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Clint Eastwood, Trace Adkins promote Honor Flight
The Honor Flight Network is about to get a big boost from award-winning director Clint Eastwood and country music star Trace Adkins.
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Washtenaw Community College students head to the White House
A group of Washtenaw Community College students will perform in a prestigious concert series at the White House Dec. 21. But for those who can't make the trip, John E. Lawrence, WCC's Jazz Orchestra and music program director, will hold...
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First Listen: The Happiness Project
In the music world, the term "experimental" is used loosely; it's often applied to anything outside of traditional drums, bass, and guitar. But the Happiness Project, Broken Social Scene, and Do Make Say Think musician Charles Spearin's new endeavor, just may restore the term's clout. More on SPIN.com: >> Bonnaroo '08: Broken Social Scene, "Whatever, I Don't Know" >> Broken Social ...
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'Trocks' pack satirical knockout punch
Sascha Vaughan Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo, a comedy troupe featuring male ballerinas in drag, will receive its local premiere at the Joyce Theater on Tuesday. As the 50th anniversary of the Cuban Revolution approaches on Jan. 1, tourist...
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Holiday melodies
The Sikeston Senior High School Orchestra's Christmas Concert will begin at 2 p.m. Sunday at the Sikeston Fieldhouse. The free annual concert will include a variety of music ranging from "Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen" to "Pachebel's Christmas" to "Silent Night."
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Magical dance of India comes to New York City
Richard Termine"Bamboo Blues," a dance theater piece by Pina Bausch, was performed at BAM's 2008 Next Wave Festival. A great wind rustles through "Bamboo Blues," the magical dance of India that choreographer Pina Bausch's Tanztheater Wuppertal presented at the Brooklyn...
The Star-Ledger |
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Santa’s ditching the sleigh for a fire truck: Tomball Fire Department brings Santa to neighborhoods
The Tomball Fire Department's Santa in the Neighborhood program Dec. 8-11 brought a special North Pole visitor to brighten the lives of Tomball children as he rode down neighborhood streets in a fire truck. Santa Claus and the firemen greeted children with Christmas music and shouts of "Merry Christmas" and Santa asked the children what they would each like for Christmas. The children's faces ...
The Potpourri |
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Melodeo Teams with Salvation Army on iPhone
Seattle-based Melodeo, a digital-music startup, is powering the Salvation Army's holiday music iPhone application, which was announced yesterday. The software, available from the iPhone Application Store for $2.99, streams a selection of holiday tunes to your phone, with unlimited listening. Proceeds will benefit the Salvation Army charity.
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'Emmett Otter' Musical Gets Two Extra Performances at Goodspeed Opera House
Popular demand has prompted Goodspeed Musicals to add two performances to its holiday run of Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas, the world-premiere stage musical based on Jim Henson's classic holiday favorite.
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Living Theatre Will Revive Its Groundbreaking 1959 Jazz Play, 'The Connection'
Off-Broadway's The Living Theatre, the oldest experimental theatre group in the country, will celebrate the 50th anniversary of The Connection by playwright Jack Gelber with a new production directed by troupe co-founder and artistic director Judith Malina.
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Sponsored by:
Winter WonderLights, a new light show twinkling outside Washington Irving's Tarrytown home, offers a surreal journey into the dreams of Rip Van Winkle with original music, elaborate sculptures and tens of thousands of colorful lights.
The Journal News |
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Tom Service: How YOLA is changing children's lives
Last Saturday in Los Angeles, conductor Gustavo Dudamel made his debut with a new orchestra. Not some chamber-scale off-shoot of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, where he takes up the music directorship in a few months, but a group of about a hundred children, aged from 7-14, who play with YOLA , the Youth Orchestra LA. It's an inspirational scheme. The LA Phil have set this orchestra up in ...
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Skate park future bright
The concert begins at 5:30 p.m. and boasts local bands from Warren County such as Hasten My Demise, Kendal Burke, A Terrible Glory and Kill the Car. The band members, who are skaters themselves, are playing for free in order to raise money for the skate park.
The Warren Sentinel |
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Kemah boat parade sails Saturday
The 47th annual Christmas Boat Lane Parade hits the water Saturday at 6 p.m. There will be festively decorated power and sail boats along with music, food, fun and games.
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Carlsbad
Greek Village : New Year's Eve Party Early & late dinner seatings • Party favors & midnight champagne toast • Greek & Belly Dancing Show • Early Seating: 4-8 pm $45 per person (plus tax & gratuity) • Late Seating: 9 pm-2 am $75 per person (plus tax & gratuity) • Both seatings include: appetizer, dinner, dessert, coffee, music, belly dancing show and a glass of champagne.
San Diego Reader |
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Pops Concert Offered by Conservatory Band
The Cape Cod Conservatory Concert Band will perform a free “Fall into Winter Pops Concert” on Sunday, December 14, at 3 PM at the East Horace Mann Charter School in Marstons Mills.
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Homeless Prevention Benefit at Liam Maguire's Pub
The 13th Annual “Afternoon of Music” to benefit for the Falmouth Homeless Prevention Fund will take place Saturday, December 13, from 12:30 to 6 PM at Liam Maguire’s Irish Pub, 273 Main Street in Falmouth.
The Falmouth Enterprise |
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Why We Need to Go Digital This Holiday
What I'm about to say will anger a lot of CE manufacturers, but this has been the laziest year in consumer electronics to date and I'm recommending that rather than spending money on the boring stuff that has come out in 2008 we all spend our money on digital media - games, music, audiobooks, ebooks, and the like. And I don't mean digital Blu-Ray and game disks, either. I mean all bits, all ...
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WELCOME GUEST! Tickets for British band Blur's reunion concert next year sold out within two minutes of going on sale Friday, organisers said. The four-piece group, who had a string of hits in the 1990s will perform a second 50,000-capacity date in London's Hyde Park due to the demand for tickets.
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WELCOME GUEST! US pop star Madonna arrived in Brazil Friday ahead of the final concerts of her worldwide "Sticky and Sweet Tour" that showed that, at age 50, she can still sell out top-notch venues.
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Tricia Rose, Author of The Hip Hop Wars
Fans say hip hop is keeping it real; haters say it's misogynist, hyperviolent and dead. Brown University professor Tricia Rose says both camps are wrong
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Cliff Richard 'stole my wife' (after he'd secretly married an African princess!)
Jet Harris, guitar legend and former bass player with the Shadows, is starting to talk about the day he was a guest at Cliff Richard’s wedding. What is he going on about?
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Fairfield musicians to play
Fairfield musicians are planning to be among the performers in Ottumwa's fifth annual TubaChristmas concert Saturday in the St. John Auditorium on the Indian Hills Community College campus in Ottumwa.
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Forward.com
Now, into my e-mail inbox comes further proof of the power of music to bring people together. Indeed, it is powerful enough even to overcome the narcissism of minor differences:
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Music releases
Beyonce I AM … SASHA FIERCEColumbia RecordsOn Beyonce’s new album, the 27-year-old singer-diva-icon gives her on-stage, bump-n-grind alter-ego Sasha Fierce co-billing.“I am … Sasha Fierce” is her attempt at a concept album, with the disc split into two.
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