Garth Brooks News

Four summers ago, eccentric banjo man Bela Fleck brought himself and his three Flecktones to the stage of the annual Music for All (formerly Bands of America) Symposium at Illinois State University.

We are surrounded by athletes and the lessons they’ve learned. Sports have played a major role in the lives of many Oklahomans who have gone on to success outside the athletic arena. The long list includes politicians, businessmen, Broadway stars, country superstars and local television anchors and weathermen. Among our state’s country music stars alone: [...]

“I’ll sand it and I’ll brush it and I’ll mist it with alcohol and actually light it on fire to get all those long, guard hairs out,” says Darby hat maker Jimmy Harrison.

With a lack of decent new music, the music buyers are rocking to the oldies. On the Australian chart this week, Led Zeppelin’s 1972 album ‘IV’ sold more than The Veronicas first album.

PORT ST. LUCIE — While juggling the demands of being a mother, business owner and child safety advocate, Amy Kryak also finds time to tinker as a 21st-century genie.

Star power! The Detroit Institute of Arts’ auxiliary group, Friends of African and African American Art, welcomes jazz great Al Jarreau to the newly renovated DIA as its honored guest for the 45th annual Bal Africain Aug. 2.

The numbers are stark: CD sales in the U.S. have declined 29 percent from their peak of $14.6 billion in 2000. That number was punctuated by the bankruptcy in late 2006 of Tower Records, whose giant lime-green “Going Out of Business” signs scattered across the U.S. served as a warning for those brick-and-mortar record stores [...]

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