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Priscilla Queen of the Desert Tickets Will Be Available Through January 2012
A new block of tickets for Priscilla Queen of the Des ert The Musical — drawn from the Academy Award-winning film “The Adventures of Priscilla Queen of the Desert” — will go on sale May 16. Tickets will be available through Jan. 29, 2012.
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INTERVIEW/PROFILE/TRIBUTE: Something Else! Interview: Steve Lukather, of Toto
m: Steve Lukather was gearing up for a summer tour in Europe when he got the news: Rare recognition had arrived for him, not just as a co-founder of the often-overlooked band Toto but—and this is rarer still—as a sideman. Lukather was recently honored by Gibson.com, the legendary guitar-maker’s official Web site, as one of the Top 10 session players of all time—a diverse list that …
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OUT: Ribs shine through a strobe in Allston, kick off East Coast tour
Rainbows bright Whereas most bands nurse hangovers on Saturday mornings, the dudes in Ribs spent the one before their tour kickoff party at Home Depot, wandering the tall aisles of suburban fix-it wonderland in search of multi-colored floodlights and thin, four-foot-long fluorescent bulbs. BLINDING Ribs almost overwhelmed Great Scott with lights and magic. Whereas most bands nurse hangovers on …
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Lil Wayne extends ‘Tha Carter IV’ tour
Rapper Lil Wayne adds an extra 40 dates to his current ‘I Am Still Music’ tour of the US.
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Today’s events (May 9)
by PaloAltoOnline.com Concert: ‘With Music, Anything is Possible’ Choirs from all schools in the Mountain View Whisman School District will perform at a free choral-fest concert tonight (May 9) at 5 p.m. at Shoreline Amphitheatre, 1 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View. Film: ‘Climate Refugees’ ‘Climate Refugees,’ the centerpiece film at the 2010 UN Climate Summit, will be shown today (May 9) at …
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Photos: 30 Seconds to Mars “Hurricane” Video Screening
30 Seconds to Mars “Hurricane” New York City Music Video Screening – Arrivals… Lil Wayne’s “I Am Still Music Tour” at the Staples Center in Los Angeles – April 22, 2011…
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Tickets remain for Refugee All Stars National Tour
There are still some tickets available for the concert by Sierra Leone’s Refugee All Stars.
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Symphony celebrates 50 years
The North Platte Telegraph The halls at North Platte High School will echo with the music of Gershwin, Sibelius and Tchaikovsky on Sunday as the Sandhills Symphony Orchestra celebrates its 50th anniversary with a special gala concert on Sunday, March 20 at 3 p.m.
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Hangover Music: “Recovering the Satellites,” Counting Crows
I’ve listened to this song about 10 times already this morning. I think it’s because Adam Duritz always sounds like he has way more problems than me. It’s comforting.
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Music and more on RFC
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Episode 129 of “Radio Free Charleston” is online now at thegazz.com/popcult, featuring music from Blue Million, HARRAH and one of the stars of this weekends West Virgin…
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SSU to host lots of music in May
May is performance month for the Sonoma State University music department, and with 23 events happening over 15 days, it’s…
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Religion notes
AntiochConcert: Faith Lutheran Church invites the Antioch community to a special performance of the Jan Sobieski String Quartet April 30 at 7:30 p.m. at the church, 24300 Grass Lake Road and Route 59. They will be performing a concert that will include a variety of classical music. This is the group’s fourth year performing at Faith. The members of the quartet are Anna Schweitz and Robin …
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Farah Alvin to Star in Gretna Theatre’s Funny Girl ; Season Also Includes Shirley Jones, Brad Little
Academy Award winner Shirley Jones will perform her solo concert, An Evening of Stories and Songs, as the opening event of the season at Central Pennsylvania’s Gretna Theatre.
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HSU’s Spring Dance Concert
music, dance / 9:30 p.m.-2 a.m. Nocturnum, 206 W. 6th St., Eureka. None. . E-mail marc.gumnic.rbc@gmail.com. 499-4937. dance / 7:30 p.m. Van Duzer Theatre, HSU. 45 dancers in 10 dances choreographed by faculty and students in the HSU spring dance concert.
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‘Woodsongs’ singer plans free concert
Folk singer Michael Johnathon from KET’s “WoodSongs Old-Time Radio Hour” will perform a free concert at 6:15 p.m. on Saturday at Willis Music, 7567 Mall Road, Florence. The WoodSongs Coffeehouse gathering starts at 6 p.m. with the Kati Penn bluegrass band.
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The Music Never Stopped [2011] [PG] – 2.3.4
Inspired by a true story about a father (J.K. Simmons) that had been estranged from his son (Lou Taylor Pucci) for almost 20 years: After the son suffers from a brain tumor that prevents him from forming new memories, he and his father rekindle their relationship with the help of a music therapist (Julia Ormond) and “The Grateful Dead.” Also with Mia Maestro, Tammy Blanchard, Scott Adsit and …
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Motown guitarist Dennis Coffey drops new album
Dennis Coffey is hoping that at 70, and with 56 years in the music business, he can finally take the “un” out of his unsung hero status.
