Bob Dorough News

Bob Dorough, best known for his work on the cult animated cartoon series "Schoolhouse Rock," returns to Allentown tonight.

Nellie McKay has three loves - animals, the Poconos, and Doris Day. She's penned her share of songs with pithy social criticism on subjects such as gay marriage and feminism.

Bob Dorough performed at the COTA Jazz Festival in September. November 2, 2009 If you missed -- or loved -- the 32nd annual COTA Jazz Festival in Delaware Water Gap, you can hear all the music on the radio.

Track Devil May Care Artist/Band Carolyn Lee Jones Duration 4:18 Album Bon Appetit Record Label Catn'round Sound Description Duet arrangement featuring composer Bob Dorough on piano and vocals with jazz singer Carolyn Lee Jones.

Nancy Reed and Val Hawk to will perform from 4 to 7 p.m. Sunday at Lehman Township Community Park.

The sour economy is forcing the closure of jazz festivals around the world, from Great Britain to Dingo Creek, Australia.

Hard to say if Delaware Water Gap missed a chance at being the Branson, Mo., of the East some 60 years ago.

If you were a kid growing up in the 1970s, chances are you were tapping your toes every Saturday morning to catchy educational cartoons like "I'm Just a Bill," Conjunction Junction," and "Three is a Magic Number." They were all part of "Schoolhouse Rock", ABC's groundbreaking cartoon series, which was first launched in 1973.

Scranton Jazz Festival, the fifth annual celebration of jazz with Chuck Mangione, Dave Samuels, Nilson Matta's Brazilian Voyage, the Ellington Legacy, Chris Tarry, Phil Markowitz, Bob Dorough, Marko Marcinko's Latin Jazz Quintet, the Absolute Trio, the Funk Filharmonik, Cathy Chemi, Steve Rudolph, Jazz Juice, the Festival Big Band and many more.

Inner City/Classic Jazz is proud to announce the re-issue of Bob Dorough's 1954 album An Excursion Through 'Oliver!' While the arrangements and conceptions are credited chiefly to Dorough, a great deal of integrated creativity was brought to bear by quartet members Al Schackman , Ben Tucker , and Bobby Thomas .

Jazz vocalist Carol Fredette's singing is characterized as a clinic in singing with perfect diction.

On Saturday, June 27 the newly formed Animal Welfare Society of Monroe will host its first annual Fur Ball at Great Bear Golf and Country Club.