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Battaglia in spotlight with solo CD
For a guy involved with hit records by everyone from the Backstreet Boys to pop star Mandy Moore and rock outfit Shinedown, Tony Battaglia has no commercial expectations for his first solo album. "I wanted to get this stuff off my chest, if for no...
Tags: Music, Mandy Moore, Entertainment, Jackson Browne, Music Theater
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A shining night with Golden Afternoon
If Tom Waits and Ella Fitzgerald had a baby, it would be Golden Afternoon. The Huntington Beach band performed a set of unique and creative songs, as well as covers, to an intimate crowd at the Detroit Bar in Costa Mesa on Monday night. The band...
Tags: Tom Waits, Jefferson Airplane (music group), Barbra Streisand, Ella Fitzgerald, The Wall Street Journal
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Sugar Blue a soaring voice for the blues
Last May, during a conference on "Race, Gender & the Blues" at Dominican University, the master harmonica player Sugar Blue addressed the theme in an impassioned, unforgettable soliloquy. Lamenting that blues increasingly has been expropriated by white...
Tags: Willie Dixon, Howard Reich, James Cotton, Apollo Theater, Travel
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Florida travel calendar for October
Check out festivals and events in October across the state.
View events this coming weekend, or view the whole month's offerings by region below:
Coming up this week
Through Nov. 12: Epcot International Food and Wine Festival, Walt Disney World. The...Tags: Edwin McCain, France, Dan Marino, Tampa, Fort Lauderdale
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Beatles Showcase's 2nd year at Musikfest Cafe is a hit because of the hits
Lehigh Valley Music presents FESTBLOGFor all the innovative music The Beatles created in the decade it was a band, what made it such a success was the hits: 46 Top 30 songs, 20 of which hit No. 1. So there was no need to...... -
Shemekia Copeland sings real Chicago blues
So much of what's sold as blues these days has so little relation to the real thing that one sometimes wonders whether the term carries much meaning anymore. Fortunately, several core artists continue to champion blues that's not pop, rock, soul, rap...
Tags: Spider (music group), Bodies of Water, Michigan Avenue, Plymouth, Arts and Culture
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Bluesy salute! Singer Jackie Scott honored at surprise party in downtown Hampton
Norfolk blues singer Jackie Scott was surprised with an affectionate tribute at the Hampton Taphouse on Wednesday night. Organized by Newport News resident Denise Mallonee, the event attracted many of Scott's fans, friends and fellow musicians in what...
Tags: Hampton Roads, Hampton (Hampton, Virginia), Eddie Shaw, Newport News (Newport News, Virginia), Music
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How Heart, Rush and the rest of Rock Hall of Fame's new nominees stack up
Lehigh Valley Music presents FESTBLOGJust nine days before it plays Sands Bethlehem Event Center, 1970s and ‘80s female rockers Heart has been nominated for induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. But the big news out of today’s announcement of nominees is...... -
Make Room For A Roomful Of Blues.
Our Town CorrespondentThe Grammy-nominated, Rhode Island-based band is scheduled to perform at People's Natural Gas Park Sept. 28 as part of the park's "Summer Concert Series" sponsored by Johnstown Area Heritage Association. Legendary musician Count Basie once described...Tags: Count Basie, Stevie Ray Vaughan, B.B. King, Eric Clapton, Music
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Tedeschi Trucks Band to headline inaugural Sunshine Blues Fest in Fort Myers, Boca Raton and St. Petersburg
Soundboard Music Blog - Orlando SentinelThe Grammy-winning Tedeschi Trucks Band, featuring slide guru Derek Trucks and his singing, guitar-slinging wife, Susan Tedeschi, will headline the inaugural Sunshine Blues Festival, a 3-day 3-city event set to debut in January 2013. The concert will... -
The funky beat of musical New Orleans
NEW ORLEANS — The cab careened past Washington Square and onto Frenchmen Street. It was close to 10 p.m., and the neighborhood was filled with locals adorned with tattoos, piercings and lots of ragged black accessories. "The cab drivers call this...
Tags: Jack Kerouac, Natural Disasters, Hurricane Katrina (2005), Hurricanes, Jazz (genre)
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Folks enjoy good music and food at the Big Lick Blues Festival in Roanoke
Folks didn't let the dreary day keep them from enjoying the blues Saturday. The Big Lick Blues Festival is happening this weekend at Roanoke's Elmwood Park. It includes lots of food vendors and of course, good blues bands. A new event this year is a rib...
Tags: Festive Events, Arts and Culture
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