Artist: Ted Brown and Jimmy Raney
Genre(s):
Other
Discography:
Good Company
Year: 2002
Tracks: 12
Jude Rogers on Sir Paul McCartney's admiration of the Wombats
Wednesday, 18 June 2008
Ted Brown and Jimmy Raney
Artist: Ted Brown and Jimmy Raney
Genre(s):
Other
Discography:
Good Company
Year: 2002
Tracks: 12
Jude Rogers on Sir Paul McCartney's admiration of the Wombats
Martin Sheen Honoured For Humanitarian Effort
Activist-actor Martin Sheen will be honoured by the University of Notre Dame for his humanitarian work, the college announced yesterday.
The NUI Galway graduate starred in 'The West Wing' playing a U.S. president who was a Notre Dame graduate and he is set to receive the 'Laetare Medal' at a ceremony in the college on 18 May. President John F. Kennedy is amongst previous recipients of the award.
Talking about the famous actor, the university's president, the Rev. John I. Jenkins Sheen said: "He has used that celebrity to draw the attention of his fellow citizens to issues that cry out for redress, such as the plight of immigrant workers and homeless people, the waging of unjust war, the killing of the unborn and capital punishment".
The 67-year-old has described himself as a Catholic peace activist. He has been arrested for taking part in non-violent demonstrations against various U.S. military policies.
He has donated money and time to such causes as the alleviation of poverty and homelessness, human rights for migrant workers and environmental protection.
The NUI Galway graduate starred in 'The West Wing' playing a U.S. president who was a Notre Dame graduate and he is set to receive the 'Laetare Medal' at a ceremony in the college on 18 May. President John F. Kennedy is amongst previous recipients of the award.
Talking about the famous actor, the university's president, the Rev. John I. Jenkins Sheen said: "He has used that celebrity to draw the attention of his fellow citizens to issues that cry out for redress, such as the plight of immigrant workers and homeless people, the waging of unjust war, the killing of the unborn and capital punishment".
The 67-year-old has described himself as a Catholic peace activist. He has been arrested for taking part in non-violent demonstrations against various U.S. military policies.
He has donated money and time to such causes as the alleviation of poverty and homelessness, human rights for migrant workers and environmental protection.
Kongar-Ool
Artist: Kongar-Ool
Genre(s):
Folk
Discography:
Echoes Of Tuva
Year:
Tracks: 13
Back Tuva Future
Year:
Tracks: 10
Viewers get to pick own Fraulein Maria
As a child, Canadian comedian Gavin Crawford says he adored The Sound Of Music and wanted to be Julie Andrews, who starred as Fraulein Maria in the iconic film.
It�s hard to imagine better credentials for the host of How Do You Solve A Problem Like Maria?, which debuts Sunday on CBC-TV.
The seven-week TV series will feature 48 hopefuls competing for the lead role of Maria von Trapp in an upcoming Toronto stage production of The Sound Of Music, produced by Andrew Lloyd Webber, David Ian and David Mirvish, and set for debut at the Princess of Wales Theatre this fall.
The CBC show is based on a British series of the same name that Webber co-created.
�It is a lot of pressure because it was a real person, first of all, so you want to do justice to the real person and the heroine that she was,� said 24-year-old Toronto actress Jennifer Walls, one of 13 Maria hopefuls at a recent singalong to promote the show.
Viewers will ultimately get to decide the winner of the Maria role.
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Roberto Carlos Nakai and Cliff Sarde
Artist: Roberto Carlos Nakai and Cliff Sarde
Genre(s):
New Age
Discography:
Enter and Tribal
Year: 2001
Tracks: 11
Danilo Perez
You Don't Mess with the Zohan
Sandler is arguably one of the smartest movie moguls in Hollywood. As a writer/star/producer, he knows exactly who his audience is and gives them exactly what they want and expect--for better or worse. In this case, it�s slightly better than most. He is Zohan, a super-skilled, super-buff--and many times, super-naked--Israeli Mossad agent, who can stop the bad guys with one swift kick and woo the ladies with his amazing butt muscles. But he�s tired of fighting and secretly wants to be a hair stylist, so he fakes his death and heads to New York under the alias �Scrappy Coco� to live out his dream. Of course, his past catches up with him, especially after he gets a job at a salon run by the beautiful Dalia (Emmanuelle Chriqui), who also happens to be Palestinian. No matter, he is soon a huge success with the older lady clientele for his, er, unique sensual hairstyling techniques, if you get my meaning. But Zohan�s past eventually catches up to him, just as he realizes he can�t make the �bang boom� with anyone else but Dalia. Adam Sandler can just add Zohan to his repertoire. Actually, it�s been awhile since we�ve seen Sandler play someone this over-the-top--and it�s kind of refreshing. The actor obviously had to really work out to get the Zohan physique, and he puts himself out there, quite literally, in more ways than one. (Disco dancing while barbequing fish in the nude is gutsy!) Sandler also enlists the help of some of his cronies, particularly Rob Schneider, who plays a Palestinian cab driver, of all things. Nah, that shouldn�t piss off anyone. Chriqui from HBO�s Entourage is very cute and a worthy love interest, but it�s really all the older ladies who get the true benefits of Zohan�s mojo, including Lainie Kazan, playing the mother of one of Zohan�s friends. And then there�s John Turturro, who sheds all seriousness as a known terrorist and Zohan�s nemesis, The Phantom. I guess after he did Transformers, Turturro figures he can keep up the silly antics. Sandler also teams up once again with his old director pal, Dennis Dugan--the same guy who has guided Sandler in his hit comedies Big Daddy and Happy Gilmore. Obviously, it�s a synergy that works, but Dugan usually doesn�t have to do much more than point the camera. With Zohan , however, Dugan has to incorporate some special effects (Zohan flying through the air, for example) as well as some action stunts. It looks like they had more fun this time around. But, of course, with any Sandler movie, it�s all about the comedy, so Sandler doesn�t hedge any bets, collaborating with another old friend and SNL alum, Robert Smigel, along with the master of comedy these days, Judd Apatow. Zohan has many signature Sandler moments, and true-blue fans should be pleased. If you�re not a fan, however, you might still enjoy some of it--even if you roll your eyes.
