words to one particular release. This week's ...
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Serbs unveil statue to Bob Marley
BANATSKI SOKOLAC, Serbia - A Serbian village unveiled what it said was Europe's first statue to the late Jamaican reggae star Bob Marley on Saturday, to promote tolerance in a region still recovering from war.
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'Artic Dreams' still eye-opening 22 years later
UPDATED: 09 :44 a.m. EDT, August 24, 2008 Chuck Yarborough becomes an Akron Blackstockings player. Talk arts, movies, music, dining and more!
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of the London organising committee and a former 1,500m Olympic gold winner, said the eyes of the world would now turn to London. London student Kelvin Kamupira said visitors to the capital would feel at home because it is such a multi-cultural city.
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Mathew Street Festival under way
Thousands of people pack into Liverpool to watch the popular Mathew Street Festival.
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Cleveland Orchestra's residency "the climax" of the 2008 Salzburg Festival
British music critic John Allison, writing in the Sunday Telegraph of London, places the Cleveland Orchestra at the top of the 2008 Salzburg Festival in Austria.
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Benefit For Kathy Sanger
Friends, family and community members will get together Sunday to remember a friend and to raise money in her name. The Water Street Music Hall will hold the Kathy Sanger Benefit Concert this afternoon.
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Music Review: The Smithereens - B-Sides The Beatles
The Beatles + The Smithereens = fab and gear!! To my way of thinking, The Beatles plus The Smithereens equals a must-have addition to my music collection. So I knew that I would like the Smitties upcoming release B-Sides The Beatles. After listening to it this past week I can tell you this... not only did I like it, but this CD met and exceeded my expectations!Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know...
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Best of the Games
The 2008 Games showcased some of the best synchro talent to date - new themes, new moves and new music. And two countries made the podium for the first time. Let's take a look back at the top moments.
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Pizano arrives with her debut CD
It was a moment not many parents get to experience. During a recent family car trip with the usual kid music playing on the stereo, Jeanne Pizano heard her 3-year-old daughter pipe up from the back seat, “I want to listen to Mommy’s CD!”
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Serbs unveil statue to Bob Marley
A Serbian village unveiled what it said was Europe's first statue to the late Jamaican reggae star Bob Marley, to promote tolerance in a region still recovering from war.
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Retro Redux: Ray Peterson - Rising Above Adversity
Fighting his illness led him into a musical career. For many years polio (poliomyelitis) was a dreaded specter that hovered over parents with small children, and the very thought of it scared a lot of families beyond reason. I can remember being warned about everything from touching green flies to putting my mouth on public drinking fountains, although I'm not sure how well I heeded the ...
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Two of the greats of soul, R&B, recently died within five days of each other. Isaac Hayes, as close to a one-man definition of soul music for the late 1960s and early 1970s as one gets, died Aug. 10. He was 65.
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Venerable Chicago Jazz Fest at Crossroads
Seven nights of top-notch jazz--mostly for free--with giants such as Sonny Rollins, Ornette Coleman and Dee Dee Bridgewater performing for thousands in front of Chicago's glittering skyline.
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Reverence Festival has feel of a family reunion
The sixth annual Reverence Festival ended its three-day run on Saturday night at the Inferno Nightclub with a drunken, sweaty and ecstatic set of industrial techno from Soman, a one-man act out of Dresden, Germany. Soman, a.k.a. Kolja Trelle, made just two stops in the United States on his current tour, Los Angeles and Madison. Apparently his plane from L.A. was delayed and he didn't arrive in ...
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In search of song amid sounds of war in Baghdad
"I am living between heaven and hell /My day is night and my night is day /Grief and pain"
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$8,095 to benefit Villanueva family
A multilingual radio station raised $8,095 yesterday to help pay the funeral costs of Fredy Villanueva, 18, who was shot and killed by Montreal police Aug. 9 in Montreal North and buried Aug. 15. Broadcast from the Fourchettes de l'espoir, a local charity, in French, Spanish and English, the four-hour radiothon by Radio Centre-Ville 102.3 FM featured live music by Luck Mervil and other artists. ...
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STLJN Saturday Video Showcase: A John Zorn Sampler
Saxophonist, composer and musical provocateur John Zorn 's connection to St. Louis was relatively short-lived, as he spent a little over a year here in the 1970s attending Webster University (then known as Webster College).
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Detroit International Jazz Fest
Check out our video and other complete coverage for this year's Detroit International Jazz Festival.
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Beijing Olympics closing ceremony under way
Beijing - The closing ceremony of the Beijing Olympics got under way on Sunday, on a smaller scale and without fake elements, organizers promised. The two-hour great, glittering party for the record 11,249 athletes from 204 countries was to feature...
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