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Category Archives: Music

MIDDLETOWN: DINOSAURS OF ROCK RETURN
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Photographer, naturalist and New Jersey history expert Walter Choroszewski goes looking for fossils — and finds more than one kind of classic rock — when he visits the Middletown LibraryContinue reading "MIDDLETOWN: DINOSAURS OF ROCK RETURN"
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July 29th, 2014 @ 12pm
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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RED BANK: BUSKING FOR THE PROGRAM
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Red Bank primary and middle school strings players performing at the borough Sidewalk Sale on Saturday included, from left, Hannah Ludwikowski, Claudia Garcia, Parker Ludwikowski, Mae Woolley, Sarah Perry andContinue reading "RED BANK: BUSKING FOR THE PROGRAM"
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July 28th, 2014 @ 12pm
RED BANK: A BAND OF BEETHOVENS
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The largest rhythm-keeping force in the free world, the US Army Field Band deploys to the stage of the Count Basie Theatre on Monday, for a free public concert. InContinue reading "RED BANK: A BAND OF BEETHOVENS"
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July 27th, 2014 @ 12pm
RED BANK: INTIMATE AND UN-IRONIC ALANIS
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Serial Grammy winner Alanis Morisette returns to the greater Green this Sunday, for an unplugged concert at the Count’s place. To music fans that have helped her move more thanContinue reading "RED BANK: INTIMATE AND UN-IRONIC ALANIS"
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July 26th, 2014 @ 12pm
A JAZZY SUMMER MUSIC CAMP IN RED BANK
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Aspiring young musicians will get a chance to learn with the pros, during a Summer Music Camp program that commences August 4 in Red Bank. (photos by Roberto Muolo) PressContinue reading "A JAZZY SUMMER MUSIC CAMP IN RED BANK"
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July 25th, 2014 @ 6am
RED BANK: SURFING FOR SIDEWALK DIAMONDS
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It’s the 60th annual edition of a local  favorite – and the organizers of the Red Bank Sidewalk Sale have a special stroll down memory lane built in to thisContinue reading "RED BANK: SURFING FOR SIDEWALK DIAMONDS"
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July 24th, 2014 @ 5am
RED BANK: NOW YOU HAS JAZZ
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Vocalist Maggie Worsdale fronts the Sweet Whiskey Band in a set of “Songs Under the Influence,” Friday and Saturday at Two River Theater. (photo by Roberto Muolo) April may beContinue reading "RED BANK: NOW YOU HAS JAZZ"
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July 23rd, 2014 @ 12pm
RED BANK: HELP KEEP THE STRINGS SINGING
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As reported by redbankgreen last month, the strings program in the Red Bank school district is facing extinction because of budget cuts. The school board and parents are looking forContinue reading "RED BANK: HELP KEEP THE STRINGS SINGING"
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July 23rd, 2014 @ 11am
RED BANK: GREEN LIGHT FOR GOTHAM
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A passerby checks out new signage being installed Monday for Gotham, a speakeasy-themed gastropub that won approval from the Red Bank zoning board last week with no objections voiced byContinue reading "RED BANK: GREEN LIGHT FOR GOTHAM"
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July 22nd, 2014 @ 12pm
RBR GRAD WINS CLARINET CONTEST
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Red Bank Regional 2014 graduate Matthew Rosen recently returned from Oklahoma as the winner of the prestigious National Clarinet Competition at the University of Oklahoma. Press release from Red BankContinue reading "RBR GRAD WINS CLARINET CONTEST"
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July 22nd, 2014 @ 6am
SANDY HOOK: A HAVEN FROM WIND AND TIDE
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The Haven takes it to the Hook Wednesday evening as part of a freebie triple-header bill of bands on the beach. While the Sandy Hook peninsula has soldiered on throughContinue reading "SANDY HOOK: A HAVEN FROM WIND AND TIDE"
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July 21st, 2014 @ 5am
LUNCH BREAK TAKES IT DOWNTOWN FOR GALA
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Retired Ranney School headmaster Dr. Lawrence Sykoff, Ed.D. — seen at right jamming with Tim McLoone and Holiday Express — leads his band, the Docs of Rock, to the DowntownContinue reading "LUNCH BREAK TAKES IT DOWNTOWN FOR GALA"
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July 18th, 2014 @ 12pm
SEA BRIGHT: BON JOVI DONATION MISUSED?
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Read Murphy in 2011. below, the fire and first aid squads were displaced from their home, which was damaged by Hurricane Sandy. (Photo above by Dustin Racioppi. Click to enlarge)Continue reading "SEA BRIGHT: BON JOVI DONATION MISUSED?"
