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          <title>ElecTriCity and Empire calendars: Find an event</title>
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ELECTRICITY CALENDAR

NIGHTLIFE

THE BUSPIT: Kingsport, 240 E. Main St. Nov. 20, 8 p.m., Karl Shiflett &amp; Big Country Show (bluegrass), $5. http://www.thebuspit.com or (423) 578-2336.           ]]></description>
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MICHELLE MALONE
Sit, grin and love every note of Michelle Malone. The raw-voiced singer will appear at O&#8217;Mainnin&#8217;s Pub in Bristol, Tenn., on Nov. 19.            ]]></description>
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3 Redneck Tenors to perform at Paramount; open house set for Nov. 23           ]]></description>
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          <title>A Major League Talent: Christian singer Jonny Diaz to perform</title>
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Where the words talented, singer, songwriter, Christian and unfailingly friendly meet stands Jonny Diaz.
Diaz made waves earlier this year with his hit single &#8220;More Beautiful You.&#8221;
Now the contemporary Christian singer finds himself on a major tour opening for MercyMe. That tour pauses at Freedom Hall in Johnson City, Tenn., on Nov. 22 with songs of Christian faith, family and better days to come.            ]]></description>
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Singer Robbie Fulks to perform Nov. 18 at Down Home           ]]></description>
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HO! HO! HO!...HUMBUG?
&#8216;Tis the season, don&#8217;t you know. HO! HO! HO! Er, humbug? 
Now that&#8217;s gotta be Ebenezer Scrooge, well, &#8220;Scrooge: The Musical.&#8221; Following a round of school performances, Theatre Bristol&#8217;s vibrant production will bow to the public from Nov. 20-22 at Paramount Center for the Arts in Bristol, Tenn.            ]]></description>
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          <title>&#8216;Country Is as Country Does&#8217; for singer Colt Ford</title>
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Colt Ford looks like a heavyweight John Rich.
&#8220;That is pretty close,&#8221; Ford said. &#8220;He&#8217;s not nearly as good looking as I am.&#8221;
Cowboy hat, Fu Manchu mustache, Western shirts and boots and such complete his look. Oh, but then there&#8217;s the matter of Ford&#8217;s 300 pounds.
See for yourself when the outspoken Ford opens for Jason Aldean on Nov. 20 at Freedom Hall in Johnson City, Tenn.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Electricity and Empire calendars: Find an event</title>
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ELECTRICITY CALENDAR

NIGHTLIFE

BRISTOL VFW: Bristol, West State Street between 16th and 17th Streets. Nov. 13, The Bull&#8217;s Gap Band, a benefit for underprivileged children at Christmas. http://www.bristolvfw.org or (423) 764-0381.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Tenth Avenue North at Freedom Hall Nov. 22</title>
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Laying in bed, after recovering from a car wreck, Mike Donehey figured he wouldn&#8217;t be playing sports much anymore. 
So, about a dozen years ago, he picked up a guitar.            ]]></description>
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          <title>Jack Blades: Touring more important that &#8216;trying to get hits&#8217;</title>
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For Jack Blades, nothing seems as sweet as life on the road. 
