Archive for Blues Musicians
Art, music classes offered in Temecula – Riverside Press Enterprise
Posted by: | CommentsOthers include: youth orchestra, youth chorus, jazz and blues bands, musical theater, song writing, media arts, film making, studio recording, all-girl band, beginning strings, youth fine arts and private voice and music lessons on various …
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The storefront church/concert venue and its enthusiastic pastor, Phillip Trees, impressed Ray so much that the nationally known artist hosts a blues jam there every Tuesday night with Asheville’s favorite musical sons, the Sons of Ralph. Musicians …
This Day in History – Boston Globe
Posted by: | CommentsRhythm-and-blues singer William Hart (The Delfonics) is 65. Rock musician Mick Taylor is 62. Rhythm-and-blues singer Sheila Hutchinson (The Emotions) is 57. Singer Steve Earle is 55. Singer Paul Young is 54. Singer Susanna Hoffs (The Bangles) is 51.
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Celebrity birthdays for the week of Dec. 13-19 – WWL-TV
Posted by: | CommentsActress Kathy Garver (TV: “Family Affair”) is 64. Singer Ted Nugent is 61. Rock musician Jeff “Skunk” Baxter is 61 … Actor Benjamin Bratt (“Law and Order”) is 46. Country singer Jeff Carson is 46. Singer Michael McCary of Boyz II Men is 38.
Antoinette Montague Releases Behind the Smile on in the Groove Label – PR Inside
Posted by: | CommentsThe Behind The Smile album is a showcase for the vocalist’ diverse range and abilities to take an R & B based tune and turn it into a jazz and pop classic. Veteran musicians Bill Easley (sax, flute, and clarinet), Mulgrew Miller (piano), Peter …
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Sulphur Springs theater on cusp of revival – St. Petersburg Times
Posted by: | CommentsThese days, its red brick walls house a world-class recording studio that serves artists as diverse as musicians for the Florida Orchestra and Robert Smith, the singer for the Cure. There’s a huge open space with high ceilings that once housed the …
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Roundabout – Upcoming events – Salisbury Post
Posted by: | CommentsSanta and the Grinch at the Bell Tower — 10 a.m.-noon, Nov. 28, free. Corner of West Innes and South Jackson Streets. Cookies, hot chocolate, ornament-making. Sponsored by Innes Street Drug Co. photos will be taken and posted at www …
AP News in Brief – Tuscaloosa News
Posted by: | CommentsDiplomats: Majority of IAEA board censures Iran’s nuclear defiance in a vote VIENNA (AP) – The majority of the board of the International Atomic Energy Agency has voted to censure Iran for its nuclear defiance. Diplomats inside the meeting said …
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Pinetop Perkins’ 80-year career still going – Asbury Park Press
Posted by: | CommentsCLARKSDALE, MISS. — Noisy crowds in smoky bars don’t bother 96-year-old bluesman Pinetop Perkins. It’s all part of his job. Most nights, after he snuffs out his menthol cigarette, Perkins slides onto the piano bench in some club and eases into a …
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a family affair – Tulsa World
Posted by: | CommentsHis band, the Electric Rag Band, combines nearly every genre and subgenre of music out there, including blues, Americana, country, ragtime and straight-up rock ‘n’ roll. And although the longtime act is steeped in the intoxicating bar-band tradition …
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