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Summer mixes old and new at Foxwoods

11:15 PM Fri, Aug 28, 2009 | | Comments (5)
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BY RICK MASSIMO Journal Pop Music Writer LEDYARD, Conn. - It would be really easy for Donna Summer to trot out on stage, say "Here's one you might remember," sleepwalk through "On the Radio," "She Works Hard For the Money,"......

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Creed reunion comes to Comcast

11:20 PM Tue, Aug 18, 2009 | | Comments (3)
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BY RICK MASSIMO Journal Pop Music Writer MANSFIELD, Mass. -- The Creed reunion tour that started earlier this month hit the Comcast Center Tuesday night, and the platinum-selling Florida-based post-grunge band showed that little had changed in the five years......

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Chesney's perennial appeal fills Gillette again

11:01 PM Sat, Aug 15, 2009 | | Comments (2)
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BY RICK MASSIMO Journal Pop Music Writer FOXBORO - "It wouldn't be summer without you," Kenny Chesney told the crowd of 55,869 early on in his show Sunday night at Gillette Stadium, and evidently the feeling was mutual: Even though......

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Khan goes for jazz to open Newport festival

11:18 PM Fri, Aug 07, 2009 | | Comments (2)
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BY RICK MASSIMO Journal Pop Music Writer NEWPORT, R.I. -- So we know Chaka Khan is one of the great funk/R&B voices of all time, but the question before the opening concert of George Wein's CareFusion Jazz Festival 55 was,......

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 Tags  Anat Cohen   Chaka Khan   George Wein   jazz festival   Newport RI  

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Paul McCartney mixes it up at Fenway

11:15 PM Wed, Aug 05, 2009 | | Comments (1)
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BY RICK MASSIMO Journal Pop Music Writer BOSTON - How much is Paul McCartney allowed to mix it up? Wednesday night at Fenway Park, in the first of two shows, he did his best to find out. McCartney opened with......

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Coldplay bring the noise, relatively speaking, to Comcast

11:15 PM Mon, Aug 03, 2009 | | Comments (1)
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BY RICK MASSIMO Journal Pop Music Writer MANSFIELD, Mass. - So it seems Coldplay sweats after all. If you hadn't seen the kazillion-selling British band before Monday night at the Comcast Center (raises hand), it seemed worth wondering about. Their......

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Collins, Seeger wrap up Newport festival

9:00 PM Sun, Aug 02, 2009 | | Write a comment
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BY RICK MASSIMO Journal Pop Music Writer NEWPORT - While youth was again served on Sunday at the closing day of George Wein's Folk Festival 50, some of the old festival hands made their presence felt in the fog and......

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Generations of folks enjoy the Newport festival

10:06 PM Sat, Aug 01, 2009 | | Write a comment
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NEWPORT -- "It's the most predictable story told," The Avett Brothers sang Saturday at George Wein's Folk Festival 50; "In with the new, out with the old." That was how the day played out. Not that the old guard wasn't......

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