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If It Makes You Happy: Sheryl Crow and Lucinda Williams bring some big-stage estrogen to Bend
Since the official beginning of the summer concert series at Les Schwab Amphitheater in May, nine male-lead bands have taken the stage in straight succession. It’s a similar story with the Athletic Club of Bend, which has featured two male acts, and Midtown Music Hall has featured a slew of testosterone-fronted acts from E-40 to the Gourds, Tiger Army and The Melvins. This weekend, two female ...
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Shelter Valley Festival: more than music
As usual, the Shelter Valley Folk Festival (SVFF) Artists’ Village will be filled with an inspiring array of visual artists showing and selling their high-quality, original work.
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Las Vegas Sun
"Station Casinos called me this morning and said we only had two more weeks," band manager Howie Newman said Wednesday. The group had a longstanding engagement at the Red Rock Station, performing oldies music twice a week. Recently it was cut to once weekly.
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Ashley Van Buren: [title of show]: From YouTube to Broadway
Hunter Bell and Jeff Bowen started with a deadline to enter a musical theater festival, then came up with an idea and wrote "[title of show]" in three weeks.
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H-Town Rock
For the Weekend of August 28th – September 1st Welcome to the Labor Day Edition of H-Town Rock! Before we get down to the business of poking fun at the bands who will be performing at Rock The Bayou this weekend (and the Houstonians who will spend their hard-earned cash to relive the glory days of the mid-‘80s), Houstonist would like to take the time to remind everyone to be safe and ...
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Personal Cooling Concepts LLC Now Shipping the Blowit Personal Cooling System for Drummers, Vocalists, and Other ...
Offering a new level of comfort and convenience that has previously been available to only top professional touring and recording artists, the new BLOWiT Personal Cooling System from Personal Cooling Concepts LLC is specifically designed to help drummers, guitarists, bassists, keyboard players, vocalists and other musicians stay cool, calm, and collected in the studio, on stage and in the ...
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MIAMI - A Florida jury has acquitted a former handyman of trying to kill Latin songwriter Estefano in a shooting at his Miami waterfront mansion. Jurors deliberated less than three hours Wednesday before clearing 31-year-old Francisco Oliveira Jr. of attempted murder in the May 2007 attack.
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Autumn Jazz At The Depot
Another exciting season of jazz music is on tap at the Oklahoma Hall of Fame.
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New Kings of Leon Video: "Sex on Fire"
We always knew the Kings of Leon -- yep, those three Southern brothers (raised by a preacher) and one cousin -- had a bit of the Devil under their skin... you know, with the cigarettes, booze, and leggy model girlfriends and all. But with the music video for "Sex on Fire," an excellent, anthemic rocker off the quartet's upcoming album Only By the Night , the boys let us know just how ...
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Right on Time, Like Hair on a Biscuit
Thursday 28 Seattle sludge-rockers the Melvins merge with Big Business and overtake Canes tonight. Mainstay Mels Buzzo and Dale joined L.A. duo Big Business for ‘06’s (A) Senile Animal, a two-drummer assault on the band’s Zeppelin-meets –Spinal Tap sound.
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Our Picks for the week of 8/28-9/4
Sheryl Crow thursday 28 This summer has been all about masculine-dominated shows, but thankfully, one Sheryl Crow is coming to the big Schwab stage to do a thing or two about that. Turn the page and read more. 5pm. $85/reserved, $45/general. Les Schwab Amphitheater, 344 Shevlin Hixon Dr. Empty Space Orchestra friday 29 A lot of Bend’s music community had this date circled on the calendar as the ...
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Yes, there's jazz at Bumbershoot — and even a jazz legend
Semiretired tenor saxophonist Hadley Caliman, 76, is among a relative handful of acts that constitute jazz at Bumbershoot this year.
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Bumbershoot's must-see music: Our critic's day-by-day guide
A day-by-day guide to Bumbershoot featuring Times' music critic Patrick MacDonald's picks.
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Don't make short shrift of the potential gems at 1-Reel Film Festival
1-Reel Film Festival showcases great, short films at Bumbershoot.
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Handyman 'tried to kill Estefano'
Latin songwriter Estefano was shot twice and nearly killed at his waterfront mansion last year by a trusted former handyman who carefully plotted his death but miraculously failed, prosecutors said in closing arguments at the handyman's trial.
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KIRO 7 Connects Fire Victim With Country Star
A man's cherished guitar is replaced after his apartment and all his possessions are destroyed in an arson fire in Burien.
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Paul McCartney gig revives Israeli Beatles tale
An upcoming concert by Paul McCartney has revived memories of the 1960s, when an Israeli official supposedly called off a Beatles concert for fear it would corrupt the nation's youth. The episode is often fondly quoted as a relic of a long-lost Israel where the public's innocence needed protecting. Trouble is, the story might not be true: With Israelis in a tizzy about McCartney's arrival, ...
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Grammy Winners Will Honor Glen Campbell at Americana Music Conference
Grammy winners Jim Lauderdale and Raul Malo are among those scheduled to honor Country Music Hall of Fame member Glen Campbell during the upcoming Americana Music Festival and Conference taking place Sept. 17-20 in Nashville.
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Billy Currington's New Album Arrives Oct. 14
Billy Currington's third album, Little Bit of Everything , will be released on Oct. 14 by Mercury Nashville. Currington co-produced the album with Carson Chamberlain and co-wrote five of the 12 songs. He recently filmed the video for his latest single, "Don't."
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Harawira: Auckland Regional Amenities Funding Bill
When Italian tenor, Andrea Bocelli, touched down at Auckland Airport last week, he described his welcoming ceremony as a wonderful surprise, complete with beautiful music, and the beautiful music he was referring to wasn’t that of the Auckland Philharmonia, the New Zealand Opera, or the Auckland Theatre - the beautiful music he was referring to was a traditional Maori welcome from Te Pou o ...
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Conventional Wisdom: Olympic high and lowlight and the Dems in Denver
Upfront spent some time last week lamenting the false pageantry around the Beijing Games including the decision to have a child lip sync a song during the opening ceremonies. But apparently China wasn’t the first to decide that it needed to fake it to make it on the world stage. Australian papers reported this week that the 2000 opening ceremonies in Sidney weren’t exactly the real McCoy. The ...
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'Suge' Knight arrested in Vegas drug, assault case
Police say rap music mogul Marion "Suge" Knight is in a Las Vegas jail on drug and assault charges after he was accused of beating his girlfriend while brandishing a knife. The 43-year-old Knight was arrested about 6:40 a.m. Wednesday on charges of assault with a deadly weapon, possession of a controlled substance, possession of dangerous drugs without a prescription and battery domestic ...
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'Suge' Knight arrested in Vegas drug, assault case
By KEN RITTER Rap music mogul Marion "Suge" Knight was jailed Wednesday on assault and drug charges after he was accused of beating his girlfriend while brandishing a knife, police said. Knight, 43, the founder of bankrupt Death Row Records in Los Angeles, was arrested about 6:40 a.m. on a busy street near the Las Vegas Strip. Police responding to a domestic violence call found Knight standing ...
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Beanscene founder in new business launch
Lifestyle entrepreneur Gordon Richardson, founder of the Beanscene chain of coffee and music houses, has launched a specialist consultancy business, it was announced yesterday.
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Bumbershoot: The party of the year is here
Bumbershoot, Seattle's annual end-of-summer music and arts extravaganza, takes over Seattle Center with music, comedy, literary and visual...
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