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Preview: Meat Loaf, Castle Howard, July 11

3:32pm Friday 4th July 2008

Meat Loaf has bounced back from the failing voice that brought a show to a sudden halt. Now he is booming again, as Charles Hutchinson discovers.

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Preview: Paul Heaton, Leeds Cockpit July 5; Cross Eyed Rambler album released July 7

3:29pm Friday 4th July 2008

Paul Heaton has not been resting since The Beautiful South disbanded in 2007 “due to musical similarities”. Instead the onetime Housemartin has launched his solo career, forming a new band with co-songwriter Steve Trafford on guitar, Tom Chapman on bass, and Brian Edwards on drums.

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Preview: Pentangle, Harrogate International Centre, July 10

3:26pm Friday 4th July 2008

FORGET Cream or Led Zeppelin, this is the biggie: Pentangle is reforming, as the Guardian enthused when announcing the return of the original line-up of the British folk-jazz pioneers.

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Preview: Cajun Dance Party, Fibbers July 8

3:22pm Friday 4th July 2008

FRESH from finishing their A-levels at assorted North London schools, Cajun Dance Party can at last mount a tour in support of their debut album The Colourful Life. The first night of their northern travels, at Fibbers in York, has sold out already.

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Jazz notes

3:09pm Friday 4th July 2008

DID you enjoy the jazz/world music element of Glastonbury on TV, ticked away in nocturnal hours? The shock/horror media coverage of Amy Winehouse and her wayward and wobbly demeanour should not detract from her undeniable talent.

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Preview: Ryedale Festival Community Opera performances July 7, 11 & 12

2:33pm Friday 4th July 2008

THE Ryedale Festival Community Opera cast of 110 assembles on Monday to bring The Wedding Ghost to mysterious and magical life next Friday and Saturday at the Milton Rooms, Malton.

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Preview: A double helping of Meat Loaf

1:26pm Thursday 3rd July 2008

THE sedate surroundings of Castle Howard will next week be rocked by the Bat Out Of Hell that is Meat Loaf.

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Review: Ebor Singers; York Minster

11:37am Wednesday 2nd July 2008

When you remember that the piano was the 19th century equivalent of the television in the 20th – essential furniture in every parlour – it is hardly surprising Brahms adapted many of his most popular works for piano duettists.

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Review: York Symphony Orchestra (YSO), Sir Jack Lyons Concert Hall, University of York

10:34am Tuesday 1st July 2008

Given the vagaries of our wonderful climate, anything that reminds us of the weather we think we deserve is extremely welcome.

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Review: Eric Clapton, Harewood House, Leeds

11:02am Monday 30th June 2008

Would it be heresy to even suggest to any one of the thousands of disciples who flocked on Sunday to see their guitar god pluck the pentatonic scale one more time that there was something missing from the ample and varied set-list served up by Eric Clapton to his congregation?

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