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FILE - Usher performs at Power 105.1’s Powerhouse 2016 at Barclays Center in New York on Oct. 27, 2016. The NFL, Apple Music and Roc Nation announced Sunday that Usher will headline the 2024 Super Bowl on Feb. 11 at Allegiant Stadium. The music megastar, who has won eight Grammys, said he’s looking forward to performing on the NFL’s biggest stage. (Photo by Scott Roth/Invision/AP, File)

Usher to headline the 2024 Super Bowl halftime show in Las Vegas

Usher has a new confession: The Grammy winner will headline the Apple…

 

FILE - Travis Scott performs at Day 1 of the Astroworld Music Festival at NRG Park on Friday, Nov. 5, 2021, in Houston. The rap superstar was questioned on Monday, Sept. 18, 2023, in a deposition he is giving in connection with hundreds of lawsuits that were filed against him and others over the deaths and injuries at the 2021 Astroworld festival. (Photo by Amy Harris/Invision/AP, File)

Rapper Travis Scott is questioned over deadly crowd surge at Texas festival in wave of lawsuits

Rap superstar Travis Scott was questioned for several hours on Monday in…

 

Shakira performs in concert at Madison Square Garden, Aug. 10, 2018, in New York.(Photo by Greg Allen/Invision/AP, File)

Shakira to be given the Video Vanguard Award at the 2023 MTV Video Music Awards

Shakira will receive the Video Vanguard Award at the 2023 MTV Video…

 

FILE - Music executive Scooter Braun, left, appears with Justin Bieber at the World Premiere of “Justin Bieber’s Believe” in Los Angeles on December 2013. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP, File)
FILE - Music executive Scooter Braun, left, appears with Justin Bieber at the World Premiere of “Justin Bieber’s Believe” in Los Angeles on December 2013. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP, File)
Terrace’s Laurie Thain has developed a multi-faceted musical and educational career. (Contributed photo)

Terrace musician Laurie Thain reflects on career, changes in music industry

Thain joins Terrrace class of 1973 for reunion, part of B.C. Day long-weekend tradition

Terrace’s Laurie Thain has developed a multi-faceted musical and educational career. (Contributed photo)
Harbour Nolan, 19, busks on the Inner Harbour Causeway, the location after which he was named. (Natasha Baldin/News Staff)

Cost of living, regulation feed decline of downtown buskers in B.C. capital

Buskers detail change in conditions that are silencing street corner song

Harbour Nolan, 19, busks on the Inner Harbour Causeway, the location after which he was named. (Natasha Baldin/News Staff)
Kelowna RCMP is requesting the public’s help in recovering a stolen violin. It dates back to the 1840s. (Photo/RCMP)

Nearly 200-year-old violin stolen in Kelowna alley

The rare and highly valuable violin dates back to the 1840s

Kelowna RCMP is requesting the public’s help in recovering a stolen violin. It dates back to the 1840s. (Photo/RCMP)
FILE - Lizzo performs at the United Center on May 17, 2023, in Chicago. Lizzo has been sued by three former dancers who accuse the Grammy winner of sexual harassment and allege the singer and her production company created a hostile work environment. The civil lawsuit filed Tuesday, Aug. 1, 2023, in Los Angeles County Superior Court claims Lizzo pressured one of the dancers to engage with nude performers at a club in Amsterdam and shamed another dancer for her weight gain before firing her. (Photo by Rob Grabowski/Invision/AP, File)
FILE - Lizzo performs at the United Center on May 17, 2023, in Chicago. Lizzo has been sued by three former dancers who accuse the Grammy winner of sexual harassment and allege the singer and her production company created a hostile work environment. The civil lawsuit filed Tuesday, Aug. 1, 2023, in Los Angeles County Superior Court claims Lizzo pressured one of the dancers to engage with nude performers at a club in Amsterdam and shamed another dancer for her weight gain before firing her. (Photo by Rob Grabowski/Invision/AP, File)
Taylor Swift performs during "The Eras Tour" on Friday, May 5, 2023, at Nissan Stadium in Nashville, Tenn. Swift’s Canadian fans were left heartbroken and confused this week as they tried to understand why the pop superstar seems prepared to skip their country on her Eras Tour. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP/George Walker IV

Taylor Swift fans cause 2.3-magnitude ‘Swift quake’ at Seattle concert

Taylor Swift and her fans are breaking a new record – this time for seismic activity

Taylor Swift performs during "The Eras Tour" on Friday, May 5, 2023, at Nissan Stadium in Nashville, Tenn. Swift’s Canadian fans were left heartbroken and confused this week as they tried to understand why the pop superstar seems prepared to skip their country on her Eras Tour. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP/George Walker IV
Veteran rock singer Paul Rodgers, of Bad Company fame, recorded his new album, Midnight Rose, in the Okanagan and Vancouver with several local musicians. (Photo: facebook.com/paulrodgersofficial)

