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Toots and the Maytals Still On For Lebanon

Thursday, May 23, 2013

If there’s a hall of fame for the great road warriors of music, there must be room inside for one Frederick “Toots” Hibbert, especially after last weekend. While fronting the legendary reggae band, Toots and the Maytals, at a concert in Richmond, Va., Hibbert was felled by a vodka bottle thrown from the crowd. It’s hard to imagine why anyone would do such a thing to Hibbert, a grandfatherly figure who turned 70 on the band’s current world tour. Police have charged a 19-year-old man with aggravated assault and public intoxication. Fortunately for Upper Valley fans, Hibbert recovered quickly and will be on hand Sunday …

Carole King Receives Gershwin Prize

Thursday, May 23, 2013

One fine day in 1957, a 15-year-old named Carol Klein got off the express train from Brooklyn to Manhattan with schoolbooks under one arm and sheet music under the other. She wore bobby socks, white sneakers and a black skirt with a pink poodle embroidered on it. Starting with the “A”s in the …

Bieber, Booed at Awards, Says He’s No ‘Gimmick’

Thursday, May 23, 2013

Los Angeles — Justin Bieber was booed big time at Sunday night’s Billboard Music Awards in Las Vegas. The “Beauty and the Beat” singer took the stage Sunday to accept the first-ever Milestone Award, presented to him for being the first 19-year-old with five No. 1 singles on the Billboard 200. He beat out the night’s big winner, Taylor Swift, for the fan …

Josh Groban Keeps Rocking the Boat

Monday, March 4, 2013

Los Angeles — Last month Josh Groban’s All That Echoes knocked Justin Bieber’s new album out of the top spot on the Billboard 200, and that’s not the crooner’s only incursion into territory normally reserved for pop stars. …

Oscar Show’s Name-Dropping Closing Song Required Instant Updates

Sunday, March 3, 2013

Los Angeles — The musical numbers on last Sunday’s Academy Awards telecast by most accounts were hit and miss, but in some respects the most impressive song wasn’t one of the big production numbers from Les Miserables or Skyfall. It was the one host Seth MacFarlane and singer …

Dancing In the Kitchen, Singing in the Parlor

Saturday, March 2, 2013

(The writer is president of the Bradford Historical Society and author of two volumes on regional history titled “In Times Past, Essays From the Upper Valley.”) “After the supper came the dance. There was no music save the …

Entertainment Highlights: Teens Take on Cole Porter Classic

Thursday, February 28, 2013

Anything Goes, Cole Porter’s musical set aboard a transatlantic booze cruise in the 1930s, depicts a whimsical world of arranged marriages, mistaken identifies and subterfuge. Very little in the show resonates with the North Country Community Theater teen …

Dartmouth Symphony

Monday, May 20, 2013

The Dartmouth Symphony Orchestra performs works by Prokofiev and Beethoven Saturday night at the Hopkins Center in Hanover. …

Legendary Pianist Van Cliburn Dies at 78

Thursday, February 28, 2013

Fort Worth, Texas — Van Cliburn’s talent alone might have earned him a place among the 20th-century giants of his instrument, alongside classical pianists like Arthur Rubinstein and Vladimir Horowitz. But after a magical Moscow spring in 1958, …

Music Revenue Up After Long Decline

Wednesday, February 27, 2013

London (ap) — More than a decade after online file swapping tipped the music industry into turmoil, record executives may finally be getting a sliver of good news. Industry revenue is up. A measly 0.3 percent, but it’s …

Music Night at Windsor Public Library: Rocking the Stacks

Sunday, February 24, 2013

Windsor — Accordion, trombone, cello — any instrument is welcome at the Windsor Public Library’s monthly music nights.

Musicians bring their own instruments and stands, and Library Director Barbara Ball supplies the sheet music.

The music starts after …

World Music Percussion Ensemble Adding Haitian Note to Winter Concert

Thursday, February 21, 2013

The members of Lakou Mizik, the Haitian music collective that performs with Dartmouth’s World Music Percussion Ensemble tomorrow night, have achieved seemingly opposite musical goals by producing danceable music in the compas tradition of Haiti and the Caribbean …

Big Bad Voodoo Daddy Still Swinging

Sunday, February 17, 2013

Lexington, Ky. — Want a crash course in everything that makes the music of Big Bad Voodoo Daddy such grand, unspoiled fun? Give a look and listen to the music video for Why Me?, a vigorous original tune from the band’s newest album, Rattle Them Bones. The song …