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One Night at the Blue Note

You never forget your first night at the Blue Note in New York City’s Greenwich Village.
18 years or so ago, I stepped into the Blue Note and I was never the same again.

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United Stage is Now a Boles Network Blog

Finding the right form for expression is always a challenging effort and mandate and today, we are delighted announce that UnitedStage.com has transmogrified from website into the 13th blog in the Boles Blogs Network!

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Deconstructing Katy Perry

Katy Perry is everywhere playing on Palladia in her MTV Unplugged performance.  Her presentation is so perfect and so Aristotelian in fiber and being that we begin to think she will never again be as great as she was at age 24.

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Poetics Primer

If you like live performance and you don’t love Aristotle and his Poetics, then you need to devour this article to understand the basic living structure that creates the being of any worthwhile dramatic presentation.

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Defending Hey Monday

One of the greatest joys of living an online life is the ability to celebrate, and defend, the goodness you find in the world against the crassness crashing around us, and today, we are leaping — nay, racing — to the defense of the new smash musical group, “Hey Monday” and their delightful lead singer, Cassadee Pope.

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Retiring Paul McCartney

There comes a time in every performer’s life when fading away is better than continuing to perform at sub-par levels. The time is now for Sir Paul McCartney to hang up his axes, retire his strings, and stop singing in public.
Forever.

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Steve Martin and that Banjo Twang

One of lost gems during the American Idol finale wasn’t just Adam Lambert’s unjustified loss; it was the mainstream media’s overlooking Steve Martin’s delightful performance of “Pretty Flowers” from his new musical masterpiece, “The Crow — New Songs for the Five String Banjo.”

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