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Wrapping around the block, the mainly nine-to-five, thirty-something crowd entered Avalon to the Phish-meets-Blind Melon-meets-the Pogues sound of opening band Carbon Leaf. Carbon Leaf are the only unsigned band ever to perform at the American Music Awards, where they won an award for Best New Music, beating out some 1,000 other bands. Featuring among other things a mandolin and several tin whistles, the group is obviously influenced by Great Big Sea and they were a fitting and exhilerating opening band, whetting the crowd’s appetite. By the time lead singer...
...numbers came from Tar Heel teams far superior to the one Harvard is playing tomorrow. That makes Harvard’s 71-67 upset of Stanford in 1998 and Dartmouth’s 70-66 near-miss against defending champion Purdue in 2000 better indicators of how Harvard will perform tomorrow than years of North Carolina history...
...more than social satire, Showtime aims to please. There is even a cameo appearance by Johnny Cochran, who plays a high-profile lawyer. Comedy is the movie’s main objective and with a cast like this one, it should perform its job nicely...
...Boston allowed Lord to be a DJ again without the fetters of a playlist. She made it her mission to disseminate her favorite obscure songs, especially the work of then-unknown Shawn Colvin, who had yet to release an album. Lord vividly remembers when she first saw Colvin perform in 1988 at the Somerville Theatre. “Her songs were so good that I had to learn them,” she says. “I was just floored. I just sat there and I cried.” Colvin became a close friend to Lord as well...
...this end, McCarty has also been involved in the Cape Cod Opera’s community outreach program, where members of the company travel to high schools to perform excerpts from famous operas...