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Blossoms Made A Brilliant Bid To Be The Indie Breakthrough At This Year's Glastonbury

Edit NME 24 Jun 2016
It occurs when a promising indie band gets the chance to play one of the festival's biggest stages ... They probably don't know the songs that well, or at all, and there's a general air of growing critical judgement ... Right from opener ‘Cut Me And I’ll Bleed’, the band showed absolutely no nerves about making their Glastonbury debut on one of the festival’s biggest stages ... Before the song, Ogden joked “I usually say at this point....

Listen as Calvin Harris and Dizzee Rascal share new song ‘Hype’

Edit NME 24 Jun 2016
It’s the pair’s first song together since Dizzee featured on ‘Here 2 China’ from Harris’ 2012 album ’18 Months’ ... Also taken from Dizzee’s album ‘Tongue N’ Cheek’, ‘Holiday’ was initially written by Harris for The Saturdays, but they rejected the song ... On The Pitch, Tramlines, SW4 and Sundown festivals....

My Glastonbury: 15 things I've learned about festivals

Edit The Guardian 24 Jun 2016
Tim Dowling spent his first festival lying down in agony in a wet tent, and swore it would be his last ... I had never attended a music festival before, and didn’t really know what to expect ... I’ve been among festival audiences where people start leaving four songs into a band’s set so as not to miss the start of something that’s happening two fields away, having left some author Q&A early in order to see the band....

Michael Eavis's Annual Karaoke Performance Proved He's The Biggest Rock Star At Glastonbury

Edit NME 24 Jun 2016
Michael Eavis does his traditional Glastonbury karaoke - Frank Sinatra's 'My Way' #michaeleavis #glastonbury A video posted by NME (@nmemagazine) on Jun 23, 2016 at 2.35pm PDT The defacto official start of every festival, the festival's founding farmer has made a tradition of belting out a couple of classics with a live band as a way of welcoming the masses to Worthy Farm ... "One more song! One more song!" they chant....

Judith Sephuma Live in the UK

Edit Skiddle 24 Jun 2016
Judith has performed at all major Jazz festivals in South Africa, with the 2000 North Sea Jazz Festival in CapeTown and Holland, standing out as career highlights, as this was her first headline performance under her own name, withher own backing band ... In that year she also had the honour of meeting President Nelson Mandela and sang a special song to him and his wife, Graca Machel, and the relationship continued for many years....

Harry Belafonte to make rare appearance at Kate Wolf festival

Edit San Francisco Chronicle 24 Jun 2016
Audiences can hear for themselves this weekend, when Belafonte makes a rare public appearance at the Kate Wolf Music Festival in Laytonville (Mendocino County). Perhaps most famously known as the king of calypso, with songs like “Matilda” and the “day-o”-spangled “Banana Boat Song” as his signatures, Belafonte won a Tony Award (for “John Murray Anderson’s Almanac”) and an honorary Oscar, in 2014, among many other accolades....

Taylor Swift saved Dave Grohl from humiliating performance

Edit Belfast Telegraph 24 Jun 2016
Taylor Swift covered Foo Fighters song with high Dave Grohl ... The Foo Fighters frontman went solo for an acoustic show at the Cannes Lions festival in France on Wednesday night (22Jun16), and before launching into his band's hit Best of You, Dave recalled the time Taylor came to his rescue at a house party ... After playing a new tune for the guests, Paul looked at Dave and said, "'Come on, Dave! Play a song!'"....

Two Door Cinema Club blame Brexit win on 'backwards-thinking old people'

Edit NME 24 Jun 2016
Speaking to NME at Glastonbury Festival, frontman Alex Trimble said ... Glastonbury Festival has also released a statement about Brexit ... "As those around us crack open breakfast wine and shout for revolt/I think we're pretty safe in the knowledge that it's nobody's here fault/So let's trudge on through the mud/And sing out loud our protest songs."...

Dave Grohl: Taylor Swift saved me from humiliating myself at Paul McCartney's party

Edit Toronto Sun 24 Jun 2016
The Foo Fighters frontman went solo for an acoustic show at the Cannes Lions festival in France on Wednesday night, and before launching into his band's hit Best of You, Dave recalled the time Taylor came to his rescue at a house party ... After playing a new tune for the guests, Paul looked at Dave and said, "'Come on, Dave! Play a song!'" ... He continued, "She was playing this really beautiful song on the piano....

See Rob Thomas and Charles Kelley's Swaggering 'Smooth'

Edit Rollingstone 24 Jun 2016
In 1999, singer Rob Thomas stepped away from his main gig in Matchbox 20 to record the song "Smooth" for guitarist Carlos Santana's comeback album Supernatural ... and ended up as the Number Two Billboard Hot 100 song from the 20th century....

Novelist leads crowd chant of 'Fuck David Cameron' at Glastonbury 2016

Edit NME 24 Jun 2016
Novelist encouraged fans to chant "Fuck David Cameron" during his set at Glastonbury Festival today (Friday, June 24) ... Novelist previously led the same chant at Wild Life festival in Brighton earlier in the month ... debut appearance on the Pyramid Stage, the festival's main stage....

Time Inc.’s 2016 ESSENCE Festival® Expands Free Daytime Experience: Connecting Culture and Community Across Five Programming Tracks (Time Inc)

Edit Public Technologies 24 Jun 2016
New, Interactive Consumer Activations Hosted by Festival Partners Coca-Cola, Ford, McDonald's, State Farm, Verizon and Walmart ... Share a Coke and a Song. Coca-Cola invites you to Share a Coke and a Song with us at the 2016 ESSENCE Festival®! Come celebrate at the Coca-Cola Block Party for memorable moments of music, fashion, fun and ice cold Coca-Cola with celeb guest speakers and singers ... Ford's Family Affair at Festival....

Bluegrass music patriarch Ralph Stanley dies at 89

Edit Richmond Times Dispatch 24 Jun 2016
Their father would sing them old traditional songs like “Man of Constant Sorrow,” while their mother, a banjo player, taught them the old-time clawhammer style, in which the player’s fingers strike downward at the strings in a rhythmic style ... Songs like “The Lonesome River,” uses the imagery of the water to evoke the loss of a lover, and “White Dove,” describes the mourning and suffering after the death of a mother and father....
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