March 2006
Friday 31 March
- Weather + Music = Sunny Grooves (16:34) - What kind of music does this incredible weather make you want to listen to? Bob Marley? Coltrane? The Go-Go's? The Beach Boys? Mozart? For me, it's the funk. Average White Band or Stevie Wonder or Chaka Khan blaring from...
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Monday 27 March
- Jamie Cullum, March 27th (15:49) - This young British star comes to the Kimmel Center tonight having sold more than two million copies of his worldwide debut album Twentysomething and having just released his second album Catching Tales. Opening the show tonight is Brandie Carlile....
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Friday 24 March
- Local Love: Slo-Mo (11:48) - Kimmel Center Presents Performance Update! Slo-Mo Opening Act for Medeski, Martin and Wood March 24, 2006 Kimmel Center Presents is proud to announce "Philly's best, and only, funky hip-hop steel guitar band," (Philadelphia Inquirer) Slo-Mo will open for the...
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Wednesday 22 March
- Wicked, March 22nd – April 9th (15:34) - Ding, dong, the Witch is here! The hit Broadway musical, Wicked, opens at the Academy tonight. Even though it's here for three weeks, tickets are still hard to come by. There's always the lottery that opens two and a half...
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Tuesday 21 March
- Jeffrey Siegel, Sensuous Sonorities of Chopin, March 20th (08:51) - Tonight is Jeffrey Siegel's final Keyboard Conversations® concert for the season. Mr. Siegel will conclude his examination of great composers by playing and discussing Frédéric Chopin. While this is Siegel's last performance at the Kimmel Center this season, Keyboard Conversations...
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Sunday 19 March
- Kimmel photos on Flickr (15:03) - Have you heard of flickr, the photo blog website? It's for photo management and sharing, and it totally rocks. I'm not at all into blogging, but can get sucked into the wonderousness of flickr for hours anytime. And as the...
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Thursday 16 March
- Local Love: Birdie Busch (13:44) - I just came across this young Philly-ite on the lastest edition of NPR's All Songs Considered. Only four years ago Birdie Busch was working as a hostess at a posh downtown restaurant. Today she has made quite a name...
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Tuesday 14 March
- Open Topic (09:03) - The Kimmel Center has been in the news recently. There's also been some interesting discussion about forming choral groups in the Philadelphia area in our last open thread, but it's buried a bit but definitely worth reading and continuing. So,...
Sunday 12 March
- The Chieftains, March 12th (12:11) - They've been making music together for 42 years; they've won an Academy award and six Grammys. The Chieftains are one of Ireland's greatest exports. The Kimmel Center has been lucky enough to present these amazing musicians every year, right around...
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Saturday 11 March
- Mavis Staples and Taj Mahal (17:02) - She's a legend; she was included on VH1's 100 Greatest Women of Rock and Roll; and she's appeared alongside Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King to Bill Cosby to Jimmy Carter to Bill Clinton. Joining her tonight is another legendary performer,...
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Friday 10 March
- Boston Symphony Orchestra, March 10th (16:50) - Unfortunately, James Levine suffered a minor injury and won't be leading the Boston Symphony tonight. In his place will be David Robertson, who has been a guest conductor of The Philadelphia Orchestra. Lorraine Hunt Lieberson will be featured tonight, signing...
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Wednesday 8 March
- Kimmel Center Presents & Broadway 2006/2007 Seasons (10:23) - The other night Dennis DeYoung, former lead singer of Styx, had a performance on New Jersey's public television station. During the pledge broadcast, he was also in the studio and he sang to the callers and his voice sounded really...
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Tuesday 7 March
- The Boston Symphony (13:06) - Wow. For me, that's all I need to hear. I grew up as a young musician in Boston, first hearing the weekly radio broadcasts of the orchestra led by Erich Leinsdorf under the covers with my little radio late at...
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Saturday 4 March
- Oscar music (15:31) - I get crazy at Oscar time. The need to see as many of the movies on the Oscars list is overwhelming ... and this year I've done especially well. In the past week alone, I've seen Junebug, Transamerica, Goodnight &...
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