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July 18th, 2014 @ 6am
LINCROFT: A SEEGER SESSION, AMONG FRIENDS
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Singer, songwriter and guitarist Jim Scott —seen at right accompanying his friend, the late Pete Seeger — hosts a singalong tribute to the late folk music master Saturday evening atContinue reading "LINCROFT: A SEEGER SESSION, AMONG FRIENDS"
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July 18th, 2014 @ 6am
RED BANK: WREMBEL BY THE RIVER
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French-born “Gypsy Jazz” guitarist Stephane Wrembel is the star of this week’s edition of Summer Jazz Cafe, Friday and Saturday at Two River Theater. The comparisons to the legendary gypsyContinue reading "RED BANK: WREMBEL BY THE RIVER"
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July 17th, 2014 @ 12pm
RED BANK: SEND IN THE COLLINS
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Grammy-winning Renaissance woman Judy Collins returns to Two River Theater in a Friday concert presented by MusicWorks. She’s made her mark in so many places over the course of someContinue reading "RED BANK: SEND IN THE COLLINS"
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July 16th, 2014 @ 9am
RED BANK: A RIVER’S 11 IN THE PARK
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The eleven-piece showband Funktion 11 crowds the stage of Riverside Gardens Thursday evening as the Jazz in the Park series continues. Call them a showband — the kind that canContinue reading "RED BANK: A RIVER’S 11 IN THE PARK"
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July 14th, 2014 @ 12pm
RED BANK: PERSONS OF JAZZY INTEREST
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Houston, we have a promenade: soul-bop sax legend Houston Person inaugurates a new session of Summer Jazz Cafe events, Friday and Saturday at Two River Theater. If it’s the dog-dayContinue reading "RED BANK: PERSONS OF JAZZY INTEREST"
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July 11th, 2014 @ 12pm
RED BANK: COUNTRY FEST IN THE RED
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They danced, but they didn’t eat much, at the country music festival last month. (Photos by Peter Lindner. Click to enlarge) By JOHN T. WARD The music was a hit,Continue reading "RED BANK: COUNTRY FEST IN THE RED"
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July 11th, 2014 @ 10am
Pix from the 2013 edition of Artiepalooza, which attracted some 85 vessels at its peak, organizers say. (Photos by Peter Lindner. Click to enlarge) By JOHN T. WARD Among theContinue reading "NAVESINK RIVER: ARTIEPALOOZA RETURNS"
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July 11th, 2014 @ 6am
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STILL ‘OPEN’ SPACE
Next to Fins and Feathers, very surprised to see an overgrown parking lot that still sits there…overgrown and with blacktop. (Photo and te ...
DARK COMEDY BY JERSEY DIRECTOR OPENS FILM FEST
Indie Street Film Festival kicks off with "In Memoriam," a dark comedy about an actor with six months to live.
Indie Street Film Festival Kicks Off
Indie Street Film Festival kicks off.
KUDOS FOR RBCS FINANCE WHIZZES
Monmouth County Board of Commissioners and Borough Council honor Red Bank Charter School students who took second place in a national financ ...
MARINE PARK HOT DOGS
Red Bank's newly remade Marine Park also has a new lunch option, a newly licensed hot dog cart.
MATCHA CLOSE UP
Partyline captures a photographer working for Aura Coffee Roaster angles for the perfect shot of two iced matcha lattes on Broad Street Mond ...
SOUTH STREET AUTHOR TO READ AT LIBRARY SATURDAY
South Street resident Scott Robertson will read selections from his book, Contents of a Curious Mind, Saturday, Aug. 8, from 11:30 a.m. to 1 ...
EARTH SPIRIT FOUNDER DIES
Jocelyn Ruth Midose, longtime owner of Earth Spirit New Age Center has died.
A PERFECT NATIONAL NIGHT OUT
The annual National Night Out event organized by the Red Bank Police Department drew hundreds to frolic amid the green grass and cotton cand ...
Blackhawk Helicopter Arrives for National Night Out
The Blackhawk helicopter has arrived. Everyone’s favorite part of each National Night Out hosted by the Red Bank Police Department jus ...
PARKING METER MOMENT
Patty Bishop of Verona was halfway through her haircut at Fox & Jane when she realized she needed to feed the parking meter. After she p ...
JOIN US AT JJ’S – PLEASE!
A doe-eyed sect of sentient boba teas sweetly beseeches us to join their adorable cult outside of JJ Delicacies this sticky August Sunday!
NEIGHBORS GATHER AT TINO’S
Chris Havens of River Street gathered group of Red Bankers for dinner on Thursday night. The gathering was in the back patio of Tino’s Mex ...
TREE BRANCH VS CAR
A tree branch fell on a parked car on Chestnut Street near Pearl Street Sunday. Submitted by Brian Donohue
APOSTROPHE CATASTROPHE
As a curmudgeonly curator of terrible punctuation on public signs, I’ve seen and shaken my head at a lot of gratuitous quotation marks ...
DANE FOR DEMOCRACY
redbankgreen Partyline captures a great dane who, all signs indicate, has had enough.
SUNFLOWER GAUNTLET
On the Partyline: a sunflower guantlet on River Street.
VIGIL FOR 68 DEAD
About 100 people attended a Saturday vigil at Johnny Jazz Park in Red Bank as part of a nationwide series of events to mourn the lives of pe ...
LITTERBUGS HIT MARINE PARK
Partyline PSA: Please don't leave your trash in our nice new park!
PARKING SUCCESS AT RED ROCK
All these people found parking for the Cliffs at Red Rock!