Music and Performance Arts
Our guides bring you up-to-date information on Music and Performance Arts. Performing arts include the acrobatics, busking, comedy, dance, magic, music, opera, film, juggling, marching arts, such as brass bands, theatre, and circus arts. Artists who participate in these arts in front of an audience are called performers, including actors, comedians, dancers, musicians, and singers.
The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus If you'd like to watch two engaging documentary films about one of the greatest rock and roll bands of all time, I recommend The Rolling Stones Rock and Rock Circus (1968) and Shine a Light (2008). The Rock and Roll Circus..
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Do bands have logos? Of course they do! My favorite band logos include the mirror symmetry of the Nine Inch Nails NIN, the simple and sensual lips and tongue for The Rolling Stones, and..
(Read full article on Band Logos Book for Music Fans and Graphic Designers)
September is Classical Music Month and in honor of this occasion I have put together a list of major east coast orchestras and symphonies of the United States. It takes a lot of work, money and volunteers to found and maintain a major symp..
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There are many musical reasons to live in New York City or to travel there this fall. Forget about the traffic, the expensive parking and the endless crush of people, New York City is a world-class venue to see some of the hottest musical artists both old and new. Fall 2008 is jam-packed with the..
(Read full article on Fall 2008 Music Concerts in New York City)
With the debate heating up over the American Presidential election I thought it might be germaine to take a look at the musical taste and culture of our would be candidates, John McCain and Barrack Obama. Jackson Browne has sued John McCain for using his song, Running on Empty..
(Read full article on John McCain's Campaign Sued and iPod Lists of Presidential Candidates)
In true West Virginia form, we arrived late at the Purple Fiddle Music Festival at the Canaan Valley Resort and State park located in the Allegheny Mountains. But since the eight bands scheduled to play started at 1pm and rocked until 1am, there was plenty of time to enjoy the re..
(Read full article on The Purple Fiddle Festival 2008: Canaan Valley Resort, in Davis, West Virginia)
It took me a long time to even give Amy Winehouse a try. There’s her impossibly large beehive hair, her overwrought eyeliner, and she also sports the bad tattoos of a drunken sailor. Then there's the near weekly story of Amy's legal trouble and health problems, many of them self inflicted. ..
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In a time when Guitar Hero and Rock Band are hugely popular, interactive computer games it is ironic to read the real life story of one of the biggest rock stars of all time, Eric Clapton. Clapton: The Autobiography (Broadway Books, 2007) will make you want to encourage your child not to..
(Read full article on The Autobiography of Eric Clapton - A Review)
The votes are in and the fans have had their say. Joshua Allen is the winner of Season 4 of “So You Think You Can Dance”, dancing away with a cash prize of $250,000 and a spot in Adam Shankmans new movie Step Up – 3D. The two hour finale show was probably the best season..
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There are two schools of thought about Palaeolithic cave paintings made by our ancestors: Those who seek to explain them and those who don’t. Iegor Reznikoff, a Professor of Philosophy who specializes in acoustics at the University of Paris X at Nanterre, is an academic who..
(Read full article on Singing Related to Ancient Cave Paintings)
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