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Black and Jones. It's a pairing that has proven a fruitful partnership, inspiring two Clarksville artists to see anew. Kell Black and Barry Jones, both art professors at Austin Peay State University, opened their latest collaboration, "2001 Retold," with a reception and lecture Thursday.

This work is completely different from my solo work, completely different from Kell's solo work, in good ways   -Barry Jones

 

Members of the community ventured out to Olustee Park Saturday to enjoy more than 10 different musical performances as part of a fundraiser for Haiti earthquake relief. The event — hosted by Save Our Children's Future Foundation — featured bands, singers and dancers from across Florida and Georgia to spur donations and raise support for victims of Haiti's January earthquake, said Kerceus Andre, foundation director. "It's for people to come out and enjoy some good music and remember Haiti," he said.  

I haven't gotten my "hip-hop journalist" on in a while. so if you don't mind, I would like to do that now. Each morning I pack my backpack with my laptop, books, folders and whatever else I need for the day's endeavors on campus. More important than all of those things though are my Sony headphones.  

Pete Malinverni will conduct the Purchase Soul Voices Spring Concert, on March 25 at 7:30 PM in the Performing Arts Center at Purchase College. The lively evening is called "A Sprang Thang" and will feature the Soul Voices singing Spirituals, Freedom Songs, Rhythm and Blues, Reggae and Funk. The group is 60 voices strong and continues to develop a unique sound. Several soloists will be featured.  

That paper bag analogy has a specific reference point. Big Star, which Chilton formed in 1970 with the late Chris Bell, Andy Hummel and Jody Stephens, was named after a Memphis Supermarket chain. That group's indignantly loud and gorgeous power pop inspired more young rockers than did any other fairly obscure rock save that of the Velvet Underground.  

Charlie Gillett, who turned his youthful zeal for rock 'n' roll into an influential career by writing one of the first serious rock histories and, as a disc jockey in London, helping to discover talents like Dire Straits and introduce the new genre of world music, died on Wednesday in London. He was 68. The British Broadcasting Corporation said he had suffered from an autoimmune disease and died of a heart attack.  

Here's a thing: researchers at York University have discovered that we are born pre-programmed to dance. In experiments, 120 babies were exposed to a variety of sounds that included classical music, rhythmic beats and speech. Their responses were recorded by motion-capture technology and professional dancers drafted in to analyse their movements.  

The editors of a German gossip magazine have issued a public apology and retraction to R&B superstar Beyonce after the publication published a faux story about the singer and her marriage to rapper Jay-Z. The Neon Magazine article, published this week, featured details about an alleged marriage contract and prenuptial agreement between the music stars. The interview claimed that Beyonce and Hov signed a secret marriage contract to stay wed for two years, fueling online rumors that the couple — who marrie  

Well, when all else fails….. After two commercially-unsuccessful solo albums, former Destiny's Child star Kelly Rowland plans to deviate from her roots as an R&B crooner and tackle disco for her upcoming third album. Inspired by music legends Donna Summer and Diana Ross — well-regarded for their disco dance numbers in the 1970s — Kelly is determined to stop Earth from rotating with a collection of singles that fans can dance to.

They were so powerful and glam on stage and such a voice for women. I looked at them to take inspiration from and then thought of a way to make it my own   -Kelly Rowland

 

Part sitcom, variety show and revival meeting, the touring stage show " Tyler Perry 's Madea's Big Happy Family" is a hodgepodge of styles that may not be art, or even well-crafted, but it still adds up to an entertaining, even soul-satisfying experience for fans of the entertainment mogul's movies, DVDs and TV series. Much of the show presented Thursday night at Bridgeport's Harbor Arena — and playing today and Sunday at Hartford's Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts — is like a broad sitcom. The