Entries Tagged as 'music'

The Alabama Symphony Orchestra plays Carnegie Hall

May 10th, 2012 · Comments Off · music

During intermission at the ASO Bon Voyage concert in 2012

The unofficial invasion of New York City by Birmingham, AL continues on Thursday evening with the Alabama Symphony Orchestra premiering two pieces written by composers in residence – with a little Beethoven thrown in for good measure – at Carnegie Hall.

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UPDATE: Reports suggest We Have Signal may cease production

June 28th, 2011 · Comments Off · Media, music, television

We Have Signal logo

A report in the June 28 edition of the Montgomery Advertiser lays out proposed cuts for Alabama Public Television. Birmingham-based musical performance program “We Have Signal” was reportedly among the casualties, though the show’s producers have announced that the upcoming season will go forward as planned. After that…

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Dan Sartain = NPR Song of the Day

December 22nd, 2010 · Comments Off · music

dan sartain. fishplums/Flickr

Did you hear that Birmingham, AL native Dan Sartain’s “Walk Among the Cobras IV” is NPR’s Song of the Day for December 22? Well, now that you have, you have to learn more about what else has been written about him recently.

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WorkPlay foreclosure sale postponed, deal in works

November 16th, 2010 · Comments Off · music

Alan Hunter shared some great news for fans of the long-time entertainment venue WorkPlay via Facebook and email early Tuesday afternoon. The foreclosure sale scheduled for November 17 was postponed by the bank due to a pending deal. We’re pretty sure the 16,000+ fans of Save WorkPlay are excited…

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Meet Soledad, The Bottletree’s fawn

May 7th, 2010 · Comments Off · music, Quirky

Soledad. acnatta/Flickr

The fawn that lives on the liquor shelves of Birmingham, AL’s The Bottletree Cafe has been on quite an adventure recently – thanks to London-based The xx.

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UPDATE: Leon Redbone’s in town TONIGHT!

February 26th, 2010 · Comments Off · music

Leon Redbone

We’ve got tickets to the Leon Redbone show tonight over at Sipsey Tavern in Birmingham’s Five Points South district.

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WENN goes Neo-Soul

February 16th, 2010 · 1 Comment · music, radio

WENN-FM station logo

One of the city’s most recognizable set of call letters (WENN) returns to the FM dial (and changes formats on AM) as the radio carousel makes its latest rounds in Birmingham, AL.

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11K strong and growing effort to Save Live 100.5

February 13th, 2010 · 1 Comment · music, radio

Save Live 100.5

As Birmingham, AL’s local AAA radio station Live 100.5 FM prepares for its format change to news-talk, more than 12,000 people are saying that Citadel’s decision may solve a problem financially, but it will have repercussions for the short term if another station doesn’t step in to fill the gap.

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