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BRAZIL — The Brazil Concert Band, under the direction of Matthew S. Huber, opens the 2011 season Sunday at 8 p.m. at the Forest Park bandshell (or pavilion if rain). The concert is free and open to… Read more on Greencastle Banner-Graphic
Master drummer offers free workshops
Port Jervis Once again, Kofi Donkor, a master drummer from Ghana, assisted by Kathy Brink, will present a Music and Culture of Ghana Drumming Workshop Series: A Hands-On Experience, free of charge, at the Fellowship Hall, St. Peter’s Lutheran Church, in Port Jervis, on Wednesdays, June 8, 15 and 22 from 6 to 8 p.m. Read more on The Goshen Chronicle
Auditorium reservation revoked
Citing concerns about the appropriateness of the event, Washington Parish Schools Superintendent Darrell Fairburn rescinded his permission for Yolanda Magee to use the Franklinton Primary School auditorium for her Franktown Showdown talent show and concert. The issue was recently discussed during a meeting of the Washington Parish School Board. Read more on The Daily News
HBO Sets Date for Tracy Morgan’s ‘Black and Blue’
*A date has finally been announced for Tracy Morgan’s upcoming HBO standup special. Taped last September at New York’s Apollo Theatre, “Tracy Morgan: Black and Blue” will premiere Nov. 13 at 10 p.m., the cable network just announced. “The special is going to be all the elements: fire, water, earth, air, the comedy bender, the [...] Read more on EURweb
CapitalCitybandplansNevada Day concert
The Capital City Community Band will open its 32nd concert season with a free old-fashioned band concert at 1:30 p.m. Oct. 30 in the Nevada State Railroad Museum on South Carson Street. Read more on Nevada Appeal
Plano Symphony Brass fuses nature, music with concert at the Heard
The Plano Symphony Brass Ensemble will perform a concert at the Heard Natural Science Museum and Wildlife Sanctuary on Sunday, October 17, starting at 5:30 p.m. The performance will include Aaron Copland’s Simple Gifts, Carmen Dragon’s America the Beautiful, Henry Mancini’s Baby Elephant Walk as well as John Phillip Sousa’s The Thunderer and the Americanfolk ballad Shenandoah. Read more on McKinney Courier-Gazette
Adam Lambert Concert Can Go Ahead if Conditions Met
KUALA LUMPUR, 11 OCTOBER, 2010: The ‘Adam Lambert Glam Nation Tour Live in Malaysia 2010′ concert can go ahead provided the organisers adhere to the conditions set by the Central Agency for Application for Filming and Performance of Foreign Artistes (Puspal). Read more on Malaysian Digest
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The Murphys Community Club’s First Fridays in the Park concert series will complete its 2010 season with a program of danceable music from the Colombia College Band under the direction of Rod Harris starting at 5:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 3. Read more on Calaveras Enterprise
Man jumps to death at US concert
A 32-year-old man has jumped six metres to his death onto the stage of a concert in California. Read more on BigPond News
LegendaryglambandKiss is headed to DarienLake
It would not be an exaggeration to suggest that when thousands of kids heard the 1975 Kiss concert double-disc “Alive!,” they decided there and then that they wanted to be rock stars. Read more on The Buffalo News
Delano area calendar
Delano Farmers Market NOW TO OCT. – The Delano Farmers Market, located on the corner of Highway 12 and County Line Road in the Flippin’ Bills’ parking lot, is open from 2 to 6 p.m., Wednesdays from May through October. The Farmers’ Market is local farmers selling fresh, locally grown produce and other products, including breads, fruits, jams, honey, maple syrup, eggs, beef products, Kettle Korn … Read more on Delano Press & News
Town East hosts shopping frenzy
Teens love to shop and hang out with their friends. That’s part of the reason why Town East Mall has arranged a special event just for young adults to gather and embrace the place where they do their shopping and socializing all at once. Read more on The Mesquite News
N.Y.bandbringsalternativesound to N.J.students as classicalmusicgets 21st-century makeover
NEW PROVIDENCE — Dorothy Lawson’s long blond hair flailed around her smiling face while she dug her bow into her cello strings with walloping force, stomping her foot to a heavy blues beat. Moments after the squealing and sputtering of… Read more on The Star-Ledger
Dodge County News Notes
Area residents have two hallmark events to look forward to this week. Read more on Fond du Lac Reporter
Fox’s and #8216;Glee’ facing a future with more story, less music
By ROB OWEN BLOCK NEWS ALLIANCE BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — When a TV show emerges from the pop culture firmament glowing as bright and hot as Fox’s Glee, it sometimes leads to a short lifespan. Just ask the Jonas Brothers: They were riding high two years ago, but today the brothers are yesterday’s news. Fickle, young pop culture consumers have moved on. The fast-moving nature of hot TV series … Read more on The Toledo Blade
N.Y.bandbringsalternativesound to N.J.students as classicalmusicgets 21st-century makeover
NEW PROVIDENCE — Dorothy Lawson’s long blond hair flailed around her smiling face while she dug her bow into her cello strings with walloping force, stomping her foot to a heavy blues beat. Moments after the squealing and sputtering of… Read more on The Star-Ledger
Dodge County News Notes
Area residents have two hallmark events to look forward to this week. Read more on Fond du Lac Reporter
Michael Franti & Spearhead announced in November last year that they would be opening for the 2010 John Mayer “Battle Studies Tour” in the spring. It was difficult to picture Mayer, known mostly for his colorful love life rather than his guitar compositions, and Franti, known for his fights against political, religious and racial wars, on the same stage.
