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Category Archives: Music

Himself, at the Count Basie Theatre in May. The NFL has confirmed that Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band will play the halftime show at the Super Bowl on Feb. 1. The show had been rumored since a report...
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September 29th, 2008 @ 8am
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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'Infinite Sky,' from Anthony Almeida's show of Everglades images at Red Bank's McKay Gallery. One of the busiest weekends since mid-summer kicks off tonight with a gallery show of monochromatic photos from the Everglades, in Red Bank; a cadaver-cool punkabilly...
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September 26th, 2008 @ 10am
Today's edition of Red Bank oRBit takes a look at the noteworthy durability of a pop-rock band based in Middletown called the Wag. Given a name they weren't sure they wanted when they started out a decade ago, the powerpoppy...
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September 23rd, 2008 @ 10am
Today's edition gives the rundown on these events happening locally tonight and tomorrow: • A funeral, of sorts, for Gram Parsons, a guy who's been dead 35 years but whose music is very much alive in a tribute show in...
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September 19th, 2008 @ 8am
'Halfway to St. Paddy's Day?' That's a holiday? In the immortal word of Frank McCourt, 'Tis. Today's edition of Red Bank oRBit stumbles upon a brewing local phenomenon: beer-serving establishments, and the bands that play them, celebrating the midpoint between...
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September 18th, 2008 @ 7am
Bargains, lightly used, in Atlantic Highlands Saturday. In today's edition of Red Bank oRBit, your comprehensive guide to what's going on around The Green, you'll find: • a item on the nearly nude, airborne dancers in "Garden of Earthly Delights"...
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September 12th, 2008 @ 9am
Obama's been outraising McCain in New Jersey, thanks to events like last week's dinner at Bon Jovi's crib. A pair of events culminating with dinner at the Navesink River chateau of singer Bon Jovi last Friday generated $4.1 million for...
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September 9th, 2008 @ 6am
Jillian Rhys shows off her stuff in Asbury Park, and the so-called 'Vagina Monologues of childbirth' makes its Middletown debut. In today's edition of Red Bank oRBit: • a singer gives birth to a new identity • moms give voice...
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September 5th, 2008 @ 9am
Bruce Springsteen's people are denying the Rumsonian rock star will alight on Denver's Invesco Field before or after Sen. Barack Obama's acceptance speech Thursday night. The Rocky Mountain News, which cited "multiple sources" in reporting yesterday on Springsteen's purported plan...
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August 26th, 2008 @ 1pm
Bruce Springsteen signs autographs outside the Count Basie Theatre in Red Bank in May. Report outta Denver today says Shore-based popstars Bruce Springsteen and Bon Jovi will play at the Democratic National Convention Thursday, bookending Sen. Barack Obama's nomination acceptance...
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August 25th, 2008 @ 2pm
Sen. Barack Obama Prepare for a traffic jam in the vicinity of Navesink River Road next week. Democratic presidential nominee-apparent Barack Obama will visit Middletown on Friday, September 5 for a two-stop lovefest that wraps up at the riverfront chateau...
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August 25th, 2008 @ 10am
When the Chinese men’s basketball team, led by cross-cultural phenom Yao Ming, took to the Beijing court this morning (4:45a EST) for its Olympics game against Lithuania, it did so to the galloping strains of a tune co-written by a...
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August 20th, 2008 @ 8am
Today's issue of the thrice-weekly Red Bank oRBit has, quite by chance, a water theme. First, there's our scoop from Red Bank's Broadway Diner, inexplicably overlooked by the media mob, on what GOP First Lady-contender Cindy McCain ordered when she...
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August 13th, 2008 @ 6am
Today's edition of the thrice-weekly Red Bank oRBit features a report that Springsteen & Co. will command the halftime show at the next Super Bowl. Also in oRBit: • A look-ahead at some terrific events coming down in the next...
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August 11th, 2008 @ 8am
You've seen the teaser logos for about eight months. Well, the countdown is finally over. Today, redbankgreen marks its first significant expansion with the launch of Red Bank oRBit, a new website dedicated to comprehensive coverage of the local arts,...
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August 1st, 2008 @ 8am
Legendary guitarist Bucky Pizzarelli and pianist-singer Tony DeSare photographed at River's Edge Café, where they'll be returning this weekend as part of the Summer Jazz Café series. By TOM CHESEK Maybe it's that seventh string on his guitar; a custom-crafted...
