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Around the Region: Hamburg Art Stroll, Hegins car show
Hamburg: A Summer in the City Art Stroll titled “My Generation,” is scheduled for 6 to 9 p.m. June 6 in downtown Hamburg. According to organizers, participants will experience the sights and sounds of surviving generations, see art styles from modern to traditional, listen to the sounds of the decades and savor some of the most popular and nostalgic snacks. For more information, call 610-562-3106.
The Pottsville Republican & Herald |
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'Heavy love' is team's spring performance
Higher Power Performance Team holds spring recital
The Fredericksburg Free Lance-Star |
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NEW LONDON, MO.: Alpaca festival
The seventh annual Spring Alpaca Festival will be held from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. June 8, at Starlight Ranch, just south of Hannibal. The festival is put on by five alpaca farms from Missouri. The festival is free, but promoters ask that visitors RSV...
St. Louis Post-Dispatch |
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TV stars to launch festival
THE stars of a roadshow TV series will kick off Chipping Sodbury Festival next week. Antiques Roadshow experts Hilary Kay and Paul Atterby are holding an anecdotal show for fans at Chipping Sodbury Town Hall on festival launch day, Friday, June 13 (7.30pm).
Gazette |
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Update on Mayor Len Brown
Last night during his speech to open the Pacific Music Awards at Telstra Clear Pacific Events Centre, Manukau Mayor Len Brown, collapsed without warning.
Scoop.co.nz |
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Scene: Opening Night Gala
More than 200 people were on hand for the May Festival's Opening Night Gala at Music Hall.
The Cincinnati Enquirer |
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Childrens Chorale holds music camp
The Fond du Lac Childrens Chorale will hold a summer music camp from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. June 16-20 at the Windhover Center for the Arts, 51 Sheboygan St.
Fond du Lac Reporter |
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Monks turn office products into $4.5M business
SPARTA, Wis. - That'll be $117.95 for laser printer toner, $9.95 for free trade organic hot cocoa and $16.95 for fruit tarts.
SouthtownStar |
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Exclusive - Britain's Got Talent Amanda Holden's backstage diary
It's been a week of amazing highs and lows, singing kids and middle-aged crooners, fumbling magicians and nervous musicians, a belly dancer and even a dancing dog. But last night the road to stardom reached its end.
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Usher transforms from player to parent on new CD
For more than a decade, Usher's music has been the soundtrack to a player's lifestyle. Until now. Usher is newly married and the father of a 7-month-old son. He has moved on from the party scene to the family life, and his new sense of responsibility has spilled over into his music on "Here I Stand," which comes out on Tuesday.
SouthtownStar |
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Grads grasp their futures
PRINCETON — The second round of high school graduations in Mercer and Bland counties continued Saturday with a trio of West Virginia side commencement exercises as well as a fourth Saturday evening at Rocky Gap, Va.
Bluefield Daily Telegraph |
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Peru hosts Maud Powell festival
Music lovers in the Fox Valley know the name Maud Powell as Aurora claims her as a native "daughter."
The Beacon News |
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Spin control
issued seventh album -- still music's most impressive testament to mainstream popularity, even in the era of the digital download.
Chicago Sun-Times |
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Condi Rice enlists in Kiss Army
The Kiss Army fan club has an enthusiastic new recruit: Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. Rice, a classically trained pianist, said she has eclectic musical tastes ranging from Beethoven to Bruce Springsteen. Hard stadium rockers like Kiss are included in the mix and Rice said her favorite tune of theirs is "Rock and Roll All Nite."
Lake County News Sun |
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Gear guides
'People's Choice Guide: Cancún Travel Survey Guidebook 2008' (Turbulence Music Corp., 384 pp.
San Jose Mercury News |
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Ending on uncertain note
"This is starting to feel like a telethon," Marvin Hamlisch said to laughter and some tears during last night's season finale -- and perhaps ultimate finale -- for the Columbus Symphony Orchestra.
The Columbus Dispatch |
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Festival time on The Hill
The Palos Verdes Steet Fair and Music Festival, which runs through today June 1 in Rolling Hills Estates offers live music, food, rides and arts and crafts booths. » Photos
Daily Breeze |
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The world of Alicia Keysey
When she emerged on the music scene in summer 2001, it was clear Alicia Keys had all the makings for stardom. Lovely, fashionable and gifted, she ably straddled the worlds of classic soul and modern pop, a classically trained pianist who gracefully infused her hook-laden songs with a cosmopolitan air.
Detroit Free Press |
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BRIAN MCCOLLUM: Playlist: Fresh thoughts on new music
Jewel has donned a variety of musical hats since arriving in the mid-1990s: folk poet, romantic pop crooner, even club diva, with her ill-advised record "0304."
Detroit Free Press |
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Where peace and love resonated
BETHEL, N.Y. -- 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. The Woodstock experience is a museum piece now.
Detroit Free Press |
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JOHN SMYNTEK'S NAMES & FACES: Motherhood gives Liv Tyler new view of parenting
Cookie magazine -- billed as a lifestyle magazine for the modern mother -- features actress Liv Tyler on the cover with her son, Milo, for the June/July issue out Tuesday. How modern is she? Tyler and hubby-rock musician Royston Langdon just broke up.
Detroit Free Press |
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Sound of 'Taps' is still compelling
The sound floated down from a hillside behind me, barely discernible, a suggestion of melody filtered through the breeze and birdsong of late morning. I was enraptured. It was Memorial Day in Cave Hill Cemetery. And an unseen bugler was blowing "Taps."
Louisville Courier-Journal |
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Hybrid visions
Ken Butler is an artist/musician who made a big name for himself by constructing playable but playful instruments cobbled together from household and tool-shed objects. "KEN BUTLER: Hybrid Visions" is on view now at the Dayton Art Institute.
Louisville Courier-Journal |
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Bertoncini and Bollenback to jazz up guitar clinic
The Bellarmine Jazz Guitar Clinic will bring in Gene Bertoncini and Paul Bollenback as guest instructors and featured concert artists.
Louisville Courier-Journal |
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Music Listings
Valerie June - . Sundays, 2 p.m. Fresh Slices 1585 Overton Park (Midtown) 725-1001.
The Memphis Flyer |
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