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Extension 720 Audio Archives, August 2007
Staff reporterMilt is joined in the studio by the AFTRA-SAG Radio Performers for a night of old time radio drama, including a performance of Dracula, as well as some old time commercials and skits. (8/27/07) Radio Drama (82:12) Milt talks with Dr. Akbar Ahmed, author...Tags: Newspaper and Magazine, Colleges and Universities, University of Oxford, Northwestern University, Education
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Extension 720 Program Guide June 2009
Staff reporterMONDAY, JUNE 1ST SOFT DESPOTISM, DEMOCRACY'S DRIFT Are you concerned about the United States drifting away from its core principles? Do you sense that many of western civilizations governments may be veering away from their classical liberal roots...Tags: History, Entertainment, John Jay, National Lampoon Incorporated, Science and Technology
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Rock out at oldies music extravaganza
Do you like oldies music? Do you like to dance? Then head to Schnecksville Fire Company on Sunday for Springfest, which features six hours of music and dancing to oldies groups. Performers 1-7 p.m. include The Dovells ("Bristol Stomp") at 6 p.m. and Bill...Tags: Entertainment, Arts and Culture, Schnecksville, Music
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Musings on music Gerald Krueger
Everyone has his or her own taste in music. We oldsters might think that modern rock or hip hop is a little strange, but still it remains to each his own. Music is the elixir of the soul, and it's wonderful to be able to tune the radio to your...Tags: Pandora Media, Inc., Entertainment, Arts and Culture, Dance, Minnesota Twins
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Spring Planting Festival in Mansfield
MANSFIELD, Mo.-- More than 7,000 visitors are expected to visit Bakersville Pioneer Village near Mansfield, Missouri, on Sunday for the 12th annual Spring Planting Festival sponsored by Baker Creek Heirloom Seed Company. The two-day event has a full...
Tags: Gospel (genre), Entertainment, Arts and Culture, Music Industry, Festive Events
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Carolina Chocolate Drops are entrancing at Lincoln Hall
The Carolina Chocolate Drops are not just reviving the African-American string band tradition. They are young, modern musicians with an electrifying understanding of roots music, in the deepest sense of that loose genre term. When the North Carolina-...
Tags: Entertainment, Arts and Culture, Johnny Cash, Music Industry, Concerts
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Coffee House at Friedens Lutheran
The last Coffee House of the season will take place at 7 p.m. Friday in the Community Ministry Center at Friedens Lutheran Church. Jerry Intihar, Johnstown's own "Polka King," will provide the entertainment. Intihar is well known around the area as...Tags: Entertainment, Arts and Culture, Friedens, Dance, Entertainment Events
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Newport News shop American Oldies finds new life as vinyl records jump in popularity
NEWPORT NEWS — As those dusty, 33-rpm vinyl albums have rotated back into fashion, a shop tucked in corner of a Denbigh shopping center has emerged as an unlikely hotbed of musical cool. American Oldies, a record store with roots in the 1970s,...
Tags: Sound Recordings, Entertainment, Arts and Culture, Jimi Hendrix, Travel
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Classic rock returns to Cambria City for good cause
The Johnstown Classic Rockers and Tom Katz are teaming for an evening of classic tunes, all to benefit less-fortunate people at Christmas. The 19th Annual Oldies Spring Break Dance Party will take place April 21 at Ace's, 316 Chestnut St. in Cambria...
Tags: Entertainment, Spring Break, The Galleria, American Idol (tv program), Christmas
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ArtsQuest announces show we already told you about. Here's another they didn't
Lehigh Valley MusicIn the We-Told-You-So category, ArtsQuest just announced an act for Musikfest Café that Lehigh Valley Music told you about Sunday. But ArtsQuest hasn’t told you yet about a great act coming to its Levitt Pavilion at SteelStacks this summer. So...... -
Johnny Otis dies at 90; R&B singer wrote 'Willie and the Hand Jive'
Pioneering rhythm-and-blues singer, songwriter, drummer, bandleader and disc jockey Johnny Otis made the kind of conscious life choice early on that few people have the inclination, or circumstance, to carry out.
Born white, the son of Greek immigrant...Tags: Tom Reed, Entertainment, Bars and Clubs, Radio, Dining and Drinking
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Wade Mainer dies at 104; 'grandfather of bluegrass'
Born on a mountain farm near Weaverville, N.C., in 1907, Wade Mainer soaked up old songs ringing in the far hills and hollers. As a professional singer and banjo player, he would introduce that music to audiences throughout the nation and also pass it on...Tags: New York City, Buncombe County, Burl Ives, History, Entertainment
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