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Kanye West performs on sidelines of Dem convention
DENVER (AP) - Rapper and music producer Kanye West says he regretted one thing when Barack Obama became the Democratic Party's presidential candidate yesterday: His mother, Donda, didn't live to experience it.
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Youth engaged in an uprising conference
Prior to the start of school, students from different religious denominations are being encouraged to come together to pray, praise and enjoy musical performances of gospel reggae artists at the fourth annual Uprising Conference.
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MacDailyNews - Where Mac news comes first
"iTunes has been the runaway hit of the music business, selling more than five billion song downloads since it started five years ago.
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Rome Observer - Craft Days coming soon
ONEIDA - It's that time of year again; it's time for the Madison County Historical Society's 44th Annual Craft Days. The event held on Saturday, Sept. 6 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday, Sept. 7 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., is organized and hosted by the Madison County Historical Society at the society's 435 Main St. location in Oneida.
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Trial set for Cuban punk rocker
Cuba has ordered the jailed punk rocker Gorki Águila, an outspoken critic of Fidel Castro and the Communist government, to stand trial Friday for "social dangerousness," a charge that could carry up to four years in prison.
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Music charts
Top 40 1) Chris Brown - Forever 2) Jesse McCartney - Leavin' 3) Kardinal Offishall feat. Akon - Dangerous 4) Ne-Yo - Closer 5) Kid Rock - All Summer Long
Kinston Free Press |
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Smokey Jazz + Blues roll into town
Many associate jazz and blues with the likes of Chicago, Memphis, and New Orleans, and they'd be right to give them credit. But neither jazz, nor blues, ever was confined only to those cities.
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Rome Observer - Labor Day Weekend in Old Forge
OLD FORGE - The summer isn't over yet in Old Forge, Inlet and The Town of Webb. Labor Day Weekend celebrates the beginning of autumn with all kinds of things to do for families, including live music and fireworks on the Old Forge Lakefront on Sunday, Aug. 31. Music starts at 7p.m., followed by fireworks.
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School and park-like setting
Many of Peter Leonard's photos are from the 1920s and 30s. Today we see the east end of the Academy of Holy Names, where young ladies got an education and increased their faith. The music hall enhanced another asset of the lives of young Romans.
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No German at Ernte Fest
My Mother and I went to the Ernte Fest in Freistatt on Saturday the 16th. We traveled quite a ways just to have cheap Polish sausage passed off as bratwurst, no German beer and no one spoke a lick of German. Even the musicians were playing pretend polkas in English.
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Premiere: Benoît Pioulard: "Brown Bess" [MP3/Stream]
Like Bon Iver 's Justin Vernon, the multi-instrumentalist Thomas Meluch records under a French-sounding pseudonym ( Benoît Pioulard ), hails from the Midwest, and tends to bathes his acoustic guitar and high, emotive voice in reverb and other effects. Although Vernon has settled in northwest Wisconsin, Meluch has left Michigan behind for Oregon, but as Benoît Pioulard he continues to ...
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New Pipettes Lineup Debuts on New Song, Tour
It's been awhile since we've heard from the Pipettes . Back in the Spring, two-thirds of the band was replaced ; since then, Gwenno and new Pipettes Anna and Ani have been working on new songs and playing a few shows. (Ex-Pipette Rosay has embarked on a solo career .) Anna was also a co-writer on the new Sugababes single "Girls". But we haven't heard any new music from the ...
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The Month In: Reggae / Dancehall
We wish a goodbye and good luck and say thanks to our longtime Jamaican music correspondent Dave Stelfox as he prepares to take a job at a newspaper in the Middle East. Plus: The birthday bash for Bunny "Striker" Lee that helped him bid farewell to London. read more
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The 188th Army Band presents a free concert on the Harvey baseball field July 30 at 7:30 p.m. The 188th Army Band is a highly recognized National Guard Band having performed throughout the nation and abroad in Jamaica, Germany and Australia.
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Wainwright parts ways with Met over opera project
Singer-songwriter Rufus Wainwright has dropped plans to write an opera for the Metropolitan Opera after the New York opera company rejected his plan to write it in French.
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The 53rd season of International Music Camp winds down with performances July 25-26 and July 29 . The July 25 night Festival of Arts program features NuPhunk Orchestra, a contemporary urban music group from Brandon, Man., at 8 p.m. in the Masonic Auditorium.
Minot Daily News |
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Weir woman’s club to open season
The GFWC Weirton Woman’s Club’s opening meeting will be Sept. 6 at noon at Pleasant Valley Country Club. This year’s opening program will be a Broadway show with Carrie Oliver of Weirton. Oliver, a vocalist, was born and raised in Weirton.
Weirton Daily Times |
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Lamarissimo! season tickets on sale
Lamarissimo! season tickets and gift certificates for the 2008-09 concert series are now on sale in Lamar University's Department of Music, Theatre & Dance in the Lamar Music Building.
Hardin County News |
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New Bedford Symphony Orchestra announces new youth initiative
NEW BEDFORD — The New Bedford Symphony Orchestra has announced that in late July, its Board of Trustees voted to create the newest component of the NBSO's innovative educational outreach programs — the New Bedford Symphony Youth Orchestra.
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The Sibyl Center, Stanley, presents "Music for An Eternity" by Marlene Jensen Hoirup, piano, Don Hoirup, baritone, and Jane Paulson, clarinet, July 27 at 3 p.m.
Minot Daily News |
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Solange Knowles, Beyonce's little sister, goes off on tv interviewer . . . because she's an idiot
Beyonce, right, and Wanabeyonce, left Let me set this up. 1. Solange is Beyonce's little sister. 2. She's got an album of 60s inspired music. 3. She's appearing on tv on her own as an artist trying to pimp her record, and she's green as hell at...
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Lakeville festival brings together artists, musicians, writers
LAKEVILLE — A variety of authors, artisans and crafters will be participating in the the fourth annual Lakeville Arts & Music Festival on Saturday, Oct. 4 between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. at at the intersections of routes 18 and 105.
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Vermillion to hold classic two-day event Sept. 5-6
World-class barbeque ribs and a sizzling music-fest will highlight this years classic event, “Ribs, Rods & Rock ‘n Roll,” to be held in downtown Vermillion, Fri. and Sat., Sept 5-6. Everyone is invited to attend.
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Family group to deliver its message at Jericho Fellowship this weekend
MIDDLEBORO — While a lot of musicians perform their music in concert halls, clubs, arenas, stadiums and casinos, the places where Frank Dennull takes the stage oftentimes are a lot less glamorous. He spends a lot of time with his guitar and his...
The Standard-Times |
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Orchestra admits 'miming' at Sydney Olympics in 2000
Members of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra perform a concert in Sydney harbour in 2006. Eight years after it hosted an Olympics that were famously hailed as the "best Games ever," Sydney has confessed that it faked one of the key musical performances at the opening ceremony in 2000.
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