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Tougaloo partners with Jacktown AllStar Band to create college’s first-ever band program
WLBT - Mississippi
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August 7, 2025
JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) - Tougaloo College will have its first band program thanks to a new partnership with Jacktown AllStar Band LLC. The duo signed a Memorandum of Understanding and lifetime contract on August 5. The partnership comes after...
3 reasons why Mohammed Siraj seems to perform better in Jasprit Bumrah's absence ft. conditions
Sportskeeda
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August 7, 2025
During the recently concluded Anderson-Tendulkar Trophy, an interesting statistic started doing the rounds. Mohammed Siraj, who bowled India to a sensational comeback in the series, was in the limelight for seemingly performing better when playing...
Artists, organizers clash over Israel ties ahead of Helsinki’s Flow Festival
Helsinki Times
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August 7, 2025
Helsinki’s Flow Festival, a major highlight of Finland’s summer music scene, is facing calls for boycott and heated debate as artists and activists protest the event’s indirect economic links to Israel. The controversy has sparked open...
Music at the Intersection adds a main stage and announces schedule
St. Louis Public Radio - Missouri
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August 7, 2025
Music at the Intersection is expanding this year’s festival with a fourth main stage and a longer conference over multiple days. The festival, now known as MATI, announced the full schedule and festival map on Thursday. Sophie’s Artist Lounge will...
NY's New School Appoints New Provost for College of Performing Arts
The Violin Channel
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August 7, 2025
New York City's The New School has announced the appointment of Richard Kessler as its new Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs, effective immediately. Kessler is closely acquainted with the management of the school, having...
Madden Road Music Fest is Saturday
Urbana Daily Citizen - Ohio
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August 7, 2025
Madden Farm has been in the same family for seven generations and serves as the venue for the family’s micro music festival. Photo by Andrew Beitzel Submitted story MUTUAL – The Madden Road Music Fest takes the stage on Saturday, Aug. 9 from 2-10...
13-man jury arrives Lagos for Africa music awards
The Guardian (Nigeria)
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August 8, 2025
Excitement is mounting as the 2025 All Africa Music Awards (AFRIMA) gears up in full swing, with members of the International Jury of AFRIMA now arriving in Lagos, Nigeria, for an intense, week-long adjudication session to screen thousands of...
Sun Peaks turns up the volume with first-ever Endless Summer music festival
Sun Peaks Independent News
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August 7, 2025
Endless Summer offers a relaxed weekend with multiple stages, lounges and family-friendly events. The Endless Summer Festival runs from Aug. 8-10. Photo via Facebook/Sun Peaks Resort Sun Peaks is set to turn up the summer vibes this weekend with...
SBC Museum seeking Latino artists for Hispanic Heritage Month
Daily Press - California
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Hispanic artists in the High Desert are invited to submit their work for an upcoming exhibition at the San Bernardino County Museum. The exhibition, "Expectations: A Better World Through Art, Music, and Respect," will run from September 13 to...
Music programs remix workforce development, career and technical education amid political shifts
Chalkbeat
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Sign up for Chalkbeat’s free weekly newsletter to keep up with how education is changing across the U.S. Nearly 40 Philadelphia teens toting drums half their size marched onto the Samuel Fels High School stage one day this summer. After performing...
Singer Caity Baser reveals she was sexually assaulted by a family friend when she was just eight years old in harrowing new interview with Paul C. Brunson
Daily Mail
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August 7, 2025
Singer Caity Baser has revealed that she was sexually assaulted by a family friend when she was just eight years old. The Southampton-born pop-star, 23, spoke in a harrowing new interview about being taken advantage of by one of her grandfather's...
Pop Music Star Dies Unexpectedly: Lee Min Was 46
PopCulture
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August 8, 2025
Korean-American singer Lee Min-young, better known as Lee Min, has died. She was 46. Lee was found dead at her home on Tuesday, August 5 by her husband. Her death was confirmed by her agency, Brand New Music, and police are still investigating the...
Himesh Reshammiya becomes the only Indian artist to feature on Bloomberg’s global pop power list
Hindustan Times
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August 7, 2025
Himesh Reshammiya continues to thrill audiences with his suroor. The singer-musician, who has been giving his viewers multiple hits over the course of his two-decade-long career, has made news again. Himesh has now become the only Indian artist to...
Broadway star who played Atticus Finch in ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ to perform at Mt. Pleasant concert
WNEM - Michigan
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August 7, 2025
MT. PLEASANT, Mich. (WNEM) – Jeff Daniels is closing out the last show of the 2025 Max & Emily’s Summer Concert Series in Mt. Pleasant. Daniels last visited the area in 2018 and has since starred on Broadway as Atticus Finch in To Kill a...
Warner Music Reports 9% Q2 2025 Revenue Growth Amid Paid Streaming and U.S. Rebounds
Digital Music News
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August 7, 2025
A live performance from Exo member Baekhyun, one of the top-selling Warner Music Group artists of Q2 2025. Photo Credit: Light Monde The major posted those calendar Q2 financials, covering the third quarter of its fiscal year, today. As usual,...
Sony Music Reports Small Q2 2025 Revenue Increase Amid Exchange-Rate Impact, Points to 7% Recorded Streaming Growth ‘On a U.S. Dollar Basis’
Digital Music News
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August 7, 2025
A live performance from Sleep Token, whose Even in Arcadia was one of the top-selling Sony Music releases of Q2 2025. Photo Credit: Excel23 That fiscal-first-quarter report comes from the overarching Sony Group Corp. and, as with prior performance...
Bands make history, secure spot at finals
ODT TV
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August 7, 2025
For the first time two bands from Dunedin have made the national finals of the Smokefree Rockquest. Alternative rock band Deaf Raccoon (comprising John McGlashan College and Logan Park High School students) and feminist punk band SEEK HELP! (made...
Violinist Clara Kim kicks off live classical musical series at HPR
Hawaii Public Radio
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August 7, 2025
Clara Kim is a violinist who has performed at Carnegie Hall and the Lincoln Center. She’ll add HPR’s Atherton Studio to the list this weekend to kick off a classical music series. Much of her career has been focused on elevating the work of modern...
Classical Considerations: Classical Music Myths
WCPE - North Carolina
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We like our classical music myths big: deaf geniuses, murderous rivals, unlettered savants plucking greatness from the air. But like most big stories, the myths we’ve selected for this week’s Classical Considerations fall apart under close...
Players 'genuinely hurt' after performer charged with DV sings at netball grand final
ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
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August 8, 2025
Super Netball says it will strengthen its event risk management after it was revealed a performer at last weekend's grand final had pleaded guilty to domestic violence charges. Siala Robson, a former finalist on The Voice, fronted the Redcliffe...