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A recap of tyhe Dec. 2 episode of NBC's 'The Voice,' as the top 6 perform

Lacrosse coach Beth Kennedy was honored at the annual Howard County Celebration of Sports on Oct. 15.

Band represents USS Maryland that took part in 1941 battle

In addition to the usual flurry of such perennial favorites as Handel's "Messiah" and Tchaikovsky's "The Nutcracker," this year's lineup gains fresh spice from several new-to-Baltimore shows, including a play about the last Christmas of the Civil War and stage adaptations of popular holiday movies.

Singer-songwriter Elton John played nearly three hours of piano-pounding hits -- 27 songs from his vast catalog spanning across 43-plus years -- at the Verizon Center Thursday night.

Soprano Sharon Cheng opens the Montpelier Classical Recital series, Sunday, Nov. 17 at 3 p.m. at Montpelier Arts Center, 9652 Muirkirk Road. Known for her comic talent and high notes, Cheng recently starred in two sold-out performances of Lucia di Lammermoor for Baltimore Concert Opera.

In the 1970s, South Carroll High School's marching band was in the Macy's Parade. Throughout the '80s and '90s, the band won multiple competitions and traveled around the country participating in parades. By 2004, it was gone. The time has come, according to the band supporters at the school, to bring it back.

This is the time of year when classical music organizations launch into their new seasons, but the Howard County Concert Orchestra is launching into a new existence with its concert on Sunday, Nov. 10 at 4 p.m. at St. John's Episcopal Church in Ellicott City

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Everything happened in real-time last night as it was Night 1 of the live shows.

On Friday night, singer/songwriter Matt Nathanson shared his decades-in-the-making theory with a sold-out crowd at Rams Head Live.

A recap of the Oct. 29 episode of 'The Voice," featuring the last knockout round

Ding, ding, ding. Last night was the start of the knockout rounds, the part of "The Voice" when the coaches cut their teams in half to determine who will represent them in the live shows.

When Brian Ganz performs a solo recital for the Sundays at Three series on Sunday, Oct. 27, he won't have any trouble finding Christ Episcopal Church in Columbia. This classical pianist knows the local roads like he knows his way around a keyboard

Loadbang, a cutting-edge ensemble of voice, bass clarinet, trumpet and trombone, opens Evolution Contemporary Music Series at An die Musik.

The members of the Jupiter String Quartet surely will be in harmonious alignment with each other when this chamber ensemble performs for Candlelight Concert Society on Saturday, Oct. 19 at 8 p.m. in Howard Community College's Smith Theatre.

"We Will Rock You," a Queen-filled musical that has been a hit in London for 11 years, opens a U.S./Canada tour in Baltimore with helping hand from original band member Brian May.

Candlelight Concert Society has been presenting classical music concerts in Howard County for so many years that one could say it's tending an eternal flame. It's not fixated on the past, though, because its 41st season opens with a forward-looking concert by the Dover String Quartet at Howard Community College's Smith Theatre on Saturday, Oct. 5 at 8 p.m.

J. Ernest Green, artistic director for Live Arts Maryland, began the company's season last month with an auspicious opener – "One Singular Sensation: A Celebration of the Music of Marvin Hamlisch."

At age 40, the Hard Rock Café chain is striving to stay competitive in today's restaurant landscape by offering more live music to go with the wall-art guitars.

Rain drenches fans at fest headlined by Robin Thicke, Vampire Weekend

A few years ago, Ernest Greene received an email from Fred Armisen, then on the cast of "Saturday Night Live."

Candlelight Concert Society, which is embarking on its 41st season, and Vantage House, a retirement community, both qualify as mature institutions in Columbia. Wisdom comes with maturity, of course, so their new partnership qualifies as a smart idea.

For jazz aficionados, news that the Baltimore Jazz Alliance is planning to revive the old Sunday concerts that were sponsored by the Left Bank Jazz Society at the Famous Ballroom for years, will indeed be welcomed.

This month, J. Roddy Walston and the Business, which had its formative years in Baltimore, has a new album, headlining gig at Rams Head Live

Mack Statham, 78, of Laurel, organist at First United Methodist Church and a composer whose "Trilogy of Dreams" was performed each of the last six years at Laurel's Sing for King commemoration of Dr. Martin Luther King Day, died Sept. 2.

Arsenio Hall returns to late night after almost two decades away. And, after all that time, he will still be one of only two African-American show hosts occupying that culturally influential space on a nightly basis.

They've been practicing for weeks. Finally, it's time to play under the lights before a home crowd