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The 'biggest little festival' in Massachusetts just grew a little bigger. Starting off as a humble friendly barbeque, the Levitate Music and Arts Festival has since grown into a full-fledged weekend-long festival featuring top national touring acts, expecting a draw of over 10,000 fans per day. The fifth year will see the festival running two days: Saturday, July 8th and Sunday, July 9th.

This morning, The Recording Academy and 2016 GRAMMY Best New Artist, Meghan Trainor, kicked off this year's GRAMMY Awards nominations by revealing nominees in the four General Field categories (Best New Artist, Record Of The Year, Song Of The Year, and Album Of The Year) live on 'CBS This Morning.

Ukulele superstar Jake Shimabukuro's tour will stop at Kleinhans Music Hall on at 8 p.m. Nov. 17. Last year, Shimabukuro performed the US Mainland premiere of Byron Yasui's Ukulele Concerto with the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra to great acclaim and positive audience response. 

Sometimes inspiration strikes from the immersion of living in a far away place. The view of the ocean. The sound of a rainforest at sunrise. The smell of an open-air market. The embrace of the wild human experience. However, maybe the nostalgia for a certain place might be attributed instead to a feeling, or a time, or even a person. Sometimes, inspiration stems from a place that everyone can relate to, but maybe no one's actually been. This is the music of The Hip Abduction, the vibrant St. Petersburg, FL-based collective that formed over a mutual appreciation for West African and early Jamaican reggae/dub music.

Ukulele superstar Jake Shimabukuro's tour will stop at Kleinhans Music Hall on at 8 p.m. Nov. 17. Last year, Shimabukuro performed the US Mainland premiere of Byron Yasui's Ukulele Concerto with the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra to great acclaim and positive audience response. 

San Diego Repertory Theatre (San Diego REP) presents 'Disgraced,' the 2013 Pulitzer Prize-winning drama by Ayad Akhtar.

San Diego Repertory Theatre (San Diego REP) has announced final casting for their upcoming production of 'Disgraced,' the 2013 Pulitzer Prize-winning drama by Ayad Akhtar.

The Grove Theatre is excited to announce an Evening of Comedy* with Pauly Shore today, September 24th at 8:00 pm.

The perennial ARISE Music Festival will return to Loveland, CO for its fifth consecutive year on August 4-6, 2017. Held each year on over 100 acres at the picturesque Sunrise Ranch, the annual leave-no-trace event is offering a limited number of $99 'Loyalty Tickets" that will be on sale through Today, September 17, 2016, at 11:59 PM.  

Mixing legendary blues with political commentary, ballet with myth busting genius and big recognizable names with big - less mainstream, but just as brilliant - names… the 20th Season of Park City Institute's brand of performance has arrived. In keeping with its mission to entertain, educate and illuminate, PCI delivers a line-up of world-renowned musicians, actors, dancers, authors, thinkers and doers. There are throwbacks to The Eccles Center's grand opening first season. There are Grammy winners and acclaimed traditional entertainers. And there are pioneers, who would never have fit into the performing arts mold of yesterday.

The Grove Theatre is excited to announce an Evening of Comedy* with Pauly Shore, and featuring Steve Simeone, on Saturday, September 24th at 8:00 pm.  Comic Josh Martin will open the night. Pauly Shore tasted super-stardom in 1990 when his precedent-setting MTV show 'Totally Pauly' hit the airwaves with major fan approval.  The show ran for six years, leading him to roles on numerous television and film shows, including the one-hour HBO television special, 'Pauly Does Dallas.' Pauly then went on to star in and produce his own projects including 'Pauly Shore is Dead' for 20th Century Fox, as well as 'Adopted,' 'Vegas is My Oyster,' and 'Pauly-Tics' for Showtime.  He also starred in the films 'Encino Man,' 'Son In Law', 'Jury Duty,' 'In the Army Now,' and 'Bio Dome.'  He also experienced success with his albums. After his first album, 'The Future of America,' was named Best Comedy Album by the college music journalists in 1991, the National Association of Record Merchandisers nominated his second album, 'Scraps from the Future' for a Best Sellers Award. 

HUKA Entertainment, leading creator and producer of large scale destination-location music festivals, announced today that 8-time Entertainer of the Year KENNY CHESNEY will return for the third time to headline 2017's Rock The Ocean's Tortuga Music Festival.

Nashville, TN: The International Songwriting Competition (ISC) today announced its panel of judges for the 2016 competition. Included on the panel are many iconic, high-profile recording artists

San Diego Repertory Theatre (San Diego REP) has announced final casting for their upcoming production of "Disgraced," the 2013 Pulitzer Prize-winning drama by Ayad Akhtar.

The perennial ARISE Music Festival will return to Loveland, CO for its fifth consecutive year on August 4-6, 2017. Held each year on over 100 acres at the picturesque Sunrise Ranch, the annual leave-no-trace event is offering a limited number of $99 'Loyalty Tickets" that will be on sale through Saturday, September 17, 2016, at 11:59 PM.  

Gary Nesta Pine has been inspired by, and devoted to, music for as long as he can remember.  “I'm a messenger from Jah.  My dad was a postman; I feel like I am the postman of music.” The impact reggae has had on his life, and him on its sound, can't be understated. They're so intertwined that it's hard to imagine Jamaican roots reggae without the passion of Gary Nesta Pine.

BIG BROTHER is throwing the ultimate summer bash with a county fair themed special episode, Friday, August 19 (8:00-9:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network.

Pauly Shore tasted super-stardom in 1990 when his precedent-setting MTV show 'Totally Pauly' hit the airwaves with major fan approval.  The show ran for six years, leading him to roles on numerous television and film shows, including the one-hour HBO television special, "Pauly Does Dallas." Pauly then went on to star in and produce his own projects including 'Pauly Shore is Dead' for 20th Century Fox, as well as 'Adopted,' 'Vegas is My Oyster,' and 'Pauly-Tics' for Showtime.  He also starred in the films 'Encino Man,' 'Son In Law', 'Jury Duty,' 'In the Army Now,' and 'Bio Dome.'  He also experienced success with his albums. After his first album, 'The Future of America,' was named Best Comedy Album by the college music journalists in 1991, the National Association of Record Merchandisers nominated his second album, 'Scraps from the Future' for a Best Sellers Award. 

The International Songwriting Competition (ISC) today announced its panel of judges for the 2016 competition. Included on the panel are many iconic, high-profile recording artists

The Grove Theatre is excited to announce an Evening of Comedy* with Pauly Shore on Saturday, September 24th at 8:00 pm.