Two artists whose albums competed against each other for the Grammy Award for Best Blues Album in 2013 will again go head-to-head – both playing closing night of ArtsQuest’s 2015 Blast Furnace Blues Festival.
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An award-winning cellist joins an award-winning orchestra for an award-worthy program of music by Beethoven, Elgar and Sierra this weekend at Miller Symphony Hall.
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Sometimes the speed of song can seem almost as fast the speed of light. How else could the American Boychoir, in its 2013 appearance on NPR's popular show "From the Top," travel from 600 AD to the 20th century in the course of an hour?
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Since the time Björk first became known as singer of the Icelandic alternative rock band Sugarcubes in the 1980s, and throughout her career as a solo artist, Björk has been a much-talked-about but little-seen artist in the United States.
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Danity Kane pulled off a rather strange feat with its latest release, “DK3.” The album, the act's first effort in more than six years, is a comeback and a swan song.
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Run the Jewels is the team of two indie titans, El-P and Killer Mike, who have upended convention by remaining idealistically true, artistically adventurous and creatively emboldened well into their second decade as rapper-producers. The pair's second album, released as a free download...
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They've been Bay Area gutter punks, unlikely mainstream rock stars, reggae-revival champions and L.A. pop producers. Now the four guys in Rancid are back where they started — making three-minute shards of scuzzy but ultimately warm-hearted punk rock.
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An Academy Award-winning actress who now stars on an NBC-TV sitcom will perform – as a singer – at a local music venue, it was announced.
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Nominations for the 16th Lehigh Valley Music Awards will open Nov. 2, and organizers are promising closer scrutiny – as well as two new categories.
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A stand-up comedian who made headlines in the past week by reviving allegations of more than a dozen rape cases against fellow comedian Bill Crosby will play Sands Bethlehem Event Center, it was just announced.
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In many ways, the story of new pop sensations AJR could only have happened in New York City.
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A stand-up comedian whose celebrity impersonations made him a star of the FOX-TV show “MADTv” and his own TBS show, as well as on “FOX NFL Sunday” will perform at Sands Bethlehem Event Center, it was just announced.
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It’s hard to figure what to make of progressive rock these days – at least the progressive rock of Jethro Tull lead singer Ian Anderson, who performed Sunday at Sands Bethlehem Event Center.
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“This is the most important show I have ever done,“ said Craig Thatcher Saturday night at a sold out Musikfest Café at ArtsQuest. Thatcher, who has done tributes to Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendrix, and the Allman Brothers, was for the first time covering the music of George...
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As singers age, and their voices and physical appearances wane, some mellow their performances to fit the talents that remain. Some switch genres, finding a refuge in blues or country, where voices that gain the wisdom of age are more appreciated.
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Ian Anderson has been a member of British prog-rock band Jethro Tull for nearly five decades.
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NEW TAYLOR SWIFT ALBUM
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The unknown is a terrifying thing. Most of us like to have a plan, a specific set of steps to follow as we navigate through life. We run from the unexpected. We detest the unpredictable.
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Guitarist and vocalist Craig Thatcher is a longtime Lehigh Valley favorite. His blues/rock group The Craig Thatcher Band has been performing for more than 20 years. And Thatcher also has developed a series of popular tribute shows to his idols — Eric Clapton, Jim Hendrix and the Allman...
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Ten years after starting a romantic partnership, bluegrass and banjo luminaries Bela Fleck and Abigail Washburn have begun an artistic union as well.
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PUDDLES PITY PARTY
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Stephen Sondheim's absurdist cult musical "Anyone Can Whistle" takes on insanity, conformity, miracles and government.
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Indie rock has melded a lot of genres and styles, and Humble Grapes may not be the first to mash up cabaret music and rock. But the band adds dashes of blues and classic soul, and does it well enough that it regularly plays New York City haunts such as The Bitter End and The Bowery Electric.
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The success of pop/rock band Echosmith’s current hit “Cool Kids,” a song about outsiders wishing they could be part of the in-crowd, has made singer Sydney Sierota and the band’s other members — her three brothers — well, the cool kids.
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Ian Anderson has been a member of British prog-rock band Jethro Tull for nearly five decades.
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Drive-By Truckers singer/guitarist Patterson Hood stood on stage at Bethlehem’s Musikfest Café at ArtsQuest Center on Wednesday, incredulously telling a story about how he saw Martha Stewart on television, telling how to plan a punk rock party.
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There may be puppets but this is definitely not kids stuff.
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For the love of music is — it's a passion that has driven musicians, music lovers and even philosophers. "Without music, life would be a mistake," wrote Friedrich Nietzsche. It's also been the driving force behind the Tuesday Singers, which for nearly a decade has been...
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In three songs Tuesday at radio station WAEB-FM B104, singer-songwriter Ingrid Michaelson covered her entire career.
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One of music’s hottest up-and-coming rappers is headed for a regional venue.
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The Allentown Symphony Orchestra and Music Director Diane Wittry have been selected as the winner of the 2014 American Prize, a national award that recognizes the best performing artists, ensembles and composers in the United States
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