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...Grammy nominators seem to think so. The five codgers competing for best rock vocal boast an average age of 51. Bob Dylan received his first Grammy nomination before four of the five female nominees were born. The women's division skews significantly younger and includes the barely legal Fiona Apple...
SCHOOL COMMITTEE RACEA. Fiona McKinnonGraphicName #1 VotesAlice Turkel 2,656Susana M. Segat 2,581David P. Maher 2,152Joseph G. Grassi 2,046Denise Simmons 2,026Robin A. Harris 1,972Alfred B. Fantini 1,740Charles L. Stead, Sr. 953Source: Cambridge Election Commission, unofficial first tally of No. 1 votes, based on 42 of 42 voting precincts reporting
...Hazel and the Wallflowers. The format also tends to feature female singer-songwriters such as Indigo Girls, Shawn Colvin and Jewel--all of whom just happen to be on the Lilith tour. "The blossoming of modern AC was so important," says Terry McBride, who manages McLachlan. "Artists like Sarah, Fiona [Apple] and Jewel have always been at the bottom of [radio] playlists, but about 14 months ago, we started getting some attention. It helped us get the exposure we needed to be able to put on a Lilith. It's helped all these artists get to the next step...
...such folk-pop pioneers as Odetta and Joan Baez. The number of women at the top of the charts of late, however, and the impressive number of those who are playing Lilith is indeed something fresh and invigorating. "Of all the tours that you do during the summer," says Fiona Apple, "this is pretty much the coolest...
...tour and the coffeehouse-pop crowd can help halt pop's garbage-chute slide. Such music, on the surface, is gentle enough to slip onto radio playlists, but down deep there are ideas, there is emotion, there is life: the haunting, melancholic feel of McLachlan's new tune Angel; Fiona Apple exploring her post-rape trauma on her heart-rending Sullen Girl; Erykah Badu imagining the life of a gangsta's girlfriend on her soulful Otherside of the Game. Other promising acts from this school are on the way. An advance copy of British trip-hop folkie Pauline Taylor...