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Lizzo’s 2-year-old song might still qualify at 2020 Grammys

NEW YORK – Lizzo’s breakthrough hit “Truth Hurts” is a 2-year-old song, but it still has a chance at the 2020 Grammy Awards. Typically, older songs that become hits long after the...

DATE: Aug 14, 2019 | CATEGORY: Music

San Francisco Opera cancels Domingo concert

The San Francisco Opera says it is canceling an October concert featuring Placido Domingo after the publication of an Associated Press story that quoted numerous women as saying they were se...

DATE: Aug 13, 2019 | CATEGORY: Music

In wake of harassment allegations, Plácido Domingo disinvited from Philadelphia Orchestra season-opening gala

The Philadelphia Orchestra has pulled its invitation to tenor Plácido Domingo to headline its season-opening gala Sept. 18 in the wake of an Associated Press article in which nine women said...

DATE: Aug 13, 2019 | CATEGORY: Music

Wayne Newton sued over monkey biting girl visiting his home

LAS VEGAS – Entertainer Wayne Newton is being sued by a Las Vegas woman who claims the veteran crooner’s pet monkey bit and injured her daughter during an invited visit to Newton’s showpiece...

DATE: Aug 8, 2019 | CATEGORY: Arts and Entertainment

Chevel Shepherd talks about life after ‘The Voice’

Singer to take stage Friday at La Plata County Fair

DATE: Aug 8, 2019 | CATEGORY: Music

Willie Nelson cancels tour, cites ‘breathing problem’

NEW YORK – Willie Nelson has canceled his tour because of a “breathing problem.” The 86-year-old singer apologized on Twitter late Wednesday, writing “I need to have my doctor che...

DATE: Aug 8, 2019 | CATEGORY: Music

Army recruiters released their first rap video this year; it wasn’t exactly a mic drop

The 3-minute music video for the song “Giving All I Got” has many of the hallmarks of an archetypical hip-hop production: shots of men in hoodies walking in slo-mo down a graffiti-filled cor...

DATE: Aug 6, 2019 | CATEGORY: Arts and Entertainment

Woodstock 50th anniversary celebration canceled after lineup, financial problems

Woodstock 50 organizers announced on Wednesday that the beleaguered music festival, which was to take place Aug. 16 through 18, is canceled. “We are saddened that a series of unfo...

DATE: Jul 31, 2019 | CATEGORY: Music

Music in the Mountains concludes with an evening of comedy and tragedy

If you have to say goodbye, if you have to close a winning music festival, why not go out in style? Guillermo Figueroa and the Festival Orchestra will do just that at 5:30 p.m. Su...

DATE: Jul 26, 2019 | CATEGORY: Music

Trump lashes out at Sweden after rapper A$AP Rocky charged

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump is lashing out at Sweden after a prosecutor there charged rapper A$AP Rocky with assault over a fight in Stockholm last month. Trump is reactin...

DATE: Jul 25, 2019 | CATEGORY: Music

Woodstock 50 festival moves to Maryland

Organizers of Woodstock 50 have decided to move the commemorative music festival from Upstate New York to Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia, Maryland, according to the office of Howard ...

DATE: Jul 25, 2019 | CATEGORY: Music

Animas City Theatre to host Snazzy Licks

Animas City Theatre will host Industry Nights with Snazzy Licks from 10 p.m. to 12:30 a.m. Monday at the theater, 128 E. College Drive. Snazzy Licks is a spin off duo project con...

DATE: Jul 25, 2019 | CATEGORY: Arts and Entertainment