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...Jarreau used to jog before every performance - until a few years back, when he began waking up with painful, swollen knees and made the switch to speed-walking. After aching foot tendons slowed him down again, he discovered the stationary bike. "Joints, hair, eyes," the 68-year-old singer says with a smile, "There's an age when you have a mutiny of the body...
...experience a uniquely Persian tradition, head over to a Zurkaneh (or House of Strength) and watch a team of men, accompanied by a drummer and singer, perform an ancient sporting ritual that combines wrestling, aerobics, juggling and Sufi whirling...
...some of the greenest programming in Denver will come not from the convention itself, but from a long-running Colorado radio show called Etown, whose hosts, Nick Forster, a bluegrass musician, and his wife Helen, a singer and actress, mix music with environmental talk. Launched in 1991, Etown started small, as an independent program broadcast from the university town of Boulder, Colo. Today, the show has over one million listeners and is carried internationally by National Public Radio. As a sign of its influence, on Aug. 26 - the second night of the convention - Etown will hold a special concert...
...Dingding has made a tremendous impression on the West. It could be the 24-year-old Chinese singer's florid costumes. Perhaps it's her music videos, which feature psychedelic graphics and monks striding to fashionable breakbeats. Or maybe it's her songs, which incorporate Buddhist mantras, traditional Chinese instruments and electronica. At any rate, the U.K.'s Sunday Times has anointed her "the Asian Björk." The Guardian gave her debut album, Alive, four stars upon its U.K. release last October, adding, "Sa Dingding deserves to be the first Chinese singer-songwriter to become a celebrity...
...Everyone mentioned the war. Georgian singer Buba Kikabidze said he was returning awards given to him by the Russian government and would cancel an upcoming concert at the Kremlin. Fellow singer Tamriko Chokhonelidze said she was sorry that the invader was an orthodox Christian nation, just as Georgia is, but "our spirit will make us have more children and our children will be speaking and singing Georgian." Georgian mothers, she said, will always sing lullabies to their children. Every so often, a speaker would shout "Long live!" and the crowd responded instantly with "Georgia...