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CBC | Music News
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Caribana gets 11th-hour funding
Caribana CEO Joe Halstead announces on CBC's Metro Morning that a provincial partner has stepped up to help Caribana in a new deal that was finalized just Thursday.
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Michael Bublé to wed next year
Bublé announced Friday he'll marry his girlfriend, the actress and model Luisana Lopilato, next year in her native Argentina.
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Concert competition strikes a chord
Though the Maritimes will host a number of festivals and concerts this holiday weekend, organizers aren't worried they'll lose fans to other events.
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Lennon tribute asks fans to imagine time capsule
John Lennon's fans are being asked to contribute to a trio of time capsules to mark what would have been the late Beatle's 70th birthday this fall.
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Toronto's Caribana proceeds despite funding cut
Toronto's Caribana - the biggest Caribbean festival in North America - heads into its final few days, despite a loss of $400,000 in federal funding.
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Rocker Brian May focuses on 3-D photography
Rock star, astrophysicist and animal rights activist Brian May has revealed a new obsession - stereo photographs.
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Gaza youth culture flourishes underground
In back rooms and refugee camps across Gaza, young men are rapping over hip hop beats, flipping over metal bars and spinning on their heads to funky dance music.
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Welsh Jay-Z video spoof scores hits online
An online parody of a Jay-Z hit that swaps New York's metropolis for a modest Welsh port town has won hundreds of thousands of fans, the director of the spoof says.
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Bamford leads country music award contenders
Gord Bamford will be the one to beat at the 2010 Canadian Country Music Association Awards, with the Albertan singer leading the pack for with six nominations for the upcoming edition.
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Love Parade report blasts organizers
State authorities blasted organizers of Germany's Love Parade on Wednesday, accusing those behind the techno music festival of significant security failures that may have led to the stampede that killed 21 attendees and injured more than 500 last weekend.
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Neil Young sideman Ben Keith dies
Ben Keith, a steel guitarist who played for 40 years with Neil Young, has died. He was 73.
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Love Parade memorial service to be held Saturday
A memorial service will be held Saturday for the 20 people crushed to death in a mass panic at the Love Parade techno festival in Duisburg, Germany, officials said Tuesday
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Wood denies Rolling Stones retirement rumour
Perennial reports that rock legends the Rolling Stones are set to retire were revived over the weekend, but have just as quickly been scuttled.
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