September at Valhalla Bluegrass Festival, Live performances and local.tists are overflowing at South Shore's cultural headquarters. Valhalla. September highlights the best of our local acts with local musicians, local art, local writers and local performers as part of the Valhalla Arts, Music .&.Theatre Festival. Mark you calendar for these upcoming events. Wednesday, Sept 3 at 7:30pm Independent Film Night Valhalla Boathouse Theatre $5/$3 Dave and Jan Arnett, organizers of the Tibetan Festival, will be presenting?Hear.

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It happened this week? This is the week that was in matters musical ? 1957, Jackie Wilson, former Dominoes lead singer, signs a solo deal with Brunswick Records ? later dubbed ?Mr. Excitement? he goes on to score 54 chart hits including the highly energized ?Lonely Teardrops? and ?Higher and Higher? 1962, The Beatles hit Abbey Road recording studio for the first time, recording ?Love Me Do? in about 16 takes with drummer Andy White ? 1964, Rod Stewart cuts his first single'the blues chestnut .Good Morning. Pizza hut park.

Seattle Weekend Edition for 9/6/08 Ticket, I don't know about you, but the state fair always takes me back to my childhood. The 4-H club, home made pies, junk food, hay rides, circus rides and a tummy ache from eating too much candy. Ahh, those were the days! This weekend is your chance to step back in time. The Puyallup Fair When: September 05 - September 21, 2008 Sun. through Thurs.10:00 am - 10:00 pm Fri, Sat. 10:00 am - 11:00 pm Where: Puyallup Fair .&.

Off to the Festivals Franklin Music Festival in Franklin, KY for the weekend. Should be another great festival. This years lineup is stronger than last years featuring some of the best Bluegrass has to offer. Williams and Clark Expedition, IIIrd Tyme Out, The Grascals, Dailey .&.Vincent, Rhonda Vincent .&.The Rage, Cherryholmes, The Isaacs, Nothin? Fancy .&.The Martins are all on the bill this year. We'll have plenty of pics, interviews and more starting next week. Our Senior Editor, Dan Tackett, who?s. Bluegrass Festival estate.

Free Events This Weekend in Portland: September 5?7 Bluegrass Festival tickets, Admission is free for all events below. Have a great weekend! All weekend.September 5?7) Portland Riverfest: Events include dragon boat races at Waterfront Park, South Waterfront Day festival (live music, ballet and theatre performances, art, a sailing regatta, etc.) and more. To learn more about these events and others, visit the event website. PICA's Time-Based Art Festival: Willamette Week has a list of free TBA events at the end of this article. For more information, visit the TBA .

Buckeye Ridge CD is full of earthy tunes I met Tony Kakaris for this first time this summer at an Indiana bluegrass festival. We had come across the same, small circle of jammers and joined in. It doesn't take long in these musical adventures with rank strangers to hone in to those who are somewhat on the same wave length as you're emitting. For me, Tony and I were riding that same frequency. He's a darn good vocalist, good banjo picker, knows a bunch of good songs and is an all-around super guy. We didn't talk much about our current. Pizza hut park tickets.

The Gibson Brothers ~ Grey Fox Bluegrass Festival 07-19-2008 Main Stage ~ 45 of 60 Flac Recorded, and Mastering by Bill Koucky, September 4, 2008 Eric Gibson - Banjo Leigh Gibson - Guitar Mike Barber - Bass Clayton Campbell ? Fiddle Rick Hayes ? Mandolin . Bluegrass Festival ticket broker.

The Avett Brothers @ the Strings Music Pavilion The Avett Brothers brought a sitting crowd to its feet at Steamboat's lovely Strings Music Pavilion. Photos, slideshow and video by John Moore. Some kids follow Widespread Panic around the country. I follow the Avett Brothers across this fair land. After seeing them play in Telluride (twice); Denver; Asheville, N.C. (twice); Solana Beach, Calif. Los Angeles; Anaheim; and Seattle (twice), I talked some friends into making the road trip to Steamboat Springs to see the band play the stunning . Pizza hut park ticket broker.

Africa To Appalachia hits US Jayme Stone and Mansa Sissoko's cross-cultural musical adventure, Africa To Appalachia, will be released in the US next Tuesday (September 9) with a lengthy tour of the states starting on September 15. Stone, the Canadian banjoist, and Sissoko, a Malian kora player and vocalist, collaborate on the CD in a genre-bending mix of tones and styles. [.]. ticket brokers.