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Farmers Branch Liberty Fest is happening THIS weekend at Farmers Branch Historical Park!

This year’s fest in honor of Memorial Day will include Easton Corbin, Randy Houser and Jack Ingram!

 So ladies, get out those cowboy boots and short-shorts… or sundresses… or whatever it is you’re wearing with boots these days…

There will also be an arts & crafts marketplace, a FREE Kidzone, a Burgers & Brews area and yes, you’ll be able to get your hands on margaritas and wine as well!

Just go here to get all the info.

And it’s all about big band music this evening at the Dallas Arboretum!

Their Spring and Summer Concert Series will feature Tuxedo Junction, all the big band you can stand!

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If you’re a golf fan, 13-time PGA Tour winner David Toms will be at Edwin Watts Golf Shop in Fort Worth this afternoon!

And if you’re a guitar lover, add THIS show to your “to be at” list!

Peter Frampton’s Guitar Circus will be at the Verizon Theatre in Grand Prairie on Wednesday, June 5th!

For you young’uns who want to know what a Peter Frampton is, this guy was lead singer and guitarist for a British teen band called the Herd when he was just 16…

Then at 18, he co-founded Humble Pie, and his fifth solo album, Frampton Comes Alive!, is one of the top-selling live records of ALL TIME!

Had it not been for this guy, Bon Jovi’s Richie Sambora would probably never have done that talk-box thing in “Livin’ on a Prayer…”

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John Fogerty was a guest on CBS This Morning this morning (May 20), and said that he would consider a reunion with his former band, Creedence Clearwater Revival, in the future.

Host Charlie Rose asked, “Can you imagine a revival of Creedence?” Fogerty responded that, on occasion, he’ll say something in the press referencing a reunion, and he’d immediately get negative feedback from his surviving former bandmates, bassist Stu Cook and drummer Doug Clifford (the other member was Fogerty’s late brother, guitarist Tom Fogerty, who passed away in 1990).

Still, Fogerty said, “I think it’s a possibility in the future. It’s not something I’m actively seeking. But I’m not totally against the idea either. It just seems like I always hear that’s not going to happen.”

Fogerty is revisiting his past on his upcoming album, Wrote A Song For Everyone (out May 28), which sees him collaborating with a wide array of artists, including Foo Fighters, Jennifer Hudson and Alan Jackson, re-recording songs from his solo and CCR catalog. And Fogerty recently told Radio.com that he’s planning on doing full CCR album performances on his upcoming tour.

Related: 5 Things We Learned From John Fogerty’s Album Premiere Event

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Keyboardist and founding Doors member Ray Manzarek passed away today at 12:31 PT at the RoMed Clinic in Rosenheim, Germany after a lengthy battle with bile duct cancer, according to a post on the Doors’ official Facebook page. He was 74. His passing was confirmed by CBS News.

JUST IN: Keyboardist Ray Manzarek, a founding member of The Doors, has died at 74, his business manager confirms to @cbsnews

— CBS News (@CBSNews) May 20, 2013

According to the Doors’ Facebook post, at the time of his passing, he was surrounded by his wife Dorothy Manzarek, and his brothers Rick and James Manzarek.

“I was deeply saddened to hear about the passing of my friend and bandmate Ray Manzarek today,” said Krieger in the post. “I’m just glad to have been able to have played Doors songs with him for the last decade. Ray was a huge part of my life and I will always miss him.” Krieger and Manzarek performed together under a variety of names over the past few years.

Manzarek is survived by his wife Dorothy, brothers Rick and James Manczarek, son Pablo Manzarek, Pablo’s wife Sharmin and their three children Noah, Apollo and Camille. Funeral arrangements are pending. The post says “The family asks that their privacy be respected at this difficult time. In lieu of flowers, please make a memoriam donation in Ray Manzarek’s name at www.standup2cancer.org.”

– Brian Ives, Radio.com 

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It’s the golden rule of theater-going for the tech age: TURN OFF YOUR CELL PHONE! An audience member attending a play in New York City recently had a rude awakening to her own rudeness when a theater critic snatched her phone and chucked it.

According to The Gothamist, Kevin Williamson, a well-known and respected critic, author, and writer for The National Review, was attending a performance of “Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812,” a new cabaret-type musical based on a part of Tolsoy’s novel “War and Peace.” The audience sat around small tables where they were served beverages and food between acts. After being distracted by chatty audience members during the first act, Williamson says a woman during the second act blatantly refused to put down her phone.

As the theater had notified all tables that photography and cell phone use were strictly prohibited, Williamson asked her to put the phone away.

“It looked like she was Googling or something,” Williamson told The Gothamist. “So I leaned over and told her it was distracting and told her to put it away. She responded, ‘So don’t look.’”

Patience worn-thin, Williamson says that he snidely asked her if, “there had been a special exemption for her about not using her phone during the play. She told me to mind my own business, and so I took the phone out of her hands. I meant to throw it out the side door, but it hit some curtains instead. I guess my aim’s not as good as it should be.”