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Charlie Musselwhite
Artist: Charlie Musselwhite
Genre(s):
Blues
Discography:
One Night In America
Year: 2002
Tracks: 12
Curtain Call Cocktails
Year: 1998
Tracks: 13
In My Time
Year: 1993
Tracks: 16
Signature
Year: 1991
Tracks: 10
Ace Of Harps
Year: 1990
Tracks: 10
Rough News
Year:
Tracks: 12
Continental Drifter
Year:
Tracks: 11
Harmonica magician Norton Buffalo can recall a leaner time when his phonograph record ingathering had been whittled down to only the bare essentials: The Paul Butterfield Blues Band and Stand Back! Here Comes Charley Musselwhite's South Side Band. Butterfield and Musselwhite testament plausibly be incessantly linked as the deuce to the highest degree interesting, and arguably the virtually important, products of the "edward D. White blues movement" of the mid to previous '60s -- not only because they were close the vanguard chronologically, simply because they each stand out as organism specially faithful to the style. Each for sure earned the respectfulness of his fabled mentors. No less than the late Big Joe Williams aforementioned, "Charlie Musselwhite is one of the greatest living harp players of country blues. He is right up there with Sonny Boy Williamson, and he's been my mouth organ player ever since Sonny Boy got killed."
It's interesting that Williams specifies "rural area" vapors, because, level though he made his print in the lead electric bands in Chicago and San Francisco, Musselwhite began playing vapors with mass he'd interpret about in Samuel Charters' Country Blues -- Memphis greats like Furry Lewis, Will Shade, and Gus Cannon. It was these rural roots that place him aside from Butterfield, and decades later Musselwhite began incorporating his first official document, guitar.
Innate in Kosciusko, MS, in 1944, Musselwhite's kinfolk stirred second Earl of Guilford to Memphis, where he went to high school. Musselwhite migrated north in search of the near-mythical $3.00-an-hour job (the same bait that set myriad youngsters on the like route), and became a conversant face at blues haunts like Pepper's, Turner's, and Theresa's, sitting in with and sometimes acting aboard harmonica lords such as Little Walter, Shakey Horton, Good Rockin' Charles, Carey Bell, Big John Wrencher, and even Sonny Boy Williamson. Before recording his first base album, Musselwhite appeared on LPs by Tracy Nelson and John Hammond and dueted (as Memphis Charlie) with Shakey Horton on Vanguard's Chicago/The Blues/Today series.
When his aforesaid debut LP became a banner on San Francisco's metro radio, Musselwhite played the Fillmore Auditorium and never returned to the Windy City. Leading bands that featured greats like guitarists Harvey Mandel, Freddie Roulette, Luther Tucker, Louis Myers, Robben Ford, Fenton Robinson, and Junior Watson, Musselwhite played steadily in Bay Area bars and mounted somewhat low profile national tours. It wasn't until the late '80s, when he conquered a career-long drunkenness trouble, that Musselwhite began touring general to rave notices. He became busier than ever so and continued cathartic records to critical applaud. His two releases on Virgin, Crude News in 1997 and Continental Drifter in 2000, found Musselwhite admixture elements of jazz, gospel, Tex-Mex, and acoustic Delta blues. After sign language with Telarc Blues in 2002, he continued exploring his musical roots by releasing One Night in America. The disk exposed Musselwhite's interest in area music with a spread over interpretation of the Johnny Cash classic "Large River," and featured guest appearances by Kelly Willis and Marty Stuart. Sanctuary, released in 2004, was Musselwhite's first record for Real World.
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