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The Wrecking Crew Official Trailer 1 (2015) - Documentary HD
... The Wrecking Crew Official Trailer 1 (2015) - Documentary HD What the Funk Brothers did for Motown… The Wrecking Crew did, only bigger, for the West Coast Sound. Six years in a row in the 1960s and early 1970s, the Grammy for “Record of the Year” went to Wrecking Crew recordings. And now, THE WRECKING CREW tells the story in pictures and that oh, so glorious sound. THE WRECKING CREW is a documentary film produced and directed by Denny Tedesco, son of legendary late Wrecking Crew guitarist ...
/news/1468-the-wrecking-crew-official-trailer-1-2015-documentary-hdPop star headlines festival
... rent.” Dayne, the mother of two, is passionate about the importance of music education in the schools. “I’m a huge believer in why it’s so important to have music in the public schools system,” she said. “It was very good to me. My teachers changed my world. They gave us the music. In high school, I had a choir instructor, Melinda Edwards. When you had passionate musical teachers, it brought kids together into a team.” Through the early 2000s, Dayne performed in Europe. “The land ...
/news/1573-pop-star-headlines-festivalNew executive director plans to attract younger audiences to The Lyric Theatre
... and its radar to attract 20 and 30 year-olds.” That the 34-year-old took the reigns this spring says a lot. Women hold less than 27 percent of the upper management positions in America’s nonprofit theaters according to a study by Wellesley Centers for Women. “To a certain degree, I feel like I’ve beaten the odds on many fronts, especially my age,” Fontaine said. The lifelong Fort Pierce resident’s love for performing arts started early. The memory of her first performance, at age ...
/news/1579-new-executive-director-plans-to-attract-younger-audiences-to-the-lyric-theatreJazz and blues musician inspired by roots
... k to his roots. Parks began his musical “career” in elementary school, where he played the viola. “I didn’t know how important it was until later,” he said. “At the time, it seemed like a friend, a place of repose, a touchstone for peace and tranquility. I loved what the instrument brought to me. I could go into my room and practice and be in a place I didn’t realize. It was as close to spiritual as I could get at that point. My early study of classical was shaping my concept of ...
/news/1585-jazz-and-blues-musician-inspired-by-rootsThe Lyric Theatre’s Discovery Series for Young Audiences awarded grant by Women Supporting the Arts
... he wonder of live theater – many of them for the first time. The awarded grant money will go toward subsidizing tickets for underprivileged children to attend Discovery Series Programs. Since 2004, more than $229,000 in grants have been awarded to artists and arts-related programs by Women Supporting the Arts (WSA). The annual granting process begins with the receipt of grant applications by September 30, with notification of grant awards in early January. WSA welcomes grant applications from ...
/news/1909-the-lyric-theatres-discovery-series-for-young-audiences-awarded-grant-by-women-supporting-the-artsPopular band member takes it solo
... tunes that are his old friends “I don’t talk a lot, but I do try to become friends,” he said. “There are certain ways to set the flow the best from song to song and mood to mood. I’m getting to inhabit some of the songs I wrote for ‘Prairie Home Companion’ and played once. I wrote them five or 10 years ago. The show is a pretty good selection of classic blues and jazz with my own contemporary American music. My style is from the early American blues guitar players. The music is f ...
/news/2077-popular-band-member-takes-it-soloComedian returns to Lyric
... y bad and you had to get the crowd back. “It was on-stage training, the only way to do stand-up. Classes are snake oil. You have to have a real audience. An open mic is the only way to start. You’re working with an audience for five minutes. More would be torture for the audience and the comic. What job do you get to practice a few minutes at a time? You get a lot of rejection. I was fairly well-versed.” Poundstone said that she learned early on that she had to be herself. When she enter ...
/news/2143-comedian-returns-to-lyricComedian finds fun in family
... By Shelley Koppel Staff writer MARTIN COUNTY — When comedian Rita Rudner came to New York at the age of 15, she wanted to be a dancer. She appeared in several Broadway shows, including Stephen Sondheim’s “Follies,” and she kept dancing for nearly a decade. Then she stopped. She’s still not sure why. “I really don’t know,” she said. “I noticed there weren’t too many female comedians and loads of dancer. You gotta pioneer it. It’s a position of power. You’re controlling p ...
/news/2185-comedian-finds-fun-in-familyMayall’s the be-all and end-all of British Blues icons
... s a shared experience with the audience. You respond to them and communicate with them.” Mayall said that the audience can expect a great show. “They’re in for a treat,” he said, “The majority of people have been fans for years. Our job, whether it’s the first time or they’ve (seen us) many times, is to come up with something new and exciting, a different show. There’s so much material. We’ll play a cross-section, back to the early days right up to the present time. It’s var ...
/news/2212-mayalls-the-be-all-and-end-all-of-british-blues-iconsDeadPhish Orchestra at Lyric: Alive and doing swimmingly!
... ibute band, Dark Star Orchestra,” he said. “They’re an outstanding Grateful Dead cover band. (Our) band was just getting started and we had a show and no name. As a joke, we picked DeadPhish Orchestra as a joke, a partial riff on their name. Seven years later, it stuck. “It’s sort of an inside joke to people who (love) this sort of music. A couple of us were Deadheads and we all knew the music. I’m 46 and I saw them in my teens and early 20s. Phish came along in the 1990s and we fol ...
/news/2215-deadphish-orchestra-at-lyric-alive-and-doing-swimmingly