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ENTERTAINMENT NOTES: 'Hairspray,' 'NORTH,' 'Earnest' on stage this week | The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

A 16-year-old in 1960s Baltimore with big dreams (and even bigger hair) hopes to change the world as she sets out to dance her way onto TV's most popular show in "Hairspray."

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OPINION | PAPER TRAILS Arkansas native to receive NEA's Jazz Masters Fellowship at Washington D.C. event

A JAZZ LEGEND Arkansas native Amina Claudine Myers is among those receiving the National Endowment of the Arts Jazz Masters Fellowship, the nation's highest jazz honor.

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OPINION | PAPER TRAILS: Arkansas native to receive NEA's Jazz Masters Fellowship at Washington D.C. event

A JAZZ LEGEND Arkansas native Amina Claudine Myers is among those receiving the National Endowment of the Arts Jazz Masters Fellowship, the nation's highest jazz honor.

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Jive & swing

The Arkansas Jazz Heritage Foundation's 2023 Jazz Celebration was a fundraiser for the Arkansas Jazz Hall of Fame, which celebrates 30 years in 2024. The event was held June 19 in the second-floor ballroom of U.S. Pizza Co. Hillcrest in Little Rock.

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Jazz promoter Al White remembered

Throughout his lifetime Al White combined his love for jazz and photography to book and to promote world-class jazz musicians and to publish "Jazz Party," a superb jazz and photography collection.

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Jazz And Venezuelan Bandola Come Together For COMMON GROUND: MINI-GLOBAL MASHUPS

Flushing Town Hall's most popular series, Common Ground: Mini-Global Mashups, continues with its “Jazz Piano Meets Venezuela” concert on September 18th at 1 PM EST. 

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Flushing Town Hall's Mini-Global Mashup Series Continues With JAZZ PIANO MEETS VENEZUELA Concert

Flushing Town Hall's most popular series, Common Ground: Mini-Global Mashups, continues with its “Jazz Piano Meets Venezuela” concert on September 18th at 1 PM EST. 

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A Work of Art: Art Porter Music Education benefit concerts set for this week

The first week of August in Little Rock has become synonymous with jazz, thanks to the organization known as Art Porter Music Education Inc. ... and despite the fact that A Work of Art, its signature week of fundraising concert performances, went on hiatus for two years because of the covid-19 pandemic.

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Resounding applause

Five jazz artists with roots in the Natural State were inducted into the Arkansas Jazz Hall of Fame during a ceremony and jam session June 20 at the Old State House Museum's 1885 House of Representative Chamber. The event, sponsored by the Arkansas Jazz Heritage Foundation, honors those who have made notable contributions in the arena of jazz music.

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