Articles filed under Performing Arts
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Music review: At 70, Billy Ocean returns with an album to 'lift you up'Sep 07, 2020 6:00 am - NEW YORK - Billy Ocean is angry. But you won't hear it in his music. Now 70, he's frustrated by structural racism and by Black people being shot by police. He's fed up w...
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Constable: 10-year-old dances through pandemic, and two heart transplantsSep 05, 2020 1:00 am - YouTube #8220;It's a break from the outside world. I dance by myself every day,#8221; Olivia says, adding that she doesn't even need music to dance her heart out. She di...
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Fox Valley Folk Music and Storytelling Festival goes onlineSep 04, 2020 6:00 am - The 44th annual Fox Valley Folk Music and Storytelling Festival, which will be Saturday through Monday, Sept. 5-7, will be entirely online this year. Many artists will ...
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Concerts: Vic Mensa drive-in show; Local H at BrauerHouseSep 04, 2020 6:00 am - Eric Quigley (outdoor dining): 5:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 4, at Hey Nonny, 10 S. Vail Ave., Arlington Heights. (224) 202-0750 or heynonny.com. Pino Farina: 7 p.m. Friday, ...
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Solo circus: Downers Grove acrobat performs for Alzheimer's patients in Burr RidgeSep 04, 2020 1:00 am - Evan Baird literally jumped at the chance to perform Thursday at a memory care center in Burr Ridge. All the jumping was in Baird's outdoor solo circus act. The 22-year-...
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Lawyers want inmate who confessed to attacking R. Kelly to testifySep 04, 2020 1:00 am - R. Kelly's lawyers want to put the inmate who identified himself this week as the singer's jailhouse attacker on the witness stand in a hearing to determine whether anyo...
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Oak Park magician deftly adapts 'The Magic Parlour at Home' for online audiencesSep 03, 2020 9:00 am - Dennis Watkins had been performing five shows a week at the Palmer House Hilton for about 10 years when the COVID-19 pandemic hit and the hotel shut down in March. Look...
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Buscabulla offers electro-Caribbean music for the pandemicSep 03, 2020 7:00 am - MEXICO CITY (AP) - Buscabulla, a Puerto Rican duo playing electro-Caribbean music, is promoting a 'œhymn of belonging'ť to lift spirits during the pandemic. The video of...
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Review: Dirk Powell shines exploring Cajun and Celtic rootsSep 03, 2020 7:00 am - Dirk Powell, 'œWhen I Wait for You" (Compass) Because Dirk Powell loves traditional music, and honors it on this fine album, his pledge to banish one category of front-p...
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BTS on gaining respect in the US: '~We definitely feel that'Sep 03, 2020 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Loud and happy screams erupt in unison from the seven-member pop stars BTS when they hear they have notched their first No. 1 hit on the all-genre Billbo...