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Keeping an ancient language alive with song
Her voice is as smooth as a tumbled stone, and it flits with grace from one tone, one phrase, to the next, a gentle manipulation of an ancient language you probably never have heard spoken.
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Grand production planned for Calleja's 2009 concert
With glowing reviews in the wake of tenor Joseph Calleja's opening concerts to the new season, NNG Promotions has scrambled to secure the singer for next summer.
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Inland Community News briefs for Sunday, Sept. 21
Art show to benefit L.E.A.P.S. and Bounds ESCONDIDO ---- Aegis of Escondido will host an art show featuring works by Aegis resident John Serrao at 1 p.m. Sept. 21. All proceeds will benefit L.E.A.P.S. and Bounds, a nonprofit organization founded by Linda Bounds that promotes wellness in seniors. Aegis of Escondido is at 3012 Bear Valley Parkway. Call (760) 735-8084.
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Fallbrook Community News Briefs for Sunday, Sept. 21
Fallbrook Music Society offers season subscription
North County Times |
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Peters throws for 456yds as Rocky ends 16 game skid vs. Tech, 27-22
With quarterback Kasey Peters rifling pass after pass after pass Saturday afternoon, Rocky Mountain College scored a football victory that represented both rejuvenation and redemption. The strong-armed 6-foot-3 junior passed for a personal-best 456 ya ...
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Calendar: Sunday, Sept. 2008
SPECIAL EVENTS Gospel Music Festival The Sisters of the Holy Family Motherhouse, 6901 Chef Menteur Hwy. Fifteen choirs will perform at festival. 3-6. BENEFITS Charity Poker Tournament Harrah's Theatre, Canal and the River. Event supports The Pro Bono Project, which...
New Orleans Times-Picayune |
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Green Day
Why Is He Famous? Far more than just a band, these Rolling Stone cover boys are pop culture icons. Their addictively simple three-chord songs have appeared in everything from Madden NFL 2005 to feature films like Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me .
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A sea of hands rocks the stage
Hip-Hop performer Aesop Rock stirs up the crowd Saturday on the first day of the Treasure Island Music Festival, which concludes today with the Raconteurs, Tegan & Sara, Vampire Weekend and more. Box office opens at 10 a.m., and gates open at 11:30 a.m....
San Francisco Chronicle |
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Peters throws for 456yds as Rocky ends 16 game skid vs. Tech, 27-22
With quarterback Kasey Peters rifling pass after pass after pass Saturday afternoon, Rocky Mountain College scored a football victory that represented both rejuvenation and redemption.
Billings Gazette |
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Dancers moved by a mission
Nicaraguan women take action to fight poverty at home Xiomara Flores gripped the ends of her powder-blue guipil , a handmade traditional Nicaraguan dress adorned with colorful embroidery. She pattered gracefully as she swayed to the sounds of the marimba , a percussion instrument often featured in Latin American music.
Baltimore Sun |
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Organic farmer is guest
The Miller branch library, 9421 Frederick Road, Ellicott City, will sponsor a program on "The Importance of Buying Local," with organic farmer Joan Norman , at 7 p.m. tomorrow.
Baltimore Sun |
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Celebrating town's place in history
ACTON To mark Acton's Colonial-era defiance to England's rule, the Acton Historical Society will celebrate Crown Resistance Day: Acton on the Road to Independence - 1774 on Sept. 28 with an interactive town meeting, era-appropriate refreshments like shrub and cornbread, crafts and games for children, historical talks by the Acton Minutemen, and fife music. More than 200 years after that ...
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Musicians escape fatal South Carolina jet crash
WEST COLUMBIA, S.C. ---- Hours after performing for thousands of South Carolina college students, Travis Barker ---- the former drummer of the Poway-based band Blink-182 ---- and celebrity disc jockey DJ AM were critically injured in a fiery Learjet crash that killed four people, authorities said Saturday.
North County Times |
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Main St. festival to mark end of street project
The Bel Air Downtown Alliance will celebrate the completion of the 18-month Main Street streetscape project from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday in downtown Bel Air.
Baltimore Sun |
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Pop Quiz: Juliana Hatfield
Juliana Hatfield had a good thing going as an indie-rock star in the early '90s. She was signed to a major label. She had a hit song on MTV. She got to tour the world with the Lemonheads. The former Blake Babies vocalist even got to make a cameo on the cult...
San Francisco Chronicle |
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CD: Almirante, Opera in Three
RATING: (SNOOZING VIEWER) The billing for this duo vocal disc is the most notable thing about it. "Almirante" is an unknown opera in three acts with music by Bach, Handel, Fux, Henry Purcell and his brother Dennis. There's no such thing. The "opera," with a...
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CD: Amy Macdonald, 'This Is the Life'
RATING: (POLITE APPLAUSE) Amy Macdonald isn't one of those soft-rocker British lasses with wispy voices. The full-throated Scot, who performs tonight at Cafe Du Nord, makes a bold statement in every cut on her debut album, "This Is the Life," a chart-topper...
San Francisco Chronicle |
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Elvin Bishop jams - and makes jam
At this time of year, blues guitarist Elvin Bishop stays busy canning. Every inch of his 3/4-acre backyard in western Marin County is covered with vegetable beds and fruit trees, and, before winter he will have put up hundreds of cans of fruit and vegetables...
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'Music Man' will get your feet a-tappin'
"Seventy-Six Trombones"— and a whole lot of excitement — descend upon Lamplighter's Theatre this week with the opening of The Music Man. The beloved musical, which kicks off a "Season of Award Winners," tells the story of con man Harold Hill, who tries to take a town but ends up being taken himself by a certain lovely librarian before he can pull it off.
The Tennessean |
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Clay Mills helps craft country hit for pop rocker Darius Rucker
Don't think country songwriter Clay Mills doesn't think about his next No. 1 hit.
The Tennessean |
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Blair violinist Sean Wang to perform Baroque and contemporary classics
A graduate of Juilliard and a lecturer in violin and music history at the Blair School of Music, Sean Wang will get Blair's Nightcap Series under way on Monday with an evening of Baroque and contemporary works for solo violin. The composers featured on the program for Wang's recital, which will take place in the Steve and Judy Turner Recital Hall at Blair (2400 Blakemore Ave.), include J.S. ...
The Tennessean |
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VOVO, The Lighter Side of Life
It's been too long since Nashville has heard new music from local rock guy Mark Bond, even if he hasn't exactly disappeared — he became The Features' keyboardist in 2006, after leaving De Novo Dahl, a band he co-fronted.
The Tennessean |
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Best of the Toronto Film Festival
Movie endings take on a whole new meaning when you're dashing between theaters in an attempt to see five films a day. More than 300 were screened during the Toronto International Film Festival, so there was much that was tempting. Around the two-hour mark at...
San Francisco Chronicle |
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Zune makes some strides to gain a bit on the iPod
Apple has dominated the digital music scene with its iPods. Microsoft has been an also-ran with Zune. But that hasn't stopped Microsoft from competing.
Courier-Post |
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The Beatles punch ticket to ride for stadium rock
The Beatles at Shea in 1965 and '66 set the stage for an unparalleled 44-year run of music events at the stadium that ended in July when Billy Joel performed the final two concerts at the old Queens ballpark.
New York Daily News |
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