The production of "As You Like It" that opens at the Stratford Festival in Ontario tomorrow night features incidental music by the Grammy-nominated band.
The project's unveiling came a day before The Roots Picnic, an annual music festival in the city hosted and curated by the band.
It came at the height of Beatlemania and the band's music was famously drowned out by the screams of the 55, 000-strong crowd.
Inspired by what they'd just been through, in October they formed a company called the Family Dog, and on October 15, they rented Longshoreman's Hall and put on a dance with music by the Charlatans, Jefferson Airplane, and a band that lived a couple of doors away from the Charlatans, the Grateful Dead.
At the Chicago Symphony Center, the repertoire includes newly commissioned pieces from within the band, plus music by John Coltrane.
Recently, the famed WDR Big Band in Germany commissioned Michael Abene to arrange music by Reinhardt and others for the orchestra and Lagrene.
The evening will feature performances by the Marine Corps Band and music legend Gladys Knight.
Another exclusive announcement today was that the BBC's Olympic theme music will be by award-winning band Elbow.
One of the striking things about his performance for me is to see how the intricately layered textures of the recorded music are rendered by his top-notch five-piece band.
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Maezawa started in the mid-1990s selling music CDs and band T-shirts by mail order from his kitchen table.
The band makes its music with a looping software program, created by guitarist and keyboardist Brent Knopf while in college, called Deeler, short for Digital Loop Recorder.
The band then made its music available on iTunes as full-album and song-by-song downloads last year.
The Black Keys rock band is signed to Nonesuch Records, a label owned by Warner Music Group.
When Rikidozan, the pro-wrestling world champion, came to Kyoto for a match, the Rakunan Junior High band was invited by the Kyoto City Hall to march all over downtown to play welcoming music.
He's also the mariachi director at a program run by a nonprofit out of the Brooklyn Music School that began last year, and he started an all-female mariachi band in February.
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Electronic Arts' Guitar Hero spinoff (created by Harmonix, the original makers of Guitar Hero), Rock Band is a great big, expensive music videogame that will take up serious room in your house.
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