• Grand Ole Opry country singer Stonewall Jackson dies at 89
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    Grand Ole Opry country singer Stonewall Jackson dies at 89

    December 5, 2021 - By 

    NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Nation musician Stonewall Jackson, who sang on the Grand Ole Opry for far more than 50 a long time and experienced No. 1 hits with “Waterloo” and other people, died Saturday following a extensive struggle with vascular dementia. He was 89. The Opry, the longest-running radio present in background, announced Jackson’s demise in a news launch. Jackson, a guitarist, performed on the Opry starting in 1956 and was even now appearing on the demonstrate in 2010. His actual title was Stonewall, soon after Confederate Gen. Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson. In accordance to WSMV-Television, the late Porter Wagoner would…

  • Best Bets: A Christmas Carol, Legends of Country, Bill Maher and more for your Las Vegas weekend
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    Best Bets: A Christmas Carol, Legends of Country, Bill Maher and more for your Las Vegas weekend

    November 27, 2021 - By 

    Bill Maher By Brock Radke (make contact with) Friday, Nov. 26, 2021 | 9:30 a.m. You’ll have to have some thing to do when you take a break from holiday break buying this weekend. Examine out these enjoyment solutions on the Strip and downtown, some of which will only boost your holiday cheer. A Christmas CAROL “The West Wing” actor Bradley Whitford stars as Scrooge in this Tony Award-winning version of the Xmas traditional, ending its run at Reynolds Hall at the Smith Centre with 2 and 7 p.m. demonstrates all weekend lengthy. November 26-27, thesmithcenter.com. MILLENNIUM TOUR The lengthy-awaited reopening…

  • Country Summer Music Festival delayed until 2021
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    Country Summer Music Festival delayed until 2021

    March 14, 2021 - By 

    DAN TAYLOR THE Push DEMOCRAT Dan Taylor Arts & Enjoyment, The Push Democrat Do you choose entertaining significantly? I know I do. Inform me what you want to know about arts and amusement in the North Bay to make the greatest use of your leisure time and cash. As a longtime neighborhood arts journalist, I have uncovered the place to seem and who to ask.

  • ‘Pawn it’ comment prompts Indigenous artist to call out discrimination in Sask. country music industry
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    ‘Pawn it’ comment prompts Indigenous artist to call out discrimination in Sask. country music industry

    February 19, 2021 - By 

    A remark about Indigenous artists pawning trophies prompted a Saskatoon musician to discuss out about what he sees as ongoing discrimination in the state tunes market. Jarrid Poitras states he was damage by a colleague’s comment in the course of a assembly past 7 days on the absence of the Indigenous Artist of the Yr award at the Saskatchewan State Audio Association’s (SCMA’s) awards clearly show.  “Any person manufactured a comment about ‘why need to we give them an award when they are just going to pawn it off in any case?'” Poitras claimed.  “I remaining the meeting in anger figuring…

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    Country music star Charlie Daniels dead at 83

    July 6, 2020 - By 

    Charlie Daniels, who went from currently being an in-desire session musician to a staple of southern rock with his hit The Devil Went Down to Georgia, has died at eighty three. A assertion from his publicist reported the Nation Tunes Corridor of Famer died Monday at a healthcare facility in Hermitage, Tenn., after medical professionals reported he experienced a stroke. He experienced endured what was explained as a moderate stroke in January 2010 and experienced a heart pacemaker implanted in 2013 but continued to carry out. Daniels, a singer, guitarist and fiddler, started out as a session musician, participating in…

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    US country band Dixie Chicks drop the Dixie from their name

    June 25, 2020 - By 

    Picture copyright Getty Photographs Picture caption Emily Robison (left) and Natalie Maines of The Chicks Region band Dixie Chicks have transformed their title to The Chicks, to aid emphasize racial inequality in the US. “Dixie” was normally used as a nickname for the southern states that manufactured up the Confederate States of The us all through the US Civil War period. The Texas trio exposed they’d dropped it on Thursday, whilst unveiling a protest song known as March March. They follow in the footsteps of US pop team Girl Antebellum, who transformed their title earlier this thirty day period. Antebellum…

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    Country Summer Music Festival among local events postponed due to coronavirus

    April 13, 2020 - By 

    Five Sonoma County festivals, including the Country Summer Music Festival, have been postponed due to the coronavirus. The Sonoma International Film Festival, Sonoma Valley Authors Festival and the Flatbed Music Festival in Sebastopol all have been moved to dates later this year. The Healdsburg Jazz Festival has been indefinitely postponed. Here are the details about the new dates: — The Country Summer Music Festival, billed as Northern California’s biggest annual country music festival, has been rescheduled for Oct. 23-25, from its original dates of June 19-21. “With input from county officials, a festival of Country Summer’s size is not feasible…

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    Academy of Country Music postpones awards show amid virus

    March 17, 2020 - By 

    Glenn Pinkerton/Las Vegas News Bureau The 53rd Academy of State Tunes Awards red carpet is held at the MGM Grand Garden Arena on the Las Vegas Strip. In this article (l-r) Whit Sellers, kGeoff Sprung, Matthew Ramsey, Trevor Rosen and Brad Tursi collectively acknowledged as Outdated Domion and nominees for Vocal Group of the 12 months and Album of the 12 months stroll the ACM red carpet. Sunday, April 15, 2018. By Linked Push Sunday, March 15, 2020 | 7:39 p.m. NEW YORK — The present is not going to go on for the Academy of State Tunes, right after all.…

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    Country Singer Daniel Lee Martin Commits Suicide Amid Child Sex Charges

    February 17, 2020 - By 

    Fb The singer was uncovered dead at a household in Florida when law enforcement deputies tried to provide various warrants linked to prices of sexual abuse of minors. AceShowbiz – State singer Daniel Lee Martin died of clear suicide even though awaiting trial for youngster intercourse prices. The Nashville-location star, who was also a previous truth Tv host, is thought to have killed himself just after an arrest on similar allegations in Florida. On Friday, February 14, Martin failed to show up for a courtroom listening to in his intercourse crimes circumstance in Tennessee scheduled in the morning. The courtroom…

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    Outlaw Country Pilot Airs On FX

    January 3, 2020 - By 

    Mid-day Entertainment news section focuses on Bollywood news, tv news, Hollywood news and regional cinema news. While the Disney organization has observed its share of scandals and controversies, its films continue to be well-liked, its Tv shows watched, and its theme parks attended. For instance, every mainstream news channel airs the very same snippets of a president’s speech. If we do not , we will continue to assistance a news media and political class that believes that presentation is more essential than content. As opposed to with opinion writers, today’s readers lamely rely on news journalists to report the truth.…