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Idina Menzel
Idina Menzel's new album I Stand is a powerful collection of exquisite new songs written by the Tony Award winning actress / singer / songwriter.
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Granite Quarry Civitans honor Jarvis Knight Jr. at 42nd Fiddlers Convention
GRANITE QUARRY — Longtime bluegrass musician Jarvis Knight Jr., of Rockwell, got special recognition, and lots of people enjoyed some fine fiddling Sa ...
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Bikers gather in Dallas to raise Stevie Ray Vaughan scholarship funds
About 1,500 motorcycle riders gathered Sunday in Dallas' West End before rolling in a deafening roar to Cowboys Concert Hall in Arlington, where a benefit concert raised money for a scholarship fund in the name of bluesman and Dallas native Stevie Ray Vaughan.
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The Animals with Spencer Davis
Mix two names that served up some of the seminal songs of the 1960s and you get a heady cocktail of music. So adding a dash of smooth Spencer Davis to the raw blues rock of the Animals resulted in an intoxicating evening of nostalgia.
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HU event seeks to harness youth vote
The Obama campaign brings a rapper to the drive to help appeal to younger voters. For Barack Obama, winning the November election will hinge in part on his ability to turn out young people. The campaign has dispatched a number of surrogates, including musicians like Nasir "Nas" Jones to help turn out the youth vote. The rapper came to Hampton University Sunday to tell students to register to ...
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Messiaen's haunting 'Quartet' soars
Messiaen's masterpiece, one of the great chamber works, formed the centerpiece of Saturday's Chamber Music Society of Detroit concert by the well-matched ensemble of clarinetist John Bruce Yeh, violinist Cho-Liang Lin, cellist Gary Hoffman and pianist Christopher Taylor. It is hard to adequately describe the impact that the "Quartet" makes in performance.
Detroit Free Press |
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Ray LaMontagne plays Royal Oak tonight
"Gossip in the Grain," LaMontagne's upcoming third album, finds the reclusive, raspy voiced singer-songwriter in a more upbeat mode, locking in with his band for a more expansive and ambitious take on the rock-soul-blues mélange that has made him a live favorite.
Detroit Free Press |
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QUENTIN LETTS: The 50 people who wrecked Britain
Our brilliant sketchwriter reveals his very personal list of...fifty people who wrecked Britain. So much money, so many high-tech advances - yet today Britain is such an unhappy country.
Daily Mail |
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Galway, Ireland
Cavan has the country's top dog, a Cork town is well linked to Sydney Harbour, and a Limerick village wants to raise its profile. Antrim: Former bank building is now a hotel The Four Corners building, located at the junction of Waring Street and Donegall Street in the Cathedral Quarter of Belfast city centre, has been transformed from a derelict bank building to a new hotel.
Irish Emigrant |
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Book Review: - Crosby Stills & Nash: The Biography (Updated 40th Anniversary Edition) by Dave Zimmer With ...
For both CSN&Y fans and students of American music history, the updated version of CSN's biography is an essential read. Originally published in 1984, Crosby Stills & Nash: The Biography is the story of how three (and occasionally four) quite talented musicians in their own right came together to form the first true American "supergroup," and how they eventually went on to become one of ...
Blogcritics.org |
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Music Review: Bob Dylan - Knocked Out Loaded
Bob Dylan: Chapter 24. Knocked Out Loaded was released July 14, 1986 and would be one of the worst selling albums of his career as it would find a distant Dylan who seemed preoccupied. The first hint that this is an unfocused album is the number of musicians and singers that appear in the credits which number over fifty. Ultimately it would not be a terrible release but...
Blogcritics.org |
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Retro Redux: The ART Of Improvisation
Sometimes 'making do' can be raised to a higher level, especially in music. I was looking through some old childhood pictures recently and found one that showed me playing ping-pong with my sister. Not a particularly unusual occurrence except for one thing -- we were playing on the dining room table, which had been fitted with one of those clamp-on nets. You remember those, right? I guess ...
Blogcritics.org |
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RUNS IN THE FAMILY
This weekend's Baltimore Running Festival is a relative thing for this bunch O rganizers of this weekend's Baltimore Running Festival can't say exactly how many families, spouses, friends and co-workers will be running among the more than 17,000 who have signed up for the eighth annual event.
Baltimore Sun |
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David Dunnett
In a handsome gesture, Paul Allen, organist at St George's in Sprowston Road for the last three decades, invited David Dunnett over from the Anglican Cathedral to give the inaugural recital on the newly installed Rodgers digital organ.
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Carducci Quartet
In its welcome return to Norwich, the Carducci Quartet began the recital with, for this city, the first performance of Robin Holloway's second quartet.
EDP24 - Eastern Daily Press |
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Women educators learn and lend a hand
A group of women educators works to support education — both their own and others — by organizing events and supporting educational endeavors locally and internationally.
Chico Enterprise-Record |
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Elevator Pitch: Zoo Qoo hopes to offer a platform for talented creatives
London-based Zoo Qoo launched in August this year as a creative showcase to promote talented game designers, photographers writers, musicians and the rest of the creative community. With a small staff of two full-timers and four part-timers and his own cash, Rich Wilson wants to help promote the creative industries but also spot some stars - and make commission on their work.
Guardian Unlimited |
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On the Boards
Recent announcements about changes to the boards of directors of area organizations or involving local executives. AmerisourceBergen Corp., a Valley Forge pharmaceutical services company, elected Richard W. Gochnauer to its board. He has been president and chief executive officer and a director of United Stationers.
Philly.com |
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Seattle producer Jake One comes out of the shadows with his debut album
Seattle producer Jake Dutton, aka Jake One, is releasing a debut album called "White Van Music." Its lineup includes indie favorites like MF Doom, Little Brother and Casual of the Hieroglyphics, as well as chart toppers Young Buck and Busta Rhymes.
Seattle Times |
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At Our Best (Oct. 6)
Simon places third at Iron Composer 2008 Greg Simon, son of Steve Simon and Angie Stambuk-Simon, was a participant in Iron Composer 2008 at the University of Nebraska, Omaha, sponsored by ARTSaha! He was one of five participants selected from more than 50 composers across the nation to participate in this competition. He placed third overall. Each participant was given five hours to compose a ...
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An old fan reconnects with the New Kids
Seeing New Kids on the Block in concert again is about the best parts of being 12 and 13 and 14 again, when we were on the cusp of something exciting and so newly thrilled about pop music that we actually manufactured tears while in the same room with an artist we adored.
Contra Costa Times |
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A world-class show in a perfect setting
When Elvis Costello launched "Friend of the Devil" during his performance Sunday at Lindley Meadow, the ghost of the Grateful Dead hovered over the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival in Golden Gate Park. A sea of people overflowed the shady gully into John F....
San Francisco Chronicle |
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Glasto sells half of all tickets with eight months to go
Half the tickets for the Glastonbury music festival were snapped up on the first day they went on sale, organisers said -- despite the event not taking place for another eight months.
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Glasto sells half of all tickets with eight months to go
LONDON (AFP) - Half the tickets for the Glastonbury music festival were snapped up on the first day they went on sale, organisers said -- despite the event not taking place for another eight months.
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Jazz fest and home show combine in Ontario
ONTARIO - Early fall generally offers pleasant conditions for outdoor festivals. And Sunday was no exception for the Inland Empire Jazz Festival and the Inland Empire Home Show.
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