Saturday afternoon Stevie Wonder returned to Taste of Chicago with a concert that was generous, adventurous, populist, humorous and amorous.
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The world's largest music festival is wrapping up in the rolling hills of Somerset, England. For three raucous days, revelers at Glastonbury can always ...
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Artists from all over the world converged on its ancient city of Fez, to the east of the capital Rabat.
While the Saudi gathering was made up of only ...
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THE TURKANA CULTURAL FESTIval, organised by the German Embassy, debuted recently to showcase the promise of a region that lacks the advantage of numbers ...
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Comes word on this sunny Father's Day, from a child on the road, that the annual music and arts festival which has convened in a 700-acre pasture at Manchester, ...
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The Festival of Microtonal Music will allow local audiences to hear cutting edge contemporary music when its three month, six performance program, the ...
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Rock concerts at some of the UK's most important historic buildings have put them at risk of damage from powerful bass note vibrations, according to research ...
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Mick Jagger was a surprise visitor to the inaugural Rajasthan International Folk Festival, held October 25-29 in the Indian city of Jodhpur. "I wouldn't ...
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Between September 19th and 21st, Berlin, Germany will become the centerpiece worldwide for the music industry with the 19th annual popKOMM music conference ...
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Bihu is synonymous with music, dance and festivities. So, when a group of experienced and young artistes got together for a music album, they decided to ...
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Singer and actress Marianne Faithfull plays a grandmother in dire straights who becomes a sex worker in London's seedy Soho, in a touching yet hilarious ...
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Interspersed with exciting live stage performances by old time greats such as George Darko and Nana Kwame Ampadu I, as well as young and not so young artistes ...
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AFTER Glastonbury was cancelled last year, the rush to get tickets for this summer's festival was on. The muddiest annual music bash attracts everyone ...
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Ghana's most famous hip life artiste, Emmanuel Samini (Batman) was astonished when his name was mentioned as the best Reggae Artiste of the year at the ...
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Lime Green Entertainment, an entertainments company in the UAE which runs the Dubailime.com website today announced that it would be sponsoring the Dubai ...
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Zack de la Rocha crouched in front of Brad Wilk's drum kit and surveyed the nearly 60,000 people at his feet. All around him crested a noise that had ...
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Teenager Victoria Hart will play on the John Peel stage for up-and-coming artists. She became an overnight sensation when she landed the gig of a lifetime ...
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Live music and mild summer evenings are a superb combination. But The Last Resort has found a way to make it even better. On the weekend of 28-29 April, ...
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For the past 10 years, music magazines have been flooded with articles about the death of the record store.
Joe Kboudi — who opened Wednesday with twice ...
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Swedish jazz pianist and composer Esbjorn Svensson, who helped break genre boundaries and attracted a young audience outside the traditional jazz scene, ...
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YOU might not expect to find a polished young ensemble like the Parker String Quartet playing music by Beethoven, Bartok and Ligeti — or collaborating ...
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Gabriel Hubert, horn player with Damon Albarn's favourite street-jazz collective, the Hypnotic Brass Ensemble, speaks with the unashamed zeal of a convert: ...
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TMZ has learned that Oscar-nominated actor Don Cheadle ("Hotel Rwanda") plans to direct and star in "Miles Davis," a biopic of the legendary jazz innovator. ...
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Jazz and blues record label Blue Note plans to revamp its website from later this month, transforming it from a regular corporate front window to a combined ...
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This wasn't the greatest year for jazz. Locally and at large, the music appears to be in a holding pattern, trying to find new meaning — or at least a ...
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For many years I considered America as my promised land. As a young Jazz musician I was pretty convinced that sooner or later I would end up living in ...
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In advance of ‘‘From the Plantation to the Penitentiary,'' his suite of jazz and criticism out today, Wynton Marsalis has said he likes to put out a ...
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Instead of the usual handprint in cement, a bronze bust of the trumpet player has been put on display outside the Guitar Center on Sunset Boulevard. For ...
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Michael Brecker, the versatile tenor saxophonist who died Saturday of leukemia at age 57, was regarded by many musicians and critics as a virtuoso of technique ...
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In an art form more celebrated for its sinners, John Coltrane, who somewhere over the rainbow will turn 80 on Saturday, held the honor of being the music's ...
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'For you English, football is more important than life or death," says a young jazz fan in Moscow's Dom club, quoting Bill Shankly's famous comment. ...
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