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Audience participation band Massaoke will headline the seventh annual KeyBank Rochester Fringe Festival in September, festival organizers announced this week. Massaoke, a live band that started in London in 2011, plays the best-loved “hairbrush” anthems—songs you know by heart and ...

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The Corn Hill Arts Festival is letting the musical group Inside Out take visitors back to 1969 when they take center stage for the featured performance at this year’s golden anniversary celebration. Inside Out headlines the festival’s extensive free music ...

Besides a growing downtown restaurant scene, jazz fans will have a wide selection of street-side food vendors to choose from for their meals and snacks this year. One change is the food booths that have previously lined East Avenue on ...

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Rochester’s Institute of Technology’s National Technical Institute for the Deaf is kicking off a yearlong 50th anniversary with a three-day event beginning June 28. The anniversary marks the beginning of the first and largest technical college for the deaf,  which ...

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Just in time for the Xerox Rochester International Jazz Festival, a renovated version of the former Rochester Club Ballroom is being unveiled and rechristened as the Wilder Room. The ballroom, at 120 East Ave., has been renamed for the former ...

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When one environmentally sensitive artist was considering playing at Constellation Performing Arts Center a couple of years ago, he wanted to be clear about environmental practices at the venue first. “To even put in an offer, we had to respond ...

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Dresden Engle requires two things of her public relations clients:  “They have to be ethical, and I need to have a direct line to the CEO.” Another way to say it might be that things need to be real. And ...

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The Xerox Rochester International Jazz Festival has released an updated smartphone app ahead of the June music festival. The free app, for iPhone and Android devices, will allow festival-goers to see artist bios, audio excerpts, links to artist websites and ...

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Ask Ferdinand Jay Smith III to sit down at a piano and play a song and you’ll hear silence. An Eastman School of Music graduate he is not. But ask him to compose the music for a television series or ...

The full lineup for the 17th annual Xerox Rochester International Jazz Festival (XRIJF) has been announced, and it’s quite a set list. Running for nine consecutive days beginning June 22, the XRIJF this year features over 300 shows from 1,500 ...

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The Corn Hill Neighbors Association has issued an APB — for a poster. To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Corn Hill Arts Festival this summer, images of all the posters will in the near future be placed on display at ...

Beginning this weekend, kids will have an opportunity to try on a career for size when the Strong National Museum of Play opens its permanent Imagination Destination exhibit. The new exhibit will allow children to role-play in inspiring spaces that ...

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Two local colleges have announced their commencement speakers for the spring—one a star and another who has helped NASA shoot for the stars. Actor Michael Park will speak at Nazareth in Pittsford, while geology scientist John Grotzinger will speak at ...

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It’ll be déjà vu all over again for the grand re-opening of the Cinema Theater Friday, Feb. 2. There will be old faces in new roles—longtime patrons Audrey Kramer and Alex Chernavsky are the new owners, who took over the ...

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Wendell Castle, the internationally recognized sculptor and art furniture craftsman who brought acclaim for more than 50 years to the Rochester area, his adopted home, is dead at 85. Castle died at his home in the village of Scottsville Saturday, ...

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