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Perfect match. Aaron Tippin is the son of an Air Force veteran. The majority of his country songs are rife with Americana, and he&#8217;s performed frequently for American troops abroad.           ]]></description>
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Entertainment calendar offers choices.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Think you see REO&#8217;s Kevin Cronin on streets in Bristol?</title>
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Lead singer likes to see the cities on the tour before the show.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Short Takes: Scythian, Junior League Follies, Song of the Mountains</title>
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Scythian launches new concert series at Bristol Train Station. A free music download from Christian pop trio Barlowgirl awaits.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Music club to hold fashion show Nov. 13</title>
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BRISTOL, Va. &#8211; Music and fashions will unite to provide money to young people who aspire to continue their education in their chosen fields of music.            ]]></description>
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          <title>&#8216;Viva La Follies&#8217; coming up Nov. 6&#45;7</title>
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BRISTOL, Tenn. &#8211; &#8220;Viva La Follies,&#8221; a fundraiser variety talent show for the Junior League of Bristol, TN/VA, will be held Nov. 6-7 at 8 p.m. at the Paramount Center for the Arts in Bristol, Tenn.            ]]></description>
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          <title>&#8216;A Return to Paradise&#8217;</title>
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Keyboardist talks about playing with Styx; group to appear in Bristol
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          <title>The Tams in Kingsport Oct. 29</title>
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Godfather of Soul James Brown watched the young group sing. They were and are The Tams, and they sang fine, too. But something caught the eye of Brown.           ]]></description>
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          <title>CD Reviews: Lynyrd Skynyrd and Artimus Pyle</title>
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Skynyrd&#8217;s recently released &#8220;God &amp; Guns&#8221; in Billboard&#8217;s Top 20. Plye&#8217;s hard-to-find 2007 release, &#8220;Artimus Venomous,&#8221;&nbsp; &#8220;so good, you won&#8217;t believe it.&#8220;            ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 00:01:38 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Weekend entertainment calendar</title>
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Calendar listing offers entertainment choices.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Black Lilies Stop at Down Home in Johnson City, Tenn.</title>
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One month from now, Knoxville&#8217;s Black Lillies will be several weeks into their first national tour.            ]]></description>
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          <title>Plan Your Fun with Entertainment Calendars</title>
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Entertainment calendars offer choices           ]]></description>
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Brad Arington in Emory, Misplaced My Zombie and Our Lady Peace in Johnson City, plus a free music download are in this week&#8217;s Short Takes.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 00:01:03 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Abingdon&#8217;s Sleepy Hollow Fall Festival with Dane Bryant</title>
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*** Bryant will perform in Abingdon from 4-6 p.m. on Oct. 24.***
From the file of one person can make a difference comes the story of Dane Bryant.            ]]></description>
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Empire and elecTriCity calendars offer local entertainment options. Halloween Happenings included, too.           ]]></description>
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Ripley&#8217;s Aquarium of the Smokies will host &#8220;Thrill The World,&#8221; a worldwide attempt to break the Guinness World Record  for the largest simultaneous  dance with Michael Jackson&#8217;s &#8220;Thriller&#8221; on Oct. 24 at 8:30 p.m. 
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Andreas Papas cherishes his Greek heritage. Sharing among fellow Greeks and beyond filters throughout their history. 
So Papas and his fellow Greeks invite everyone to Greek Night. Scheduled to fire up the fest on Oct. 24 at Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church in Bluff City, Tenn., the event showcases Greek culture.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Mac Comer at O&#8217;Mainnin&#8217;s; Mountain Heart at Down Home; The Crystal Concert at Martha Washington</title>
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Short Takes offers a look at local entertainment. Count on Music Notes to always have free music download.           ]]></description>
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          <title>&#8216;The Queen&#8217; is Coming to Marion &#45; Rhonda Vincent Rules Bluegrass Realm</title>
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The queen of bluegrass, that&#8217;s none other than Rhonda Vincent.
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          <title>New Christy Minstrels: Folk Group a Good&#45;Time Band</title>
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Happy. There&#8217;s more to The New Christy Minstrels, but that one shiny word attaches to them as fittingly as blue in the sky. They radiate. On the phone, on stage, on record &#8211; the New Christy Minstrels epitomize the simple though powerful smile.
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Plan your entertainment with Empire and elecTriCity calendars.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Apple Festival Draws 100,000, More to Unicoi County, Tenn.</title>
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Drive over to Unicoi County&#8217;s 32nd Annual Apple Festival Oct. 2-3 and weather willing expect to see folks crammed into downtown Erwin, Tenn.
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Malcolm Holcombe in Johnson City, Lee Boys in Kingsport, &#8216;Tom Sawyer&#8217; in Abingdon and, as always, a free music download.           ]]></description>
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Plan your weekend with entertainment calendars.           ]]></description>
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Whoever wrote &#8220;Without a Song&#8221; did not have Bristol&#8217;s Paramount in mind. Not this week anyway.           ]]></description>
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RICHLANDS, Va. &#8211; Kick off the fall season with the Richlands Fall Festival on Oct. 3 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. in downtown Richlands.            ]]></description>
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Of all the towns in the Tri-Cities, perhaps the most understated and the friendliest is the one that sits hidden, down by the river. 
