Virtual Bass Player
The latest music, band and instrument news and information

112891 Stories Found




Thank you for visiting Virtual Bass Player, the source for news and information about music, virtual bass, virtual guitar, virtual drums, bands, concerts and more.
◄◄ Previous 25Latest NewsNext 25 ►►
Musician Bill Tapia, 100, stars at temporary closing of Royal Hawaiian
In 1927, Hawai'i-born Bill Tapia already had a lifetime's worth of musical experiences under his belt. He was 19 years old and criss-crossing the Pacific Ocean playing jazz guitar for steamship passengers.
Honolulu Advertiser
Visalia health-care facility throws prom for residents
Elegant dresses are worn, music is blaring and photos are being snapped — but this is no ordinary dance.
Visalia Times-Delta / Tulare Advance-Register
Stradivarius sings in BPO's Beethoven performance
Just as the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra was preparing its two weekends of Beethovenimmersion to conclude the 2007-08 concert season, a surprise news release focused the spotlight squarely on this weekend's concerts.
The Buffalo News
Site navigation
The bandstand in Forbury Gardens will be alive with the sound of music throughout the summer. The Forbury Band Concert Season begins on Sunday at 3pm with the Reading Spring Gardens Band and this concert is also part of the Reading Children’s Festival.
Reading Evening Post
Pickers' delight :Tashians have traveled musical road from The Beatles to bluegrass.
So how does a Connecticut Yankee who grew up loving the blues and played in a rock band that opened for The Beatles end up playing bluegrass music?
South Bend Tribune
Festival has record catch
One-thousand-four -hundred - and -fifty-five fillets of haddock into Stan Krolick's quest Friday evening to serve the world's biggest fish fry, he came face-to-face with potential disaster.
The Buffalo News
He whistled his way into TV history
His work is embedded in the memory of millions, but perhaps his best-remembered is a whistled melody that captured the rocking-chair pace of a mythical North Carolina hamlet called Mayberry. Earle Hagen, who died this week of natural causes in Rancho Mirage, Calif., at 88, was the songsmith who wrote “The Fishin' Hole,” the theme song for “The Andy Griffith Show,” which ran on CBS for eight ...
The Charlotte Observer
I want to work with Lalit again: Jatin
Anurag Sharma, New Delhi: Music director Jatin Pandit who had split amicably with his partner Lalit and taken to composing solo says he would like to revive the partnership and once again recreate the magic of evergreen numbers like Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge, Kuch Kuch Hota Hai and Fanna.
New Kerala
The Fergus Falls Daily Journal
Now that summer has arrived — Do you remember the enjoyable evenings we had last year at the Concerts in the Park? A series of 10 Thursdays are scheduled again this year from 5 to 7 p.m. at Roosevelt Park.
Fergus Falls Daily Journal
Winehouse arrives late to party
LISBON -- Amy Winehouse showed up late for her first concert since leaving rehab, giving an underwhelming performance for 90,000 people yesterday at a Lisbon music festival.
Calgary Sun
The connection of '8' with SINGH IS KINNG
Vipul Shah's forthcoming SINGH IS KINNG appears to be inextricably linked with the number 8. The keenly anticipated music of the film is due to release in the week of 8th June while the film will release worldwide on 8th August. "8 is lucky for me.
Glamsham.com
An item song in a mythological?
Anushvi Productions' animation-mythological film DASHAVATAR, scheduled for release all over on June 13, has an item song in the film, first time in a mythological.
Glamsham.com
Emotions run high at vigil for victims
Music played softly in the background as one by one, candles were lit by grieving Calgarians who gathered at a vigil last night to remember five people killed in a horrific Dalhousie murder-suicide.
Calgary Sun
30 years of 'country' in Farmington
The 30th annual Country Days kicks off Wednesday in Farmington with the Miss Country Days Queen Pageant at the Centene Center and ends June 8 with a concert by Music Makers Band at the Long Park Gazebo.
Park Hills Daily Journal
'I love this class'
Through his career as music teacher, choir director and school administrator, Ron Bolles knew better than most folks how a group of people can be greater than the sum of its parts. It's how he knew a seventh-grader afraid to step onto a stage would someday be a seamless part of a show choir.
San Diego Union-Tribune
A family for fitness
There she is, in her sweats and white T-shirt, at the rear of the room, arms outstretched, lifting one foot to the beat of the music, then the other foot.
Fort Wayne Journal Gazette
State orders college to repay funding
Cuyamaca College must repay about $107,000 in state funding after investigators questioned the validity of some of its noncredit music-therapy courses at convalescent homes, according to a report released yesterday.
San Diego Union-Tribune
Music
National top-sellers provided by Billboard:
Fort Wayne Journal Gazette
Weekend calendar for 5/31 and 6/01
Upcoming area events will include: "The Wizard of Oz:" a family production of the musical, "Blue:" a dark drama laced with humor, and Cosmic Concerts: "Sounds of the Underground," a cosmic video featuring techno, dance and club music.
The Gainesville Sun
Arts, tower, tennis and Memorial Day kudos
Thumbs up to the Friends of Pulpit Rock Tower and the N.H. Fish and Game Department for taking a deep breath and putting on hold a plan to use the historical 73-foot-high observation tower in Rye as a cell-phone antenna location. We don't how patient...
Portsmouth Herald
Earle Hagen; prolific film, television composer; 88
Earle H. Hagen, who co-wrote the jazz classic “Harlem Nocturne” and composed memorable themes for “The Andy Griffith Show,” “I Spy,” “The Mod Squad” and other TV shows, has died. He was 88.
San Diego Union-Tribune
Collector will sell his pieces of music history
A piece of Salem history — actually hundreds of pieces — is going on sale at Ranch Records in Salem, courtesy of a longtime entertainment promoter who has doubled as a pack rat.
Salem Statesman Journal
Go & Do - things to do Sunday, Monday and beyond
The chamber chorus Amare Cantare will host an afternoon of Renaissance music, theater, dance, crafts, and activities from noon to 5 p.m. on Sunday, June 1 in the beautiful pastoral setting of the Mill Pond Center for the Arts, 50 Newmarket Road, Durham.
Portsmouth Herald
Priyan for the big song
Ace director from Mollywood, Priyadarshan will make a comeback to Malayalam picturising a song for the AMMAs maiden film Twenty Twenty
IndiaGlitz
'Imagine' that! Beatlemania and the symphony
George, Paul, John, Ringo. They played at Carnegie Hall but were anything but a classical quartet. Yet ironically, Carnegie -- that icon of classical music performance venues -- was an appropriate hall for the Beatles' 1964 American debut. As the group matured, their music became more sonically complex, more orchestral, more classical. That soaring piccolo trumpet obbligato in ''Penny Lane,'' ...
The Morning Call
◄◄ Previous 25Latest NewsNext 25 ►►
Other News Pages:
4022 3833 3824 470 3093 2346 3448 4306 2734 740 1759 2585 1446 4026 2762 112 4365 4462 4409 3986 4201 1354 1553 4288 1055 3385 264 729 4461 4068 314 3305 2183 1255 4315 3984 3465 2006 268 832 2279 1026 1842 2266 3105 2994 4000 1216 1307 474 1507 3440 1424 4331 798 3031 971 3943 2628 2730 1181 496 1995 2920 97 3735 460 1604 1361 4464