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NGC Will Dance Through Wee Hours
National Geographic Channel is making a bet on music this summer.
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"SING ME BACK HOME"
Country music is poor people's music; it records their suffering. The music produced between 1950 and 1970, the golden years of twang, is "a secret history of rural, working-class Americans . . . the very best is prayer and litany, epiphany and...
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Make it 7 straight at Motorplex — just like Dad
Wayne White followed Eddie Taylor around Music City Motorplex through the first 23 laps Saturday night.
The Tennessean |
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Fragile friendship formed with a schizophrenic 'Soloist'
Steve Lopez was walking to his downtown Los Angeles office when he saw a man dressed in rags playing Beethoven on a two-stringed violin. Beside him was a shopping cart filled with all his worldly possessions.
Contra Costa Times |
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CMA Music Festival begins
The 2008 CMA Music Festival (formerly known as "Fan Fair") gets under way Thursday with country superstars Taylor Swift, Kellie Pickler, Montgomery Gentry and more headlining the first of the nightly concerts at LP Field.
The Tennessean |
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Watch, learn at Latin Dance Festival
Find a new groove — or perfect an old one — this week as the Global Education Center presents its annual Latin Dance Festival. Filled with workshops, presentations and interactive fun, the event takes place Friday-June 8, starting with an instructor/participant meet-and-greet at the center, 4822 Charlotte Ave., at 8 p.m. Friday. From there, workshops run all day Saturday and Sunday at the ...
The Tennessean |
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Klaus Tennstedt takes Bruckner's symphonies to the heights
Anyone who heard Klaus Tennstedt conduct one of Anton Bruckner's monumental symphonies probably has that experience seared into his memory. A live recording of Bruckner's Symphony No.
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Polish experts to check potential Mozart works
A team of musicologists is reviewing 19th-century copies of musical scores from a Polish monastery's archives in hopes that some might prove to be previously unknown works by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, the lead scholar said.
Courier-Post |
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DUFFY, Rockferry and ESTELLE, Shine
Two stars (Island/Mercury)
The Tennessean |
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Desmond Child innovates his way into the Songwriters Hall of Fame
Songwriter Desmond Child has changed popular music at least three times.
The Tennessean |
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Some see upside to rain
EDMONDS -- Heidi Agee of Arlington munched on huckleberry-flavored kettle corn, taking in the many sights and sounds. She was among the thousands of people who have visited the Edmonds Rotary Waterfront Festival, which started Friday on the Edmonds waterfront and ends today.
Everett Herald |
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Inland community news briefs for Sunday, June 1
Cuban salsa concert on tap ESCONDIDO ---- Escondido Public Library's First Thursday Concert series will present a concert by Luna Llena at 7 p.m. June 5 in the Turrentine Room at the main library, 239 S. Kalmia St.
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Palo Alto Online's Master Community Calendar
Showing listings from June 1, 2008 to June 7, 2008 in all categories. Melodious Musings -- Handbell Concert The Trinity Ringers' celebration and retrospective on ten years of making music. Hand bells, chimes, percussion, harp, vocals and more. Reception following concert.
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A prom night touched by tragedy
For George Yhap, 18, memories will be both bitter and sweet COLONIE -- The storm held off just long enough to avoid drenching the hundreds of teens from Albany High School celebrating their prom Saturday night. They arrived in a stream of limousines, Escalades with low-thumping music and revving sports cars. And a school bus that spewed diesel fumes into the perfume and cologne that covered ...
Albany Times Union |
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Tagg: They're at it again
Bourgeois Tagg hasn't played in about 20 years, but if you were to rewind to the mid-1980s, this pop-rock band was the biggest deal in Sactown. Bourgeois Tagg members circa 1987-88 are, from left, Lyle Workman, Brent Bourgeois, Scott Moon, Larry Tagg and Michael Urbano. Moon will not be participating in the band's reunion Tuesday. Brent Bougeois Larry Tagg Lyle ...
The Sacramento Bee |
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The Bee's best of ... Summer lovin'
With Memorial Day behind us, Sacramentans will be focusing on summer and good times with friends and relatives. Why make the drive to the Bay Area when the Sleep Train Amphitheatre is a great place to see an outdoor concert? The acts you can catch there this summer include the Police and the Jonas Brothers. The picnic area at Young's Vineyard in the Shenandoah Valley is a great ...
The Sacramento Bee |
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Andy Schachat: Jordan s races stand above the rest
Do me a favor. Over the next couple of days, when you have a moment, go to the web site www.endorfunsports.com . After the music intro plays, which you can skip if you want, you will see logo's for a number of races. Click on one of the logos, preferably the one for the Mooseman Triathlon.
Foster's Daily Democrat |
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440 years later, musical masterpiece revived in Berkeley church
Performance of Striggio Mass a centerpiece of Cal Performances' early music festival
Contra Costa Times |
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Neurologist, church pastor tout music's healing power
NEW YORK — Noted neurologist Oliver Sacks has found common ground with the pastor of Harlem's Abyssinian Baptist Church: Both men believe in the healing power of music.
Arizona Daily Star |
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Sans label, Radiohead revels in newfound freedom -- WITH VIDEOS
Radiohead band members, from left, Ed O'Brien, guitar, Jonny Greenwood, lead guitar, Colin Greenwood, bass guitar, Thom Yorke, lead vocalist, and drummer Phil Selwayan pose in their hotel room on May 13 in Washington (AP photo).
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Woodstock Music and Art Fair: Festival facts
* The festival was conceived by four young partners - Michael Lang, owner of a small store in New York City; Artie Kornfeld, an executive at Capital Records; and two venture capitalists, John Roberts and Joel Rosenman.
Kingston Daily Freeman |
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Museum at Woodstock festival site is blast from the past
Among the displays at the new museum is a timeline that highlights milestone events of the 1960s. JIMI Hendrix's dive-bombing guitar runs on "The Star-Spangled Banner." Rain chants. Joe Cocker's chicken strut. The love, mud and three days of music.
Kingston Daily Freeman |
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Pro Musica's ambition excels, but its execution falls short
It speaks well for Denver's progressing classical-music scene that audiences could choose Friday evening between competing orchestral concerts.
Denver Post |
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Emmylou's sisterhood
You don't have to love country music to love Emmylou Harris.
Denver Post |
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World's next hot spot for music? Try Dubai
Those who fetch $130 for a barrel of oil can call the tune these days. And it seems the tune is becoming so catchy that even Madonna, the original Material Girl, might be singing soon in this rich Persian Gulf city-state.
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