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Guitarist Jeff Parker leaves his comfort zone in relocating to L.A.
Los Angeles can be tough on newcomers, particularly among musicians. A key figure in the fertile Chicago jazz scene and member of the groundbreaking indie band Tortoise, guitarist Jeff Parker is midway through a relocation to L.A. that has found him...
Tags: Fred Anderson, Music, Entertainment, Music Industry, New York City
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Building a bridge between Chicago and France, through jazz
Imagine what might happen if some of Chicago's most inventive jazz musicians embarked on a multi-year collaboration with their counterparts in France. Just think of the music that might result, the insights that could be shared, the audiences that would...
Tags: Music, Concerts, France, Culture, Howard Reich
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Segerstrom Center's 2013-14 season: 'Mormon,' 'Once,' solo divas
“The Book of Mormon” and “Once,” Broadway musicals that dominated the two most recent Tony Awards, will come to Segerstrom Center for the Arts in Costa Mesa during the three-venue complex’s 2013-14 season. Bernadette Peters...
Tags: Theater, Concerts, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Orquesta Buena Vista Social Club (music group), Culture
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Cherubic Folksinger Melanie Returns With a Show at Infinity Hall
Melanie Thurs., Nov. 1, Infiinity Music Hall, 20 Greenwoods Road West, Norfolk, (866) 666-6306, infinityhall.com I've had people make fun of me because I like Melanie. Seriously, good friends, co-workers, even in-laws have ridiculed me for...
Tags: Middlefield, Festive Events, Woodstock Festival (1969), Stevie Nicks, Music
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Sea and Cake: From upstarts to Chicago rock royalty
When The Sea and Cake hit the Chicago music scene in the mid-'90s, the group helped redefine the Chicago sound. Until then, Chicago's rock scene had been known for clangorous din and hard-edged, macho aggression. And then, suddenly, there was Sam Prekop...
Tags: Music, Music Theater, Entertainment, Music Industry, Pilsen
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Future Islands, Matmos deliver at Thrill Jockey 20th anniversary show
Baltimore's music scene is undeniably one of the country's best, and a good deal of credit for that goes to Thrill Jockey, a Chicago-based indie record label. In the past several years, Thrill Jockey has signed a dozen current or former Baltimore bands,...
Tags: Science and Technology, Buzzcocks (music group), Music, Talk Shows (genre), Herring
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Thrill Jockey, instrumental for Baltimore's music scene, celebrates 20 years
About six years ago, the Baltimore rock band Arbouretum played at a club in Chicago for an audience of almost no one. You could count the members of the crowd on one hand, singer/guitarist David Heumann recalled, but one of them happened to be Bettina...
Tags: David Byrne, Music, Rentals, Concerts, Entertainment
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In the Arts: Enjoy a comedy show for all ages
An Evening of Improv and Comedy, an appropriate show for all ages, will take place at 7 p.m. Sept. 15 at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, 429 Cypress Drive, according to a news release. Doors will open at 6 p.m. for light refreshments and seating....
Tags: Ceremonies, Music, Artists, Arts, Entertainment
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Rebecca Gates is back and 'totally over capacity'
Rebecca Gates found herself holding a bass guitar, an instrument that she can play in a pinch, at a 2006 recording session in New York with Willie Nelson. “I was pretty intimidated,” she says with a laugh. “I know Ryan Adams, who was...
Tags: Washington, DC, Napster Inc., Music, Los Lobos (music group), Arts
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Rekindle that '90s indie rock spirit with Radical Dads at Charter Oak's Indie Fest on July 14
Radical Dads perform during Indie Fest alongside the Suicide Dolls, Farewood, Ovlov, Post-Modern Panic, Kevin MF King, Bret the One Man Band, Rum Glass Serenade, Jared Knapik, Up Up We Go and Ragtime Revolution Free, 7 p.m., July 14. Charter Oak Cultural...
Tags: Festive Events, Brown University, Suicide, Music, Entertainment
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Lounge Ax retrospective party set
Lounge Ax, the late, great Lincoln Avenue rock club that hosted countless indie-rock stalwarts during the '90s before its demise in 2000, will throw a retrospective party Aug. 10-11 that will reunite some of the regulars, personalities and bands who...
Tags: Shellac (music group), Wilco (music group), Yo La Tengo (music group)
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Washington County Public Schools calendar - May 14-19
Monday, May 14 AP exams all week 2012-13 kindergarten registration — Applications available at all elementary schools Barbara Ingram School for the Arts — Morning dance rehearsal at The Maryland Theatre Boonsboro Middle — Band...Tags: Satellite and Cable Service, Hagerstown (Washington, Maryland), Music, PTA, Arts
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