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MUSIC, Singers, Concerts News, Feb 04, 2012


Surf Sound, Sequined Singers Get Melded by Girls: NYC Music
Bloomberg
Enlarge image Bjork Bjork Sacks & Co. via Bloomberg Icelandic singer and songwriter Bjork plays a harp on her new CD "Biophilia." The music is billed as the world's first interactive album. Flowers festooned the stage at Terminal 5 on Jan.
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Woodmere Art Museum Celebrates Iconic Artists and Composers in Weekly Jazz and ...
Jazzcorner
Additional tribute nights include the music of Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington and Sarah Vaughan (February 17), Nina Simone (Feb. 24) and Stan Getz (March 9). In a special concert event on March 2, some of Philadelphia's finest musical artists and most ...
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Interview: Martha Reeves, singer
Scotsman (blog)
By CHITRA RAMASWAMY From cleaner to singing superstar, Martha Reeves has seen it all. As she appears in Glasgow for two Celtic Connections concerts this year, she looks back on five decades as the diva of detroit Detroit, Michigan, 1961.
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Scotsman (blog)
He can sing women's roles, but he's all man
Winnipeg Free Press
Britain's The Guardian called the Ottawa-born singer with the curly mane "part angel, part man." Taylor, 42, is a superstar of baroque and Renaissance music. What might surprise many is that he sings in a female range, routinely sailing through notes ...
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Jane Monheit, the best singer you've never heard
Richmond Register
After 14 years of touring the world, her concerts Friday in Louisville and Saturday in Richmond were her first in Kentucky. As the audience seemed to enjoy getting to know her and her music, the singer said she was loving her time in the Bluegrass ...
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Camilla Williams, an acclaimed soprano who broke racial bounds, dies at 92
Washington Post
Ms. Williams, a native of southern Virginia, was considered a matriarch among African American opera singers. During the first half of the 20th century, opera houses had excluded black musicians, either by relegating them to minor roles or refusing to ...
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Soundstreams brings drama to Russian devotional work
Globe and Mail
And that's what he did on Thursday night at the Royal Conservatory's Koerner Hall, when he brought to the stage the combined voices of the Elmer Iseler Singers and the Amadeus Choir plus five dancers from ProArteDanza. Evidently, this generated enough ...
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Globe and Mail
Goings On About Town Night Life
New Yorker
Musicians and night-club proprietors live complicated lives; it's advisable to check in advance to confirm engagements. Feb. 1: Keren Ann, a singer-composer-musician who splits her time between Paris, New York, and Tel Aviv, brings her cool, ...
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New Yorker
Reversal of ban on music concerts
DAWN.com
This resolution was triggered on account of recent deaths of three girl students in a stampede during a music concert at the Alhamra Cultural Complex in Lahore. The unfortunate incident had nothing to do with any obscenity but happened just on account...
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Previte: The Song is The Legacy
Patch.com
“Music is part of my gene pool,” Previte said. “And now artists come to me. It keeps me in the music industry, to help guide them through the pitfalls.” Previte is an Academy Award winner for writing “[I've Had] The Time of My Life,” the featured song ...
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Music: Spread This Rumer -- 2012's Best New Artist Is Here
Huffington Post
If success is making her head spin, it doesn't show. In concert and in person, Rumer is sweet, funny, self-effacing and nice, even as she's clearly navigating the terrain and dealing with new issues like giving a string of back to back interviews.
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Calendar: February 1 – February 8
Brooklyn Daily Eagle
An exploration of the early journalistic career of Barnes (1892–1982), an American writer and women's rights advocate. “Question Bridge: Black Male.” Through June 3. An innovative video installation created by artistsHank Willis Thomas and Chris ...
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Brooklyn Daily Eagle
Montgomery ISD places five in All-State Music competition
Your Houston News
The talented vocalist prefers traditional and classical music, but admits to singingalong with Celine Dion growing up. Orr said Ellis' singing voice is similar to that of country singer Reba McIntire. “I've been singing since I was a little girl,” ...
