Classic Dickens meets rock and roll in the Creek
The News Review:
- Classic Dickens meets rock and roll in the Creek
- Classic Christmas movie as radio play
- Ridgefield teens will perform at First Night in Westport
- Music 2008 Year in Review
- The return of Rundgren the rocker
- Classic Rock Corner: The Greatest Band Logos of All Time Part 1
- Giving CDs can make them sing ‘Hallelujah!’
Classic Dickens meets rock and roll in the Creek
Coast Reporter Canada
This Christmas Carol with a modern twist saw street urchins belting out Working in a Coal Mine a ghostly Marley rattling chains with I’ll Be There Scrooge crooning the haunting When I was Young and the Spirits of Christmas serenading with oh oh Child Up on the Roof and Try and Catch the Wind. “I was listening to the song I’ll Be There while I was riding my bike and I got the idea of the ghost Marley singing to Scrooge” said Krangle who adapted the play directed and burned the midnight oil (along with his volunteer crew) to build more than 60 feet of sets. Krangle hoped the experience gave students a first-hand look at life during England’s Industrial Revolution noting students helped with the research for the play.
Classic Christmas movie as radio play
Chicago Tribune United States
Although he’s no stranger to the local drama scene Henry saidperforming “It’s a Wonderful Life” as a radio play has been amuch different experience. “You can get away with a lot of stuff when the audience canonly ‘watch’ it through the radio” he said. It was the Centennial Community Players’ first radio play saidactress Suzie Branch of Rock Falls. Branch too has been involved in several productions. The46-year-old has spent 5 years with the Players and a had shortdramatic arts career following her theater studies at. Unlike those shows though the extra-big emphasis onmaintaining a healthy voice has virtually glued her scarf to herneck for the last several weeks Branch said.
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Ridgefield teens will perform at First Night in Westport
Ridgefield Press USA
Seated: James Reiss and Brian Duke. The band made up of high school and middle school students perform the greatest songs of classic rock icons Led Zeppelin The Who Aerosmith Green Day Boston The Ramones and Blue yster Cult. The band first got together at the Summer School of Rock at The Enchanted Garden Conservatory of the Arts in Ridgefield. Members include Brian Duke (drums) and James Reiss (bass) both freshmen at Ridgefield High School; Blake Joblin (guitar and vocals) and Cal Kehoe (lead vocals and guitar) eighth graders at Scotts Ridge Middle School; Harriette Slagle (keyboards) eighth grader at Middlebrook School in Wilton; and Kyle Duke (guitar and vocals) sixth grader at East Ridge Middle School. First Night is a community-based family-oriented alcohol and drug-free New Year?s Eve party have been around since the mid-1970?s.
Music 2008 Year in Review
IGN CA
The Eagles jump-started the Wal-Mart trend back in 2007 when the chain (along with their Sam’s Town counterpart) was the sole distributor of the band’s most recent album of new material Long Road ut f Eden. The chain followed this up with an exclusive 3-disc summer release from Journey entitled Revelation. While Wal-Mart seems to be targeting the classic rock market for the most part consumer electronics outlet Best Buy snagged the chance to be the exclusive retail distributor for the long-delayed. html’>Guns N’ Roses effort.
The return of Rundgren the rocker
Philadelphia Inquirer PA
And for fans of the 60-year-old rocker that’s reason to celebrate. Rundgren has spent much of the last two decades dabbling in multimedia experiments techno and soundtracks. Do we need to mention the bizarro exercise where he retooled his biggest hits – "Hello It’s Me" and "I Saw the Light" – into out-of-tune bossa novas?But his anger at eight years of the Bush administration has pushed Rundgren to return to classic form. Classic rock that is. He’s picked up his guitar and is wielding it with a revitalized sense of mission. Rundgren always has been a rock-and-roll chameleon sliding effortlessly from Beatles-style pop to progressive rock to soft rock.
Classic Rock Corner: The Greatest Band Logos of All Time Part 1
Houston Press TX
) we got to thinking about the Aussie boys’ iconic band logo. Sketched in pen on a million different school notebooks and gracing T-shirts denim jackets and bad tattoos for more than 30 years it’s as big part of the band’s legacy as “Back in Black. And so because Rolling Stone shouldn’t have a monopoly on “greatest” lists that invite indignant reader response we here in the Classic Rock Corner humbly present The Top Ten Greatest Classic Rock Band Logos Ever! Loosely defining the era as bands who made their national debuts between 1967-77 these are the logos which you know by heart even if you can’t name an album title. In this first installment we start the Casey Kasem countdown with.
Giving CDs can make them sing ‘Hallelujah!’
Detroit Free Press United States
98) the latest glowing project from the Motown vaults. The music seals the deal — with chart-topping hits from all the greats — but the snazzy exterior holds up its end of the deal: Packaged in a replica of the Hitsville house it’s a piece of West Grand for the living room shelf. BMcFor long-suffering fans of a classic ’60s British rock band: The first-ever boxed set has finally been released by the Kinks. “Picture Book” (Sanctuary $87. 98) is a six-disc set incorporating hits from “You Really Got Me” to “Lola” to “Come Dancing. ” The icing on the cake is the slew of never-before-issued tracks everything from quiet acoustic demos (”There Is a New World pening for Me”) to fully realized songs (”Mr.
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