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[00:08.03]Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA
[00:10.50]in VOA Special English.
[00:13.23]I'm Steve Ember.
[00:14.82]And I'm Barbara Klein.
[00:16.87]This week on our program,
[00:19.86]we talk about summer music festivals
[00:23.35]in the United States.
[00:24.96](MUSIC: "Heavy Things")
[00:48.23]That was "Heavy Things" by Phish.
[00:51.33]The newly reunited band is one of the groups
[00:55.18]to perform this year
[00:56.77]at the Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival.
[01:00.25]The festival takes place on a farm
[01:03.24]about one hundred kilometers
[01:05.46]from Nashville,Tennessee.
[01:07.35]This is the eighth year.
[01:09.89]The four-day event has movies and comedy
[01:13.59]in addition to music.
[01:15.26]This year's music lineup at Bonnaroo
[01:19.72]also includes the Beastie Boys,
[01:22.69]Nine Inch Nails and TV on the Radio.
[01:27.49]Plus,Bela Fleck,Lucinda Williams,
[01:31.58]and Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band.
[01:36.01](MUSIC)
[02:52.95]The Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival
[02:55.85]is June eleventh to the fourteenth.
[02:58.72]Then,four days later,
[03:01.04]the Telluride Bluegrass Festival
[03:03.70]brings American musical traditions
[03:06.43]to the high mountains of Colorado.
[03:08.86]The festival has four days of concerts,
[03:12.62]music workshops and songwriting contests.
[03:16.67]This year's performers
[03:18.42]include Elvis Costello,David Byrne
[03:21.46]and the Yonder Mountain String Band.
[03:24.24]Here is the Yonder Mountain String Band
[03:26.96]at the thirtieth anniversary
[03:28.98]of the Telluride Bluegrass Festival
[03:31.28]six years ago.
[03:32.57]The song is called "Too Late Now."
[03:35.79](MUSIC: "TOO LATE NOW")
[04:40.97]Another summer music festival in Colorado
[04:44.46]is Blues Under the Bridge.
[04:47.31]It will take place July twenty-fourth
[04:50.51]and twenty-fifth
[04:51.92]in the city of Colorado Springs.
[04:54.92]Performers this year
[04:57.09]include the Fabulous Thunderbirds
[04:59.85]and Bettye LaVette.
[05:02.10]Bettye LaVette sang in January
[05:05.52]at the inaugural celebration
[05:07.77]at the Lincoln Memorial for Barack Obama.
[05:11.76]The soul singer has been performing
[05:14.60]since the nineteen sixties.
[05:16.68]Here,from her two thousand seven album
[05:20.89]"The Scene of the Crime,"
[05:22.72]is the song "Choices."
[05:25.56](MUSIC: "CHOICES")
[06:27.82]Fans of classical music
[06:29.52]have their own outdoor summer festivals.
[06:32.26]The Midsummer Mozart Festival
[06:35.18]is July sixteenth to the twenty-sixth
[06:38.24]in San Francisco,California.
[06:40.55]This is the thirty-fifth anniversary.
[06:43.78]Among the artists this year
[06:46.29]is flutist Maria Tamburrino,
[06:48.93]pianist Seymour Lipkin
[06:51.00]and French horn player David Sprung.
[06:54.24]Here now is the Midsummer Mozart
[06:57.44]Festival Orchestra,
[06:58.82]with conductor George Cleve
[07:00.75]and pianist Jeremy Menuhin.
[07:03.32]The work is Mozart's Piano Concerto
[07:06.89]Number 13 in C Major.
[07:09.23](MUSIC: "PIANO CONCERTO NUMBER 13")
[08:17.07]From the eighteenth century
[08:18.96]and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
[08:21.28] we fast-forward to alternative rock,
[08:24.93]hip-hop and punk.
[08:27.14]These can all be found
[08:29.31]at the Lollapalooza festival
[08:31.73]in Chicago,Illinois.
[08:33.72]Perry Farrell,
[08:35.76]lead singer for Jane's Addiction,
[08:38.30]started Lollapalooza in nineteen ninety-one.
[08:42.37]At first,the show traveled
[08:45.37]across North America
[08:47.20]and was meant to be the band's final tour.
[08:50.64]But since then,
[08:52.37]Lollapalooza has taken place every year
[08:55.95]except for a five-year break.
[08:58.85]Lollapalooza will run
[09:01.23]from August seventh to the ninth.
[09:04.14]The bands this year
[09:06.21]include the Decemberists and the Killers,
[09:09.82]as well as new acts
[09:11.65]like the Virgins and White Lies.
[09:15.10]Also on the lineup
[09:17.15]is a reunited Jane's Addiction.
[09:20.00]Here from the best of Jane's Addiction
[09:23.29]is "Summertime Rolls."
[09:26.31](MUSIC: "SUMMERTIME ROLLS")
[11:10.27]The first outdoor jazz festival
[11:12.95]in the United States
[11:14.34]took place fifty-five years ago
[11:17.09]in Newport,Rhode Island.
[11:19.09]Over the years,
[11:21.18]the Newport Jazz Festival presented greats
[11:24.44]like Miles Davis,
[11:25.93]Duke Ellington and Ella Fitzgerald.
[11:29.03]But in March,
[11:31.13]producer George Wein announced
[11:33.80]that the company that sponsored the festival
[11:36.47]was no longer able to
[11:39.08]because of the recession.
[11:41.25]Still,he promised to save the show
[11:45.13]for this year at least.
[11:47.17]He renamed it George Wein's Jazz Festival 55.
[11:52.78]The festival is planned
[11:55.11]from August seventh to the ninth
[11:57.76]with performers including Etta James,
[12:00.63]Branford Marsalis,
[12:02.60]Tony Bennett and Mos Def.
[12:05.53]We leave you with another act
[12:09.62]coming to Newport this summer.
[12:11.50]Here is the Dave Brubeck Quartet
[12:15.03]with their signature piece,"Take Five."
[12:18.24](MUSIC: "TAKE FIVE")
[13:44.42]Our program was written by Nancy Steinbach
[13:47.53]and produced by Caty Weaver.
[13:49.54]I'm Barbara Klein.
[13:51.03]And I'm Steve Ember.
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