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Storytelling poetry in song
Posted by fogglethorpe on Friday, May 17, 2013 (15:00:00)
I think the purpose of music is often lost with us. Hooks and beats often overpower a meaningful message. Unfortunately for most, their song and their words just won't reach the audience they deserve. So, I'm going to shine a light on Howe Gelb, an honest, hardworking folk singer you should know about..
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Lera Auerbach: Renaissance Woman on Fire
Posted by fogglethorpe on Thursday, May 16, 2013 (15:21:09)
It would be impossible to discuss all of Lera Auerbach’s artistic endeavors in a single interview. Born in the Russian city of Chelyabinsk, near Siberia, Auerbach wrote her first opera at age 12..
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My Dying Bride - Bring Me Victory
Posted by fogglethorpe on Thursday, May 16, 2013 (14:24:27)
Not too long after releasing For Lies I Sire, My Dying Bride would slap together this EP as a follow-up and stop-gap release between LPs. Bring Me Victory is rather short at 4 tracks but runs about 1/2 hour..
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Bob Dylan inducted into American Academy of Arts and Letters
Posted by fogglethorpe on Thursday, May 16, 2013 (14:23:23)
Rock 'n roll was officially welcomed by the 115-year-old academy, an "honour society" proud to call itself elite and home to some of the country's leading writers, composers, painters and sculptors. On Wednesday, Dylan became the first rock star inducted, joining a membership that includes E.L. Doctorow, Chuck Close and John Ashbery..
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Album Review: Daft Punk- Random Access Memories
Posted by fogglethorpe on Wednesday, May 15, 2013 (02:14:39)
Daft Punk delivers its first official album, Random Access Memories, in eight years after the Grammy award-winning electronic duo fanned the flames with endless teasers suggesting a return to music..
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Example to headline Jersey Live
Posted by fogglethorpe on Saturday, May 11, 2013 (16:00:00)
Singer and rapper Example is to headline the second day of Jersey's biggest festival as it marks its 10th anniversary.
He will headline on Sunday with support from The Cribs and Tom Odell. Fatboy Slim will headline on the Saturday.
Festival director Warren Le Sueur said Example was an "A-list booking".
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UK- Norfolk concert series is inspired by the songs of birds
Posted by fogglethorpe on Saturday, May 11, 2013 (15:00:00)
Whether you’ve never sung before or you regularly enjoy bursting into song in front of an audience, everyone is welcome to get involved in Norwich’s The Voice Project..
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Viking's Choice: Speedy Ortiz's Sweet And Sour 'Tiger Tank'
Posted by fogglethorpe on Wednesday, May 08, 2013 (15:00:00)
After a couple singles and the stellar Sports EP, Speedy Ortiz is set to release its debut album, Major Arcana; the oddly hummable "Tiger Tank" offers our first taste. Like a pack of Gushers, it's chewy at first, but then it explodes with toxic goo..
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Patti Smith Talks About Her Greatest Success
Posted by fogglethorpe on Wednesday, May 08, 2013 (14:00:00)
Profoundly influential, incantatory songstress, poet, artist and writer Patti Smith may be best known as the Godmother of Punk. Her groundbreaking album Horses, released in 1975, has been hailed as one of the greatest rock albums of all time..
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NY- Today's Tips: Tuesday
Posted by fogglethorpe on Tuesday, May 07, 2013 (14:14:36)
MUSIC: Albany Symphony Orchestra @ Carnegie Hall, New York City. With guest pianist Kevin Cole, David Alan Miller leads the ASO as they return to the world famous theater for a concert that features Morton Gould’s Symphony No. 3, John Harbison’s Suite from The Great Gatsby and George Gershwin’s Second Rhapsody..
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Ginsberg's 'Kaddish' Set to Jazz
Posted by fogglethorpe on Thursday, May 02, 2013 (15:00:00)
Poetry News: The San Francisco premiere of Allen Ginsberg's Kaddish for Naomi Ginsberg came alive for music and poetry fans in a multimedia performance at the new SFJazz Center on April 18.
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Canada- Paul Brandt brings Just As I Am to Sudbury
Posted by fogglethorpe on Tuesday, April 30, 2013 (16:06:37)
Growing up, Paul Brandt was “a total word geek.”
He anxiously awaited Sunday mornings, when the pastor at the small church his family attended would break down Bible words..
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TX- Patti Smith plays Stubb's Bar-B-Q
Posted by fogglethorpe on Tuesday, April 30, 2013 (15:55:23)
Punk rock's poet laureate, Patti Smith ranks among the most influential female rock & rollers of all time. Ambitious, unconventional, and challenging, Smith's music was hailed as the most exciting fusion of rock and poetry since Bob Dylan's heyday..
