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MUSIC, Singers, Concerts News, May 05, 2012


TO-DO this weekend: Jordan Rich variety show, Honky Tonk Angels, Brockton ...
Wicked Local
“The Honky Tonk Angels,” a story about three women in search of fame as country music singers in Nashville, is onstage this weekend at The Company Theatre. The show features the music of Tammy Wynette, Dolly Parton, Loretta Lynn and others, with songs ...
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English singer James Morrison won't be unknown for long
Pasadena Star-News
James Morrison is a 26-year-old folk/soul singer from England who released his third album, "The Awakening," in September. It debuted at No. 1 in the United Kingdom and has since been certified platinum. Now he is headlining his first US tour, ...
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Concert review: Nickelback at Amway Center
Orlando Sentinel (blog)
Yet lead singer Chad Kroeger and his Nickelback buddies are laughing all the way to the bank, a route that stopped on Friday in Orlando for a marathon showwith My Darkest Days, Seether and Bush at Amway Center. Even without a petition drive, ...
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Suburban Mom Set Loose At Bruce Concert
Patch.com
I have always loved the music of “The Boss” although I cannot take credit for being one of “those” fans. The die hards who know every album, can arguesong lyrics and set lists and tour dates and such. But I am a born and bred Jersey girl, ...
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John C. Reilly and musical friends, including Grand Forks native Tom Brosseau ...
Grand Forks Herald
But fans will remember, too, his singing role in “Chicago,” for which he was nominated for an Oscar. Now Reilly, as the musician John C. Reilly & Friends, is coming to Grand Forks to perform with Becky Stark and Grand Forks' own Tom Brosseau. The show ...
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Audition list for May 4 and beyond
Plain Dealer (blog)
Seeking five men and four women for "The 25th annual Putnam County Spelling Bee." 7:30 pm Sunday, May 20 and Monday, May 21. Come prepared with a song not from the show (accompanist provided). Performances: July 13-28. Details: contact director Marc C.
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Today in Music History - May 5
mysask.com (press release)
In 1908, the first Alberta Music Festival was held in Edmonton. It was the earliest musical competition of its kind in Canada. In 1938, soul singer Johnnie Taylor was born in Crawfordville, Ark. One of the mainstays of the Stax-Volt label in Memphis ...
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Nelly Furtado Talks About Her New Album The Spirit Indestructible, And Her ...
SongwriterUniverse
The Canadian-born singer/songwriter recently released the Rodney Jerkins produced lead single “Big Hoops (Bigger The Better)”. True to the title theme of the new recording, Furtado has enjoyed an eclectic career as a recording artist, ...
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Kailash Kher and Band Perform to Sold-out Crowd
India West
(Veena Rao photo) Singer Kailash Kher performed to a sold-out crowd at Chabot College here April 28, along with his seven-person band Kailasa, presented by AAA Entertainment and Jai Entertainment in conjunction with the artist's promotional tour for ...
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Remembering Adam Yauch: The Buddhist Beastie Boy Who Once Terrified Parents
Forbes
Where some iTuned-explicit music gets caught up in a simulation of keeping it real, the Beasties have always known that what gives their music, lyrics, videos and concerts authenticity is vision, eclecticism and sheer joy. Many were written and shot by ...
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Beastie Boys' Adam 'MCA' Yauch dead at 47
Chicago Tribune
But just as significantly, the group and especially Yauch transformed themselves, providing a model for how artists can mature and grow as people without losing their credibility or relevance. “Role model” – Yauch, who died Friday at age 47 after a ...
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Setting dance to Cohen like poetry in motion
Winnipeg Free Press
Still, he embarked on an intensive research quest, downloading huge quantities of Cohen's influential music, reading biographies and getting his hands on 14 hours' worth of audio interviews with the deep-voiced singer, spanning some 40 years.
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FHS concert to be at Sondheim
Fairfield Ledger
The first piece is a theme from “American Band Stand” titled “Bandstand Boogie.” The next piece features vocalist Alex Gookin singing “Mambo No. 5.” The last piece is one written by senior trombone and vocalist Shannon Cochran, who will song along with ...
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'Anne-comparably' talented
Asianjournal.com
The young actress even has the awards and to back it up, having recently won the Box Office Queen of the Year and Most Popular Female Novelty Singerfrom the Guillermo Mendoza Scholarship Foundation, and Pinakapasadong Aktres (Best Actress) from the ...
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How Adam Yauch Grew Into His Voice
NPR (blog)
I was 13 and completely pop-ignorant, so I had no idea that there were other groups making this same music, but even if I treated the albums like islands, I kept returning to that tape until it wore down to static. Listening to the Beastie Boys for the ...
