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1. 1. Norah Jones strikes a blow for music

   Manchester Evening News, Friday 16 April 2004 THERE'S a very real sense in which the enormous international success of Norah Jones' Come Away With Me album - more than 18m copies sold, five Grammies won - represents a triumph of music over marketing.

2. 2. Calexico @ Bridgewater Hall

   Manchester Evening News, Tuesday 20 April 2004 "ALTHOUGH their music…sounds like the essence of Americana, Calexico are barely known over here" began the preview for Calexico's show in a local Manchester newspaper last Friday.

3. 3. A great Wrench

   Manchester Evening News, Friday 16 April 2004 DAVID& Wrench is a six foot five albino who came to Manchester via Bangor and was soon signed up to rising local label Storm Music thanks to his darkly delicious electropop.

4. 4. Strings attached!

   Manchester Evening News, Friday 16 April 2004 THE three-yearly cello festival, which runs from May 5 to 9, has become one of the world's top international events since RNCM professor of cello and international soloist Ralph Kirshbaum set it up in 1988.

5. 5. Rock with a conscience

   Manchester Evening News, Friday 23 April 2004 PROOF& that Manchester does its rock 'n' roll social awareness better than others: the Love Music Hate Racism is back this week, and boasts a meatier line-up than ever, featuring seven days of top bands, DJs and ooh, even the odd bit of performance poetry.

6. 6. Bridgewater gig for Godfather of Soul

   Manchester Evening News, Tuesday 06 April 2004 SOUL music legend James Brown has announced a surprise concert& - at the Bridgewater Hall on Monday, June 28 and tickets at £40-a-head are now on sale.

7. 7. Muse on fire!

   Manchester Evening News, Friday 02 April 2004 PLANETPOP has always hoped that when Armageddon comes round, the BBC will be here to comfort us with 'I The Apocalypse', where celebs such as Cheryl Baker tell us what they'll miss about the world. It's the end of the world, as we know it. That's the less-than-cheery theme running through Muse's Absolution.

8. 8. Chaplin's musical showcase

   Manchester Evening News, Wednesday 21 April 2004 CONDUCTOR-COMPOSER& Carl Davis performs live music by Charlie Chaplin and himself, with the Halle Orchestra, to accompany silent classic films by Chaplin, at the Bridgewater Hall on Saturday.

9. 9. Jack Cooper's golden ticket

   Manchester Evening News, Friday 02 April 2004 JACK Cooper wants to make two things clear from the off. "I really don't see myself as a singer-songwriter at all. And certainly not in the Badly Drawn Boy or Aidan Smith league," he says.

10. 10. Futuresonic listings - Friday, April 30

    Manchester Evening News, Tuesday 20 April 2004

    A& ROUND-UP of events taking place as part of Futuresonic, Manchester's music and digital arts festival.

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