Music Review: The Sweetback Sisters – Looking For A Fight
share: digg facebook twitter The Sweetback Sisters are a group of very uniquely talented musicians whose personal histories are quite varied, diverse and definitely not your typical country music pedigrees. Think “Indigo Girls Meet Sweethearts of the Rodeo and Get Possessed by the Ghost of Patsy Cline While Riding Shot Gun with Bob Wills in a 1939 Ford Pickup,” or even “Dale Evans With Attitude …
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Mark Simpson’s top 10 contemporary classical recordings
Nurturing our contemporary music culture through the recent arts cuts is of paramount concern to musicians and arts institutions across the whole country.
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Students, stars team up to raise funds for human-rights museum in Winnipeg
A selection of handmade guitars signed by musicians, celebrities, athletes and politicians — including Kate Hudson, the Beach Boys, Slash, Randy Bachman, Jonathon Toews and Prime Minister Stephen Harper — are being auctioned off as part of the “Built by Suns, Signed by Stars” online auction in support of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights.
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ASO musicians accept pay rise
ADELAIDE Symphony Orchestra musicians have agreed to a 4.1 per cent pay rise, backdated to April 2010, followed by a 2.9 per cent increase in June.
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ole’s ‘to the topline’ Challenge Debuts in L.A. As ‘Renegade’ Wins ole Single-Song Publishing Deal
TORONTO, ONTARIO–(Marketwire – May 19, 2011) – ole’s ” to the topline ” Challenge event made its debut at the PenUP Songwriter Networking Event at L.A.’s Musicians Institute in late April, from which the first winner of an ole single-song publishing deal was selected: “Renegade,” written by Jeff Victueles and Matt Wong of the production team The Gooniez.
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