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Asheville-area Religion Calendar
Asheville Citizen-Times
The Praise Band and singers lead the music. 253-3316. SYNERGY 608: A time of casual music and talk meets at 6:08 pm Sundays, Canton First Baptist Church, 74 Academy St., Canton. All ages welcome. 648-2367. CRYSTALSINGING BOWLS MEDITATION: Meditation ...
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Carrie Underwood's country make-believe on her new album Blown Away
The Daily Telegraph
"Being in love and having my wonderfully normal life outside of the musicbusiness, I feel like I really want to play different characters," the world's biggestfemale country music singer tells Insider from New York. "I want to go somewhere else with ...
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Clarksville Tennessee Celebrates Cinco De Mayo
Clarksville Online
For Entertainment they will also have live music with one man on guitar doing rock songs, and the Mexican Folkloric Music and Dance Group performing. The restaurant will close at 10:30pm or when everyone leaves. Overflow seating and tables will be ...
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theartsdesk Q&A: Countertenor Iestyn Davies
The Arts Desk
Indeed, many critics would – and have – gone further, seeing this young British singer as the natural heir to David Daniels and Andreas Scholl, the pre-eminent countertenor of his generation. Since winning the Royal Philharmonic Society's fiercely ...
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Allstars, Three 6 kick open Music Fest with crowd-pleasing anthems
Memphis Commercial Appeal
Not that long ago, the North Mississippi Allstars and Three 6 Mafia were among the festival's fledgling acts, musical upstarts representing the new generation of Memphis music. But as the 2012 edition of the three-day concert event kicked off on Friday ...
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Anri Jokhadze: "I promise we'll light the fire"
Eurovision.tv
Eurovision.tv: Lets start the interview with a question about history: So far, Georgia has always been represented by female leadsingers in the Eurovision Song Contest. How does it feel to be the first ever male singer in this position?
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Religion Calendar for the Erie area
GoErie.com
JAZZ CONCERT: Today; 7 pm; Luther Memorial Church, 225 W. 10th St.; final event in church's 2011-12 concert series season features the trio of Steve Rudolph, Steve Meashey and Joe Hunt with guest vocalist JD Walter. Cost: $10 suggested donation.
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Parisienne walkways
Sheffield Telegraph
We meet the first one 24 hours later (May 12), arguably the greatest and most influential patron of the arts, the Princesse de Polignac – aka Winnaretta Singer, heir to the Singer sewing machine fortune who was born in Yonkers, New York in 1865.
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Sheffield Telegraph
NEW YORK CITY: Virtuoso Singers present Celebrating Women Composers
People's World
Guest Artists will be Pianist Brent Funderburk and The Canticum Novum Youth Choir, Edie Rosenbaum, Director. at St. Ignatius of Antioch Episcopal Church, 87th Street between Broadway and West End Avenue in Manhattan. Tickets for the May 13 concert are ...
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Carrie Underwood: Entertainment Weekly Interview Plays 'Soundtrack of My Life'
The Boot
Thousands of Carrie Underwood fans have been downloading and snapping up copies of the singer's latest album, Blown Away, but in the latest issue of Entertainment Weekly, Carrie singles out several of the songs and albums by favorite artists that have ...
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Bits 'n' Pieces: Standefer performance aims to please mothers on their day
The Columbian
Standefer's mother was a “hillbilly singer on the radio,” and his dad was a Texas fiddler. Their son fell in love with the magical fingerstyle of guitar wizard Chet Atkins as well as the folk revival and jazzy bossa nova sounds of the early 1960s.
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Michael Shoup, Susy Sundborg, Josh Hoke at Rendezvous Jewelbox Theater 5/6
SSG Music (blog)
Sunday's are a tough night to go to a concert if you work a 9-5 Monday through Friday job, and a show with a late start such as this one can make that it even more difficult. However, this line up is comprised of a collection of artists that will start ...
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SSG Music (blog)
Kim Hyun Joong Heats Up Singapore, Memorable Night with 3000 Fans
KpopStarz
The singer received a passionate response from fans as he delivered the best performance, of a fan meeting that emulated more of a mini-concert with fan interactions. The night opened with a grand intro as he appeared on stage in an egg-shaped capsule ...
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Adam 'MCA' Yauch: 1964-2012
Nouse
In the hours following the announcement of Adam 'MCA' Yauch's death after a near three year struggle with cancer, all but one of Twitter's top trending topics were either his name, the band's, or one of their songs. The onslaught of tributes paid to ...
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Istanbul Jazz Festival
MidEastPosts
The 19th Istanbul Jazz Festival will feature more than 50 concerts and 300 local and international artists across more than 20 different venues. The 2012 edition features none other than Morrisey. Jazz credentials, MidEastPosts.com is not so sure, ...
