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News: Performance / Tour

Viva the Band from Sydney Northern Beaches Jazzin Around Europe

May 23, 2010

VIVA THE DUO - French music performance Viva the duo will be performing at a presentation of French music and movies at the Avoca Beach Theatre, NSW Australia on the 18th June. Viva the duo is reputed as Sydney's premier duo that plays International music, in particular French music Viva the duo regularly perform concerts at ...

News: Music Industry

Live Nation Sets up Australia Unit

April 19, 2010

Live Nation is bowing its concert promotion business in Australia, the seventh-largest music market. Roger Field has been tapped as VP of promotions, Australia and New Zealand. Hong Kong-based Luke Hede has been named VP of promotions for the Pacific Rim. “Over the last decade, Live Nation has been involved with some of the most successful ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Leila Adu Rediscovers New Zealand in Month-Long Homecoming Tour

April 3, 2010

New Zealand - Singer/Composer/Performer Leila Adu proves that you can go home again with her first New Zealand tour in 5 years. Adu an artist of Ghanaian and British descent has produced three critically acclaimed albums, written for and sung with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, toured and received radio play around the globe. This upcoming ...

News: Technology

US Concerned over Australia's Internet Filter

March 31, 2010

The United States has raised concerns with Australia about the impact of a proposed Internet filter that would place restrictions on Web content, an official said Monday. The concerns of Australia's most important security ally further undermine plans that would make Australia one of the strictest Internet regulators among the world's democracies. “Our main message ...

News: Technology

Google, Yahoo Object to Proposed Internet Censorship in Australia

March 23, 2010

Censorship by China grabbed the headlines for weeks. But what of restrictions on Internet freedom elsewhere in the world? Case in point: The latest country in the news for attempting to block objectionable content is Australia.The Sydney Morning Herald reports that Google, Yahoo and others have criticized government plans to force Internet service providers ...

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News: Obituary

Fearless to the End: Remembering Margaret Moth

March 21, 2010

CNN photojournalist Margaret Moth covered conflicts spanning continents, and said she lived her life to the fullest. Her guts, skill and humor made her one to remember, dies of cancer at 59, after surviving wars. Given her jet-black hair, thick black eyeliner, black clothes and combat boots (which she often slept in while on assignment), people ...

News: TV / Film

New Zealand Capital Erects Film Sign

March 10, 2010

The New Zealand home base of Weta Digital, and a host of other NZ film companies, is set to officially become Wellywood, with a Hollywood-style sign to be erected on the hills of the Miramar Peninsula. The term has been used informally for some time but the new lettering -- mimicking the style of the Hollywood ...

News: Festival

Sydney-Bay Day Festival and Viva the Duo

March 6, 2010

Sydney Band at Tea Festival Viva the duo,a Local band from Northern Beaches of Sydney will be performing at Bay Day festival at Mcilwaine park at Rhodes on the 28th March. Bay day is free festival, celebrating the history of tea and the way different cultures love and enjoy the world's most popular beverage. In keeping ...

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Article: Take Five With...

Take Five With Connie Lansberg

by AAJ Staff
February 26, 2010

Meet Connie Lansberg: Connie Lansberg is a singer/songwriter who performs original folk/pop-jazz and smooth jazz. She is a vocal interpreter of the wonderful stories told by the American Songbook and beyond. She uses her voice in such a way as to reveal and tease out even the most subtle of nuances that define these ...

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News: Technology

ISP Defeats Hollywood Copyright Claims

February 4, 2010

A leading Australian internet service provider was cleared of copyright allegations Thursday when a federal judge ruled against Hollywoods lawsuit that iiNet was responsible for infringing BitTorrent data traveling its pipes. The Australian Federal Court decision siding with the countrys third-largest ISP was a legal blow to worldwide efforts to make ISPs liable for the unlawful ...