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Music: Annie Halsam and Renaissance return with a new album

Turn of the Cards By Michael Hamad/EXPLORE Last November, news of the death of Michael Dunford, guitarist/composer for the seminal British progressive folk-rock group Renaissance, sent shock waves...

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Saratoga 150: list of Saratoga 150 events

Here is the list of Saratoga 150 events as of May 3. For more information, go to saratoga150.com. Arts  National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame 191 Union Ave, Saratoga Springs racingmuseum.org (518)...

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Music: Jay Farrar and Son Volt return with Honky Tonk

The Other Music City By Michael Hamad/Explore Two thousand miles of asphalt — roughly 30 hours of driving — separate Nashville, Tenn., from Bakersfield, Calif., its country-music cousin. (Or better:...

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Music: Farm Aid comes to the Capital Region

Farmageddon By Michael Hamad/Explore In the mid-1980s, when a song by John Mellencamp came on the radio, you usually stopped to listen. Mellencamp, a Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee and a...

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Music: Revisiting Genesis at The Egg

Supper’s Ready By Michael Hamad/Explore As a pop juggernaut, the Phil Collins-led, mid-1980s Genesis achieved household-name recognition, as flashy singles and videos for “Land of Confusion,” “Tonight,...

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Calendar: Fall 2013

Music Classical Bennington Center for the Arts 44 Gypsy Lane, Bennington, Vt. benningtoncenterforthearts.org (802) 442-7158 Saturday, Nov. 30: Russian Duo. 8 p.m. Oleg Kruglyakov and Terry Boyarsky...

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Music: Dar Williams talks songwriting and cities

Travelin’ Woman By Michael Hamad/Explore Most of us, it’s fair to say, have a sheltered sense of the life of a traveling musician. On the one hand, we imagine it to be isolating; it’s lonely being away...

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Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros’ novel approach to music

Substance in Every Song By Michael Hamad/Explore A show by Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, a 12-member ensemble from Los Angeles, is part revival, part circus, smidges of campy musical theater...

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Multimedia: An ancient Chinese secret language inspires a performance.

The Language of Women By Brianna Snyder/EXPLORE At one time women weren’t allowed to learn to read. We’d like to say, “Wow, can you believe how terrible it was for women hundreds of years ago?” Except...

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Music: The music of America retains its nostalgic glow

National Feelings By John Adamian/EXPLORE This article is only available online. Dewey Bunnell has spent a lot of time talking about the song “A Horse With No Name.” Over the last 40 years or so the...

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