Rock singer Paul Rodgers records new ‘Midnight Rose’ album with fellow B.C. musicians

Surrey-based bassist Todd Ronning reflects on co-writing the first single, ‘Living It Up’

Veteran rock singer Paul Rodgers, of Bad Company fame, recorded his new album, Midnight Rose, in the Okanagan and Vancouver with several local musicians. (Photo: facebook.com/paulrodgersofficial)
FILE - Singer Tony Bennett performs during the 58th Annual Tony Awards Sunday, June 6, 2004, at New York’s Radio City Music Hall. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens, File)

Tony Bennett, masterful stylist of American musical standards, dies at 96

Tony Bennett, the eminent and timeless stylist whose devotion to classic American…

FILE - Singer Tony Bennett performs during the 58th Annual Tony Awards Sunday, June 6, 2004, at New York’s Radio City Music Hall. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens, File)
FILE - Rapper Tupac Shakur attends a voter registration event in South Central Los Angeles on Aug. 15, 1996. S(AP Photo/Frank Wiese, File)

Home searched in Tupac Shakur’s 1996 killing is tied to uncle of long-dead suspect

A home Las Vegas police searched this week in connection with the…

FILE - Rapper Tupac Shakur attends a voter registration event in South Central Los Angeles on Aug. 15, 1996. S(AP Photo/Frank Wiese, File)
Gabriel Mark Hasselbach portrait by Lia Crowe photography

Life and style with Gabriel Mark Hasselbach

Jazz musician, animal lover and social activist

  • Jul 12, 2023
Gabriel Mark Hasselbach portrait by Lia Crowe photography
This cover image released by Republic Records shows "Speak Now (Taylor’s Version)" by Taylor Swift. (Republic Records via AP)

‘Speak Now (Taylor’s Version)’ is here. Here’s how to reconsider Taylor Swift’s transformative album

Her 2006 self-titled debut and 2008’s “Fearless” had inspired both acclaim and…

This cover image released by Republic Records shows "Speak Now (Taylor’s Version)" by Taylor Swift. (Republic Records via AP)
PINEO & LOEB perform at the 2023 ValhallaFest music festival, near Terrace, on June 24. (Viktor Elias/Terrace Standard)

Terrace’s ValhallaFest celebrates 5th year with record attendance

The norse mythology-themed electronic music festival had record-high attendance, 42 acts in 2023

PINEO & LOEB perform at the 2023 ValhallaFest music festival, near Terrace, on June 24. (Viktor Elias/Terrace Standard)
Lia Crowe photograph - Choir

All together now

The feel-good power of singing in a choir

  • Jun 30, 2023
Lia Crowe photograph - Choir
A model shows sheets of postage stamps marking the 10th debut anniversary of K-pop band BTS at a post office in Seoul, South Korea, Monday, June 12, 2023. Post offices start selling the stamps Tuesday. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

BTS is 10 years old: Seoul landmarks to be lit up in purple to celebrate K-pop band’s anniversary

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Skyscrapers, bridges and other landmarks in South…

A model shows sheets of postage stamps marking the 10th debut anniversary of K-pop band BTS at a post office in Seoul, South Korea, Monday, June 12, 2023. Post offices start selling the stamps Tuesday. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)
April is International Guitar Month. How much do you know about guitars and guitarists? (Black Press file photo)

QUIZ: How much do you know about guitars and guitarists?

April is International Guitar Month

April is International Guitar Month. How much do you know about guitars and guitarists? (Black Press file photo)
FILE - Actor, singer and activist Harry Belafonte from the documentary film "Sing Your Song," poses for a portrait during the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah on Jan. 21, 2011. (AP Photo/Victoria Will, file)

Harry Belafonte, activist and entertainer, dies at 96

Groundbreaking actor and singer became an activist, humanitarian

FILE - Actor, singer and activist Harry Belafonte from the documentary film "Sing Your Song," poses for a portrait during the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah on Jan. 21, 2011. (AP Photo/Victoria Will, file)
Flautists, at the Pacific Northwest Music Festival, on April 20, 2023, at Knox United Church in Terrace. (Staff photo)

Viruses and volcanoes: Pacific Northwest Music Festival returns against all odds

After three years of waiting, Terrace’s Pacific Northwest Music Festival is at full capacity

Flautists, at the Pacific Northwest Music Festival, on April 20, 2023, at Knox United Church in Terrace. (Staff photo)