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Maryhill Winery & Amphitheater Welcome a Standout Lineup for 2011 Summer Concert Season
Headlining acts include YES and STYX, Gipsy Kings, Michael McDonald and Boz Scaggs
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What a concert at new Musikfest Cafe is like
I have seen the future of music in the Lehigh Valley.
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COMING UP
” Capriccio,” live New York Metropolitan Opera simulcast for “The Met: Live in HD” series, noon April 23 and encore 1:30 p.m. April 24, Louise C. Murdock Theatre, 20th Century Center, 536 N. Broadway. Tickets , seniors , students at www.murdocktheatre.com. Information, 316-263-1665.
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MTV EXIT: “Don’t Let Me Go”
Hey guys, how’s it going? I’ve been crazy busy with work. From hosting makeup launches to more makeup product judging, to meeting awesome bands and artists who I never in this lifetime thought I would meet (which I will talk about in my next post), right down to my everyday struggle of “how to style my hair”, learning how to apply eye shadow (I am still struggling with that big-ended up looking …
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U2 Manager: ‘Web Firms Must Help Musicians’
Technology firms are not doing enough to help the music industry, the manager of U2 has told Sky News, hours after his band smashed a concert tour world record.Speaking on Jeff Randall Live, Paul McGuinness …
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Michelle Balleck: Music, putt-putt, sports & more — a full spring weekend
There’s plenty to tickle your fancy this weekend, with everything from concerts to mini golf and church fundraisers to bingo. ■ The annual putt-putt golf tourney hosted by three local bars returns this weekend for your drunken, costumed pleasure. The party starts at 1 p.m. Saturday at Mathers Bar, 420 Yampa Ave., and continues at J.W. Snack’s and The Popular Bar. Putt three holes at each place.
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Music transcends language barrier, celebrates opening of Confucius Institute
Shanghai Normal University and MU performers played together at the event Friday.
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5 don’t-miss festivals across the U.S.
Food, wine, parades, live music and finally getting outdoors after a long winter … what’s not to love about the spring festival season?
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CIMMFest celebrates relationship between movies and music
Three years ago, Josh Chicoine and Ilko Davidov were two guys sitting at a bar talking about possibilities. Today , they are the co-founders of the Chicago International Movies & Music Festival, a four-day event now in its third incarnation that highlights the intersection of film and music. Film festivals always have included music documentaries and musicals, but CIMMFest goes further by …
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Head of Blue Ridge Orchestra’s musical life and legacy is linked by spirituality
Ron Clearfield conducts the Blue Ridge Orchestra during practice at the Masonic Temple in Asheville. He will perform his final concert as music director of the ensemble on April 29. / John Fletcher/jfletcher@citizen-times.com
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MUSIC REVIEW: Singers strike ‘Bach’ in finale
The Arkansas Chamber Singers and conductor John Erwin sort of pulled a fast one on the audience at Friday night’s “Bach Cantatas” concert at Little Rock’s St. James United Methodist Church.
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Mancuso Returns To Squaw Valley Saturday April 9
Squaw Valley USA] April 2, 2011 – Squaw Valley USA is kicking off their famous spring party season on Saturday, April 9 with the Julia Mancuso Kiss My Tiara Pool Party followed by a free concert with Donavon Frankenreiter on the KT Sundeck. Squaw Valley is widely known as North America’s spring skiing capital, and this spring will be better than ever with the resort’s incredible snowfall. After …
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Country music star Jack Ingram to kick off Cabela’s opening
Photo courtesy of Glen Rose/The Greenroom – Jack Ingram will help kick off the opening of the new Cabela’s in Allen on Friday, April 15 at the Allen Event Center.
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Schubert, contemporary music connect at Everett Chorale concert
Composer Franz Schubert had a lot going on his life when he was 19. He had been rejected by the girl he loved. His voice had cracked and he no longer could sing in the boy’s choir. And he was teaching, a job he did not want to do.
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Schubert, contemporary music connect at Everett Chorale concert
Composer Franz Schubert had a lot going on his life when he was 19. He had been rejected by the girl he loved. His voice had cracked and he no longer could sing in the boy’s choir. And he was teaching, a job he did not want to do.
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Lil Wayne ups his game
4-hour United Center show features hits, surprises and enthusiasm It was a night featuring top album charting hitmakers, along with myriad unannounced guests, during Lil Wayne’s “I am Still Music” sold-out tour stop at United Center on Friday. And like Lil Wayne’s copious output over his storied 16-year career — he’s released twice as many mixtapes than proper albums — the four-hour set could …
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Top 20 Concert Tours From Pollstar
Top 20 Concert Tours from Pollstar
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Toro Y Moi Calls It an Early Night at Great American Music Hall
Toro Y Moi March 25, 2011 @ Great American Music HallBetter than: Walking through the Tenderloin in hail. Toro Y Moi may seem like another foreign language moniker for another East Coast college gr
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World-record Assembly Line concert plays on despite fire at AJ’s Music Café in Ferndale
FERNDALE – An electrical fire broke at AJ’s Music Café early Tuesday as performers were in the 57th hour of an effort to set another Guinness world record with a 360-hour “Assembly Line” concert.