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July 22nd, 2008 @ 7am
Whoa, flashback: John Easdale of Dramarama headlines the bill at the annual Dunesday event this Saturday at Donovan's Reef. By TOM CHESEK Less than a year ago, the mood around Donovan's Reef had a touch of doomsday about it. The...
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July 17th, 2008 @ 11am
Scenes from last night's debut of the weekly Comcast Jazz in the Park series in Red Bank's Riverside Gardens Park, which featured the Red Bank Middle School Band and Soul Project, above. For info about upcoming shows and movies in...
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July 11th, 2008 @ 6am
The great Bucky Pizzarelli makes himself at home in River's Edge on July 25-26, with a pair of evening concerts and a free all-ages jazz workshop. By TOM CHESEK So, whaddaya hear from the Mooch? Last time redbankgreen caught up...
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July 10th, 2008 @ 7am
A cocktail sunset frames a 2007 concert in the park... By TOM CHESEK Of all the things that make Red Bank Right Now different from Red Bank Back Then, few of them are as in-your-face as Riverside Gardens. Twenty years...
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July 4th, 2008 @ 2pm
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SOMEWHERE OVER THE RAINBOW
Stunning rainbow over Red Bank as a big weekend storm approaches.
“FESTIVA” YACHT DOCKED AT MARINE PARK
Festiva, an 85-foot yacht, was docked at Marine Park on Friday night. Red Bank Green spoke to the owner, Everett Moore, who said that it was ...
OH NO! ELMO LOST!
A lost Elmo appears to be reaching out for help through the redbankgreen Partyline.
NAVESINK SPILLS OVER
Nor'easter stacks tides up in the Navesink, pushing the river over its (Red) banks.
BUZZ LIGHTYEAR WATCHES LINE DANCERS
redbankgreen Partyline captures Buzz Lighyear watching the line dancers on Broadwalk Monday night. 
EGRET-FUL END TO SUMMER
A great egret patrols the shallows of the Swimming River in front of the Red Bank Primary School last week. Submitted by Brian Donohue
COMMUNITY MESSAGE BOARD NOW OPEN ON HUDSON AVENUE
Community message board open! The RBPD has placed a mobile display board on Hudson Avenue. Send captions and messages you’d like to se ...
A CHIEF’S FAREWELL
Funeral services at St. James church and a large American flag suspended over Broad Street from an RBFD hook and ladder for former Red Bank ...
COIFFING GUARD
redbankgreen Partyline captures super cool crossing guard just chilllin'.
SURF TACO RE-OPENS NEW LOOK DINING ROOM
Partyliner captures Surf Taco's new look dining room.
STEEPLETOP RAVEN
redbankgreen Partyline: a raven calls out from atop the steeple of St. James Church.
CARPENTER OR COMPETITOR? HOT DOG TRUCK RIVALS EMERGE IN RED BANK
On the redbankgreen Partyline: with two new hot dog vendors opening this summer, even a carpenter's box truck makes one wonder.
BOONDOCKS SWAN
redbankgreen Partyline: Swan on the Navesink River as seen from Boondocks restaurant.
9/11 TRIBUTE
Bailey Bryce Holiday and her father Bobby Holiday Jr. paint the lawn at Riverside Gardens Park Tuesday in preparation for the upcoming comme ...
PILGRIM BAPTIST TO JAMAICA
Recently, Pilgrim Baptist Church of Red Bank traveled to Trelawny Parish of Jamaica on a Relief & Recovery Mission Trip.  The Mission T ...
SNAIL WEATHER
Overnight rains and warm humid temperatures brought out a parade of snails along the access path to the Red Bank Primary School near Locust ...
ECHOES OF THE PAST IN TILE
Next to Playa Bowls. Always fascinated how this has stood here this long. (Submitted by Joseph Jakub)
VIVA LA ELSIE’S
redbankgreen Partyline captures French visitor enjoying a pickle sub from Elsie's.
Truck strike downs pole
A truck struck a utility pole at the intersection of Catherine Street and Shrewsbury Avenue at about 8 am Monday morning. The pole wss compl ...
THRONGS FLOCK TO RED BANK STREET FAIR
redbankgreen Partyline: Thousands fill the streets of Red Bank for street fair.