music
New Yorkers celebrate Black History Month
March 5, 2013NEW YORK - It was a standing room only audience rejoicing at the wonderful program of song, poetry and inspiring speeches at the "We're Not Going Back" Black History event at Unity Center here.
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Apocalypse Five and Dime: stomping sound for workers’ cause
February 28, 2013Apocalypse Five and Dime combines vocals, percussion, a saxophone, and string and brass instruments to produce a sound that was once called: "twisted intense bluegrass/Balkan."
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Today in black history: Michael Jackson wins 8 Grammys
February 28, 2013On February 28, 1984, musician and entertainer Michael Jackson won an amazing eight awards at the 26th Grammy Awards show:
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Jon Fromer: A political life in song
February 21, 2013In 1965, Fromer marched from Selma to Montgomery, Ala. with civil rights marchers, kick-starting his life-long devotion to fighting for justice through song.
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Kurt Cobain fans celebrate rocker’s birthday
February 20, 2013The Nirvana frontman was born this day in 1967, and went on to become the voice of a generation and pave the way for heavy music's entry into the mainstream, despite his aversion to such popularity
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