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On Tap: Country Showdown and Snow Party
Live Music: Friday: Jerry Clemens at Scotty’s Winchester Steak House; Piano with Rod Fischer at The Lodge at Whitefish Lake; Re Fresh Concert at Polson Alliance Church; Kathy Colton & Reluctants at Symes Hot Springs Hotel; Friday Night Live at Blue Canyon; Marshall Catch at Great Northern Bar; Smokehouse Blues Band at Eagles Saturday: Annual Texaco Country Showdown at Kalispell Center Mall …
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‘The Music Never Stopped,’ by Jim Kohlberg
The title of “The Music Never Stopped” might suggest an almost forgotten ’70s disco musical with Bruce Jenner , but the film is actually an unabashed pitch to geriatric flower children.
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MUSIC: Quitslund leads BPA chamber musicians for the final time
After founding the program and helping coordinate the concerts for 12 years, the veteran pianist will step away from those non-playing duties.
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Concert to kick off scholarship fund drive
Maps listing homicides or suspected homicides in EBR Parish for 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008 and 2007. Current gas prices in BR area.
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IUSB plans benefit concert for Japan
On Monday, March 21 students from the IU South Bend Japanese Club, in conjunction with the Ernestine M. Raclin School of the Arts, will present “A Concert for Japan.”
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Hit show impacts high school music groups
Jamie Christian knew when she got to high school that she wanted to join the show choir.Waubonsie Valley High School’s group, Sound Check, had performed at her middle school, and she remembers it vividly.“We sat down during class to watch them, and everyone was in awe …,” she said. “That was the biggest thing I wanted to do. There was no question.”Now 17 and a senior at Waubonsie Valley, the …
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Concert to benefit local youth
Lost in the revolution set to perform
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Guitar Hero founder Eran Egozy comes to Rockport for all-Brahms concert
Most people chose a career. Eran Egozy chose two. “I always had these two interests: music, and building things,” Egozy says. “I always had the drive to build things, out of Legos or wood, and eventually software — and I do think of writing software as building things. But when I started it’s not like I knew this would happen.”
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Northern Exposure (CMW Edition): Imaginary Cities, ‘Hummingbird’ — Free MP3
Canadian Music Fest f eatures 800 showcasing bands at over 55 live music venues during five nights of performances in Toronto this week. Our exclusive Northern Exposure column highlights some great tracks by homegrown artists playing Canadian Music Week ‘s CMF. Fledgling bands dream of the kind of rapid upward trajectory Imaginary Cities are riding right now — the Winnipeg duo of singer Marti …
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Country’s Lee Brice sets off on new tour
NASHVILLE, Tenn., (Reuters) – It’s a tough decision to make — tour with one of your best buddies in country music or with one of your heroes. Fortunately for Lee Brice, whose “Love Like Crazy” was Billboard’s most played country song in 2010, he gets to do both.
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VibeSquaD, Prophet Massive and Simian Mobile Disco: Electronic music abounds
Who’s got a post-Cheese show in Boulder and a two index fingers and a purple shirt and… a hat… and like… pants…? THIS GUY.
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Auto Almanac
Cars and Coffee to hold road trip Cars and Coffee will present a March cruise Sunday. The Fire to Water Tour will travel through Valley of the Fire and along the newly paved winding roadways through Lake Mead recreation area. The tour ends at Montelago
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Bobbi Kristina: Tabloid Photos ‘Not What It Looks Like’
*In the wake of tabloid pictures showing the 17-year-old daughter of Whitney Houston and Bobby Brown appearing to snort cocaine, Bobbi Kristina took to Twitter to explain. In a nutshell, BK says those photos are “not what it looks like” and they were sold by an ex-boyfriend out for revenge. Below is her full explanation: [...]
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Approval pending for Bob Dylan’s China concerts
HONG KONG — China is reviewing an application from Bob Dylan to stage concerts in the country, a year after the American folk legend’s planned concerts in Beijing and Shanghai were canceled, an official at the Ministry of Culture said today.
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Twin performing duo delivers values through music
Not even the dismal weather could dampen the spirited music resonating from…
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School of Rock Somerville presents Pink Revolver all-female concert for breast cancer awareness at Brook Arts Center
Rachel Z will perform at an all-female concert to benefit breast cancer awareness at the Brook Arts Center in Bound Brook BOUND BROOK, NJ – On March 12, The Brook Arts Center, 10 Hamilton Street, welcomes back the “School of…
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