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Fire damages Hoagy Carmichael's former Ind. home
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (AP) — The one-time home of Indiana-born composer and band leader Hoagy Carmichael has been damaged by a fire. The man who owns the Bloomington house where Carmichael once lived hasn't decided whether the house will be razed or...
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INKED! Throwback 'Song Reader' is required reading
Aside from marching bands, movie scores and classical charts, sheet music is an unknown quantity to most popular and modern music fans, an anachronism of a bygone era. It seems like somewhere around the late 1950s and early ’60s, the era of Sun...
Tags: George M. Cohan, Marvin Gaye, Ira Gershwin, Chris Cornell, Rod Stewart
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A healthy dose of jazz
Some might see an odd destiny — if not exactly Jerry Garcia’s “long strange trip” — in the formation of the 3-year-old Jazz Docs band. Its five members form a sort of Venn diagram — with Ellicott City dentist Hank...
Tags: Technology, Jerry Garcia, Ellicott City, Howard Community College, Irving Berlin
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Howard Fishman Explores Worlds of Music, But He Keeps Pointing Back to New Orleans
Howard Fishman Dec. 1. The Katharine Hepburn Cultural Center, 300 Main St., Old Saybrook, (860) 510-0453, katharinehepburntheater.org The singer/songwriter and bandleader Howard Fishman is an energetic omnivore of Americana and beyond. Fishman has...
Tags: Old Saybrook, West Hartford, Bob Dylan, New York City, Katharine Hepburn
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Ukulele Advocate: Four by Four
My friend Dan is learning to play the ukulele. His preferred instrument for the past several decades also has four strings, but is of a much different scope—the stand-up bass. Dan and I have played together on a few occasions, generally at church...Tags: Woody Guthrie, New Haven (New Haven, Connecticut), Music, Entertainment
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Orbert Davis, Chicago Jazz Philharmonic swing into a new season
No other orchestra in America looks, sounds or acts quite like Orbert Davis' Chicago Jazz Philharmonic. For though various bands play Third Stream repertoire — a term that loosely refers to jazz-meets-classical fare — the CJP immerses...
Tags: Arts, Culture, Howard Reich, Jazz (genre), Arts and Culture
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NSU faculty to perform annual recital
The Northern State University Department of Music faculty will present its annual recital at 7:30 Sept. 20, at the Johnson Fine Arts Center. More than a dozen faculty members will perform. “The event is one of the music department’s...Tags: Concerts, Johann Sebastian Bach, Opera (genre), Teaching and Learning, Education
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Howard Fishman Plays Shows in New Canaan and Bridgeport on Sept. 14th & 15th
Howard Fishman Sept. 14, 8 p.m. The Bijou Theater, 275 Fairfield Ave., Bridgeport, (203) 332-3228, thebijoutheatre.com And Sept. 15, an outdoor family-day event in the afternoon at The Silvermine Arts Center, 1037 Silvermine Road, New Canaan, (203) 966-...
Tags: Concerts, Fairfield County, Bridgeport (Fairfield, Connecticut), West Hartford, Bob Dylan
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Judy Roberts prepares to say farewell again
As she wound down a recent set at Chambers, in Niles, singer-pianist Judy Roberts leaned into the microphone and delivered what has become her favorite new closing line. "From Amundsen High School at Foster and Damen, I'm Judy Roberts," she proclaimed,...
Tags: Irving Park, Howard Reich, Music Industry, YouTube, Plymouth
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Municipal band concert tonight at Melgaard Park
Aberdeen Municipal Band will perform at 8 tonight at Melgaard Park Bandshell. People attending the concert are urged to bring a lawn chair or blanket because limited seating is available. Concert selections are: - “Them Basses March”... -
Winter Park Playhouse celebrates 10th anniversary with special season-ticket pricing
The Winter Park Playhouse will continue its tradition of offering lighthearted musical theater in its upcoming 10th-anniversary season. And, as a thank-you to series subscribers, season tickets will be offered at the original 2002 prices. There's one...
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Walk, don't run to 'The All Night Strut!'
"The All Night Strut!" is really more of a stroll. The revue of 1930s and 1940s standards playing through April 29 at Stage Door Theatre in Coral Springs just doesn't have the gait of a strut. At times, it even slows down to a promenade. This isn't to...
Tags: Cab Calloway, Dorothy Fields, Stage Door Theater, Manhattan (New York City), Cole Porter
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