Music
Midterms spur old-school R&B group The O’Jays to political action
October 22, 2018“You almost have to say something. You almost have to get involved. I’ve never seen it this bad,” said one of the group's founders, Walter Williams, Sr.
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Amazing Aretha: L.A.’s Black community and others gracefully honor Queen of Soul
September 10, 2018LOS ANGELES—Hollywood is known around the world as a “company town” for the motion picture industry and television, but Los Angeles is also a music mecca. In January 1972, Aretha Franklin recorded the live album “Amazing...
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‘Dreamgirls’: A dream come true for kinetic choreo and Motown fans
July 25, 2018NORTH HOLLYWOOD, Calif.—Director/choreographer Tor Campbell’s rendition of Dreamgirls is an extremely exciting, energetic version and vivid vision of the beloved musical that opened on Broadway in 1981 and onscreen in 2006. With a cast of dozens,...
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Picking up sticks and stones at Woody Fest 2018
July 16, 2018In the hometown where Woody grew up, Okemah, Okla, each year around his birthday the Woody Guthrie Folk Festival takes place. It’s sorta an old hippie crowd along with progressive young persons desiring to connect to...
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Folk singer goes 360 for WoodyFest 2018
July 5, 2018Throughout his career he has opened for Jesse Colin Young, Crosby Stills and Nash, Emmylou Harris, Jackson Browne, Joan Baez, and John Trudell, to just name a few.
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