The woman slapped Williamson, went in search of her phone, and when she couldn’t find it, she left the to “seek managerial succor,” as Williamson wrote in his Corner blog post. A security manager asked Williamson out into the lobby as the woman wanted to press charges. Night already ruined, Williamson didn’t wait and left the theater with his date.

Williamson is being called a hero for taking a stand against the rudeness of inconsiderate audience members.

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Waiting tables is a tough job, as many who have done it can attest. You do everything you can to get that 15-20% tip. Sometimes you get stiffed, but the times when you get that above-and-beyond tip can feel like winning the lottery.

CeCe Bruce, a waitress at a Steak ‘n Shake in Indianapolis, says one of her regular customers left her a $446 tip on a $5.97 check. According to Eater.com, the 7,000% tip came from “Miss Jo” who witnessed Bruce having trouble with another one of her tables.

“I didn’t think I was worth $400 but, you know, she feels I am,” says Bruce who intends to use the money to pay some bills.

After local media outlets attempted to track down “Miss Jo,” they found that she’s just a local good samaritan who really doesn’t want any media attention for her good deed. In any case, kudos to her!

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The Beatles and Wings both receive equal attention in Paul McCartney‘s “Out There” tour, which triumphantly kicked off its U.S. leg at Orlando’s Amway Center on Saturday night (May 18). Playing and singing non-stop for almost three hours would put most any solo performer to the test, but the 71-year-old McCartney made it look easy as he pulled from the best of the catalogues of both his former bands, as well as his own solo repertoire, playing many of the songs live in concert for the very first time.

After opening with The Beatles’ “Eight Days A Week” (one of the songs being performed live for the first time on the Out There tour), McCartney told the audience, “I’m getting that old feeling like we’re gonna have a good party here tonight!” And he was right. The sold-out crowd was there to party, sing along, and be taken on a magical musical tour of the past 50 years.

McCartney’s seemingly simple stage set up evolved into a masterful display of video screens, specialty lighting, and during a bravura performance of “Live and Let Die” toward the end of the evening, arena warming pyrotechnics.

The present and past were both given equal attention by McCartney. In a set which found Paul putting down the guitar in favor of the piano, he performed both “My Valentine,” released last year and written for current wife Nancy, along with “Maybe I’m Amazed,” which was written for his deceased wife Linda after helping him get through the break-up of The Beatles.

His deceased Beatles bandmates found fitting tributes in the show as well. While raised approximately 20 feet above the stage on a lighted platform, McCartney launched into “Here Today,” the song he wrote for John Lennon after Lennon’s assassination, letting the song’s lyrics offer a heartfelt tribute.

“George was a great ukelele player,” McCartney later said as he pulled out a ukelele to begin George Harrison’s classic “Something,” accompanied by a photographic tribute to Harrison on the video monitors. “Let’s hear it for George!” He also shared an anecdote regarding Frank Sinatra, who had been said to have proclaimed that “Something” was his favorite Lennon/McCartney tune. Of course it was written by Harrison.

PHOTO GALLERY: Check out Sunny-FM’s photo gallery of Paul McCartney’s opening night. 

While fewer people seem to carry lighters these days, those who had them made sure to pull them out for both “Let It Be” and “Hey Jude,” the latter of which also had concertgoers finding themselves broadcast on the video monitors when caught by the roving Jude cam.

Although they go pretty much unsung throughout the show, McCartney’s band, consisting of Rusty Anderson, Brian Ray, Abe Laboriel Jr., and Paul Wickens, are truly incredible.

It’s a rare opportunity to be able to see this much modern musical history packed into three hours of stage time by a consumate musician who is still at the top of his game. This is one concert of the year not to be missed.

“Out There” Tour Opening Night Set List

-Brad Haynes, 1059 SUNNY FM/Orlando

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At the show-closing jam at last month’s Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame induction ceremony, an unprecdented supergroup took the stage to perform Robert Johnson’s “Crossroads.” Among them Geddy Lee, Alex Lifeson and Neil Peart of Rush and Public Enemy leader Chuck D.

What do the prog-rock giants and the hip-hop legend have in common (other than membership in the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame)? Well, probably not much. But, believe it or not, both bands have toured with San Francisco rockers Primus.

Primus was the opening act on the genre-crashing Anthrax/Public Enemy co-headlining tour of 1991. The following year, they played arenas opening for Rush. So Primus frontman Les Claypool is one of the only musicians to spend time on the road with both groups, and he says that both are fully deserving of the accolades that they received at the induction ceremony in Los Angeles last month.

The members of Primus have always worn their Rush influences on their sleeves; like the Canadian group, they are a power trio led by a bassist with an unusual singing voice who are influenced by hard rock and progressive music.

Claypool told Radio.com, “One of my first introductions to music as a teenager was Rush records.”And it showed, particularly early on in their career. Primus’ debut EP, 1989′s Suck On This, opens with 36 seconds of the band covering Rush’s classic instrumental “YYZ” before launching into their own “John The Fisherman.”

