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American folk musician Joan Baez talks to the audience during her performance March 13 at the Buskirk-Chumley Theater. The singer-songwriter who champions social activism and human rights through her music played tunes spanning her 50-year career.

Folk singer Joan Baez performs in Bloomington

Joan Baez performed to a sold out crowd at the Buskirk-Chumley Theater on March 13. The folk singer has been nominated for Grammy Awards seven times, and continues to play shows after 50 years in the business.


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The Game to perform at Jake’s on Tuesday

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The hip-hop beats and sentiment of modern gangster rap will envelop audience members at Jake’s Nightclub when chart-topping rapper The Game headlines with rising emcees Nipsey Hussle and Clyde Carson at 9 p.m. Tuesday.





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Concert raises awareness about suicide

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While using music to raise awareness for a cause might not be a new concept, it is definitely effective, as BuffaLouie’s co-owner Ed Schwartzman can attest.


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Former Jacobs dean wins award

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Charles H. Webb, former dean of the Jacobs School of Music, was honored on Feb. 28 by the Indianapolis Symphonic Choir by being named the recipient of the first-ever Elmer Steffen Founder’s Award.


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IU graduate to star in upcoming web series

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Andrew J. West, a 2006 IU graduate, has come far from his days at IU spent working at the Eigenmann food court. West is a current star on ABC Family’s “Greek” and will make his debut as the main character, “Hunter,” in an upcoming web series called “Rockville, CA” on TheWB.com on March 17.


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Top-level Irish dancers re-form cultural group

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At a school where parties dominate the social scene, the same old music and entertainment every weekend can start to wear thin. IU students offer many alternative forms of entertainment, and the championship-level dancers in the Identity Irish Dancers could make for fun entertainment at a St. Patrick’s Day party.


The "Leprechaun", IU Sophomore Kaylee Spivey, mingles with attendees of the 1st annual Leprechaun's Birthday at the Waldron Arts Center on Wednesday evening.  The event was the sixth of 35 events being held at the Center to celebrate it's 35th anniversary.

‘Leprechaun’ parties for art

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In celebration of the Bloomington Area Arts Council’s 35th birthday, Bloomington resident Robert Stumpf played bagpipes outside of the John Waldron Art Center Wednesday at A Leprechaun’s Birthday. The birthday party was one of 35 events the council will put on this year.  


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Bloomington arts council celebrates 35 years

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In celebration of the Bloomington Area Arts Council’s  35th birthday, the council has planned 35 “unbirthday” parties between January and September, said Steve Pierson, office manager for the council.


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Free art-focused seminars offered to creative community

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The first in a series of “webinars” administered by Americans for the Arts will be held at 2 p.m. today in City Hall. The webinars, part of Bloomington Entertainment and Arts District’s initiative to offer entrepreneurial and educational opportunities to the creative community, are free and open to the public.


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Concert promotes suicide prevention and awareness

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Suicide is the third-leading cause of death for Americans ages 15 to 24, largely because most people don’t want to talk about it, said Kyle Ferguson, president and founding member of the Alive Campaign, a grassroots organization created to raise awareness about and prevent suicides.


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Tickets on sale Friday for Dave Matthews in Indy

Dave Matthews Band concert tickets will be on sale at 9 a.m. on Friday for its performance at the Verizon Wireless Music Center in Noblesville, Ind. this summer.



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Leno to give free show for Michigan's unemployed

AUBURN HILLS, Mich. — Michigan's high unemployment is no laughing matter, but Jay Leno will offer a little comic relief with a free show next month at The Palace of Auburn Hills.



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Professor Stanley Wells, chairman of the Shakespeare Birthplace trust and one of the world's leading experts on Shakespeare studies according to the trust, poses next to a newly discovered portrait of William Shakespeare, in central London, Monday. The portrait, believed to be almost the only authentic image of the writer made from life, has belonged to one family for centuries but was not recognized as a portrait of Shakespeare until recently. There are very few likenesses of Shakespeare, who died in 1616.

Portrait discovered in family’s possession

The Bard, or not the Bard? That is the question posed by Monday’s unveiling of a centuries-old portrait of a dark-eyed, handsome man in Elizabethan finery.Experts say it is the only portrait of William Shakespeare painted during his lifetime – in effect, the sole source of our knowledge of what the great man looked like.But they can’t be certain.