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Tuesday Nov 24 | News.com.au

Festival Centre's 2010 program unveiled

ITALIAN cabaret performer Ennio Marchetto and a Korean production of Hamlet headline the Adelaide Festival Centre's 2010 program.

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Related Topix: Chanson, Dance

Sat Nov 21, 2009

Reading Eagle/Reading Times

Concert Review: At 58, Janis Ian is still as compelling as ever

The tradition of singer-songwriters is long and there are many bright lights among them through the centuries.

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Related Topix: Janis Ian, Pop/Rock, Chanson, Reading, PA, Reading Metro

Thu Nov 19, 2009

Antrim Today

Cabaret diva returns to the Island Arts Centre

CABARET diva Karen Egan returns to the Island Arts Centre next week with her new show, La Charlatanne.

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Related Topix: Chanson

Wed Nov 18, 2009

Mountain Xpress

An Education

Genre: Coming-of-Age Comedy/Drama Directed by: Lone Scherfig Starring: Carey Mulligan, Peter Sarsgaard, Alfred Molina, Olivia Williams, Dominic Cooper, Rosamund Pike "I'm going to Paris, and I'm going to smoke and wear black and listen to Jacques Brel," announces schoolgirl Jenny early on in Lone Scherfig's An Education - a funny, touching, often ...

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Related Topix: An Education, Chanson, Movies, Entertainment

Fri Oct 30, 2009

TwinCities.com

Review: Consider it a small character study with a degree of excellent filmmaking

Carey Mulligan and Peter Sarsgaard: She's sensational; he's tall, dark and smarmy.

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Related Topix: An Education, Chanson

Thu Oct 29, 2009

Joplin Globe

Revue to feature the music of Jacques Brel

Globe/T. Rob Brown: Gerrie Ellen-Johnston, Matt Ryan, Kenny Timbrel and Rebecca Luebber rehearse a musical number from A'Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris.A' / Published October 29, 2009 05:55 pm - "Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris" will be presented at 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Nov.

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Related Topix: Drama Movies, Music!, Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris, Chanson

Playbill

Cobb, Underneath the Lintel and Jacques Brel Will Play FL Riverside's Black Box

Titles for the 2010 season at Riverside Theatre's Second Stage black box theatre have been announced.

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Related Topix: Chanson

EKathimerini

Arts & Leisure

A'Jacques Brel appeared like love and took over my heart. Using his charm, he left me breathless and, as a result, I wanted to express all these emotions through his music,A' explained Sonia Theodoridou earlier this week on the occasion of the presentation of her new CD A'Sonia Theodoridou Sings Jacques Brel,A' released by Etcetera Records.

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Related Topix: Chanson

IndieLondon

The Dark Angel - Apollo Theatre

Entitled The Dark Angel , it opens at the Apollo Theatre on December 9, 2009 and runs until January 16, 2010.

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Related Topix: Chanson

Wed Oct 28, 2009

New York Times

Songs Whose Lyrics Are a Matter of Life and Death

"This song would never have happened without Brel," declared Amanda McBroom, introducing her composition "The Rose," the encore at the end of a show otherwise devoted to songs by Jacques Brel at the Metropolitan Room on Monday evening.

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Related Topix: Chanson, Arts, Music, Entertainment

Tue Oct 27, 2009

The Nelson Mail

Wow - what a treat

Always stop at the top, the musos say, and the Arts Festival did just that with Micheline Van Hautem and guitarist Erwin van Ligten.

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Related Topix: Chanson

EGigs.co.uk

REVIEW : Carousel: The Songs of Jacques Brel

This show is a celebration of the songs of Jacques Brel . It is 80 years since his birth in Belgium; he moved to Paris in his mid-twenties to forge a career as a singer-songwriter, and was also known as an actor and director.

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Related Topix: Chanson

Mon Oct 26, 2009

Financial Times

Carousel: The Songs of Jacques Brel, Barbican, London

In any list of famous Belgians - " a category that wags of other nationalities delight in mocking - " Jacques Brel must be short odds for the top five.

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Related Topix: Chanson, Devon County, England, United Kingdom

Fri Oct 23, 2009

Chicago Sun-Times

Rogers Park company's effort a Quixotic success

The Rogers Park neighborhood has gradually evolved into a genuine "theater corridor," with the Theo Ubique Cabaret Theatre, Lifeline Theatre, the side project and Raven Theatre now forming a little cultural hotbed in the area.

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Related Topix: Theater, Arts, Marketing, Chanson, Sports, Entertainment

Wed Oct 21, 2009

The Nelson Mail

Micheline van Hautem

SEASON IN THE SUN: Micheline Van Hautem will perform two concerts in Nelson on October 24 and 25.

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Related Topix: Chanson

The Peninsula

French mission to host musical on Jacques Brel

DOHA: The French Embassy will host a French musical on October 23 and 24 about the famous singer Jacques Brel at the Qatar National Theatre.

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Related Topix: Chanson, Qatar Travel, Travel, World News, Qatar, Middle East, Sports

Tue Oct 20, 2009

Scotsman.com Living

Further notes of protest from the maestro of the chanson form, 50 years on

By Jim Gilchrist "THERE isn't an equivalent to chanson in the English-speaking songwriting world," laments Leon Rosselson.

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Related Topix: Europe, World News, United Kingdom, Leon Rosselson, Folk, Chanson

Mon Oct 19, 2009

Tehachapi News

Delilah Shank sings French cabaret classics

Start: Oct 25, 2009 End: Oct 25, 2009 Time: 6:00pm Price: Tickets are $10 Contact: 822-2326 Location: 426 E. Tehachapi Blvd., Tehachapi, Ca 93561 Visit Paris without ever leaving Tehachapi when Delilah Shank sings the classic torch songs and romantic ballads of legendary French singer Edith Piaf.

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Related Topix: Tehachapi, CA, Edith Piaf, Chanson, Classical, Stephen Sondheim, Pop/Rock, Barry Manilow, Morro Bay, CA

Fri Oct 16, 2009

Santa Cruz Sentinel

Jacques Brel introduced to Santa Cruz audiences

Americans generally don't know a lot about the Belgian-born pop singer Jacques Brel.

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Related Topix: Music!, Chanson, Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris, Drama Movies, Santa Cruz, CA

Thu Oct 15, 2009

New Statesman

One famous Belgian

Nick Currie, aka the artist and performer Momus, was struck by the music of Jacques Brel from an early age.

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Related Topix: Chanson

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