Music
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Old Crow starts new chapter with 'Carry Me Back'Aug 15, 2012 6:00 am - NASHVILLE, Tenn. — The way Ketch Secor sees it, time doesn't pass in a linear fashion when it comes to Old Crow Medicine Show. It's a series of beginnings and endings, s...
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Chicago jazz saxophonist dies at 88Aug 14, 2012 10:46 pm - Earle Lavon Freeman, a tenor saxophonist and National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master, was being remembered Tuesday as a jazz great who made every song his own with a...
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Renovations start in Grant Park after LollapaloozaAug 14, 2012 6:56 pm - Promoters of the Lollapalooza music festival in Chicago say they will pay about $150,000 to restore Grant Park after this year’s event. Officials said landscaping work s...
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George Jones sets one last road tourAug 14, 2012 2:47 pm - NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Country music icon George Jones says he’s ready for one last go-round on tour before retiring from the road. Jones says in a statement Tuesday that 20...
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Mt. Prospect summer concert features pop cover bandAug 14, 2012 2:43 pm - This week’s Fridays on the Green concert 6 p.m. Friday, Aug. 17, features A Thousand Julys!, a Chicago area pop/R&B/dance cover band, playing songs by Michael Jackson, P...
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Drummer propels Branford Marsalis QuartetAug 14, 2012 1:00 pm - Branford Marsalis Quartet, “Four MFs Playin' Tunes” (Marsalis Music) Don't let the understated title of the new Branford Marsalis Quartet album mislead you into thi...
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S. Elgin Riverfest to host special-needs kids, familiesAug 14, 2012 8:00 am - Sixteen years ago, a centennial celebration started a phenomenon — the South Elgin Riverfest Express. Co-chairwoman Joyce Ware, who has served on the festival committee...
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'Sparkle' soundtrack: All that glitters isn't goldAug 13, 2012 12:00 pm - Various artists, “Sparkle: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack” (RCA Records) Curtis Mayfield and Aretha Franklin's union for the soundtrack of the 1976 musical dram...
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Olympics come to rocking end with a pop partyAug 12, 2012 6:00 pm - LONDON — With a little British pomp and a lot of British pop, London brought the curtain down on a glorious Olympic Games on Sunday in a spectacular, technicolor pageant...
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New exhibit shows Rick Nielsen's favorite picksAug 12, 2012 5:00 am - Rick Nielsen is back in Rockford and that's no Cheap Trick. To help raise funds for the Burpee Museum of Natural History, a childhood hangout for the lead guitarist of t...