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Dee Dee Bridgewater Performs at Inaugural Ball Honoring President Obama

Source: Muse Media
January 21, 2009

GRAMMY & TONY-WINNING JAZZ VOCALIST AND UN GOODWILL AMBASSADOR DEE DEE BRIDGEWATER PERFORMS AT OFFICIAL OBAMA INAUGURATION BALL Los Angeles, CA - Grammy & Tony-winning Jazz Vocalist and UN Goodwill Ambassador Dee Dee Bridgewater performed last night at the official inaugural “Health for All Blue Diamond Ball” at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. Bridgewater performed before a packed audience honoring Barack Obama and spoke on behalf of the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization, for which she is ...

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Blue Bear Benefit: Los Lobos

Source: JamBase
January 21, 2009

BLUE BEAR SCHOOL OF MUSIC PRESENTS THE 4TH ANNUAL “BLUE BEAR LIVE IV" - MUSIC FOR YOUTH BENEFIT FEATURING LOS LOBOS THURSDAY, MARCH 26, BIMBO'S 365 CLUB, SAN FRANCISCO

Los Lobos Blue Bear School of Music presents the 4TH Annual Blue Bear Live IV - Music for Youth Benefit with three-time Grammy Award winners, Los Lobos and special performances by Blue Bear youth musicians. The 4TH Annual Blue Bear Live IV - Music for Youth Benefit ...

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President Barack Obama Free Leader of the World

Source: All About Jazz
January 20, 2009

Widely concidered the President to the Artist Our nations creativity has filled the worlds libraries, museums, recital halls, movie houses, and marketplaces with works of genius. The arts embody the American spirit of self-definition. Barack Obama uniquely appreciates the role and value of creative expression.

Our new President Elect considers himself an artist. As should we all. If we do not rescue the Arts at this turning point in our nations history, our cultural identity will be reduced ...

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Quincy Jones First Person on Historic Time

Source: Michael Ricci
January 19, 2009

By Quincy Jones

Like many Americans and citizens of the world, on the morning of Nov. 5 I awoke with a renewed sense of purpose. Having witnessed the night before an event that I never ever imagined contemplating -- the election of an African American to the office of president of the United States of America -- I felt truly vindicated in the belief that if you live long enough, anything is possible. The night before, as I sat with ...

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Inauguration Opening Concert Celebrates Art of the Possible

Source: All About Jazz
January 19, 2009

America's first African-American president is serenaded by first-class performers at a nationally televised concert on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial two days before his inauguration. More than a few people on the National Mall on Sunday must have been thinking of Marian Anderson and how amazed and proud she'd be.

In 1939, Anderson, the famed American contralto, was banned from performing in the Daughters of the American Revolution's Constitution Hall because of the color of her skin. So instead ...

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Top Stars Celebrate Obama at Lincoln Memorial

Source: Billboard Magazine
January 19, 2009

Two days from the White House, President-elect Barack Obama joined a vast throng today (Jan. 18) at a roaring, rollicking pre-inauguration celebration staged before marble monuments to past heroes. “Anything is possible in America," declared the man who will confront economic crisis and two wars when he takes office. “Despite the enormity of the task that lies ahead, I stand here today as hopeful as ever that the United States of America will endure -- that the dream of our ...

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The Stage is Reset in New Orleans

Source: Michael Ricci
January 19, 2009

Placido Domingo helps the Mahalia Jackson Theater come back in style. New Orleans, hammered by Hurricane Katrina 3 1/2 years ago and still lurching toward a full recovery, received a helping hand -- and voice -- Saturday.

Superstar tenor Plcido Domingo culminated a 10-day grand reopening of the city-owned Mahalia Jackson Theater for the Performing Arts, which has undergone $22 million in renovations after being severely damaged by the hurricane flood waters. The arts center had been closed since it ...

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Grambling Band Thrilled to Strut Its Stuff

Source: All About Jazz
January 19, 2009

Hunt, 19, a sophomore at Grambling State University in northern Louisiana, and 200 of his classmates, members of the Grambling State University Tiger Marching Band, boarded four buses shortly after 10 a.m. The caravan is destined for a 1.8-mile stretch of Washington, D.C., where the band will perform in the parade Tuesday honoring the country's newly sworn-in president, Barack Obama.

Competition to get into the parade was fierce. The Presidential Inaugural Committee had 1,382 applications three or four times the ...

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