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Marty Stuart to start country music TV show (AP via Yahoo! News)

Marty Stuart thinks there’s room on TV for the style of country music he remembers from “The Porter Wagoner Show,” “Flatt & Scruggs” and, of course, “Hee Haw.” So Stuart decided to create his own show.

Pink Floyd, Renee Fleming receive Polar Music Prize (AFP via Yahoo! News)

US soprano Renee Fleming and British rock group Pink Floyd received the Polar Music Prize from the hands of Sweden’s King Carl XVI Gustaf at a gala ceremony in Stockholm on Tuesday, organisers said.

Music: Remembering Jerry Wexler (Newsweek)

Author and music journalist, Stanley Booth remembers producer Jerry Wexler, who died earlier this month

Internet socializing keeps time with the music scene (AFP via Yahoo! News)

As music lovers mobbed an outdoor stage, vying for views of Radiohead, Beck and other rockers, Keith McPhail enjoyed a prime view of the show from a couch in an Internet “living room.”

Thornton’s passion for music is real and enduring (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)

Billy Bob Thornton might be an Academy Award-winning actor, but in conversation the Arkansas native is much more likely to talk about his first love: music.

Barrington fine arts fest to feature paintings, music (Daily Herald)

A celebration of music, dance and art is again coming to Barrington United Methodist Church, 98 Algonquin Road, at Route 59 from 6 to 7:30 p.m. on Sunday, Aug. 31.

Rowat, Morton, Juvier, Reichert and Hewitt Set for St. Louis Music Man (Playbill)

Graham Rowat and Christy Morton will star in the Stages St. Louis production of The Music Man, which parades into town Sept. 5.

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