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Concert Review: Mumford & Sons at the Beachland Ballroom


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Published May 24, 2010 at 9:55 a.m.
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"Folk you!" ... The case of London’s Mumford & Sons should be a lesson about the modern music business for any young band yearning for success ... On the strength of the neo-folk (think Fleet Foxes and Blitzen Trapper) quartet’s stellar debut album Sigh No More , the band has completely sold out its first U.S. tour, including Friday’s performance at the Beachland Ballroom ... The band is playing mostly mid-size clubs, and if each concert is like the one here, then Mumford & Sons are

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Pre-Show Q&A: Jill Scott


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Published May 20, 2010 at 8:00 a.m.
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Who is Jill Scott? Read on ... R&B singer Jill Scott made quite a splash when she released her debut album in 2000, the Grammy-nominated Who Is Jill Scott? Words and Sounds Vol. 1 ... The record reflected Scott’s poetic sensibilities and instantly made her star. She and Maxwell are co-headlining a tour that launches tomorrow at Quicken Loans Arena. Scott — who also has a role in Tyler Pretty's latest movie, Why Did I Get Married Too and contributes a regular column to Essence magazine

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SOLDIER ON


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Published April 21, 2010 at 3:00 a.m.

GroundWorks partners with Cleveland Orchestra at FusionFest ... by Marissa Glorioso ... GroundWorks DanceTheater artistic director David Shimotakahara speaks with pride of the range his dance company can embrace.  This weekend they collaborate with the Cleveland Orchestra in A Soldier's Tale as part of the Cleveland Play House's FusionFest.  Composed by Stravinsky in 1918, A Soldier's Tale is a spoken-word opera whose original libretto by Swiss writer C.F. Ramuz was about a soldier who loses

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Dead Composers Society


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Published April 21, 2010 at 3:00 a.m.

Cleveland Orchestra brings classical music to life with Lemony Snicket ... by Michael Gill ... The Composer Is Dead is more than just the title of the Cleveland Orchestra's family concert this weekend. It's also the starting point. "Wherever there's a conductor, you're sure to find a dead composer," says the show's narrator, stating a basic truth about most classical music. "Beethoven — dead! Bach — dead! Brahms — dead! Mozart — dead!" The words are the haughty and macabre work of Lemony

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Arts District: City Music, Busy Music


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Published April 14, 2010 at 3:00 a.m.

And more local arts news ... by Michael Gill ... It's a busier than usual performance week for CityMusic. In addition to the ensemble's regular program conducted by Gregory Vajda, the ensemble will perform a second program especially for kids. Directed by Damon Gupton, they'll play Prokofiev's classic introduction to the orchestra, Peter and the Wolf, narrated by Steve Moretti. Also on the program: Rossini's overture to the opera Tancredi. It's at 11 a.m. Saturday, April 17, at Fairmount

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FOSTERING LOVE


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Published Feb. 10, 2010 at 4:00 a.m.

Jazz legend writes for the Cleveland Jazz Orchestra ... by Michael Gill ... Legendary saxophonist and bandleader Frank Foster doesn't remember exactly when he met trumpeter and Cleveland Jazz Orchestra artistic director Sean Jones. "I must have been somewhere in Middle West," says the octogenarian, who is best known for his work with the Count Basie Big Band, which he joined in 1953 and led from 1986 to 1995. "I forget where I was. He was featured with some big band, and I was very impressed

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Lottery League: So, let's review.


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Published Feb. 5, 2010 at 12:20 p.m.
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By way of introduction: hi, I’m Ron. I’m the Art Director at Scene and a musician participating in the 2010 Cleveland Lottery League, a massive, apparently bi-annual experiment in indie rock deck chair rearrangement. Its draft event is tonight (Fri, 02/05/2010) at the Beachland Ballroom. It's $5 a head for civilians, and it ought to be a hoot ... I am not a first-timer — I was involved in the 2008 inaugural iteration of this monstrous undertaking, wrote about it for the then-extant

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Freedom Songs


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Published Feb. 5, 2010 at 12:18 p.m.
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Just add music ... Bob Marley was born on February 6, 1945, and of course, Cleveland’s reggae community isn’t going to let the day pass without recognizing the towering Jamaican music legend who died of cancer at a tragically young age in 1981. Luckily, his birthday falls on a Saturday this year. The Caribbean Flavor is presenting Songs for Freedom: A Bob Marley Tribute and Live Show tomorrow night, with doors at 8 p.m. and show at 9. Admission is $8 ... One of Cleveland’s newer reggae

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So, let's review.


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Published Feb. 5, 2010 at 11:29 a.m.
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By way of introduction: hi, I’m Ron. I’m the Art Director at Scene and a musician participating in the 2010 Cleveland Lottery League, a massive, apparently bi-annual experiment in indie rock deck chair rearrangement. Its draft event is tonight (Fri, 02/05/2010) at the Beachland Ballroom. It's $5 a head for civilians, and it ought to be a hoot ... I am not a first-timer — I was involved in the 2008 inaugural iteration of this monstrous undertaking, wrote about it for the then-extant

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MATT HAIMOVITZ IS COMPLICATED


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Published Feb. 5, 2010 at 10:55 a.m.

It's amazing what you can say just by juxtaposition. For example, that cello virtuoso and occasionally straight up trippy musician Matt Haimovitz—as seen here ... is performing this cello concerto (Shostakovich No. 1, as seen here with Tina Guo and the State of Mexico National Symphony) ... for free with City Music Cleveland in churches around town this weekend ... I heard him Wednesday night at Fairmount Presbyterian Church in Cleveland Heights. You like heavy metal? You think words like

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