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Q&A: Nick Drake Producer Joe Boyd on Singer's Legacy
Posted by fogglethorpe on Tuesday, April 30, 2013 (01:37:31)
Joe Boyd, who produced Nick Drake's first two studio albums, put together a series of tribute concerts celebrating the music of the late British folk singer. Now Boyd has assembled some of those performances, by artists such as Robyn Hitchcock, Lisa Hannigan, Krystal Warren and Green Gartside, for Way to Blue, a live collection..
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Manly Songs by a Manly Man
Posted by fogglethorpe on Monday, April 29, 2013 (17:00:00)
Feel her bow rise free of Mother Sea
In a sunburst cloud of spray
That stings the cheek while the rigging will speak
Of sea-miles gone away
She is always best under full press
Hard over as she'll lay
And who will know the Bluenose in the sun?
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Gardens feted in music and poetry
Posted by fogglethorpe on Monday, April 29, 2013 (15:03:57)
Poetry News: Concert pianist Sally Mellor and actor and landscape gardener Francesca Murray are presenting an evening of music and poetry, In Celebration Of Gardens, at the Radcliffe Centre, Buckingham, in support of the Puzzle Centre.
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Unconditional Love - A New Poignant Love Song That Sweetly Narrates The Journey
Posted by wordsmithwannabe on Friday, April 26, 2013 (07:15:00)
Poetry News: ... two trees, it poignantly narrates the journey of authentic love. In what appears to be a special treat to lovers of poetry, Chemmoss ends her video with a low-key but deeply sensuous and sultry recital of Rumi's "Lovers" poem. Her delivery has a ...
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SC- Bobby Bare Jr. carries on Shel Silverstein's legacy
Posted by fogglethorpe on Thursday, April 25, 2013 (16:10:00)
For singer/songwriter Bobby Bare Jr., growing up in the shadow of a famous country singer father, Bobby Bare, and family friend Shel Silverstein could have been an ambition-stirring dream or a confidence-crushing nightmare..
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Waxahatchee Signs To Wichita Recordings
Posted by fogglethorpe on Monday, April 22, 2013 (16:55:00)
In addition to announcing her new UK home and tour dates, Waxahatchee also shared the track "Brother Bryan", from Cerulean Salt. The track was shared on Pitchfork along with a Pitchfork.TV interview and pared down performance of "Peace and Quiet" that was filmed at SXSW.
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Song of the Week: 'Whom Shall I Fear (God of Angel Armies),' Chris Tomlin
Posted by wordsmithwannabe on Monday, April 22, 2013 (07:00:00)
Poetry News: ... of nature and God's bounty to strident calls for holy smiting. The Psalter has been the bedrock of Western devotional poetry for centuries, and many Contemporary Christian songwriters love to quote it directly - or, rather, they love to quote the ...
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A Graceful Second Response to Call
Posted by wordsmithwannabe on Monday, April 22, 2013 (07:00:00)
Poetry News: ... to the call of one or two classic quartets in the repertoire. In this case, the call was from an idea, the melding of poetry and music. Both of the older works on the program - DvoATMA k's Cypresses , the work for which the Cypress Quartet is named, ...
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Rapper K. Juan prepares to produce first for-profit EP
Posted by fogglethorpe on Friday, April 19, 2013 (15:00:00)
"It was always a tool for venting. Most artists will tell you that they started off writing poetry, and then it turned to rap, but for me, personally, I wrote raps, and I didn't write poetry until it was a class assignment.."
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Canada- Concert series in Davis Bay
Posted by fogglethorpe on Friday, April 19, 2013 (14:14:27)
Do-Re-TEA is a refreshing series of afternoon concerts, which will be held on the last Friday of April, May and June at Living Faith Lutheran Church in Davis Bay at 3 p.m..
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UK- Plath's poems - and music inspired by her works
Posted by fogglethorpe on Thursday, April 18, 2013 (15:05:13)
Double Ivor Novello award nominees The Leisure Society will perform an acoustic set of songs inspired by Sylvia Plath’s writing in Hebden Bridge on Friday, April 19 (3pm).
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UK- New acts added to Latitude Festival
Posted by fogglethorpe on Wednesday, April 17, 2013 (16:00:00)
American band Grizzly Bear, rock ‘n’ roller Duane Eddy and Tim Burgess from The Charlatans have all been added to the music stages at Henham Park, near Southwold.
Richard Thompson, dubbed one of the top 20 guitarists of all time will bring his Electric Trio alongside Indie-folk trio Junip fronted by Jose Gonzalez and London drum and bass quartet Rudimental..
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