Welcome, folks, to Bluff City, Tenn.            ]]></description>
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After months in the making, the newly-refurbished Carter Family Museum reopens on Sept. 27. 
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Regional entertainment listed in calendars.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 00:01:44 EST</pubDate>
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Forget Wall Street meltdowns,&nbsp; health care proposals and cash-for-clunker plans &#8211; if you really want to be scared silly, check out Barter Stage II&#8217;s &#8220;Little Shop of Horrors,&#8221; where an alien Venus flytrap seems to have cross-pollinated with a not-so-Jolly Green Giant who is fed up with eating vegetables. 
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          <title>Green Cove Ready To Host Celebration</title>
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We have a lot of colorful names of the map of the Mountain Empire. 
There are places called Blue Ridge and Bluefield. There is Red Hill and Red Ash. 
You can also roam from Whitetop to Whitewood. Or look for Green Spring, Greendale and Green Cove.            ]]></description>
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Patty Loveless, your roots are showing. Good thing, too, as she&#8217;s coming to the right place.           ]]></description>
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Roots. 
Drive down State Street. Past Tim White&#8217;s country music mural on the right, the old Cameo Theatre on the left, the Paramount on the right and so on.
Just think. The Carter Family, Pop Stoneman, Jimmie Rodgers &#8211; they all drove along, walked about and recorded here and thus exploded what author Nolan Porterfield termed &#8220;the big bang of country music.&#8221;
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Jazz pianist Freddy Cole, Gaither Vocal Band, Steinbeck&#8217;s &#8216;Of Mice and Men&#8217; and a free music download is packed into this week&#8217;s Short Takes.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2009 00:01:27 EST</pubDate>
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ElecTriCity and Empire calendars offer variety of entertainment choices.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2009 00:01:25 EST</pubDate>
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Last October, Jamie Dailey and Darrin Vincent sat mesmerized in Nashville&#8217;s historic Ryman Auditorium.            ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2009 00:01:21 EST</pubDate>
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More than 150 local high school and college students will gather on the Milligan College campus Saturday, Sept. 19, for the college&#8217;s third annual string orchestra workshop. The day will culminate with a joint concert in Seeger Memorial Chapel at 7 p.m.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Guitar Auction To Aid 4&#45;H Center&#8217;s Campaign</title>
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ABINGDON, Va. &#8211; It&#8217;s not exactly the most expensive guitar. 
Still, it&#8217;s who signed the side of this instrument that makes it so special, said Sandra Fisher, the director of the Southwest Virginia 4-H Education Center in Abingdon.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2009 00:54:51 EST</pubDate>
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Empire and elecTriCity calendars off variety of entertainment.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 00:01:39 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Washington County Fair in Abingdon</title>
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County fairs typically offer early peeks at rising music stars. Abingdon&#8217;s Washington County Fair certainly has and does.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 00:01:37 EST</pubDate>
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Yo Mama&#8217;s Big Fat Booty Band, the art and music of Willard Gayheart, Johnson City Symphony Orchestra and a free music download await in Short Takes.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 00:01:00 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Gospel Singer Remembers Her Roots In Lynyrd Skynyrd</title>
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Like a witness to a prophecy, Deborah Jo Billingsley White woke up crying. 
It was October of 1977, and White had a vivid dream that her friends and band mates had fallen from the sky in an airplane crash. 
