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Chris Simmons & Royal Blue headlines Mount Dora Blues and Wine Festival
MOUNT DORA — The fifth annual Mount Dora Blues and Wine Festival will present headliners Chris Simmons & Royal Blue and Thomas Wynn and the Believers plus a host of other blues performers and styles in the three-day event. Opening-night...
Tags: Muddy Waters, Wines, Tampa, Jackie Wilson, Festive Events
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Happy 'Camping
After a year away at downtown's Plaza building, the freewheeling side of Orlando's tech community is putting the "bar" back in the annual BarCamp. BarCamp Orlando is back in Wall Street Plaza for 2013, but exactly what is it? Whatever you want it to be.... -
Q&A With Phil Stevens, Founder of Music Ranch in North Lakeland
The Ledger, Lakeland, Fla.Phil Stevens spent 31 years working for the U.S. Postal Service, but his true passion is delivering live music. Stevens, 58, founded Music Ranch in 1998 at a 10-acre property in North Lakeland his family has owned since the early 1960s. He hosts about...Tags: Muddy Waters, Music, Concerts, Radio Industry, Radio
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Flamenco master returns to native Tulsa for show Friday at Jazz Depot
Tulsa WorldLocal guitarist Ron Radford cut his teeth on early rock 'n' roll, playing high school gigs with locals David Gates (Bread) and Leon Russell. By age 17, he found his own passion: flamenco, the strongly rhythmic Spanish dance music. His pals went...Tags: Music, Dance, Entertainment Events
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Chicago band Switchback keeping musical options open
Former Chicagoan Ron Pen holds a very lengthy and lofty title at the University of Kentucky in Lexington: Professor; Director, John Jacob Niles Center for American Music; Coordinator, Division of Musicology and Ethnomusicology. You might think him...
Tags: McHenry, Rogers Park, Music Industry, Gaelic Storm (music group), Music
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Musical icon who helped open Sands Center to return for first anniversary show
Lehigh Valley Music presents FESTBLOGA musical icon who helped Sands Bethlehem Event Center open last May will return for an encore performance to help the center celebrate its first anniversary, the venue just announced. Paul Anka, who was among the first run of high-profile...... -
Michael Nesmith talks about his solo tour and inspirations
Once pegged as "the smart Monkee," singer, songwriter and guitarist Michael Nesmith is now embarking on his first U.S. solo tour in more than two decades. Nesmith shot to fame after "The Monkees" series premiered in 1966, and though he recently reunited...
Tags: Jerry Lee Lewis, Music Industry, Johnny Mercer, The Monkees (tv program), Michael Nesmith
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Moore Dance Project to perform at African-American Heritage Festival in Tavares
TAVARES — Known for more seriously themed dance performances, the Moore Dance Project returns to the annual African-American Heritage Festival bringing a Motown beat. Opening the two-day free event at 7 p.m. Friday, Feb. 1, the contemporary...
Tags: Stevie Wonder, HIV, Diana Ross, Aretha Franklin, Smokey Robinson
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Wanee 2013 Music Festival has Allmans, Widespread Panic, Les Claypool
If you saw the Tedeschi Trucks Band in Boca Raton on Saturday (Sunshine Blues Festival review here), you don’t need much more reason to seek out tickets to the 2013 Wanee Music Festival than to know that they are part of this year’s impressive...
Tags: Tab Benoit, Galactic (music group), Dirty Dozen Brass Band (music group), Les Claypool, Maceo Parker
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Jimmy O'Neill dies at 73; L.A. deejay hosted TV's 'Shindig!'
Jimmy O'Neill, an Oklahoman barely out of his teens when he became Los Angeles' top-rated radio deejay and only 24 when he catapulted to national celebrity as the host of "Shindig!," one of the earliest rock 'n' roll shows on prime-time television, died...
Tags: Jerry Lee Lewis, Music Industry, Radio, Chicago Tribune, Diabetes
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Leon Russell & Little Feat Playing Shows at The Klein and the Capitol Theatre
Leon Russell left home at 17 to tour with Jerry Lee Lewis. He anchored George Harrison's Concert for Bangladesh in 1971. Elton John loves him. Little Feat have played their own blend of New Orleans swamp boogie since 1969, and Jimmy Page once called...
Tags: Elton John, Jerry Lee Lewis, Bridgeport (Fairfield, Connecticut), Jimmy Page, George Harrison
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Ravi Shankar got by with a little help from his friends
Among the items the Grammy Museum included in its George Harrison “Living in the Material World” exhibit that opened about this time last year was a letter the ex-Beatle received following the all-star Concert for Bangladesh fundraiser he...
Tags: Bob Dylan, The Who (music group), Music Industry, Jenni Rivera, Eric Clapton
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