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THIS WEEK
S MUSIC THE FOUNTAINS OF WAYNE This band is an object lesson in the value of patience. The Fountains of Wayne take three or four years to make a CD, and the lavish attention (or perhaps absence of pressure) has resulted in four jewels of power-pop (plus a...
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THEATER The Great Tennessee Monkey Trial , starring Edward Asner and John Heard, Jewish Community Center of San Francisco's Kanbar Hall (Thurs.). CONCERT Oakland East Bay Symphony , Nolan Gasser's "World Concerto for Cello and Orchestra" with cellist Maya...
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CherryPal Announces the World's First Truly Green Nettop, the BingTM, During the Sundance Film Festival This Week in ...
Green, low-cost PC maker CherryPal will present its newest innovation: the Bing nettop computer during Sundance Film Festival, this week in Park City, Utah.The introduction of the new 10.2' wide-screen Intel AtomTM N270 based Cherrypal Bing netbook. Battery life will be five hours for this ultra-efficient machine, and with ease-of-use built in from conception as well as an attractive size/price ...
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Tom Kimmel's songs take him to the movies
Alabama-reared Tom Kimmel came to Nashville in the early 1980s, attracting audiences with his soulful voice and gaining the favor of artists including Waylon Jennings, Roger McGuinn, Maura O'Connell and Johnny Cash, all of whom recorded his songs. Kimmel's latest album, Never Saw Blue, is a collection of his songs that have been featured in movies and on television, through vehicles including ...
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MUSIC ON TV
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In celebration of a storyteller
From left, Donald E. Lacy, Jr., James Wheatley, and C. Kelly Wright, practice a scene during a rehearsal of the Sacramento Theater Company's production of August Wilson's, Gem of the Ocean", Wednesday, Jan. 14, 20 A griot plays many roles: storyteller, master of words and music, poet, historian, even entertainer. August Wilson was all those things. Wilson's 10 plays rank him with ...
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Orphan Lyrics Uses Music to Help Suffering Children Around the World
The founders of Orphan Lyrics have negotiated the rights from major artists and publishers to print song lyrics on t-shirts and sell them to consumers around the globe. 100% of the profits from the t-shirt sales are given to children's charities. http://www.OrphanLyrics.com (PRWeb Jan 18, 2009) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2009/01/prweb1876894.htm
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C.A.M. Chooses Counterpoint Systems CRM Solution
Italian record company Creazioni Artistiche Musicali (C.A.M.) has chosen to implement Counterpoint Systems Customer Relationship Management (CRM). (PRWeb Jan 18, 2009) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2009/01/prweb1877914.htm
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Variable iTunes prices raise music labels' hopes
LOS ANGELES — Although Apple Inc. announced this month that some songs sold on its market-leading iTunes online service would be available for 69 cents instead of the 99-cent tag Apple had insisted on for years, the change won't necessarily put more money into the pockets of music lovers.
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Folk Rock Musician Christopher Taylor Hailed as Intense, Funky, and a Bit Raucous on New Age Album: Remains To Be Seen
Freshly picked blues / folk / new age music release from Organically Grown Music makes international premiere at MIDEM 2009; singer/songwriter Christopher Taylor is represented by music consultancy Only New Age Music, Inc. (PRWeb Jan 18, 2009) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/CTaylor/OGM/prweb1881374.htm
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Atherton woman belts songs to cut weight
Silicon Valley businesswoman Heidi Roizen was on her way to yet another meeting when she had an idea. She was listening to what she describes as 'chick empowerment' music, trying to get herself pumped up for a stressful hour. It was then that the Atherton resident, who had just reached an all-time high of 190 pounds, wondered why wasn't there any similar 'empowerment' music for people trying to ...
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Arguing over an icon's death
When not tearing through an untold amount of whiskey, women and city limits, Robert Johnson composed 29 songs that changed the course of American music. Then, at the age of 27, he laid down and died in Leflore County. But where?
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Music on DVD
Johnny Winter
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King songfest triumphs over chill
The Martin Luther King Jr. Gospel Songfest's 25th anniversary celebrated the memory of the civil rights leader and noted the history that will be made Tuesday in Washington.
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle |
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Big Day Out kicks off Australian leg
THE opening Australian leg of the Big Day Out music festival for 2009 has attracted the usual bumper - if eclectic - crowd on a gloomy day on the Gold Coast.
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Party at Bob's: Sundance comes to Sundance
There's a relaxed, private moment that happens far away from Park City each year during the Sundance Film Festival. On the first weekend of the festival, the filmmakers whose work is being shown are welcomed at a private brunch hosted by Robert Redford on the premises of Sundance Resort, on the lower slopes of Mount Timpanogos in Provo Canyon.
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Artist reborn
It was 11 p.m. on the night before New Year’s Eve, and I was doing something I hadn’t expected would crown my 2008: sitting in Prince’s limousine as the pop music legend lounged beside me, playing unreleased tracks on the stereo. Photo caption: Prince performed last April at the 2008 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in Indio, Calif. Photo by Los Angeles Times
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Ready to shake, rattle, roll in Washington
UPS driver Dave Stovall picks up packages at the Caterpillar Inc. facility in Morton four nights a week and delivers them to the UPS air package hub at Chicago/Rockford International Airport.
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Duke
Producer, arranger, conductor, performer, pianist, band leader and - above all - composer Duke Ellington (1899-1974) is a difficult man to categorize.
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Arts group outlines events
The Art Central Foundation has drawn its slate of events for 2009, including the now traditional Main Street Art and Music Festival, and the new Mardi Gras celebration.
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Music of hope, nationally and in the Bay, for Obama
Tuesday night in Santa Clara, soul singer Billy Madden plans to step onto the stage at the Avalon nightclub to offer an update on Sam Cooke's 'A Change is Gonna Come,' with his own lyrics, re-tooled in honor of Barack Obama's election and inauguration. Avalon's 'Celebration of Change: Obama Presidential Inauguration Party,' with DJ General Lee and an array of South Bay performers, is one of the ...
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Grants available for education nonprofits
Swift Communications, the parent company of The Tribune, is offering grants to local education-related nonprofit organizations to promote literacy and educational enrichment.
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Park Hill Elementary's auction schooled in rock
Chuck and Becky Morris have been helping out at Denver Public Schools' Park Hill Elementary for a long time. They've had three kids there over 11 years (Sophie, Isabel and Zach)and music promoter Chuck and his energetic wife are always bringing star power to the school's annual auction.
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Burlesque to get a home of its own at Civic's cabaret space
John Moore's colulmn: The cabaret at the New Denver Civic Theatre will be transformed into the only dedicated burlesque theater in the nation, opening March 13. Plus: Colorado Shakespeare Festival shakes up its '09 lineup.
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Run-DMC, Metallica to join rock hall
Enter Sandmen. Metal heroes Metallica and hip-hop pioneers Run-DMC lead the class of this year's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees, announced Thursday at the headquarters of Fuse, which will air the ceremonies for the first time this year.
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