http://liveeventblog.com A blog all about Live Events! Wed, 11 Aug 2010 17:02:59 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Singer-songwriter Sufjan Stevens will take to the road this fall for a 24-date tour. Although the 35-year-old musician has been apart of the folk-indie scene for over a decade now, it was his 2005 album, Illinois, that really brought Stevens widespread notoriety. Illinois was hailed by numerous music magazines as one of ... http://liveeventblog.com/2010/08/11/sufjan-stevens-returns-to-stage-in-fall/   Willie Nelson announced this week that the 25th Farm Aid will take place in Milwaukee, WI. The concert will be held inside at Miller Park (the home of the Milwaukee Brewers) on October 2nd, 2010. Nelson will be joined by fellow Farm Aid board members John Mellencamp, Neil Young, and ... http://liveeventblog.com/2010/08/05/milwaukee-will-host-25th-farm-aid/ For the first time since their 2005 Live Aid reunion, former Pink Floyd bandmates Roger Waters and David Gilmour were on the same stage this past weekend. Waters and Gilmour played "Comfortably Numb" and "Wish You Were Here" to the great delight of the 200 attendees at the Hoping Foundation ... http://liveeventblog.com/2010/07/12/david-gilmour-and-roger-waters-of-pink-floyd-reunite/   At just 24-years-old, Janelle Monáe is breaking free of the typical way female R&B artists are presented in mainstream music. The Kansas City science fiction lover broke into the music world after meeting Outkast's Big Boi in Atlanta. Monáe signed with Sean "Diddy" Combs' Bad Boy Records and released her ... http://liveeventblog.com/2010/07/02/janelle-monae-rbs-sci-fi-queen/   One music review has already called The Gaslight Anthem's third album, American Slang, "a masterpiece" as fans await their turn to purchase the album on June 14th. To give fans a taste of the album, The Gaslight Anthem are even allowing fans to listen to a free stream on NPR ... http://liveeventblog.com/2010/06/07/the-gaslight-anthem-break-out-with-american-slang/ It's been two hundred years since Phineas Taylor Barnum was born in Bethel, Connecticut, but his name is still in lights. In honor of "show business' first millionaire" the Ringling Brothers & Barnum & Bailey Circus is putting on a tour in his honor entitled "Funundrum". The show which will be touring ... http://liveeventblog.com/2010/04/02/circus-celebrates-pt-barnums-200th-birthday/   With 50 million records sold on her resume I guess no one should be surprised that Nigerian-English recording artist Sade is # 1 on the Billboard 200. Her new release, Soldier of Love, combines a modern R&B sound with a mystical world music feel. The release is her sixth album ... http://liveeventblog.com/2010/02/25/sade-on-top-of-the-charts/   Simba, Mufasa, Timon, and Pumbaa have been entertaining audiences long after Disney's 1994 The Lion King became the highest grossing traditionally animated film of all time. In 1997 a musical version of The Lion King hit Broadway and was a instant success. The music of Elton John, Tim Rice, Hans ... http://liveeventblog.com/2010/02/03/the-lion-king-musical-is-still-roaring/ All around the theater world, there are problems getting the necessary funding to get the job done. Grant money has dried up for the moment and shows just don't have much in the way of resources. So many of them are turning creative to get the job done in a ... http://liveeventblog.com/2009/12/21/economic-trouble/ When the musical Show Boat first appeared in 1927, it quickly became a favorite of musical theater fans. In some ways it set the standard for many subsequent Broadway productions, in terms of its style and the kinds of numbers that it puts onstage. In the intervening time, we have ... http://liveeventblog.com/2009/11/27/show-boat-returns-to-port/