Natalie Merchant News

Good morning. Today is the 299th day of the year. It is the anniversary of the famous Gunfight at the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Ariz., in 1881.

Actor Bob Hoskins is 67. Actress Jaclyn Smith is 64. Wheel of Fortune host Pat Sajak is 63.

The moon is waxing. The morning stars are Mercury, Venus, Mars and Saturn. The evening stars are Neptune, Jupiter and Uranus.

Singer Natalie Merchant is 46. Country singer Keith Urban is 42. Actor Jon Heder is 32.

A fair sprinkling of Shetland talent will be on show at the 17th Celtic Connections festival, which takes place in Glasgow from 14th to 31st January next year.

Bobby McFerrin, Ry Cooder and Natalie Merchant are among the headline acts announced for next year's Celtic Connections festival.

I hosted a panel at Carnegie Hall about two years ago with veteran rocker Lou Reed, singer Natalie Merchant, the RZA from hip hop's Wu-Tang Clan, and Leila Josefowicz, the classical violinist.

28--COLONIE -- Natalie Merchant likes to sing in unconventional places. A decade ago, the Grammy-award winning singer hummed a few notes during a tour of the 1848 Shaker Meeting House here.

Grammy award winning singer Natalie Merchant walks the grounds of the 1848 Shaker Meeting House in Colonie on Sunday before her benefit concert for the Shaker Heritage more... Singer Natalie Merchant appears fans and volunteers on Sunday at the Shaker Meeting House.

Los Angeles CAThe go-to keyboard / Hammond B3 organ player for Ben Harper, Natalie Merchant , Macy Gray, Michael Franti and G. Love has once again been handpicked to round out Citizen Cope's touring band which is gearing up to traverse the U.S. through the end of 2009.

The Woodstock Film Festival later this month will celebrate its tenth anniversary and maintain a tradition of highlighting music in cinema.

The word "tigerlily" has roots as a character in the kid classic, Peter Pan ; the title of Natalie Merchant 's 1995 album and a song by La Roux on their self-titled 2009 album.

Other members of the sextet were Robert Buck , Steven Gustafson , Dennis Drew , and Jerry Augustyniak .

They first met at Time Warp, the vintage clothing store on Augusta Road that Anne Merchant owned and where art & light gallery owner Teresa Roche shopped.

Bob Karlovits can be reached via e-mail or at 412-320-7852. Congolese singer and guitarist Lokua Kanza on Saturday will bring his form of Afro-pop music to the Byham Theater, Downtown.

At SUNY New Paltz, under a cloudy sky on Sunday, more than 900 undergraduate students participated in the college's commencement ceremony.

NEW PALTZ - SUNY New Paltz students this morning will take a last walk on the campus - to commencement.