Reuters - Mar 10, 2007
A group of New York musicians is planning to do what the Beatles never did -- perform the songs the Fab Four might have recorded as their final album had they stayed together just a little longer. The...
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A moment of dread might have been felt by the more seasoned Billie Holiday fans when Niki Harris opened the multimedia program Billie & Me on Friday at Royce Hall. Harris and her singing partner, Joan...
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Days after the official all-star finale in Washington, D.C., Bruce Springsteen will steer the Vote for Change tour homeward to host a concert at the Continental Airlines Arena in East Rutherford, N.J...
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In celebration of the upcoming 30th anniversary of its recording, Bob Dylan s landmark album Blood on the Tracks will be feted with a live rendering in New York on June 29. The event, at Merkin Hall...
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The film producers who helped bring former Motown Records sidemen the Funk Brothers into the public eye after decades of obscurity have sued the musicians, alleging they breached their management contract...
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The Indigo Girls will release their ninth studio album, All That We Let In, Feb. 17 via Sony s Epic Records. The Atlanta-based duo, singer/guitarists Amy Ray and Emily Saliers , will be backed by their...
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(4/2/03, 6 p.m. ET) -- The Dixie Chicks will embark on their Top Of The World tour on May 1 in Greenville, South Carolina with opening act Joan Osborne. Osborne will open the award-winning trio s show...
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(9/7/00, 5 p.m. ET) - Righteous Love, Joan Osborne s first new album in five years, arrives in stores on Tuesday (September 12). The collection will include 11 songs, including a cover of Bob Dylan s...
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(7/23/00, 10 a.m. ET) - It took about five years, but Joan Osborne will release a new album, Righteous Love, due out September 12. It s her first album since Relish, which featured the hits St. Theresa...
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(5/31/00, 1 p.m. ET) - Songs by Aimee Mann and Joan Osborne are among the 13 cuts on the new compilation, Music From The HBO Series Sex And The City, due in stores on June 6. Mann offers Calling It Quits...
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Courtesy of RockOnTV (www.rockontv.com): NBC: The Tonight Show With Jay Leno - Joan Osborne is the musical guest. (To read a Joan Osborne feature, click here.) Late Night With Conan O Brien - Filter...
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(1/25/99, 1 a.m. PST) - The soundtrack to the NBC miniseries The 60s, which will be telecast on Feb. 7-8, will feature a newly-recorded version of Bob Dylan s Chimes Of Freedom, featuring Dylan himself...
More »USRN - Oct 30, 1998
(10/30/98, 6 p.m. PST) - A day after the Planned Parenthood Action Fund announced that singer-songwriter Joan Osborne had recorded a 30-second spot to encourage listeners to vote on Nov. 3, a pro-life...
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(10/29/98, 6 p.m. PST) - The Planned Parenthood Action Fund (PPAF) announced today (Oct. 29) that Joan Osborne, who was last seen joining Cracker onstage (myLAUNCH, 10/20), has recorded a radio spot on...
More »USRN - Aug 17, 1998
(8/17/98, 12 p.m. PDT) - A Day In The Garden, the first festival held on the site of the original Woodstock since the historic 1969 concert, wrapped up over the weekend, and the response was decidedly...
More »USRN - Aug 12, 1998
(8/12/98, 6 p.m. PDT) - A mere two days before the start of A Day In The Garden, which is being billed as the first musical event to take place on Max Yasgur s farm since the original Woodstock, the producers...
More »USRN - Jul 31, 1998
(7/31/98, 12 p.m. PDT) - The WOMAD festival begins today in Seattle, kicking off a three-day celebration of world music. The festival is renowned in the U.K., but this is the first time it is hitting...
More »USRN - Jul 16, 1998
(7/16/98) - Organizers of A Day In the Garden, the three-day concert that will be held on the site of the original Woodstock festival in Bethel, N.Y., are keeping in the spirit of the hippie-trippy, free...
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