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Pellegrino to Host RUHS Benefit Concert
Patch.com
Jazz pianist Jerry Pellegrino sings the praises of music in schools—and now he's giving back to the community with a concert to benefit the Redondo Union High Schoolmusic program. Until age 8, Jerry Pellegrino was legally blind, unable to see ...
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Streets of Your Town: This week's concerts, with A$AP Rocky, Thurston Moore ...
Capital New York
If Gibson is nodding back toward the haunting desperation of '30s folk and countryartists like the Carter Family, the songs of the UK band Dry the River (Jan. 30, Glasslands) were born a few decades later. They begin from the same warm strumming and ...
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Two great trumpeters blast into our area: Nicholas Payton and Dave Douglas
Chicago Tribune
The man's gifts extend beyond the trumpet as well, for he's proficient in practically anything that makes a sound, as he demonstrated on his 2011 album "Bitches" (on which Payton played all the instruments and also sang). Regardless of whether you ...
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Chicago Tribune
Arts and entertainment calendar for Feb. 2
Park Ridge Herald-Advocate
The program includes Franz Schubert's Rondo in B minor, D. 895, Op. 70; John Harbison's “Twilight Music” and Mozart's Divertimento No. 17 in D Major for two horns and string quartet. March 11: The concert features guest artists Wendy Warner, cello,...
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History repeats itself: The historic Academy of Music Concert and Ball
Main Line
I mean, when an event is “flawless,” according to Saler, it is too difficult to decide if Yo-Yo Ma, the cellist who does things to his instrument that you never thought possible, or Diana Krall, the jazz-pianist-singer who invited Ma back on stage to ...
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Main Line
Lack of snow leaves Burlington artists in cold
BurlingtonFreePress.com
EMILY McMANAMY, Free Press 6 pm: Light Show, City Hall Block. Lights turn on every hour, accompanied by music. 6-9 pm: Hotel Vermont Ice Bar, next to the Courtyard Marriott. Must be at least 21. 9:30 am to 3:30 pm: Free shuttle between Church Street ...
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The Question Jar Show
jambands.com
What you have here is a 22-song live album compiled from singer/guitarist Mike Doughty's 2009 tour dubbed The Question Jar Show. At each performance, audience members were encouraged to jot down questions for Doughty on pieces of paper and place them ...
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jambands.com
From "Don't Mean Nothing" to "Dance With My Father": A Conversation With ...
Huffington Post (blog)
I've found that some of the musicians that I admire so much are so proficient at theirinstrument or multiple instruments if they're lucky, but they have no freedom. I have had amazing artists tell me that they just know too much about their instrument ...
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Preview calendar: Clubs and concerts for Feb. 2-8
North County Times
Bar Pink ---- Shows start around 9 pm; Husky Boy All-Stars with DJ Buddha, Feb. 2; DJ Artistic, No Sucker DJs, Deep Rooted, Feb. 3; the Sidewalk Scene, the Answers, Feb. 4; DJs Duse and Grimm, Feb. 6; Adrian Demain's Exoticatronica, Feb.
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Rascal Flatts might be 'Changed,' but country trio's sound remains the same ...
The Birmingham News - al.com
"I drive my wife nuts, singing melodies in bed at night, recording stuff into my iPhone," says guitarist Joe Don Rooney, right. "She says, 'What are you doing?' And I say,'Trying to pay for this house!'" BIRMINGHAM, Alabama -- For more than a decade, ...
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The Birmingham News - al.com
Trevor Payne & Gary Anderson
WhatsOnStage.com
The piece was originally created by Trevor Payne who, after all this time, still takes probably the most leading role in the show. I say probably as it is very difficult to keep track of who is actually leading. Singers and musicians change places with ...
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Casting Call for Feb. 3, 2012
SouthtownStar
The group will be preparing for “From Venice to Vienna: Music from the Salon,” aconcert set for 4 pm June 10 at Trinity Lutheran Church, 2901 Western Ave., Park Forest. The repertoire to be sung includes Italian madrigals by Orazio Vecchi, ...
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