In addition to the music and discussion, the program features a slide show that carries audiences back in time, from bobby socks, through the space race and right into classic rock.
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Musicians, poets sought for statewide music project
Organized by the Maine Volunteer Foundation and Volunteer Maine, the Heartbeat of Home music project is an album that will feature original and newly recorded spoken word and musical numbers, as well as selected recordings any Maine artist wishes to submit for consideration.
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FaceTime: Maddy Leslie and John Grenier
Seeking to ‘inspire and connect’ with audiences through their music.
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Nel Meservier and Friends to perform at La Rencontre monthly luncheon
This event will coincide with the Center’s Fête Nationale celebration.
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D.C. Council bill would make go-go music the ‘official music’ of Washington
Born in Washington’s live-music scene of the 1970s, go-go earned its name from one of the genre’s founders, the late Chuck Brown, who said he was trying to keep people on the dance floor with a beat that “just goes and goes.”
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Roky Erickson, frontman of 13th Floor Elevators and a father of psychedelic rock, dies at 71
he was credited with paving the way for punk, psychedelic and alternative rock, and influenced artists as wide-ranging as ZZ Top, John Wesley Harding, Doug Sahm, Television, Butthole Surfers, T Bone Burnett and the Jesus and Mary Chain.
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Reliable Source: We Write the Songs event brings music stars — and tears — to Capitol Hill
Tuesday’s event was especially poignant after the recent passage of the Music Modernization Act. ASCAP has been pushing for the legislation — which helps songwriters get fair royalties for their music, among other things — to be signed into law since its introduction in 2017.
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Vampire Weekend’s 1st album in 6 years has a lot to unpack
Ezra Koenig’s band, his life and his country have changed dramatically in the years since Vampire Weekend released its last record, “Modern Vampires of the City.”
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Dick Dale, King of Surf Guitar, ‘Miserlou’ composer, is dead
The man who earned the title King of the Surf Guitar has died at age 81