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Christor Lewis Forever Remembered
Services for Christor Lewis are this Friday, Aug. 29 at 7 p.m. at the Highland Christian Center, 7600 NE Glisan St. Lewis was born Feb. 20, 1957, and passed away June 5. Prior to his move to Texas, Lewis served the Portland church community faithfully as choir director of Mt. Sinai COGIC, choir director of St. Paul COGIC, minister of music and conference administrator of Greater Faith COGIC, ...
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Few tickets remain for Pam Tillis concert
A limited number of tickets remain for the Sept. 4 concert by country music star Pam Tillis in Ridgeland.
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Jim Falls Sturgeon Festival starts Friday
The traditional end of area festivals in the summer, the Sturgeon Festival, returns to Anson Park in Jim Falls Friday through Monday.
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1970s Sweet Glitters Again
Last year, Steve Priest took his 23-year-old son to see Eric Clapton, and while watching his son get into the music, inspiration struck the bassist, who was one of the founding members of 1970s rock band Sweet.
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Dolly Parton Laughs Off Death Rumors
Legendary country music singer Dolly Parton is amused by rumors last week that she died of congestive heart failure.
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MakeMusic Publishes New SmartMusic Videos
MakeMusic, Inc. (Nasdaq: MMUS) announced today the release of three new SmartMusic videos at www.smartmusic.com. Created to demonstrate the benefits of SmartMusic learning software, each video has a specific focus:
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Verizon Wireless Rocks With Jonas Brothers
Verizon Wireless inked a deal with teen pop-rock sensation The Jonas Brothers, as part of which the cell phone carrier will give away free tickets to customers to see the band play in concert.
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Hans Reiser Faces the Music Friday
Linux guru Hans Reiser is expected to be sentenced Friday for killing his wife, Nina Reiser, two years ago. The developer of the ReiserFS file system claimed his wife abandoned the divorcing couple's two young children after he accused her of bilking his Oakland, California, software company. But months after his conviction, he led authorities to her unmarked grave site in the Oakland hills in ...
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FBI Arrests Alleged California Music Pirate
The FBI arrested a California man Wednesday on allegations he broke federal copyright law by uploading to the internet nine Guns N' Roses songs before their official release. Kevin Cogill, of Culver City, faces a maximum three years if convicted of violating the Family Entertainment and Copyright Act of 2005.
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Your Latest Update
Jazz singer and pianist Diane Schuur updates today with multi-night runs in 2009 for Seattle and San Francisco. The new Seattle dates are for May 7 through 10 at Dimitriou's Jazz Alley, and San Francisco gets May 20 - 24 at The Rrazz Room At Hotel Nikko.
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Kenny Rogers May Fold 'Em, Walk Away
After 50 years in the music business, Kenny Rogers is thinking about hanging up his microphone for good.
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NASHVILLE SKYLINE: "Artist X" Has Lost the Mojo
What Happens When Anxiety Begins to Pervade Musical Careers? (NASHVILLE SKYLINE is a column by CMT/ CMT .com Editorial Director Chet Flippo.)
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Elivs could enter the building (Creative Arts Center) tonight
Music on the Lawn has back up plan in case of rain for The King
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Corona restaurant serves up large tastes of Persia
Readers tell me that the Kabob Hutt, in Corona, is a great asset for Inland fans of Persian food. Some of my co-workers love it too, and music reporter Vanessa Franko has fond memories of the charbroiled tomatoes that come with many of the entrees.
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Kyle Beckerman, RSL’s Split Personality
Meet Dr. Jekyll. He’s cool. Chill. Listens to reggae music. Plays acoustic guitar. Spends his down time surfing and hanging out in Costa Rica. Sports dreadlocks. He’s as free as a free spirit can be. If you met this Dr. Jekyll, you’d never believe that he is a professional soccer player from Utah.
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Campus Crime
Aug. 22 Adam G. Garner, 19, of Pine Bluff was charged with minor in possession of alcohol. Officer Keith Johnson arrested Garner at 11:54 p.m. in the Sigma Chi fraternity house parking lot while responding to a loud music complaint. Johnson has a Sept. 15 court date at 1 p.
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SeptemberFest more than concerts, parade in downtown Omaha
OMAHA - It's Labor Day weekend in the metro area, and in Omaha, one event stands out: SeptemberFest. SeptemberFest has been around for 25 years, and this annual celebration has received recognition world-wide for its festivities.
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Blogger Faces Hard Time for Posting Guns N' Roses Music
No one can say what 27-year-old Kevin Cogill expected when he apparently posted nine songs from an unreleased and long-awaited Guns N' Roses album called "Chinese Democracy" to his Web site earlier this summer. It could have been anything from monetary gain to a desire to be the first to distribute the long-anticipated songs. However, he likely didn't expect to find the FBI at his door with an ...
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Folkfest set in Geneva
The 32nd Annual Fox Valley Folk Music and Storytelling Festival will present more than 100 hours of folk music, dance and storytelling on eight stages featuring more than 36 of the finest Midwest and national folk music and storytelling acts on Sunday and Monday at Island Park in Geneva.
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A little behind-the-scenes anecdote and other miscellany
Hadn't caught up with the comments for a while, and I'm still reeling from the scholarly debate on the issue of songwriting (not to mention the one about eligibility for past contestants). The degree of seriousness with which you take...
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Rock Band To Add New Albums From Chili Peppers, Megadeth, More
Rock Band's extensively-stocked catalogue of downloadable music will see the addition of several more full-length albums this year, including recordings by the Foo Fighters and Red Hot Chili Peppers. According to an Entertainment Weekly online report, Jane's Addiction's "Nothing's Shocking," Megadeth's "Peace Sells...but Who's Buying?," Stevie Ray Vaughn's "Texas Flood," Foo Fighters' "The ...
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Gill Joins Cast of Roundabout's Man for All Seasons
Michel Gill will make his Broadway debut as Duke of Norfolk in Roundabout Theatre Company's A Man for All Seasons, replacing Michael Siberry, who is headed to another kingdom — Spamalot.
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Boswell's Music City Harley-Davidson Store Roars into Nashville Airport
Riding tandem with one of Nashville's most popular retailers, Boswell's Harley-Davidson, travel retailer Hudson Group has opened a unique specialty store in Nashville International Airport that celebrates all that is fun and exciting about the world's best known motorcycle brand, now celebrating its 105th anniversary.
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Spamalot Will Welcome a New King in September
Michael Siberry will step into the role of King Arthur in the Tony Award-winning musical Monty Python's Spamalot at Broadway's Shubert Theatre beginning Sept. 16.
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Popa Chubby, Tony Levin, Gina Fox To Headline Benefit For Peter Karp's Ailing Wife
Friends will unite Sept. 23 to raise money for medical bills mounting after bluesman's wife diagnosed with ovarian cancer... Blues artist Gina Fox is teaming up with Popa Chubby, Pete and Tony Levin, Nicole Hart (featuring Gil Paris), Dave Malachoski's Woodstock Allstars, with Jill Stevenson, and Dennis Gruenling for a benefit concert in Hoboken, NJ on September 23 for the wife of fellow ...
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