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Monday, April 9, 2012

Old Time Music News--4.9.12

 
That Old Time Hawaiian Twang
Knoxville Metro Pulse (blog)
The Dobro, a particular design of metal-resonator guitar, illustrates country music's counterintuitively cosmopolitan roots. The Dobro was invented in Los Angeles by the Slovakian-immigrant Dopyera Brothers (Do. Bro.), as a sophisticated adaptation of ...
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Live: Carolina Chocolate Drops at Royce Hall
Los Angeles Times
Throughout the show, the Durham, NC-birthed Chocolate Drops schooled a packed hall with such context, offered the ins and outs of pre-World War II country blues, old-time fiddle music, waltzes and minstrel songs via the music of, among others, ...
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'Lion King' is Broadway's all-time box office king
Denver Post
Its chandelier-swinging rival's cumulative total is $853122847, according to musical's publicist. The "Lion King" surged past "Phantom" after netting over $2 million at the box office for the week ending Sunday, while "Phantom" pulled in about $1.2 ...
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'Lion King' Box Office Record: Musical Takes Title Of All-Time Highest ...
Huffington Post
By MARK KENNEDY 04/ 9/12 12:38 PM ET Box office figures to be released later Monday show that "The Lion King" last week swiped the title of Broadway's all-time highest grossing show from "The Phantom of the Opera," The Associated Press has learned.
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At Pacific Northwest Ballet, an old "Apollo" teaches a first-timer
NPR
... the Greek god of music and three muses. It was a signature role for Peter Boal when he was a dancer with New York City Ballet. Now he's staging the ballet at Pacific Northwest Ballet, the first time since taking over as artistic director in 2005.
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Old music: Sparklehorse – St Mary
The Guardian (blog)
Given the never-ending furore over government plans for the NHS, it's time to highlight what is surely the most beautiful – and perhaps the least likely – musical tribute to the UK's hospitals and the staff who work in them.
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Good Old War talks crowd singing, songs' campfire vibe
Daily Nebraskan
By Katie Fennelly Good Old War makes music that everyone can sing along to — something that they encourage live. The band, whose name comes from each of the members' last names — Good (Keith Goodwin), Old (Tim Arnold), War (Dan Schwartz) — will be ...
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Old voices meet new at Splashy Fen
Independent Online
By Fred Kockott An Aerial shot of the Splashy Fen Musical Festival in the Drakensburg. Picture: Sibonelo Ngcobo Amid a line-up of more than 350 musicians, some of them playing on a big stage for the first time, South African guitar maestro, ...
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Loveliest Village | Lee County Gathering Old-Time Music Festival ...
Music festival lovers will have the chance to step back in time a few years when the fourth annual Lee County Gathering is held from April 26 to 29. This old-time ...
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