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5/16/2012 - EDWARD SHARPE & THE MAGNETIC ZEROS Frontman Alex Ebert leads a free floating band of troubadours who reveal a love for '60s folk and psychedelia-touched, happily acoustic and patchouli-scented sounds that converge somewhere in the Summer of Love while taking a Magical Mystery Tour via the eclectic sing-alongs of the Flaming Lips. The songs bloom into jams that, well, damn if they don't get ...

View full sizeJohn FlavinMusicians and Molalla High School students Alex Huston (left) and Jake Marr lined up bands that will perform Saturday in Clark Park.By John Flavin/Special to The OregonianMOLALLA -- Thanks to the partnering mindsets of Molalla's Lynn Blatter...

Go-carts, live animals, a balloon artist, horse-drawn hayrides, a country band, a barber shop quartet, funnel cakes, antiques, a Ferris wheel, party prizes for uniformed athletes, and, yes, even some academic testing — Downtown Ridgefield’s “Gone Country” fair and the 50th annual Antiques Market at the Lounsbury House will have something for everyone Saturday. Back for a third year, the popular ...

If you stand still for a moment, the music swirls around you like percussive dust devils.

The Peel Regional Police Pipe Band, Ontario's best competition band in 2010 and 2011, will be part of a big Celtic spring fundraising concert in Owen Sound on Saturday. Proceeds go to support the Kincardine-based Pentangore Pipe Band, which will also perform May 5 at OSCVI.[...]

CARRABASSETT VALLEY -- The 22nd Annual Free Pan New England Steelband Festival, will be held at 10 a.m., Sunday, May 6, under the tent in front of the Sugarloaf Inn, Carrabassett Valley. The rain location is the Carrabassett Valley Anti-Gravity Center.

It is that time of the year again, when filmmakers and film-lovers from around the globe converge in New York City to attend the much-awaited Tribeca Film Festival.

This weekend, celebrity chefs and foodies from around the country will descend on Auditorium Shores for the first ever Austin Food & Wine Festival, which is likely the highest-profile culinary event in Austin's history.

At 11:00 a.m., April 23, 2012, artist Joey Skaggs will lead a band of outraged costumed muppets down to Goldman Sachs offices at 200 West Street in NYC. Skaggs will be peddling his Mobile Homeless Homes prototype -- a low cost alternative living space for the millions of upside-down, underwater or foreclosed homeowners who have lost their houses due to the banking crisis that caused the real ...

The Allman Brothers Band. Live Oak — Thousands will converge on the Spirit of the Suwannee Music Park this weekend for the annual Wanee Music Festival.

CARRABASSETT VALLEY — The 22nd annual Pan NE Steelband Festival will be held Sunday, May 6, starting at 10 a.m. under the tent in front of the Sugarloaf Inn.