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I haven’t heard anything about the Black Crowes since the early 90’s. Apparently they are touring because they are playing at the Mesa Arts Center soon. Here is some info from wikipedia:

The Black Crowes are an American, blues-oriented hard rock jam band that has sold over 20 million albums.[1] They were hailed by Melody Maker as “The Most Rock ‘n’ Roll Rock ‘n’ Roll Band in the World”. In 1990, the readers of Rolling Stone named it the ‘Best New American Band’. The band has toured with acts such as Aerosmith, Jimmy Page, The Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, The Who, AC/DC, The Grateful Dead, and Neil Young. The Crowes - as fans refer to them - are listed at #92 on VH1’s “100 Greatest Artists of Hard Rock”.

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I watched a little of the Last Comic Standing this summer. Funny stuff. The tour is coming to Phoenix for a show at the Mesa Arts Center. Get ready to laugh. Here is some info from wikipedia:

Last Comic Standing is an American reality television talent show that premiered in 2003. The objective of the program is to select a comedian from a group, who will receive a development contract with the NBC television network and a special first to air on the cable-TV network Comedy Central and later on the cable network Bravo.

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If you like New Age Piano music then Jim Brickman is the one for you. He is coming to play at the Mesa Arts Center soon. Here is some info from wiki:

Born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio, Brickman enrolled in the Cleveland Institute of Music taking courses in composition and performance, while taking business classes at Case Western Reserve University. His music career started when he was 19, when Jim Henson hired him to write tunes for Sesame Street. He was also hired to write commercial jingles while in college.

Brickman signed with Windham Hill Records to release his first album, No Words, in 1994. The song “Rocket To The Moon” from that album was the first solo instrumental song ever to be ranked on Billboard’s charts. Four of his albums (By Heart, Picture This, The Gift, and Destiny) have all sold over 500,000 copies, qualifying them as gold records in the United States.

Brickman writes a wide variety of music. Besides his piano compositions and love songs, he has also created arrangements of other songs. Several of his albums feature arrangements of children’s music; he has produced two Christmas-themed albums The Gift (1997) and Peace (2003); and his 2005 album Grace concentrates on arrangements of well-known Christian music.

Since 1997, Brickman has also hosted his own radio show called Your Weekend with Jim Brickman, which is carried on radio stations throughout the United States.

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Queen Latifah is now known for her acting career, but she was first a singer. She is coming to the Mesa Arts Center. Here is some info from wiki:

From 1993 to 1998, Latifah had a starring role on Living Single, a FOX sitcom; she also wrote and performed its theme music. She began her film career in a supporting role in the 1991 films House Party 2, Juice, and Jungle Fever.

Latifah first attracted notice for her role portraying a lesbian in the 1996 box-office hit, Set It Off and subsequently had a supporting role in the Holly Hunter film Living Out Loud (1998). She later played the role of Thelma in the 1999 movie adaptation of Jeffrey Deavers’ The Bone Collector alongside Denzel Washington and Angelina Jolie. Although she had already received some critical acclaim, she gained mainstream success after being cast as Matron “Mama” Morton in the Oscar-winning musical Chicago, the recipient of the Best Picture Oscar. Latifah received an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for her role, but lost to co-star Catherine Zeta-Jones. In 2003 she co-starred with Steve Martin in the film Bringing Down the House, which was a big success at the box office. Since then, she has had both leading and supporting roles in a multitude of films that received varied critical and box office receptions, including Scary Movie 3, Barbershop 2: Back in Business, Taxi, Kung Faux, and Beauty Shop.

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Jewel is a well versed artist and she is coming to play at the Mesa Arts Center just outside Phoenix. Come and see the action Here is some info from wiki:

Jewel was born in Payson, Utah to Atz Kilcher, of Swiss-German origin, and Lenedra Carroll of Irish descent. She is the cousin of actress Q’Orianka Kilcher. She spent most of her young life in Homer, Alaska, living with her father. The home she grew up in did not have indoor plumbing; it had a simple outhouse instead. She and her father sometimes earned a living by singing in bars and taverns. It was from these experiences she learned to yodel, a quality demonstrated in many of her songs. Her father was a Mormon, but they stopped attending the church shortly before she turned eight. Yule Kilcher, her grandfather, was a state senator involved in drafting Alaska’s constitution for its admission into a state from a territory in 1959

During high school, Jewel was known to spell her name “Jule” or “Juel,” but she attributes this to simply playing with her name.

Jewel learned to play the guitar while on scholarship at the prestigious Interlochen Arts Academy in Interlochen, Michigan, where she majored in operatic voice. She started writing songs at the age of seventeen.

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If you like the Celtic music scene then this is the group for you. Anuna is coming to the Mesa Arts Center soon so get your tickets fast. Here is some info from wiki:

Anúna is an Irish choral group. In 1987 Dublin composer Michael McGlynn founded An Uaithne, a name which describes the three ancient types of Celtic music, Suantraí (lullaby), Geantraí (happy song) and Goltraí (lament). One of the group’s primary aims was to explore and redefine this music, and also to perform McGlynn’s own original works and his arrangements of medieval and traditional Irish music. An Uaithne became Anúna in 1991, and became closely associated with the Riverdance phenomenon from 1994 until 1996. Many of the singers who received inititial training and international exposure through Anúna have gone on to achieve international prominence, including Eimear Quinn who won the Eurovision Song Contest in 1996, and no less than four of the soloists who have been featured in Celtic Woman.

The combination of trained and untrained voices with a compelling stage show has brought Anúna to international prominence. McGlynn’s choral arrangements are written to accentuate their unique choral sound and to utilise the group’s facility to move during performance, as they use neither sheet music not conductor when performing live. Their standard line-up is 14 singers. Anúna won a National Entertainment Award for Classical music in 1994, and were nominated for a Classical Brit Award in 2000, but the greatest impact they have had has been in the USA, where many choral groups have performed Michael McGlynn’s compositions primarily due to the recordings of Anúna.

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As it says below, Denyce is a soprano vocalist. She is performing at the Mesa Arts Center. If you are around Phoenix area then come see her play. Here is some info from wiki:

She is a mezzo soprano and began vocal training at the Duke Ellington School of Arts in Washington in the late 1980s. She also studied at Oberlin Conservatory of Music and New England Conservatory. She is an alumna of the Wolf Trap Opera Company, which provides further training and experience for young singers who are between their academic training and full-time professional careers. She debuted at the Metropolitan Opera in 1995 and has appeared at many opera houses. Though her repertoire is extensive, her signature parts are the title roles in Carmen and Samson et Dalila. On January 20, 2005, she sang the patriotic song “American Anthem” during the 55th Presidential Inauguration, between the swearing in of Vice President Dick Cheney and the swearing in of President George W. Bush for their second terms in office.

Graves sang “America the Beautiful” and “Lord’s Prayer” at the Washington National Cathedral during a memorial service honoring the victims of 9/11 on September 14, 2001, attended by President Bush, members of Congress, other politicians and representatives of foreign governments.

In 2003, Graves performed in front of a live audience at the Mann Center for the Performing Arts in Philadelphia for a television special, Denyce Graves: Breaking the Rules. Since 2005, she has hosted a radio show, Voce di Donna (Voice of a Lady), on XM Satellite Radio.

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