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Chris Simmons & Royal Blue headlines Mount Dora Blues and Wine Festival
MOUNT DORA — The fifth annual Mount Dora Blues and Wine Festival will present headliners Chris Simmons & Royal Blue and Thomas Wynn and the Believers plus a host of other blues performers and styles in the three-day event. Opening-night...
Tags: Tampa, Muddy Waters, Jackie Wilson, Arts and Culture, Wines
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Happy 'Camping
After a year away at downtown's Plaza building, the freewheeling side of Orlando's tech community is putting the "bar" back in the annual BarCamp. BarCamp Orlando is back in Wall Street Plaza for 2013, but exactly what is it? Whatever you want it to be.... -
Chicago band Switchback keeping musical options open
Former Chicagoan Ron Pen holds a very lengthy and lofty title at the University of Kentucky in Lexington: Professor; Director, John Jacob Niles Center for American Music; Coordinator, Division of Musicology and Ethnomusicology. You might think him...
Tags: Entertainment, Entertainment Events, Music, Gaelic Storm (music group), McHenry
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Musical icon who helped open Sands Center to return for first anniversary show
Lehigh Valley Music presents FESTBLOGA musical icon who helped Sands Bethlehem Event Center open last May will return for an encore performance to help the center celebrate its first anniversary, the venue just announced. Paul Anka, who was among the first run of high-profile...... -
Hot Property: Kaley Cuoco selling in Sherman Oaks
Actress Kaley Cuoco, who plays the neighbor of two socially inept physicists on "The Big Bang Theory," has listed her Sherman Oaks home at $949,000.
The gated Spanish-style house was built in 1937 but has been updated. Features include distressed...Tags: Entertainment, Hollywood (Los Angeles, California), Carole Lombard, Celebrities, California
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Michael Nesmith talks about his solo tour and inspirations
Once pegged as "the smart Monkee," singer, songwriter and guitarist Michael Nesmith is now embarking on his first U.S. solo tour in more than two decades. Nesmith shot to fame after "The Monkees" series premiered in 1966, and though he recently reunited...
Tags: The Monkees (music group), Entertainment, Music, Elton John, Jerry Lee Lewis
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Jimmy O'Neill dies at 73; L.A. deejay hosted TV's 'Shindig!'
Jimmy O'Neill, an Oklahoman barely out of his teens when he became Los Angeles' top-rated radio deejay and only 24 when he catapulted to national celebrity as the host of "Shindig!," one of the earliest rock 'n' roll shows on prime-time television, died...
Tags: Entertainment, Pandora Media, Inc., Music, Chicago Tribune, Disc Jockeys
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Moore Dance Project to perform at African-American Heritage Festival in Tavares
TAVARES — Known for more seriously themed dance performances, the Moore Dance Project returns to the annual African-American Heritage Festival bringing a Motown beat. Opening the two-day free event at 7 p.m. Friday, Feb. 1, the contemporary...
Tags: Entertainment, Music, Marvin Gaye, Arts and Culture, Festive Events
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From 'The Dinner Party'
Change of SubjectTwo uploads from 'The Dinner Party Download' podcast (a rerun, actually) from American Public Media aired this weekend. First, a good, clean joke: "Hedgehogs? Why can't they just share the hedge?" Second, a minor hit song from 1971 by Delaney...... -
Wanee 2013 Music Festival has Allmans, Widespread Panic, Les Claypool
If you saw the Tedeschi Trucks Band in Boca Raton on Saturday (Sunshine Blues Festival review here), you don’t need much more reason to seek out tickets to the 2013 Wanee Music Festival than to know that they are part of this year’s impressive...
Tags: Entertainment, North Mississippi Allstars (music group), Maceo Parker, Music, Galactic (music group)
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TICKET BOX: Backstreet Boys, Ill Nino on sale, Taylor Swift stop announced
Lehigh Valley Music presents FESTBLOGWelcome to Lehigh Valley Music's Ticket Box, listing new shows on sale. This week, new shows by Backstreet Boys, Ill Nino and Taylor Swift are among more than 20 concerts for which we have new information. Here's the list: Backstreet...... -
Leon Russell & Little Feat Playing Shows at The Klein and the Capitol Theatre
Leon Russell left home at 17 to tour with Jerry Lee Lewis. He anchored George Harrison's Concert for Bangladesh in 1971. Elton John loves him. Little Feat have played their own blend of New Orleans swamp boogie since 1969, and Jimmy Page once called...
Tags: Bridgeport (Fairfield, Connecticut), Jimmy Page, Elton John, Jerry Lee Lewis, George Harrison
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