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Festival Med de Loulé - Amadou & Mariam, Deolinda e Solomon Burke junt
2008-05-13 10:50:00 Dos Balkan Beat Box já se sabia, mas sabem-se agora mais três nomes que fazem parte do Festival Med de Loulé, que decorre de 25 a 29 de Junho: o do grande mestre da soul music Solomon Burke (na foto) e o do fabuloso casal de malianos Amadou & Mariam, para além dos nossos Deolinda (ver calendário no post que lhes é dedicado, algumas páginas abaixo, neste blog). Segundo um comunicado da Pure.Ativism, «esta iniciativa, promovida e organizada pela Câmara Municipal de Loulé, já na 5ª edição, visa divulgar a cultura dos países mediterrânicos e do mundo, proporcionando o contacto com as várias manifestações culturais, com especial relevo para a música... Em termos musicais, este festival aposta claramente na divulgação de artistas e conceito “world music”, tendo como critério base a excelência dos projectos musicais e a manifestação das suas origens. Durante cinco dias, o Med apresenta mais de 40 nomes, entre bandas e DJs, num cartaz que integra ritmos de Espa...
By: Raizes e Antenas
Solomon Burke
2008-05-12 00:48:00 Everybody Needs Somebody To LoveLive on Top of the Pops 2003
By: The Music Vlog.
Afternoon Update - Solomon Burke, Midnight Oil, Phil Collins, more
2008-04-29 00:32:00 Starbucks is getting out of the recorded music business.Even though they had great success with albums by Paul McCartney, James Taylor and Joni Mitchell, the company has gone through a restructuring and will let the Concord music group take over operations. Concord had already been doing much of the background work for the Hear Music label.Shout Factory has announced that Solomon Burke's new album, Like a Fire, will be released on June 10. Guesting on the album will be Eric Clapton, Keb' Mo', Jesse Harris and Ben Harper.In a U.K. poll, Meat Loaf's Bat Out of Hell was voted the best song with which to drive. Second was Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody followed by Steppenwolf's Born to Be Wild and Queen's Don't Stop Me Now. Midnight Oil is in the process of remastering their six of its pre-1990 albums for release only on iTunes and other digital sites. The band feels their post-1990 work does not need any work at this time.Bob Dylan, the Stooges and Chuck Berry have been added...
Short Takes - Spandau Ballet, Journey, Frank Sinatra
2007-12-06 20:45:00 Just because 60 Minutes is the "old man" of TV news shows doesn't mean that it doesn't still pack a wallop. The Eagles appearance on the show a week ago prompted a 70% increase in sales of The Long Road Out of Eden, moving it from number five to two with 313,000 copies sold. In a slow week for releases (and music in general), Mannheim Steamroller's Christmas Song jumps from twenty-one to ten with a 24% sales increase to 77,000.Overall, sales are down 16.9% from the same week last year.Spandau Ballet has been offered $4 million to reform for the opening of a British company's new luxury development in Las Vegas. While there has been a long running feud between the group members, it looks like the reunion may actually happen.A source told the British paper The Independent, "It has always been quite complicated because the band has a different manager to the Kemp brothers, because they fell out with them a while back.""But since this offer was tabled, both managers have met an...
Short Takes - B.B. King, Ramones, Solomon Burke
2007-11-10 08:27:00 AT&T has presented a $500,000 donation to help build an education center at the B.B. King Museum and Delta Interpretive Center in Indianola, Mississippi.In a statement, Mayo Flynn of AT&T said, "This museum will honor the life and work of B.B. King, celebrate and preserve the Mississippi Delta blues, affect the lives of young people, attract visitors to Mississippi and promote a better quality of life for all."The museum, which will promote the legacy of King and the Mississippi delta, is scheduled to open next fall.The personal assistant of former Ramone's manager Linda Stein has been arrested in Stein's death. Police say Natavia Lowry made statements implicating herself in the murder.Solomon Burke is re-teaming with Buddy Miller, who produced his 2006 album Nashville, to record a new gospel album tentatively titled The Truth. Burke is an ordained minister.A spokesman for Michael Jackson says he will not lose the Neverland Ranch. He is in the process of refinancing s...
Solomon Burke - Nashville
2006-10-16 04:15:02 Soul legend Solomon Burke harbored a desire to sing country tunes ever since his career began, but the powers-that-be wouldn’t let their golden goose take the gamble. Four decades down the line, he finally got the opportunity, and he embraced it with open arms. Produced by twang titan Buddy Miller, ‘Nashville’ is the third album [...] |
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