&#8220;I woke up screaming and crying,&#8221; White said during a recent telephone interview.            ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2009 00:15:02 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Time To Party: Labor Day Events</title>
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Music, Arts And More On Tap For Labor Day In The Mountain Empire           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2009 00:07:01 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Lynyrd Skynryd&#8217;s Artimus Pyle Coming to Grahamfest</title>
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Artimus Pyle looking forward to getting back to work.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2009 00:03:20 EST</pubDate>
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Music, dance, theater, festival, fairs and more are listed in Herald Courier&#8217;s entertainment calendars.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2009 00:01:52 EST</pubDate>
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Along the comeback trail rides Buddy Jewell.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2009 00:01:46 EST</pubDate>
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Caged Chaos at Viking Hall, gypsy jazz at Emory &amp; Henry College, GRITS at Niswonger and a free music download can all be found in Short Takes.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2009 00:01:42 EST</pubDate>
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Swiss Jens Kruger sat with Bill Monroe.            ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2009 00:01:16 EST</pubDate>
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I must admit that I went to see Barter Theatre&#8217;s current mainstage production, &#8220;Forever Plaid,&#8221; fully expecting and intending not to like it, to &#8220;darn it with faint praise,&#8221; to coin a term. 
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          <pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2009 00:21:08 EST</pubDate>
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ElecTriCity and Empire calendars offer a variety of entertainment.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2009 00:01:51 EST</pubDate>
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When Elton John sang &#8220;Sad Songs (Say So Much)&#8221; surely Knoxville, Tenn.&#8217;s Sam Quinn was on his mind.
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          <pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2009 00:01:41 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Short Takes: Matt Boswell, Chris Scruggs, Eddie Miles</title>
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A glimpse at weekend entertainment and a free music dounload are all part of Short Takes.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2009 00:01:20 EST</pubDate>
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Various artists, &#8220;Bristol Nights: The Official Music of Bristol Motor Speedway&#8221; (Banshee Music)            ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2009 00:45:00 EST</pubDate>
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Jimmy Fortune cried.
Not with his eyes, but with his voice.
The date was 1981, and the place was a ski resort in Virginia when Fortune found good fortune while he sang Roy Orbison&#8217;s &#8220;Crying.&#8221; Lew DeWitt of the Statler Brothers was there and heard him.
&#8220;He said, &#8216;Man, I love your singing,&#8217; &#8221; Fortune said.           ]]></description>
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CRAIG MORGAN
Craig Morgan sings like a soldier defends his country &#8211; with everything he has. The former soldier and current country star will entertain the masses on Aug. 22 at the Earhart Campground adjacent to Bristol Motor Speedway on Volunteer Parkway in Bristol, Tenn.            ]]></description>
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Finally.
When Jack Ingram won the Academy of Country Music&#8217;s Top New Male Vocalist award in 2008, the honky-tonker from Houston, Texas, surely shook his head. 
It was about time for this singer who had been in the music business for years.           ]]></description>
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EMPIRE CALENDAR

EXHIBITS

BRISTOL PUBLIC LIBRARY: Virgie R. Fleenor Art Gallery, through Aug. 31, Musical Styles Along the Crooked Road showcases the long history of picking and singing in the mountains. Hours: Monday-Thursday, 9 a.m. to 8 p.m.; Friday, Saturday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sundays, 2-5 p.m. (276) 821-6148.           ]]></description>
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Glenn Bolick Takes To His Front Porch To Entertain Folks Who Visit Bailey&#8217;s Camp           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2009 00:48:14 EST</pubDate>
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VH1&#8217;s &#8220;Rock of Love with Bret Michaels&#8221; star and lead singer of glam metal band Poison Bret Michaels appeared at the State Line Bar and Grille in Bristol, Tenn., on Sunday night.
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Short Takes Offers More Entertainment Ideas And Always A Free Music Download           ]]></description>
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Mountain Stage rocks radio. More specifically, the long-running, public broadcasting radio show features live American roots music taped before an audience.
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Empire and elecTriCity calendars offer a variety of entertainment options.           ]]></description>
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Time was when Monroe Jamison was a fixture in Abingdon&#8217;s bluegrass music scene. 
Jamison, a full-time lawyer and when-possible bluegrass picker, for years worked the bluegrass aspects of the Virginia Highlands Festival. But then he died in July 2007 at age 52. So the VHF&#8217;s weekend of bluegrass and old-time music, scheduled for Aug. 8-9, was named in Jamison&#8217;s honor. 

