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Live: Steve Martin at Walt Disney Concert Hall
Pop & HissThe actor's considerable banjo-playing skills were in the spotlight, but his comedic talents pop in as well before a delighted near-capacity audience. Were Steve Martin's instrument of choice a violin, piano or guitar, he might well have shown up in...... -
Live review: Charlie Haden Family & Friends at Disney Hall
Pop & HissJazz luminary Charlie Haden took no small amount of perverse joy Tuesday night in bringing the old-time country music with which he started his musical career in the Midwest seven decades ago into the tony surroundings of Walt Disney Concert...... -
Scott Cooper: The body and soul behind 'Crazy Heart'
The Big PictureThe critics have been raving nonstop, and rightfully so, over Jeff Bridges' peerless performance in "Crazy Heart" as Bad Blake, the burned-out country music star who finds himself running on empty, reduced to playing bowling alleys as he tries to...... -
Faces to watch 2010: Jypsi
Pop & HissJYPSI How do you harness a band that sings and plays like the Carter Family -- if the pioneering country group had emerged in the Summer of Love rather than at the tail end of the Jazz Age? That's a...... -
Bluegrass faves Claire Lynch Band headed to Winter Garden
Soundboard Music Blog» Orlando Sentinel – Soundboard Music BlogCentral Florida folk favorite Doug Spears will be opening on Friday for the Grammy-nominated Claire Lynch Band at an 8 p.m. show at the Garden Theatre in Winter Garden. The Lynch Band is on the road behind its latest release, Whatcha Gonna Do, which is... -
Midwest events
IOWA Rose Festival State Center, the "Rose Capital of Iowa," will hold its 51st Rose Festival with a rose queen competition, carnival rides, a parade down Main Street and other family-friendly activities on a two-acre site full of roses. The four-day...Tags: Fishing, Bill Monroe, Arts and Culture, Father's Day, Festive Events
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Jypsi: A family band's breakthrough plans
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterTHE STAR-MAKING machine in Nashville does a lot of things well, but nurturing musicians who work outside the box isn't one of them. In the 1950s, Buddy Holly was rebuffed when he first recorded there, and Willie Nelson and Waylon Jennings spent most of...Tags: Jessica Simpson, Sony Corp., Hollywood (Los Angeles, California), Dolly Parton, Film Festivals
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A whole lot of country at Stagecoach Festival
Times Staff WriterINDIO — "Do you guys out here like the real, hard-core, traditional bluegrass music?" Jamie Dailey, of the fast-picking band Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver, inquired Sunday afternoon at the Stagecoach Festival here. Those gathered at his feet roared...Tags: Scarlett Johansson, Arts and Culture, Festive Events, Texas, Gary Allan
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Major festivals, events around the world
Here is a selected list of events for 2006. For more information on an event, plug its name into your favorite search engine. All dates and events are subject to change, so check before going. February Ottawa: Winterlude, Feb. 3-19 (weekends). The...Tags: James Joyce, Good Friday, Judaism, Easter, 2016 Olympic Games
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A sad note on Belair Road
Sun StaffAfter nearly a quarter-century, they're about to sell the last pick and play the final lick at Baltimore Bluegrass. The Northeast Baltimore acoustic music store -- which has provided instruments, accessories, sage advice and weekly jam sessions for a...Tags: Dining and Drinking, Car Repair and Maintenance Tips, Business, Restaurants, Catonsville
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Rock, Pop & Country Listings
7TH ANNUAL PODUNK BLUEGRASS FESTIVAL July 25 - 27 - Lineup includes: Thurs, Thunder Mountain Bluegrass, Amy Gallatin and Stillwaters; Fri, open bluegrass scramble (bring instrument), Blistered Fingers, Thunder Mountain Bluegrass, the Larkins, Austin...Tags: Ozzy Osbourne, Rivers, Bodies of Water, Skitch Henderson, Festive Events
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'The Ballad of Bering Strait'
Times Staff WriterThe sounds of nimble fingers picking at a guitar are, for bluegrass fans at least, awfully familiar, but the setting is not. No one has ever confused the Russian city of Obninski with Nashville. That's something a group called Bering Strait would like...Tags: Music Industry, Education, Movies, Wilco (music group), George Washington University
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