WGCU : 'Day-O' by Harry Belafonte: Song of the Day Tribute for December 8 →

Harry Belafonte acted. Harry Belafonte sang. But Belafonte was more than an entertainer. Two stories tell how important he was to the civil rights movement. He spent the 1950s building his singing and acting careers. He spent time in the 1960s singing, acting and fighting for civil rights. He was the first African American to host a late-night show. His guest list was varied. It included politicians, civil rights leaders, actors, singers and comedians. Many of the discussions were about the issues of the day.

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Collider : Ewan and Clara McGregor's Father-Daughter Drama 'Bleeding Love' Lands U.S. Release Date →

Ewan McGregor and his daughter Clara McGregor star in the upcoming film Bleeding Love, which will be released by Vertical on February 16, 2024. The film follows a young woman who turns to her estranged father after a traumatic event and goes on a road trip to reconnect and address their strained relationship. Clara McGregor not only stars in the film, but also serves as a producer and co-writer of the original story.

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American Songwriter : U2 Lighting Up Las Vegas’ Sphere Red Today in Honor of World AIDS Day and Bono’s (RED) Initiative →

U2 returns to Sphere in Las Vegas tonight, December 1, to launch a new series of dates as part of the band’s ongoing residency at the state-of-the-art venue. Since December 1 also is World AIDS Day, Sphere will be lit up red in honor of the (RED) initiative and The ONE Campaign, which were co-founded by Bono to fight HIV/AIDS and poverty across the globe.

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Far Out Magazine : The French poets who inspired Patti Smith to greatness →

In 1967, Patti Smith set off to New York with little more than a copy of Arthur Rimbaud’s Illuminations in her suitcase. “We would escape together,” she wrote in her memoir, Just Kids. Smith’s love affair with Rimbaud, the 19th-century French Symbolist poet, shaped her affection for literature and, subsequently, spurred her on to become a writer. “Rimbaud held the keys to a mystical language that I devoured even as I could not fully decipher it. My unrequited love for him was as real to me as anything I had experienced,” Smith wrote. “It was for him that I wrote and dreamed. He became my archangel, […] His hands had chiseled a manual of heaven and I held them fast.”

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Berliner Morgenpost : Bitte alle mal aufstehen für Glen Hansard! →

„Danke, dass ihr euch an uns erinnert“, sagt Glen Hansard, als er das Publikum in der Verti Music Hall begrüßt, mit seiner unnachahmlich sonoren Stimme. [...] Jetzt ist Hansard wieder unterwegs, um sein neues Studioalbum zu promoten, „All That Was East Is West Of Me Now“. Seine siebenköpfige Band brilliert zu Beginn des Sets vor allem dadurch, dass sie ganz viele Noten weglässt. Bei „Sure as the Rain“, mit einem zwischendurch ins Französische wechselnden Text, werden die Instrumente nur flüchtig hingetupft; Fender Rhodes E-Piano, Kontrabass, behutsam geklöppeltes Schlagzeug., ein bisschen Geige.

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BBC News : Music icon Angélique Kidjo is celebrating 40 years in music this year - marking the occasion with a concert at London's Royal Albert Hall →

Music icon Angélique Kidjo is celebrating 40 years in music this year - marking the occasion with a concert at London's Royal Albert Hall. [...] The singer takes every opportunity to use her voice and her platform to campaign for the betterment of humanity, as she sees it. She is a Unicef and Oxfam goodwill ambassador, and has her own charity, Batonga, dedicated to supporting the education of young girls in Africa. [...] Young African artists have an opportunity to bring about positive change for a continent facing many challenges, she says. So is she mentoring any of these younger artists? "We talk," she says. "Like at this concert. Apart from doing music I always tell them, 'You have a responsibility."

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Bustle : At 28, Joan Baez Was 6 Months Pregnant & Playing At Woodstock →

By the time Joan Baez turned 28 in 1969, she’d been on the cover of Time magazine as the face of the folk music movement and was providing protest songs for an anti-war generation. She’d already sung to a crowd of 250,000 at the March on Washington roughly six years before, alongside her friend Martin Luther King Jr. She was by then “addicted to activism,” she tells Bustle over Zoom. “[Fame] was a struggle. It gave me a lot more panic than I would’ve experienced [otherwise], but it also gave me an identity.” Joan Baez looks back on the activism of recent decades in an interview with Suzanne Zuckerman, to coincide with the release of the artist's documentary.

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Jamband : Listen: Warren Haynes Previews ‘The Benefit Concert Volume 20’ with Collaborative “Gold Dust Woman” Cover →

As a complete set, The Benefit Concert Volume 20 is an anthology of unforgettable live moments sourced from concerts past. The sonic journey through the evening’s most memorable performances summarizes the holistic spirit of giving steeped in community and a shared admiration for the power of music. The event’s long-standing charitable commitment to aid the local community is at the heart of the yearly coming together, having raised over $2.8 million for the Asheville Habitat for Humanity and stroked Warren Haynes’ three-decade-long commitment to delivering unforgettable live shows, which also uplifts and unites audiences.

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