Saul Williams – a true rap pioneer

Saul Williams, born in Newburgh, New York in 1974, is an American rap artist, writer and actor known for his eclectic blend of poetry and hip-hop. He is also known for his role as Ray Joshua in the independent film ‘Slam’, which won the Grand Jury Prize for a Dramatic Film at the 1998 Sundance Film Festival.

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The Best of 2008 Heavy Metal Festivals

As the New Year is upon us, many travellers will be looking to book their holidays in order to get the best deals on trips intended for fun and sun; but for heavy metal fans now is the time to start booking travel to festivals in one of the most exciting years to be a heavy metal fan in recent memory. With so many festivals to pick from, this article picks the best of the bunch to make the decision as easy as possible.

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John Philip Sousa: from marching band composer to American hero

Sarasota is a city located on the central west coast of Florida. In 1962, the Sarasota Mobile Home Park Auditorium was built as a meeting place for mobile home park residents. The auditorium is now used mostly as a leased facility by the public for dances, band concerts, meetings and private parties. The room has a well maintained three thousand square foot wood floor suitable for dances and meetings, and there is a large well-lit stage for bands or performances.

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Love And Happiness: The phenomenal return of Al Green

Al Green rose to fame in the early 1970s when he was signed to Willie Mitchell’s influential Memphis record label ‘Hi’ and subsequently released a string of hits, including “Let’s Stay Together”, “Tired Of Being Alone”, “Love And Happiness” and “Take Me To The River”. His powerful, expressive voice earned him the status as the first great Southern soul singer, and breathed new life into the soul genre, opening the door for a new, more seductive style of soul music.

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Ticket touts licking lips at Zeppelin re-union

Ever since the announcement that iconic 70s rockers Led Zeppelin would be reforming for a one-off special concert at the 02 Arena in London, the world has gone crazy for tickets to this unique event. Tickets to the event are set to become the hottest ever sellers and the prospect of getting their hands on them is filling every ticket tout in the Capital with glee as they anticipate making fat profits from the event.

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Classical music: not just for OAPs

For too long, classical music has been regarded as the domain of instrumentalists, composers, academic musicologists and, typically, anyone over 40 years old. But while the majority of today’s youth would rather listen to Britney Spears’ greatest hits or watch My Chemical Romance on MTV, the view that young people are completely uninterested in classical music is not just erroneous - it’s simply not grounded in historical reality.

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Your Free Acoustic Guitar Lesson

Here is a free acoustic guitar lesson to help you improve your guitar playing skills quickly.

This guitar learning techique will teach you how to fingerpick folk-style, but in a Latin rhythm in the key of A. This Latin rhythm has eight quick beats to the measure, and is accented on the first, the fourth, and the seventh beats.

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