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Hot Tickets
Sept. 10: Urban playwright Tyler Perry's latest musical comedy, "The Marriage Counselor," will have 'em dancing in the aisles at the Civic Center. Tickets are $39.50 (available at the Civic Center box office and Ticketmaster.com). Call 222-0400 or (800) 322-3602.
Tallahassee Democrat |
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Adam Cambria supplies soulful, smooth jazz
Saxophonist Adam Cambria has had a relatively short musical career compared to his contemporaries, but the Florida State University senior has already performed with drummers Jason Marsalis and Duffy Jackson, jazz vocalist Deborah Brown, trumpet maestro Scotty Barnhart and jazz unit The Michael Foster Project, among others.
Tallahassee Democrat |
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Local Labor Day festivals reminder
LAS CRUCES — Las Crucens will be able to enjoy wine, chile arts and crafts and much more without a big investment in gas or travel time, because three of the region's most popular festivals are close to home: The New Mexico Harvest Wine Festival, the Fairgrounds Franciscan Festival of Arts and the Hatch Chile Festival.
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Good to go
LAS CRUCES — Have a picnic, attend a drama, see a movie, visit a regional farmers or crafts market, go to the New Mexico Harvest Wine Festival at the Southern New Mexico Fairgrounds, the Franciscan Festival of Arts at Holy Cross Retreat or the Hatch Chile Festival, or plan a day trip to fiestas and celebrations in nearby communities.
Las Cruces Sun-News |
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Obama benefit show proposed at Downs
Do you wanna rock? For Barack? Barack Obama backers may get to jam out in support of his campaign at the Downs of Santa Fe in October.
Santa Fe New Mexican |
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BEST BETS
TAKE A CHANCE The music of ABBA provides the aural backdrop for the light-as-air musical "Mamma Mia!" In the production, a young woman is trying to learn the identity of her father. The play concludes its run at the Peace Center this weekend, with performances at 8 tonight, 2 and 8 p.m. Saturday, and 1 and 6:30 p.m. Sunday. Tickets are $52 to $72. Call 467-3000.
The Greenville News |
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New iTunes app helps keep your folders organized
iTunes -- everyone uses it, but very few people love it. The everpresence of the iPod has introduced many of us to the admittedly, free app that Apple has developed to manage your music collection as it flows from legal and, ahem, other sources onto your various devices and such. Now if your use of iTunes is restricted to buying mp3s from the iTunes Store and loading them on your iPod, chances ...
The Greenville News |
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SPECIAL EVENTS
Today 100 Percent Second Annual White Linen Affair, smooth jazz, wine tasting and garden tour, 7 p.m.-midnight, Botanica, 701 Amidon. White attire requested. A portion of proceeds will benefit Hope Street Youth Development programs. Advance tickets $20 at Select-A-Seat outlets or online at www.selectaseat.com ; $25 at the door. Information, David, 316-990-1100. Saturday Wichita ...
The Wichita Eagle |
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MSC Open House offers many opportunities to new students
Students will have the opportunity to browse through Texas A&M student organizations and find where they belong at the biannual MSC Open House Sunday.
The Battalion |
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Beck puts on high-energy, high-power show
Music critic Tom Harrison gives Beck's sold-out show at the Orpheum Theatre a grade of B.
Vancouver Province |
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REGIONAL CONCERTS
Wichita • CENTURY II , 225 W. Douglas. Tickets available at www.wichitatix.com , 316-219-4TIX, or Select-A-Seat outlets, 755-SEAT. ZZ Top, 8 p.m. Sept. 26, Concert Hall. Tickets $48.50-$500 at WichitaTix. B.B. King, 7:30 p.m. Oct. 7. Tickets $69-$129 at WichitaTix. Terry Fator, "America's Got Talent" winner, 7:30 p.m. Nov. 7. Tickets $50, $60 at WichitaTix.
The Wichita Eagle |
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Disturbed delivers
Many bands in today's music industry go their entire career with only one successful album.
The Battalion |
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Concerts
Three Imaginary Boys in an acoustic music concert at Barnes & Noble Booksellers, 7 South Main St., Wilkes-Barre. Tonight, 7:30 to 10:30; 208-4700.
Times Leader |
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Embarrassmentback together
Wichita punk pioneers The Embarrassment reunite for a show Saturday with a couple of twists: It's their first acoustic performance, and their first without bassist Ron Klause. "He just couldn't make it, but we have a very capable stand-in," said guitarist Bill Goffrier. The band had some traction nationwide during its heyday in the early '80s before members went their own ways. Goffrier ...
The Wichita Eagle |
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Two sure ’nuff country sets are out
Country music, like any other media, always needs plenty of talented and capable newcomers to keep from becoming stale. I know that as well as anyone. I get it.
Wichita Falls Times Record News |
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Band for iPhone review
Having spent the bulk of my iPhone music-creating moments with Intua’s powerful and capable beat-sequencer, BeatMaker, it’s a little hard to then turn to MooCowMusic’s £5.99 Band without thinking “Huh, cute toy.”
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Kielbasa links fans far, near
Lucky Susan Gryziec. Her favorite way to eat kielbasa is on a stick, and she’s sure she’ll find vendors serving it that way today and tomorrow at the Plymouth Kielbasa Festival, which she helped organize.
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Music was the message at rocking DNC show
In a night of speeches, capping the biggest political event in Denver’s history, music did a lot of the talking.
Denver Business Journal |
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Good-hearted ‘Rocker’ doesn’t quite jam
Do rock musicians ever lose the need or desire to hit the stage and rock out?
Wichita Falls Times Record News |
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Labor Day weekend attractions plentiful
This Labor Day weekend, you can sample hot and spicy foods at the Pocono Garlic Festival, climb aboard a hay wagon for a free ride at the Kiwanis Wyoming County Fair, cheer on a juggling unicyclist in Allentown or head to Jim Thorpe to hear a musician whom concert promoter Dan Hugos describes as “one of the greatest drummers in the world.”
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Press Quotes
Cadence Magazine: ”This quartet makes a great sound...If you are looking for jazz that is new and different, but totally approachable, this is a great find.”
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Music group 3:26 gives mathematical spins to rap
Whether he's rhyming about math, metaphors or mishaps in dating, Brandon Contreras, a fourth-year applied mathematics student at the University of California Los Angeles, is out to prove that rap can be hard without hard subject matter. The verses aren't necessarily light and fluffy either, but always true to Contreras' experiences in student life.
BG News |
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The Show returns to campus today
The Joyce Center Arena will be filled students from Notre Dame, Saint Mary's and Holy Cross tonight to see multi-platinum rock band Good Charlotte and the lesser-known rap duo The Cool Kids at The Show 2008.
The Observer |
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Local organists to perform in annual festival
VALPARAISO Organists from Northwest Indiana and Chicagoland will be featured at Valparaiso University’s fifth annual Community Organists Festival Sept. 15 in the Chapel of the Resurrection on campus.
The Times of Northwest Indiana |
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A.R. Rahman is the reason for Ghajini delay?
A.R. Rahman is undoubtedly the biggest musical geniuses of today's times but he is also notorious for working at his own sluggish pace with his own set of terms and conditions.
New Kerala |
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