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Class MM track: Wethersfield boys, Hillhouse girls win
The Wethersfield boys track team won their first title since 2009 with a victory at the Class MM track championship Wednesday at Middletown High School. The Eagles did not win any individual events but scored 73 points to hold of second place Branford...Tags: Robin Williams, East Lyme, Torrington, Rockville (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania), Middletown
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Mary F. Hewes, homemaker and activist
Mary F. Hewes, a former newspaper reporter and longtime Charles Village resident, died May 16 from cancer at Mount Pleasant Hospice. She was 81. The daughter of a real estate broker and a homemaker, the former Mary Frances McClatchy was born and raised...
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Richie Havens dies at 72; singer became Woodstock's opening act
Richie Havens, the veteran folk singer whose frenetic guitar strumming and impassioned vocals made him one of the defining voices and faces of Woodstock and 1960s pop music, died Monday of a heart attack at his home in Jersey City, N.J. He was 72. His...
Tags: Music Industry, Richie Havens, Brooklyn (New York City), Heart Attack, Manhattan (New York City)
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Arlo Guthrie is performing to honor dad Woody Guthrie's legacy
When Arlo Guthrie was a boy, he sat in the backyard with the guitar he'd gotten for his fifth birthday and listened to his father, Woody, teach him "This Land Is Your Land." The verses decrying hunger and espousing equality didn't strike Arlo as political...Tags: The Kid (movie), Human Interest, Hurricane Katrina (2005), Arts and Culture, Music
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Are the Rolling Stones too old to rock 'n' roll?
Question: Should the greatest rock ’n’ roll band in history be history? Or, to put it more bluntly, are the Rolling Stones too old to be rocking and rolling? By now you’ve read about, heard about or seen photos and video (or heck,...Tags: Crossfire (music group), Hugh Hefner, Music, Johnny Depp, Entertainment
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Jambando still jams after 10 years
Orlando musician Dave Mann always looks happy. Even in the midst of organizing a slate of more than 20 local bands for Saturday's Jambando concert series, Mann is rarely seen without his Cheshire-cat grin. One of the founders of that series, which...
Tags: Music Industry, Orlando, Florida Music Festival, Fringe Festival, B.B. King
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Richie Havens' creative, political spirit never wavered
People who experienced Woodstock through the lens of the 1970 documentary film "Woodstock: 3 Days of Peace & Music" can describe every contour of Richie Havens' face. With focused eyes and a scraggly beard, the singer, songwriter, guitarist and activist,...
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Richie Havens, iconic Woodstock singer, dies at 72
This post has been updated. See note below for details. Richie Havens, the veteran folk singer whose frenetic guitar strumming and impassioned vocals made him one of the defining voices and faces of Woodstock, and by extension, of 1960s pop music,...
Tags: Greenwich Village, Tom Jones, Heart Attack, Brooklyn (New York City), Obituaries
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Concert Review: This 'Kid' is an old soul
Arlo Guthrie didn't perform "Alice's Restaurant Massacree" Saturday night at the Irvine Barclay Theatre, but the song, in a way, was there in spirit. Guthrie's signature tune from 1967 (better known simply as "Alice's Restaurant") works partly as...
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Honoring his father's mission
He still performs the original words. When Arlo Guthrie was a boy, he sat in the backyard with the guitar he'd gotten for his fifth birthday and listened as his father taught him the end of "This Land Is Your Land" — the lyrics, cut in many...
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Alvin Lee dies at 68; guitar virtuoso with Ten Years After
At the Woodstock music festival in 1969, the British blues-rock band Ten Years After burst onto the U.S. music scene with a searing rendition of "I'm Going Home" featuring the fleet-fingered Alvin Lee whaling away on guitar. When the "Woodstock"...
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Alvin Lee: Ten Years After guitarist dies
British blues-rock guitarist Alvin Lee, who was best known for his performance with rock band Ten Years After at Woodstock in 1969, died on Wednesday at age 68, his family said. "With great sadness we have to announce that Alvin unexpectedly passed away...
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