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Music Review: Aaron Parks - Invisible Cinema
Cutting-edge jazz from a rising star. Although he's still only in his twenties, jazz keyboardist Aaron Parks has already put together an impressive resume. He has a background that combines formal musical training with playing next to some of the best, and already has several albums to his credit. Invisible Cinema, his newest effort and his first for Blue Note, will almost...
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Saturday Cool Rhythms on Hollywood beach
PARTY ON HOLLYWOOD BEACH Cool Rhythms features live music, arts and crafts, food and drink specials the last Saturday of every month on Hollywood beach.
Miami Herald |
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Faith and Spiritual Life: Outreach
Bible Way Church holds a relay and school supply giveaway from 5 to 8 p.m. today at Wiggums Hollow Park, 2808 10th St., Everett. Organizers plan to hand out backpacks filled with free school supplies. Free hot dogs will also be served. Bible Way Church is at 2228 Wetmore Ave., Everett.
Everett Herald |
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Labor Day Weekend, Opa
Music, dancing and food are on the menu for the 59th Annual Long Beach Greek Festival .
Long Beach Press-Telegram |
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Cabo Wabo Opens in Fresno
The nightclub has three bars and a stage for live music. There are only two others Cabo Wabos.
KFSN-TV Fresno |
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Professor explores the overlap of music and theology with new show
Professor Lee Camp was attending a Prairie Home Companion live radio broadcast at the Ryman in 2006 when the notion hit him.
The Tennessean |
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Religion Calendar
Celebrating the Vision!, a benefit concert to raise funds "in support of the vision God has given the Rev. Venerria B. Smith," 6-8 p.m., I.T. Creswell School for the Arts, 3500 John Mallette Drive. Cost: $7. Contact: 615-227-0892.
The Tennessean |
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Anti-Castro musician fined, ordered freed
Cuban punk rocker Gorki Aguila is irreverent, vulgar -- and bolder than any other performance artist in modern Cuban history. His lyrics blasting the Cuban dictatorship are so strong, this newspaper can't print many of them. The founder and lead singer of the 10-year-old group ''Porn for Ricardo'' walks around his western Havana neighborhood with T-shirts that say things like, ``59: Year of the ...
Miami Herald |
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Thurston 60, Corvallis 13 Pearson leads Colts to
SPRINGFIELD -- A half-hour before kickoff, country music blared from the speakers and a long line of fans outside the stadium eagerly waited for a chance to be a part of Thurston High School history.
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Facing declining enrollment, ECS readies for new year
Category: Local News Topics: Education It has been “restructured,” “reorganized” and “reconfigured,” and now Eureka City Schools is ready to be reopened for the 2008-09 school year.
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Brooks & Dunn's song is crossover political hit
Sheryl Crow, Stevie Wonder and Michael McDonald performed for the crowd during the Democratic National Convention Thursday in Denver, but a country song, sung by two Republicans not in attendance, capped Sen. Barack Obama's historic speech.
The Tennessean |
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Rhythm & Roots Festival: Rollin’ with the best of ’em
Marcia Ball will be headlining at this weekends' Rhythm & Roots Festival in Charlestown.
Westerly Sun |
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War and Peace
If you missed the Portsmouth, N.H., Music Hall's screening of the epic "War and Peace" last month, the Museum of Fine Arts is giving you another chance to sit through the very, very long movie (more than eight hours) about love and war in Russia. You can catch all four parts tomorrow or catch a few parts at a time ...
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Napster faces proxy fight with 3 investors
The shareholders, seeking board seats, want the digital music service to turn around its stock slump or pursue a sale. Napster Inc. has struggled to catch the ear of enough customers. Now the company is out of tune with some of its big shareholders.
Los Angeles Times |
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T-series releases 'Hari Puttar' music
Mumbai, Aug 30 : The music for upcoming Bollywood movie 'Hari Puttar' was released with the cast -- Jackie Shroff, child actor Sweenie Khara and the music director Aadarsh Srivastav attending the glittering function here.
New Kerala |
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Tindersticks
The Tindersticks are probably best known for their musical contributions to the HBO hit series The Sopranos, and it’s for good reason.
Santa Barbara Independent |
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Weekend music
LOCAL House of Badger Local art-rock trio House of Badger have racked up comparisons to moody pop icons Echo and the Bunnymen and Siouxsie and the Banshees, but their sound is more noirish shoegazer than wiry post-punk. They’re celebrating the release of their new album, ...
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Sinclair to share her songs at Edgefield Aug. 31
What do Donny Osmond and Langston Hughes have in common? They’ve both influenced the artistry of Portland singer-songwriter Paula Sinclair, whose alternative country music is flavored with touches of rock, Latin and sultry alto crooning.
Gresham Outlook |
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Concert set for Sunday at beach
NORWALK - Blues musician Michael Powers and his band will play at 5:30 p.m. Sunday at Bayley Beach. In case of rain, the event will be at Rowayton School.
Stamford Advocate |
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Jessica Simpson's image makeover with milkmaid costume
London, Aug 30 : Singer and actress Jessica Simpson wore a milkmaid costume at a recent concert and dressed up as a cowgirl for another, while singing about the 'secret lovers' she has had.
New Kerala |
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Black Mountain opens Rifflandia in style
The paint-peeling wails of Black Mountain singer Amber Webber got the inaugural Rifflandia Festival underway in weed-tastic style last night, as her band of Vancouver psych-rockers got down to dirty, sludgy business before roughly 700 fans at the Alix Goolden Hall.
Victoria Times Colonist |
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Organizer: Fiesta smaller but still "first class"
A scaled-back Greeley Fiesta will feature a rodeo, Mexican wrestling, live music and other "first class" events at Island Grove Regional Park on Sunday.
Greeley Tribune |
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Festival offers taste of old country
The 45th annual Greek Festival will feature live music, dancing, Greek markets, a cultural display and Greek food. A line forms in the background as eager Greek Festival visitors wait for Angelo Kalogero to finish the loukoumathes, deep-fried puffs of dough drizzled with honey. Geoff Autipa plays a tune for festival-goers.
The Sacramento Bee |
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Rockingham County religious calendar
Saturday, Aug. 30 CrossWalk Cafe, 7 p.m., Church of God of Prophecy, 13811 Highway 87, Eden. Concert will feature Cindy Johnson from Winston-Salem and God Garage Band from Madison. Coffeehouse ministry. Free and open to the public. Concessions available. 623-4042 or www.crosswalkcafe.faithweb.com . Sunday, Aug. 31 Encounter Ministry, 8:30 a.m. Sundays, Mayodan United Methodist ...
Greensboro News & Record |
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Sydney orchestra faked 2000 Olympics performance
SYDNEY, Australia — China isn't the only country to fake a musical performance during an Olympic opening ceremony. Turns out Australia knows a thing about miming music, too.
Tucson Citizen |
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