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Huey Lewis & The News

Huey Lewis & the News is an Academy Award-nominated American rock band based in San Francisco, California. They had a run of hit singles during the 1980s and early 1990s, scoring a total of 19 top-ten singles across the US Billboard Hot 100, Adult Contemporary and Mainstream Rock charts. Their greatest success was with their number-one album, Sports. Their worldwide fame expanded when their recording of "The Power of Love" was featured as a key track in the 1985 movie "Back to the Future" (in which Lewis made a cameo appearance).

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my life in singles

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Jim Lockey

Falling somewhere between love, politics and post-adolescent escapist infatuations, is Jim Lockey. a 23 year old ‘folk-punk troubadour’ from Cheltenham. Starting out as frontman for alt.rock band ‘theholloh’ - achieving accolades and airplay through BBC and KERRANG! radio - Jim has found his feet in the world of alt. country and folk. The past year has seen him write and release his first album through‘istartedthefire’, available through local record stores and various download sites worldwide - such as itunes, napster and amazon mp3.

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Kina Grannis

Kina Grannis is an American guitarist and singer-songwriter. She started performing in 2001 after getting over with her shyness. Kina independently released her first full-length album, Stairwells, on February 23, 2010. Her music is both sweet and melancholy, but always filled with hope. Kina started playing shows at the age of four in front of her stuffed animals. Now she plays in front of people, though it wasn’t the quickest transition for the admittedly shy songstress.

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Shawn Colvin

Shawn Colvin (born January 10, 1956 in Vermillion, South Dakota) is an American musician. Best known for her hit single "Sunny Came Home" from the album "A Few Small Repairs". Colvin's formative years were spent in the town of Carbondale, Illinois, where she attended Southern Illinois University Carbondale. She learned to play guitar at the age of 10. Her first public concert was at age 15 at the University of Illinois campus. Colvin cites Joni Mitchell as a primary influence on her music, and her initial performances closely mirrored Mitchell's inflections and guitar tunings.

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Female Tribute To Tom Waits

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Clare Bowditch

Clare Bowditch is a a critically acclaimed, ARIA award-winning singer from Melbourne, Victoria. She came to prominence in 2005 with the release of her second album "What Was Left", which received excellent critical reviews, high rotation airplay on radio station Triple J and moderate commercial success. Her sweet folk-pop style has been compared to that of Cat Power and Beth Orton. Visit the Clare Bowditch website or her Myspace profile.

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Splendour in the Grass 2006

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Australian contemporary folk

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Mindy Smith

Mindy Smith (born June 1, 1972 on Long Island, New York) is an American singer-songwriter. Mindy rose to fame in 2003 when she was the first artist signed to contribute to the Dolly Parton tribute album Just Because I'm a Woman: Songs of Dolly Parton, on which she sang a cover of Parton's classic "Jolene". Later Dolly Parton followed by adding backing vocals to a new mix of the song, which was then featured on Smith's debut album that was released in January 2004, One Moment More.

Iain Matthews

Iain Matthews ( also popularly known as Ian Matthews ) has had a long singing career dating from the swinging 1960's, where he released material as the vocalist of Pyramid. He later joined Fairport Convention, and went on to have a long and winding career, sailing through trends in rock, pop, country and folk with some chart success and maintaining a continuous cult following since his commercial peak in the late 1970's.

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Paul Goodwin

Paul Goodwin is regarded as the foremost baroque oboist of his generation, is now firmly established as a conductor. He has made more than 20 solo and concerto recordings and was soloist with many of Europe's finest early music groups. Goodwin's experience as an oboist helps bring lyricism, phrasing, and architecture to his conducting.

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Mark McCabe

Mark McCabe is a singer/songwriter from the North East of Scotland. He has played with many great acts and released an album in 2009. He plans to keep doing this for a long time to come. OR Mark worked as station manager and a Radio DJ, performing the drivetime slot on a pirate radio station (Pulse FM103) in Dublin for a number of years before producing Maniac. Due to Ireland's rather liberal treatment of pirate stations, he became the third most influential Radio DJ in 1998.

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Della Perrett's Sweetedge

Unconventional, haunting, sophisticated and uplifting are just a few of the words that have been used to describe Della Perrett’s powerful voice. She fuses folk, blues, jazz, country and rock influences into something that is totally her own. Her songs are both political and personal,sometimes sweet but at other times sharp and thought provoking. Her substantial experience playing tenor sax shapes her vocal style as it twists and soars from dark to light.

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