Bands Of America News

 
Forbush band student to perform in Rose Bowl Parade
Yadkin Ripple
by Submitted by Kristin Conrad Spencer Brown, a Junior at Forbush High School, has been selected by Music for All to be a member of the Bands of America Honor Band in the 2013 Tournament of Roses Parade. Spencer was selected from among hundreds of ...

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Vines experience grape growing earlier than normal
Your Houston News
May 27 — Ezra Charles and The Texas Bluz Review (Memorial Weekend), one of America's great Blues Bands, presents a concert on the Bernhardt Winery lawn. June 3 – Bernhardt Winery hosts Gentle Lamb, a Mo-town style band, at its Sunday evening concert.

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Scissor Sisters — America's ambassadors of eccentricity
Daily News & Analysis
They would have chosen [country duo] Brooks & Dunn or [cheesy Canadian rock band] Nickelback, or somebody like that. But I think we make great ambassadors for American pop. As one of the first American bands with openly gay members, we embody the ...

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The Flaming Lips To Challenge Jay-Z's World Record
Tone Deaf
The band's frontman/singer/concert provocateur Wayne Coyne issued a statement likening their venture to The Sex Pistols and “their one and only American tour.” Coyne also added, “The weird mid-south (Memphis to New Orleans), has something very absurd ...

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Charleston City Paper
The Teetotallers carry the flame of Irish folk song
Charleston City Paper
And singer John Doyle has recorded with Joan Baez and toured extensively with the legendary Irish-American band Solas. Doyle says the band was put together and named ("for a laugh," he says) by the organizer of a Celtic music festival in Sebastopol, ...
Teetotalers are 'very Clare and very melodic'Irish Echo

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Orchestra Iowa to play Beach Boys' music
Iowa City Press Citizen
Orchestra Iowa returns to the stadium on Memorial Day as they team up with the Cedar Rapids Kernels to present the music of one of America's most legendary bands, The Beach Boys. Single tickets are sponsored by Climate Engineers, Lil' Drug Store ...


 
Lexington Herald Leader
Education Notes
Lexington Herald Leader
Music for All has selected two students from Fayette County Public Schools for the Bands of America Honor Band, which will march in the 2013 Tournament of Roses Parade in Pasadena, Calif. Elizabeth Howell of Lafayette High will be in the color guard, ...