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Saturday Night Music (page 2)

Saturday Night Music--Rufus

By borges, Section Saturday Night Music
Posted on Sat Sep 20, 2008 at 09:55:44 PM CST

Gotta love Rufus Wainwright and here he is doing Everybody Knows

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Saturday Night Music--Bill Staines' Sweet Wyoming Home

By borges, Section Saturday Night Music
Posted on Sat Sep 13, 2008 at 10:58:00 PM CST

A favorite from Bill Staines recorded at the Iron Horse Concert Hall in El Dorado, Kansas on the afternoon of Sunday, May 18, 2008. Glad to see he is still singing it.

Chorus: Watch the moon, smiling in the sky

Hum a tune, a prairie lullaby

Peaceful winds, and old coyotes cry

A song of home, my Sweet Wyoming Home

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Saturday Night Music--David Rovics

By borges, Section Saturday Night Music
Posted on Sat Sep 06, 2008 at 03:10:42 PM CST

Political activist and folk singer David Rovics is performing a children's concert in Viroqua this Sunday September 7th, 1:00pm at the GreenMan Music Hall at 215 S. Main St inside the Viroqua Public Market. "Pirate Songs for Kids"

Cost is 5 kids/seniors $8 advance/$10 at door for adults. For reservations call 637-1912. more info see http://www.davidrovics.com/kids

Watch the video of one of his gentler songs...performed at a Benefit for the Vermont Worker's Center on March 8, 2007. Monkey Bar, Winooski, Vt.

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Saturday Night Music--Stevie Wonder

By borges, Section Saturday Night Music
Posted on Sat Aug 30, 2008 at 01:21:55 PM CST

Superstition...because we didn't get enough of Stevie last Thursday Night.

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Saturday Night Music--Schumann Piano Quintet Eb major, op. 44, mvt 2

By borges, Section Saturday Night Music
Posted on Sat Aug 23, 2008 at 08:57:29 PM CST

Schumann's beautiful Piano Quintet Eb major, op. 44, mvt 2. This is performed by "QuintART" with Violin 1 Mihail Zatin, Violin 2 Alexander Nikolaev, Viola Vartan Gnoro, Cello Nikolai Matveev, Piano Kzenya Gavrilova