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Learn banjo, fiddle, mandolin
ASHEVILLE – Classes for beginners in bluegrass banjo, clawhammer banjo, fiddle and mandolin will be offered at the Log Cabin Cooking & Music Center, 111 Bell Road, starting Jan. 13.
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AUDITIONS
CHILDREN’S LETTERS TO GOD - Stage 1 Theatre Company seeks five children ages 7 to 16 with strong singing abilities for this production directed by Chase Kniffen with music direction by Jimmy Hicks. This show is based on a book by Stuart Hample with music by David Evans and lyrics by Douglas Cohen. Auditions are today from 6 to 10 p.m. at Stage 1 Theatre, 9130 Dickey Drive, Mechanicsville. All ...
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Pats Playlist: Antwain Spann
Third-year cornerback and special teams man Antwain Spann is a California native with a taste for rap. He doesn't go to concerts, but he has been known to squeeze a little...
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Spears, Rourke, Downey rebound in’08
Who woulda thunk it? After downward spirals, former Hollywood pariahs Britney Spears, Mickey Rourke and Robert Downey Jr. managed to turn it around this year. And file under TV turnaround: NBC’s “Saturday Night Live” became culturally relevant again. . . . Britney Spears: What was more stunning—the fact that Spears snagged three MTV Video Music Awards (including video of the year) or that she ...
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Jam fans arrive in heaven
ASHEVILLE – Fifteen hours after the Allman Brothers Band played their final note, Warren Haynes and Texas-based singer-songwriter Ruthie Foster took the Civic Center stage a little after 7 p.m. Saturday for the second night of the 20th Anniversary Christmas Jam.
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Visitors seek out musical epicenter at Shack Up Inn
CLARKSDALE, Miss. - The sunset signaled the cocktail hour, and white tourists were relaxing on the porches of their sharecropper shacks. Suddenly, their reverie was interrupted...
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Fish, Owen draw sell-out crowd to charity event in Vero Beach
M ardy’s Tennis and Jake’s Music Fest was another success, despite the cooler weather and cloudy skies.
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Performing arts calendar
A Festival of Carols” by Voices in the Laurel, 2 p.m. today, Longs Chapel United Methodist Church, Lake Junaluska. $10 adults, $6 children 12 and younger. Call 335-2849 or e-mail voicesinlaurel@aol.com.
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Business : Music stars' digital strategies still in flux
DENVER - It's been more than five years since Apple's iTunes store changed music retail by introducing single-track digital downloads. But it wasn't until 2008 that most musicians and labels started to wonder out loud whether selling music by the track is good for their bottom lines.
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Travel State Street During Journey’s End
Annual Event Will Feature Music, Gingerbread, More On Dec. 16 BRISTOL, TN-VA – On Dec. 16 at 6:30 p.m., Journey’s End will again take place in downtown Bristol. The event is the local interpretation of the Latino tradition of Las Posadas (The Inns). Mary and Joseph’s journey to Bethlehem is recreated as they go from inn to inn seeking lodging. The final inn welcomes them in and celebrates ...
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American cars have fueled movies and music with classic characters
Jose Luis Magana/Associated Press Forty years ago, the idea of a tiny, utilitarian foreign car stealing the show was part of the comedic appeal of "The Love Bug." These days, the joke is on Detroit. Bye-bye, Miss American Pie. Drove...
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Santa at symphony: Holiday concert includes Christmas carol sing-a-long
ASHEVILLE – A certain someone in a red cap is going to show up at the Asheville Symphony Orchestra's concert.
Asheville Citizen-Times |
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Julie Wilson Will Be Part of Brinberg's A Simply Barbra Holiday Spectacular
As previously reported, acclaimed Barbra Streisand impersonator Steven Brinberg will offer A Simply Barbra Holiday Spectacular Dec. 20 at Symphony Space in Manhattan.
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‘Slim & Howdy’
Brooks And Dunn Team Up For Comic Novel Unlikely counterparts mark the literary debut of country music stars Brooks and Dunn. First with the authors (with Bill Fitzhugh) of comic crime novel “The Adventures of Slim & Howdy” (Center Street, $22.99), Kix Brooks and Ronnie Dunn built a million-selling country music career on talent and the power of opposites. They are country music’s Oscar and ...
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Refugees guests at West Side lunch
WEST SPRINGFIELD - Thaw Dar has been in this country for three months. She moved to Union Street in West Side after fleeing Myanmar.
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Dothan Christmas festival helps needy
With a candy cane painted on her cheek Mya Williams, 9, watched snow fall from the sky in downtown Dothan on Saturday night at the 2008 Christmas Festival at Justice Park.
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The Great Green Way: Shrek the Musical Opens on Broadway Dec. 14
Wicked's Elphaba, Young Frankenstein's Monster and Avenue Q's Nicky welcome a new green-skinned pal to the neighborhood when Shrek the Musical officially opens at the Broadway Theatre Dec. 14.
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Here and there
FestivitiesMaestro Stephen Gunzenhauser, festively adorned in this photo illustration, will lead Lancaster Symphony Orchestra and Chorus in their Sounds of the Season concerts Thursday, Dec. 18, through Sunday, Dec. 21, at Franklin & Marshall College's Barshinger Center for the Performing Arts. ...
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‘Snow’ brings thousands downtown for festival
BRADENTON — It was cold, wet and white.
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PEACEFUL COUNTRY Duette residents enjoy their quiet lives
His is a big business, but Duette also boasts mom-and-pop businesses, like the Duette Country Store. A little convenience store with an eclectic assortment of items, it serves practically everybody because the nearest full-service grocery store is miles away.
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Andy, Serena and rock — oh my!
She signed shirt sleeves, posters and tennis balls. Serena Williams is as deft with a Sharpie as she is with a tennis racket. “Serena, please,” a man begged as Williams was being escorted away. He awkwardly held a poster to his back, which he presented to Williams. “It’s OK, I can hold it,” she said, her signature scribbled before he turned around. Wow, she is fast.
The State |
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McLoud gathers for a parade
McLoud area residents gathered around the community Christmas tree Saturday night to begin McLoud’s Christmas Celebration in downtown McLoud. The theme was Christmas In The Country. The McLoud Chamber of Commerce held the celebration for the second year with the lighting of the community Christmas tree, music by the choir from First Baptist Church in Newalla, a lights parade and a visit ...
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Video: Proposition 8: the musical
Jack Black leads a star-studded cast in a three-minute online video protesting California's ban on gay marriage
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Song sets tone for MCC grads
PALMETTO — Music director Melodie Dickerson’s spirited MCC Chamber Choir set the tone for Friday’s Manatee Community College winter commencement by giving the National Anthem a surprising touch of originality and creativity.
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Faith & Values Calendar
"JOY, JOY, JOY": 2 p.m. First Baptist Church, 681 McCants Drive, Mount Pleasant. The Celebration Choir and orchestra will perform. Call 844-8521. AFRICAN-AMERICAN SPIRITUAL MUSIC: 3 p.m. Drayton Hall presents a concert of spirituals, field and work songs developed on plantations. Call 769-2605.
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