And while it is often said that you shouldn’t meet your idols, he reports that bonding with Rush has been a great experience for him and his band. “When I was 16, if you told me I’d be friends with Geddy, Alex and Neil, I would have s*** myself right there, literally,” he said. “To work with these guys and be friends with them, and to still be friends with them after all these years, it’s a pretty spectacular thing.”

He’s also glad to see that the band’s stock seems to have risen (in terms of credibility) in the past few years, which culminated with their long-awaited Rock Hall induction. But he notes that Primus were supporters when it wasn’t so cool to love Rush.

“Back when we were playing with them, we actually got a lot of flak from press, as to why we were playing with these guys, these progressive rock dinosaurs… this was in the ‘90s,” Claypool said. “But the fans thought it was the greatest thing! It makes me chuckle now, to see these bands that have come out in support of Rush after all these years, when they were remaining very quiet in the ‘90s when we were getting chastised for supporting them (laughs).”

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– Brian Ives, Radio.com 

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Last weekend was the one Trekkies have been waiting for since 2009′s cinematic reboot of the enduring sci-fi series. The latest Star Trek flick, Star Trek: Into Darkness, is out now, giving us a perfect excuse to put together a Trek playlist. Since Trek doesn’t feature rock music, we figured we’d go with rock stars who have actually appeared in Trek (what, you missed Mick Fleetwood’s turn as a fish-like creature in Star Trek: The Next Generation?), as well as famous fans of the series.

The Stooges – “1969″ The Stooges debuted in ’69 with their classic self-titled LP, which featured this skull-crusher. “Another year for me and you, another year with nothing to do!” Well, there was nothing to do after June 3 of that year, at least if you were a Trekkie (a term which hadn’t yet been coined): That was the date that the show was cancelled. Years later, in 1997, Stooges frontman Iggy Pop appeared on the third Trek series, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, as Yelgrun, an “overseer” for the Dominion (those were the bad guys, for non-DS9 fans). (See a couple of Iggy’s scenes here.)

The Mamas & The Papas – “Monday Monday” Though Star Trek aired on Thursday nights at that time that “Monday Monday” hit No. 1 in 1966, there’s a line here that rings true: “Can’t trust that day!” Or at least NBC couldn’t, moving the show to the dead zone of Friday nights instead of just cancelling it. The cancellation moment came two season later, with the show returning nearly 20 years later in 1987 via Star Trek: The Next Generation. And you know who was there? Mamas & Papas singer Michelle Phillips, who played Jenice Manheim (Captain Picard’s ex-girlfriend) in the first season of the show. Boom. Circle complete.

Fleetwood Mac – “The Chain” Like Star Trek, Fleetwood Mac has proved remarkably enduring. Although the lineup (like Trek‘s Enterprise) has gone through many staff changes, like the Federation, drummer Mick Fleetwood (along with bassist John McVie) has remained a constant. While you can’t miss Fleetwood’s commanding presence behind the drums at the Mac’s concerts, you’d be forgiven for missing his appearance on the Next Generation season 2 episode “Manhunt” in 1989.  First off, he shaved off his omnipresent beard for the role. Second, his prosthetics rendered him unrecognizable. In this scene, he plays an Antedean dignitary who looks like a fish. Is that politically incorrect? Well, we got the idea from Lwaxana Troi, who exclaimed, “Delegates! Last time I saw something like that, it was being served on a plate!”

Rage Against The Machine- “Bulls On Parade” “Weapons, not home, not food, not shoes,” spits frontman Zach de la Rocha; it’s one of many songs where Rage stand up for the less fortunate. To be sure, in Gene Rodenberry’s Trek universe, there are haves and have-nots, but it is still an optimistic future where poverty seems to be eliminated and racism is rarely an issue (though it did pop up in the original series episode “Let That Be Your Last Battlefield”). That’s a future that guitarist Tom Morello no doubt hopes for, so it’s no surprise that he was a big fan of the show, and appeared in the 1998 film Star Trek: Insurrection (featuring the Next Generation crew), uncredited as a (heavily made-up and unrecognizable) Son’A officer.

Audioslave – “Original Fire” “The original fire has died and gone, but the riot inside moves on!” That may be a bit strong, but it’s sort of fitting: the Enterprise’s “five year mission” ended after three seasons in 1969, but the passion of the fans led to a return of Kirk, Spock and the rest of the crew in 1979′s Star Trek: The Motion Picture. Similarly, the disintegration of Rage Against The Machine didn’t stop Tom Morello, Brad Wilk and Tim Commerford, who stuck together to form Audioslave. But why are we including two Morello/Wilk/Commerford songs in a row? Because Morello had the good fortune to appear in two Treks. After Insurrection, he returned in more recognizable form on the 2000 episode of Star Trek: Voyager, as a crewman named “Mitchell.” Watch his scene here.

Brad Paisley – “Celebrity” Paisley is a noted Trek fan, and while he has never appeared on one of the TV shows or films, he did get Captain Kirk himself, William Shatner, to appear in this video. Paisley was also one of the many guests on Shatner’s 2011 album Seeking Major Tom (on a cover of the Steve Miller Band’s “Space Cowboy”).

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– Brian Ives, Radio.com