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Chose your entertainment from a variety of listings.           ]]></description>
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A look at entertainment in the region, plus, as always, a free music download.           ]]></description>
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Star of VH1&#8217;s &#8220;Rock of Love with Bret Michaels&#8221; and Poison front man Bret Michaels will appear at a State Street venue in Bristol, Tenn., on Aug. 9.            ]]></description>
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ABINGDON, Va. &#8211; An Aug. 2 concert will feature a unique vocal performance. As part of a tribute to French coloratura soprano Lily Pons, Dr. Sun-Joo Oh of the East Tennessee State University music department will sing several vocalise pieces. 
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Music Documentary Focuses On The Old Time Music, Culture Of Appalachia           ]]></description>
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A glance at weekend entertainment. This week&#8217;s free music download: The Grateful Dead.           ]]></description>
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Let me be clear from the get-go: I am not an expert on film, arty or otherwise. But I am a Southerner and, I like to think, a somewhat dispassion-ate observer of the human scene, at least in my rather confused and confusing part of the old Confederacy.           ]]></description>
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A new locally produced film addresses the reality of life in Southwest Virginia. The film, called &#8220;This is Not the South,&#8221; focuses on the lives of three young Bristol, Va., residents as they interact with their community and each other.            ]]></description>
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Region offers a variety of entertainment.           ]]></description>
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Annual Carter Family Memorial Festival To Feature Music, Food, Crafts, More
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Empire and elecTriCity calendars offer entertainment choices.           ]]></description>
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Led Zeppelin recorded nine albums. They performed more than 500 concerts. And they&#8217;ve spawned more than 50 working tribute bands, more than a dozen of which are named after their song &#8220;Custard Pie.&#8221; Including Asheville, N.C.&#8217;s Custard Pie.           ]]></description>
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10 young musicians from this area are scheduled to attend a White House music series event Tuesday.           ]]></description>
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Country upstart wrote songs made famous by Travit Tritt, Billy Carrington.           ]]></description>
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Variety of entertainment events offered in the Mountain Empire.           ]]></description>
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Step into the ring, you bushwhacking varmint!           ]]></description>
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Travel 15 hours in a Buick on a weekday to play music in Cincinnati. That&#8217;s what Paleface and his drummer Monica &#8220;Mo&#8221; Samalot did on Tuesday.
&#8220;You just grin and bear it,&#8221; Paleface said by phone, five hours into their drive.
Then it&#8217;s on to Bristol on July 17 for this month&#8217;s installment of Border Bash. Newcomer Samantha Crain and the Midnight Shivers join Paleface on the impressive bill as two razor-edged acts that defy tidy categorization.
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Rascals&#8217; Teen Center has announced that they will be closed on Sat., July 18 for teens to enjoy Fun Fest events.           ]]></description>
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Submissions now being accepted for Johnson City&#8217;s Battle of the Bands.           ]]></description>
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elecTriCity and Empire calendars offer a variety of entertainment ideas.           ]]></description>
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If sandpaper and soul met a rose and birthed a child, that child would probably sound something like Janis Joplin.            ]]></description>
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Seen one nightclub, seen them all. Yet no one who has seen, visited or played in Kingsport&#8217;s Buspit would say such a thing. 
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A glimpse at weekend entertainment.           ]]></description>
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Clans, Others Will Gather At Grandfather Mountain On July 9-12            ]]></description>
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Bottleneck blues-rock meets rip-roaring Appalachian bluegrass. Same city, different nights.           ]]></description>
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Calm resided in Cumberland Square Park on Monday. A few folks walked quietly, while some read and others merely passed right on by.
Come each Thursday evening throughout July, Cumberland Square Park will awaken with Music and Movie in the Park.
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Kody Norris sings like dynamite explodes. He&#8217;s young and he&#8217;s loud, confident and you bet bluegrass proud. 
Hear the Mountain City, Tenn., bluegrasser on July 4 at the Carter Family Fold in Hiltons, Va. Then, wait a spell and see him again on July 17 at Lay&#8217;s Hardware in Coeburn, Va. Either place on either night, and it&#8217;s the same Norris.            ]]></description>
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