Garth Brooks News

THERE REALLY isn’t much to digest in the current smorgasbord of country music. Listeners must diet on a programmed generic sound, the singers lack distinctive voices, and the music, like spinach, isn’t the kind of taste that lasts.

The North Platte Telegraph Money collected from a banquet in North Platte next week will be used to send struggling farmers and ranchers to college. The 2010 Boots and Spurs Nebraska Rural Radio Foundation Banquet will be Friday at the Creekside Event Center.

Dave Newhouse: Oldies remain the face of country musicContra Costa Times… Strait, Keith and Nelson (10 each), George Jones (5), Merle Haggard (3), and Waylon Jennings, Kenny Rogers, Garth Brooks and Hank Williams Jr. (2 each). …
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Laser Pink Floyd's The Wall (family version)Buffalo Rising (blog)With the help of music by Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, the Beatles, Garth Brooks, and a host of others, the Whitworth Ferguson Planetarium is hosting a …

It’s Friday night on East Fremont, the block downtown that was the focus of irrational exuberance several years ago at the dawn of the Fremont East Entertainment District. By 10 p.m., the capacity crowd in Don’t Tell Mama is being thoroughly entertained by a spikey-haired pianist playing the bar’s baby grand. Raucous sing-alongs — “Friends [...]

Master Songwriter’s Unearthed Americana Collection a Study in Integrity; Warner Music Nashville to Reissue Camp’s Debut Self-Titled CD the Same Day

ST. PAUL – The St. Paul Police Federation and Stillwater Police Department are teaming up to host a benefit for the husband and son of the late Stillwater Police officer Brienne Heroux, who died last month of complications from HELLP syndrome.

Sands Casino Resort in Bethlehem will partner with Musikfest’s parent company to provide an October series of six concerts by acts such as Paul Anka, Foreigner, Kansas and The Guess Who, it was just announced.

All-media exhibit The Northville Art House released the call for entries for an all-media figurative exhibit to be held Oct. 1-23 at the Northville Art House. Artists can submit original works in all mediums, 2-D or 3-D, made by traditional or experimental styles. Awards will be given for first, second and third place as well [...]

The North Platte Telegraph Money collected from a banquet in North Platte next week will be used to send struggling farmers and ranchers to college. The 2010 Boots and Spurs Nebraska Rural Radio Foundation Banquet will be Friday at the Creekside Event Center.