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“A glowing ember is easily rekindled,” says an Irish proverb as old as the mist and older by two.

“A glowing ember is easily rekindled,” says an Irish proverb as old as the mist and older by two.

Students from all grades at the East Somerville Community School came together on Dec. 15 for an winter concert and art show at Somerville High School. This annual celebration  has had special meaning in sustaining the ESCS community since fire ravaged its Glen Street campus in December of 2007.

This post is in partnership with Consequence of Sound, an online music publication devoted to the ever growing and always thriving worldwide music scene. Robert Pollard’s last words on Guided by Voices’ supposed swan song, 2004′s Half Smiles for the Decomposed, are “I’ve come to start up my head/Been closed and locked up/For far too long.” Perhaps [...]

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"Notre Dame" and "tradition" go together like peanut butter and chocolate. From Knute Rockne to Touchdown Jesus there are enough indelible images to fill an encyclopedia.  With struggles on the field over the last few decades, those traditions have become even more entrenched and glorified to the Notre Dame faithful. Irish masses can listen to the Victory March, watch the band step off and march ...

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Dierks Bentley, with special guests Jerrod Niemann and the Eli Young Band, will perform Nov. 4 at the David S. Palmer Arena.

TOWNSEND -- The Townsend Military Band will play an afternoon concert from the bandstand on the Townsend Common on Sunday in conjunction with the Townsend Historical Society's 30th Annual Arts and Crafts Fair.

With his parents’ blessing, a kid from East Norriton made his way to the Philadelphia Folk Festival in 1968, where he saw a relatively unknown Joni Mitchell debut songs like “Circle Game” and “Both Sides Now.”

The Negaunee City Band, led by Director Keith Lawson, will perform its final concert of the season at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 10 at the Outdoor Performing Arts Center, located at the east end of Iron Street.