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Broomfield Enterprise upcoming events -- May 3
Broomfield Enterprise
Singer: Marjolene Rose. Speaker Paula Abbott will present "Choices -- Making the Trade From a Life of Pain to a Life of Peace." Cost: $15. Reservations: Andrea, 303-485-5888 or e-mail dennorthsuburban@aol.com, include name(s) of guest(s) and names and ...
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Adam Yauch, aka MCA, the Beastie Boy Who Transcended Rap, Dead at 47
Daily Beast
Billy Corgan, lead singer for the alt-rock group Smashing Pumpkins, tweeted: “Sad news about Adam Yauch's passing, a man of dignity + spiritual conviction. I always had great respect for him in times we met and talked.” Brooklyn native Yauch co-founded ...
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Daily Beast
Cash tribute band strikes right chord
Nelson Mail
Nelson Johnny Cash tribute band The Johnnys will leave for California soon to perform at the United States' Johnny Cash Music Festival – and now their new tribute song has been given the stamp of approval by none other than the daughter of the Man in ...
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Niles Community Calendar for the week of May 10, 2012
Niles Herald-Spectator
Threshold Singers are trained to sing in groups of two and three at the bedside of those who are sick and dying. The songs are generally traditional or simple rounds, chants, lullabies and hymns that can be chosen to respond to musicaltaste and ...
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Friday at Jazz Fest
bestofneworleans.com (blog)
Bruce Hornsby & the Noisemakers paid tribute to Helm bysinging "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down." The songis credited to Robbie Robertson, but Helm worked with him on it, and famously stopped playing it in concerts in the mid-1970s.
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bestofneworleans.com (blog)
2012 Los Angeles Film Festival Full Line-Up Announced
Film Equals
The Los Angeles Film Festival has announced its full line-up for 2012, which will screen a diverse slate of nearly 200 feature films, short films, and musicvideos, representing more than 30 countries, along with signature programs such as the ...
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Children of the King
London Free Press
Holding it out in his palm, Vallee says it was given to him by his singer mother who took it from Presley's own hand. And, oh yes, she told her boy on her deathbed; "Elvis is your real father." In a place that fakes everything -- from the skyline to ...
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Namaste and Gratitude to Adam Yauch
RollingStone.com (blog)
It wasn't just this Beastie Boy's wild-style humor and gruff voice that made him one of the music world's most beloved souls. It was the way he never stopped asking the tough questions, never stopped calling himself on his own bullshit in public, ...
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RollingStone.com (blog)
Lifetime Collective blends style and art
Vancouver Sun
These kind of multi-dimensional artists work and play in several scenes, their eclectic output a natural expression of the varied lives we live now. Vancouver-based Reid Stewart and Trevor Fleming are exemplars of today's genre-crossing creative types.
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CHURCH BRIEFS
The Newark Advocate
"Experiencing God: The Musical," 6 pm Sunday (free admission). Open house, 6:30 to 8 pm Thursday, in appreciation for the students, staff and administration of the Career and Technology Education Centers of Licking County for their investment in the ...
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Who killed the Playhouse?
Vancouver Sun
Singer/actor John Mann performed atop a car at a rally and playwright Lucia Frangione wrote out one of her scripts in chalk on the sidewalks stretching from the Playhouse to city hall. A recent gathering dubbed Playhouse 2.0 brought dozens of people ...
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In brief
Lodi News-Sentinel
Music will be provided by the Voice of Truth. Award-winning entertainer coming to St. John's Episcopal Church Western Music Association award winningsinger-songwriter Juni Fisher will perform in an intimate concert open to the community at 3 pm Sunday ...
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Church events, May 5, 2012
Knoxville News Sentinel
Beaver Ridge United Methodist Church: Seeking singers; teenage and up. Rehearsal, 6:30-7:30 pm Wednesdays; worship, 11 am Sundays, 7753 Oak Ridge Highway. Info: 865-690-1060. Cedar Springs Presbyterian Church: "Maggie's Story" by Knoxville Christian ...
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Beastie Boys Co-Founder Adam Yauch Dead At 47
Tone Deaf
“His legacy here at Def Jam is nothing short of iconic _ he was one of the pioneering artists of this great label and family. We are filled with a sense of loss today…the Def Jam flag is at half mast. Our heartfelt condolences go out to his family and ...
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Why Kitten are the Purr-fect mix
Derry Journal
Throw in talented female vocalist Scarlett Quinn, a laptop, and a brass section and there you have it, one of the most upbeat and exciting acts to play the festival this year. The band have only been together for a year, and take a fresh approach to ...
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