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Festival

Help Us Strike A Blow For Artistic Expression And Recreate Michigan's Economy

Help Us Strike A Blow For Artistic Expression And Recreate Michigan's Economy

Source: Just Roots PR

The Michigan film industry is a real and viable alternative to the demise of Michigan's industrial base. It is a positive path to recreate Michigan's economy and help redefine who we are as a state. Help us create a film/music festival here in south-central Michigan and help support Michigan's film and music industries. Back Story In 2008 departing Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm left Michigan with one of the country's most generous film incentives. Within three years, Michigan was pushed into ...

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Event

Coventry Lions Club Announces 3rd Annual Chester County Blues Barbecue

Coventry Lions Club Announces 3rd Annual Chester County Blues Barbecue

Source: Just Roots PR

The Coventry Lions Club is proud to announce that the 2012 Chester County Blues Barbecue will be held at Wyndsor Farm on June 9th. This year’s event offers the blues enthusiast an opportunity to hear both national and local blues acts in an idyllic, family oriented setting. This year’s event is being held in conjunction with the Thorncroft Equestrian Center and will benefit both Thorncroft’s therapeutic equestrian programs and Lions Club programs to assist disadvantaged and visually impaired in the ...

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Event

Play Michigan's Historic Theaters, Meet Michigan's Movie Industry

Play Michigan's Historic Theaters, Meet Michigan's Movie Industry

Source: Just Roots PR

Before the 1930s and the advent of what has come to be called the “talkies," opulently decorated vaudeville and movie theaters were built. Predating the earliest sound systems they were created to be acoustically perfect. Every small town had one. Michigan at one time had many from its south western most border to Detroit and points north. Today many of these theaters still stand, painstakingly restored and faithfully tended. Now as a musician you can play many of these theaters ...

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Festival

Play Michigan's Historic Theaters, Meet Michigan's Movie Industry

Play Michigan's Historic Theaters, Meet Michigan's Movie Industry

Source: Just Roots PR

Before the 1930s and the advent of what has come to be called the “talkies," opulently decorated vaudeville and movie theaters were built. Predating the earliest sound systems they were created to be acoustically perfect. Every small town had one. Michigan at one time had many from its south western most border to Detroit and points north. Today many of these theaters still stand, painstakingly restored and faithfully tended. Now as a musician you can play many of these theaters ...

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Book / Magazine

Blues Musician/ Horror AuthorThomas Malafarina's Short Story Collection "Gallery Of Horror" Published By Sunbury Press

Blues Musician/ Horror AuthorThomas Malafarina's Short Story Collection "Gallery Of Horror" Published By Sunbury Press

Source: Just Roots PR

Sunbury Press has released Thomas M. Malafarina's latest book Gallery of Horror, a short story collection based on the dark art of Keyser, West Virginia's Nunzio Barbera. About the Book: From 1970 to 1973, the television network NBC aired a program called “Night Gallery" hosted by Rod Serling who was best know for the series “The Twilight Zone" during the 1950s and 1960s. Each week, the show started with Rod standing in front of a work of disturbing artwork displayed ...

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Event

Project Blues Is Bringing the Blues to Beat Cancer September 11

Project Blues Is Bringing the Blues to Beat Cancer September 11

Source: Just Roots PR

What: Columbus-based Project Blues is hosting its 1st Annual Blues Bash—a Blues music benefit concert to raise funds for LifeCare Alliance's Columbus Cancer Clinic—helping people impacted by cancer who do not have the financial wherewithal to deal with it. When: September 11, 2011, 1:20 p.m.-9 p.m. Where:  The Bluestone, 583 E. Broad Street, Columbus, OH 43215 Who:   Project Blues is a Columbus-based nonprofit using the healing, connecting power of Blues music to help raise funds for people impacted by cancer ...

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Event

The Coventry Lions Club To Host 2011 Chester County Blues Barbeque on June 4

The Coventry Lions Club To Host 2011 Chester County Blues Barbeque on June 4

Source: Just Roots PR

Coventry, PA—The Coventry Lions Club will host the 2011 Chester County Blues Barbeque on June 4, 2 to 7 p.m. at Wyndsor Farm in Elverson to support its scholarship and outreach programs. The family-oriented event will feature three notable blues bands from the area in a spacious and scenic setting, with food and drinks available for purchase throughout the afternoon. The Barbecue will be held rain or shine as Wyndsor Farm has a large indoor arena that will serve as ...

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Performance / Tour

Henry Grimes's Month of 75th Birthdays at the Stone in New York City!

Henry  Grimes's  Month  of  75th Birthdays at the Stone in New York City!

Source: Just Roots PR

Acoustic bassist, violinist, and poet Henry Grimes continues his very active schedule of concerts, touring, and education with an informal month-long residency at the concert space called the Stone, northwest corner of Ave. C and 2nd St. in Manhattan, http://www.thestonenyc.com/calendar.php, playing various sets of music with many of his favorite musicians during the month. At the invitation of Stone proprietor John Zorn, Henry and Margaret Grimes curated the space for November, Henry's 75th-birthday month, and many of those booked asked ...

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