Franti’s practicing what he preaches. He is closely involved with CARE, an organization trying to educate mainly women and girls in developing countries in quest against poverty. He travels all around the world on CARE missions. One of the last places he visited was East Timor.
A few years ago Michael Franti & Spearhead released their Yell Fire! album, inspired by Franti’s trip to the Middle East war zones including Israel, Baghdad, Iraq, and the Gaza Strip.
But despite the mixed reactions after the announcement of the collaboration, Michael Franti was confident that his music is compatible with Mayer’s and that Michael Franti & Spearhead would connect to Mayer’s audience.
Franti, in whose veins flow all kinds of blood, is equally open to people of all ages, genders or races. And according to the positive reactions of fans after the first concerts of the Battle Studies Tour, he was right. The light, positive music blending hip hop with funk, reggae, jazz, folk, and rock, turned out to be a perfectly matching opening act for John Mayer’s “Battle Studies.”
Michael Franti & Spearhead gained mainstream recognition last year with the hit single “Say Hey (I Love You)” from their “All Rebel Rockers” album. “Say Hey (I Love You)” turned out to be a gold mine and became double platinum with more than 2 million sold copies sold.
“All Rebel Rockers” was recorded mainly in Jamaica. Franti finds inspiration not only in Jamaica but also in classical albums like Stevie Wonder’s Songs In the Key of Life. But what really makes their sound so unique is the live performance of the band. Something that draws Michael Franti to reggae are the vibes that the band creates when they play together.
Right now Michael Franti & Spearhead are working on their next album.
Cake is an indie-rockband from Sacramento, California that has a devoted fanbase and loyal following for their unique blend of indie, funk, jazz and countrymusic. Fashion Nugget, Cake’s second album, became the album that brought the band into the public eye and gave them their first radio success with the song “The Distance”. After another five albums, a bounty of TV snippets including having written the theme tune to Chuck, and a number of hit singles has made them one of the most popular bands on the Alternative Rock scene.
In 2008 the band removed their studio (Upbeat Studio) from dependence on Sacramento, California’s power grid by installing a system of solar panels. The band subsequently announced that their upcoming studio album will be “recorded using 100% solar energy.”
Although Cake’s music is often classified as alternative rock or indie-rock, it combines elements of multiple musical genres, such as funk, rockabilly, jazz, rap, and country. Cake’s music features droll lyrics rife with word play and syncopation, catchy distorted guitar riffs (courtesy of guitarist Greg Brown until 1998, and bass player Victor Damiani until 1997), prominent use of a Moog, and a solo trumpet (played by Vince DiFiore).
The laconic and rap-like style in which lead vocalist/guitarist John McCreabrings the lyrics is sometimes called sprechgesang.
In the summer of 2002, Cake headlined the Unlimited Sunshine Tour festival among such varied bands as Modest Mouse, The Flaming Lips, De La Soul, Latin techno fusion band Kinky and bluegrass group The Hackensaw Boys. Cake brought back the tour in 2003 with Cheap Trick, country singer Charlie Louvin, garage rockers The Detroit Cobras and a return performance from The Hackensaw Boys. The tour returned in 2007 with the Brazilian Girls on the East Coast dates, return of The Detroit Cobras for the West Coast dates, and Oakley Hall, Agent Ribbons and King City for all the shows.
In June 2008, lead singer John McCrea told music publication REVUE that he is thinking seriously of quitting touring to become a farmer.
On June 11, 2009, Cake played at the Apple World Wide Developer Conference 2009 bash in San Francisco, California.
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Tokyo-based instrumentalists LITE formed in 2003. Their debut “Filmlets” received great critical acclaim, and since then the band have toured Japan constantly, embarked on their second UK & Ireland tourlast September and they have appeared at the Fuji Rock Festival.
LITE’s sound combines the precision and musicianship of progrock with the emotionally charged cinematiccompositions of art rock, in a heavier, more modern package that they describe as “math rock”. Nowhere near as heavy as mathcore or prog metal, but more so than your average prog rock band.
Shortly after that appearance, the Japanese quartet released a split CD with Funanori (Go! Team guitarist Kaori Tsuchida and Mike Watt from The Minutemen) and teamed up with Mike Watt again in February this year to host his Brother’s Sister’s Daughter tour of Japan.
With the release of their second full-length album, “Phantasia”, the intense gigging schedule has obviously paid off. The band have improved their songwriting skills and their ability to translate their energetic live performances into an impressive studio album. Their instrumental prowess comes across in splendid fashion and the result is a varied and satisfying album.
Darker in parts to its predecessor, “Phantasia” contains many influences, from King Crimson-esque jazz-rock to full-scale guitar assault as on “Contra” or the opener “Ef” which has been re-recorded and reignited with the fury of its live rendition.
Throughout, there are stories woven into these grooves; the sea-faring tragedy “Shinkai” and the melancholic “Solitude” illustrate the band’s maturity as “storyteller” songwriters.
With “Phantasia”, LITE is set to cement its reputation as one of the most exciting bands to have emerged from Japan in recent years.
In 1961 he moved to Denmark, at a time when several other American jazz musicians had moved to Europe. He gained a wide following across Europe, although he sacrificed much of the interest of the American jazz audience in the process. He recorded many sessions with the Danish bassist Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen and became a well known figure on the Copenhagen jazz scene.
On his passing (August 4, 1993), Kenny Drew was interred in the Assistens Kirkegård in the Nørrebro section of Copenhagen.
His son Kenny Drew, Jr. is also a jazz pianist.
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