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• Music Halls of Fame – Honoring Outstanding Achievements

  While high profile music awards and inductees into renowned Halls of Fame may be well publicized and capture the attention of worldwide music fans, there are a number of less well known, but ...

• Development of Chiptunes

  Anyone who has been gaming for the last twenty years or so will have heard a chiptune more than once – though they may not have known what it was called at the time. Chip music or ...

• “Weird Al” Yankovic’s “Straight Outta Lynwood” Tour

  “Weird Al” Yankovic kicked off his “Straight Outta Lynwood” 2008 Tour at The Cotillion in Wichita, Kansas, on 7 August, and will be performing in a total of sixteen U.S. cities, finishing ...

• Madonna’s Sticky & Sweet Tour

  Madonna fans around the world are already grinning from ear to ear at the news that the material girl will be going on tour this August. The Sticky & Sweet Tour will be focused mainly on ...

• Contemporary Christian Music: Past, Present, Future

  It is difficult to define the term “Contemporary Christian music”, but most seem to narrow it down to artists who profess Christ openly, and sing music that is filled with gospel themes. The ...

• The Healing Power of Music Therapy

  Music therapy is a form of assistance that is given to people to aid in the improvement of their health, and has proven to help clients in regard to motor skills, behavioral skills and even ...

• Monterey Jazz Festival – Musicians

  Few things in life are constant; taxes, mom's home cooking and the Monterey Jazz Festival. Now in its 49th year, the festival is the second oldest jazz gathering in the world. And just like ...

• Susan Boyle: A Success Story

  Susan Magdalane Boyle, born in 1961, has taken the world by storm. Within a year she has become a renowned figure in homes around the world, taking second place in Britain’s Got Talent and ...

• Regional Music from the mountain tops of Nepal

  Hidden in the remote villages and high mountains of Nepal is a musical legacy even more varied and richer than its acclaimed natural beauty. Even today, Nepal's musical heritage remains ...

• The Wondrous Sitar

  Music lovers the world over remain indebted to the Indian maestro Ravi Shankar, and to George Harrison of the Beatles, for bringing the sitar to its rightful international place on the global ...

• Bluegrass Awards Nominees

  The International Bluegrass Music Association was established in 1985 to promote and develop the music genre of bluegrass. The International Bluegrass Music Museum followed shortly ...

• Human Expose

  How and when did music begin? This is a difficult question with a complex answer. In a way perhaps music was not created but discovered. It must have always existed in a nascent form which took ...