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JOHN NELSON’S LIVE MUSIC COLUMN: Take sweetie out for swinging, two-stepping time
JUST BECAUSE VALENTINE’S Day is over doesn’t mean you can’t take your sweetie out for a two-stepping, swinging,…
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JOHN NELSON’S LIVE MUSIC COLUMN: Spice up Valentine’s with dance, fun
THERE’S A LOT happening in the live music world this week, including a new dancing venue, a venue…
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JOHN NELSON’S LIVE MUSIC COLUMN: Variety of musical fare; two musicians mourned
THIS WEEK’S MUSIC fare consists of enough variety to satisfy most everyone’s palate. So dive in, enjoy and…
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JOHN NELSON’S LIVE MUSIC COLUMN: Wrap up old year with food, fun, rock
SANTA’S COME AND gone and the presents have been unwrapped: the ugly sweater, the wrong-sized shirt or blouse…
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JOHN NELSON’S LIVE MUSIC: Music heightens the yule spirit
The Christmas spirit is upon us — it’s in the air, the stores — and in the live…
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JOHN NELSON’S LIVE MUSIC COLUMN: Music a great gift for families, friends
SAY, HERE’S A great idea: Take someone out for live music and dancing or dinner. I wish I…
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JOHN NELSON’S LIVE MUSIC COLUMN: Enjoy music as year ends
AS THE YEAR winds down and we prepare to put a cap on this year’s live music scene,…
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JOHN NELSON’S LIVE MUSIC COLUMN: Tune or two of the season on tap for local scene
LIVE MUSIC, INCLUDING special holiday tunes, abound all across the Peninsula this week. If you’re not in the…
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JOHN NELSON’S LIVE MUSIC COLUMN: After turkey time, give thanks for live music
IT’S TURKEY TIME, and when you sit back in your recliner after the meal and before you nod…
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JOHN NELSON’S LIVE MUSIC COLUMN: Country, blues, gospel and more on tap this week
TOMORROW, I REACH a milestone in my life as I become a septuagenarian — 70 years young. I…
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JOHN NELSON’S LIVE MUSIC COLUMN: Music abounds across North Peninsula
Port Angeles ■ Slide guitarist extraordinaire Nick Vigarino returns to the Junction Roadhouse, junction of U.S. Highway 101…
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JOHN NELSON’S LIVE MUSIC COLUMN: Look forward to more holidays with music
THE SPOOKY, WEIRD, eerie, ghoulish fun over four days and nights last weekend is finally behind us, and…
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JOHN NELSON’S LIVE MUSIC COLUMN: Take part in costumes, music, dancing
OH, THE SPINE-TINGLING screams, the frightening costumes of zombies, vampires, werewolves, aliens, Wall Street brokers or classic cowboys,…
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JOHN NELSON’S LIVE MUSIC COLUMN: A correction, more music gigs slated this week
LAST WEEK, I made an assumption, and you know what that means. I made mention that Denny Secord…
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JOHN NELSON’S LIVE MUSIC COLUMN: Variety of music at Port Angeles crab festival
THIS WEEK, WE’VE got jazz, blues, big band, metal, country, bluegrass and all kinds of live music in…
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JOHN NELSON’S LIVE MUSIC COLUMN: Get out of blues funk with live music
THIS ARTICLE HAS been revised to reflect the following correction: Tacoma’s T-Town Aces will perform the blues at…
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JOHN NELSON’S LIVE MUSIC COLUMN: 60 years later, and still rolling along
SIXTY YEARS AGO yesterday, the Nelson family from the flatland of Illinois came north on U.S. Highway 101…
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JOHN NELSON’S LIVE MUSIC COLUMN: Music venues need help to stay alive
OVER THE PAST nine years, live music venues have closed while others have opened up, and the same…
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JOHN NELSON’S LIVE MUSIC COLUMN: Take a recess and get away from it all
SUMMER IN SEPTEMBER is stupendous, just stupendous. Just ask the kids that have just started school! Well, recess…
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JOHN NELSON’S LIVE MUSIC COLUMN: Liven up weekend with live variety
IT’S SEPTEMBER, AND summer just got here, and now school starts. Where’s the justice in that? Take some…