Music
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Viking Park Singers offer free concertJun 24, 2013 5:46 pm - Gurnee Park District’s Viking Park Singers host a free concert at 3 p.m. Sunday, June 30. The “Songs We Love to Sing” will be at Viking Park Dance Hall, 4374 Old Grand A...
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It’s girls’ day out at Pheasant RunJun 24, 2013 2:08 pm - Calling all women! Fox Valley Repertory is extending an invitation to all women of the Fox Valley area to join them as they celebrate girl strength and breast cancer sur...
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Blues singer Bobby ‘Blue’ Bland dies at 83Jun 24, 2013 7:14 am - GRENADA, Miss. — Singer Bobby “Blue” Bland, who blended Southern blues and soul in songs such as “Turn on Your Love Light” and “Further on up the Road,” has died. He was...
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Alison Moyet's 'The Minutes' impressesJun 23, 2013 11:00 pm - Alison Moyet, “The Minutes” (Cooking Vinyl/Metropolis Records) Alison Moyet is not trying to impress you. True to her punk roots, the English artist didn't make “Th...
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Jack White, Kitty, Joe Jonas win at O Music AwardsJun 21, 2013 6:58 am - NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Jack White, Kitty and Joe Jonas are among the winners of the O Music Awards. The off-kilter 24-hour awards show hosted by the MTV family of networks w...
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Jay-Z certified as NBA player agentJun 20, 2013 6:17 pm - NEW YORK — Jay-Z is now in the player agent business. The rap mogul has been certified by the NBA players’ association, spokesmen for the union and Roc Nation Sports sai...
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Schaumburg announces Septemberfest music actsJun 20, 2013 2:27 pm - Schaumburg has announced several of the main stage musical acts for this year’s 43rd annual Septemberfest over Labor Day weekend. Lee Rocker of The Stray Cats will perfo...
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Free concerts at Independence Grove run through Aug. 6Jun 19, 2013 3:56 pm - The Lake County Forest Preserve District will host free outdoor concerts this summer at the Independence Grove preserve near Libertyville. Performances will begin at 7:3...
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Lightfoot draws on long career for current tourJun 19, 2013 11:00 am - Gordon Lightfoot seems to like to keep people guessing, including himself. "I don't like getting locked into the same show every night," he said. So the Canadian folk ...
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Country singer Slim Whitman dies at age 90Jun 19, 2013 10:55 am - MIAMI — Country singer Slim Whitman, the high-pitched yodeler who sold millions of records through ever-present TV ads in the 1980s and 1990s and whose song saved the wo...