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Guitar Center is proud to announce the upcoming induction of Grammy Award-winning country music legend Vince Gill into the retailer's historic RockWalk.

With the Beatles' full catalog recently made available to stream for the first time, listeners by the thousands are adding the band's songs to their playlists.

Finally, Beatlemania can reach the youths of the 21st century through their preferred medium.

Bergen Performing Arts Center located at 30 North Van Brunt Street in Englewood, New Jersey presents Three Dog Night - Thursday, January 28, 2016 at 8PM. Purchase tickets at www.ticketmaster.com or Box Office at 201.227.1030.

The promoters of ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE, The Beatles spectacular live concert experience, have announced that an additional performance of the show will be held on Friday 5 February 2016 at 8.00pm in the Festival Theatre, following the sell-out of the Saturday 6 February concert.

Get ready for some '80s-inspired tunes in the background of the upcoming EDDIE THE EAGLE biopic. The Daily Mail writes that FINDING NEVERLAND composer Gary Barlow has gathered a group of '80s pop stars to write and perform songs for the film.

EPSTEIN: THE MAN WHO MADE THE BEATLES is a window into the private world of Brian Epstein, the music entrepreneur whose stellar career as The Beatles' manager made him a household name, yet whose controversial personal life remained the purview of only friends and close business associates.

It's a delight to see a showman of the old school back in the West End. Jim Dale takes us through his music hall roots (and teenage dance classes) to pop stardom to Carry On to Hollywood, showing some nimble footwork along the way as well as vocal cords that are still in excellent shape.

The high-octane musical tour de force that took Broadway by storm, The Midtown Men, perform their favorite Sixties hits with the Utah Symphony under the baton of Principal Pops Conductor Jerry Steichen. Performances run April 24 and 25 at 8 p.m. in Abravanel Hall. Tickets, priced from $18 to $85 ($10 for students), are available for purchase through ?www.utahsymphony.org or by calling (801) 355-2787.

The NAMM Foundation has announced that Nathan East, one of the most recorded bass players in the history of music, will be inducted into the NAMM Technical Excellence & Creativity (TEC) Awards Hall of Fame.

Ching-He Huang returns to the primetime lineup to whip restaurants into shape, giving much-needed makeovers to struggling businesses in a new season of Restaurant Redemption Tuesday, October 14th at 10:00pmET/7:00pmET.

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Tony Award winner Christian Hoff will teach an Audition Master Class at Stage Door Repertory Theatre in Anaheim, CA on Sunday July 13 beginning at 4:30pm and ending at 7:30pm.

In case you missed it, legendary rock group Linkin Park was inducted into Guitar Center's renowned RockWalk last month.

If anyone was destined for a career in the arts, it was Leslie Uggams. With a father who was a singer and a mother who was a dancer, it was appropriate that Leslie would be a professional by the age of six. She attended school with the composer, Marvin Hamlish and the son of Gypsy Rose Lee and Otto Preminger, Erik Lee Preminger. Ms. Uggams has worked with everyone from Ethel Waters to Kermit the frog. Yet, it is her latest venture that proves there are still many barriers to break for African Americans in the industry.

Japanese pianist Yoshiki Hayashi performed live during a concert at the Tempodrom on May 23, 2014 in Berlin, Germany.

Henry Haun recently published this article about Jim Dale in Playbill Magazine. They've been kind enough to let us reproduce it in full below:

Bergen Performing Arts Center located at 30 North Van Brunt Street in Englewood New Jersey announces exciting new shows for everyone! See The Musical Box on Saturday, July 19th and Classic Albums Live Presents, Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon and the it's America on Wednesday, October 15th at 8PM and Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes on Saturday, November 15th at 8PM- the new shows go on sale Friday May 9th 2014 at 11am be sure to reserve your tickets at www.ticketmaster.com or by calling bergenPAC's Box Office at 201.227.1030.

Yoshiki, Asia's foremost rock icon and multi talented music superstar, will bring his new live show, Yoshiki Classical, to Segerstrom Center for the Arts for a special one-night-only concert tonight, April 25 at 8 p.m. in the Renee and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall.

International rock icon Yoshiki has announced three new concert dates across Asia to his highly anticipated Yoshiki Classical tour. X Japan's founder and leader will bring his first classical concert tour to Taipei, Taiwan, as well as, Tokyo and Osaka, Japan. The newly added concert dates follow Yoshiki's recently announced Bangkok, Thailand performance. Yoshiki, Asia's foremost rock icon and multi talented music superstar, will embark on the Yoshiki Classical tour at Segerstrom Center for the Arts tonight, April 25 at 8 p.m. in the Renee and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall before setting off across North America, Europe and Asia, culminating in Yoshiki's native Japan.