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The rising star Amy Winehouse has cancelled all her previously scheduled shows and other public appearances for the remainder of the year. The artist changed her mind on the advice of her doctor, who ordered Winehouse to take complete rest. All of Amy’s upcoming European concerts have been called off, with ticket refunds being offered to her fans. The performer’s husband, Blake Fielder-Civil, was arrested in the United Kingdom earlier this month and charged with one count of “attempting to pervert” the obstruction of justice.

Despite a notice of cancellation on the band’s own Web site, The Spice Girls insist they didn’t shelve any plans to perform in Buenos Aires as part of their reunion world tour. They made it clear that they had not canceled their show in Argentina. This story appeared on several websites that included a fake e-mail and competition from the band. The e-mail claimed that due to the demand so far in the United Kingdom and the United States the show was going to be canceled

A documentary film about the performer’s battle with breast cancer has gone to air in Britain. This documentary shows dramatic footage of the singer’s collapse during a concert in Manchester. Footage from the performance is showing a distressed Kylie trying desperately not to cry as she is walking the stage trying to make it through another song. At the time of the collapse, the artist didn’t know she had breast cancer. She was very distressed about feeling so unwell.

Matchbox Twenty have been off the road for the past 4 long years. It will all change in 2008, as the band will begin the new year off with a 33-city tour across North America. The concert tour will kick off on January 25 in Hollywood, FL at Hard Rock Live and end on March 18 in Las Vegas at the Pearl Theater. MuteMath and Alanis Morissette will be joining the band on the road. Don’t miss out a stunning performance!

Pop singer Kelly Clarkson powered through eighteen compositions in a bit more than one hour on Friday night at the San Diego Civic Theatre. The beautiful Kelly Clarkson was seated at the bottom of a staircase in a red dress, just like the cover of her 3rd album, entitled “My December.” Off came the long dress, and the performer, in a silk purple top and tight black pants, kicked off the night with her popular hit “One Minute.”

Some people are ready to do the craziest things just to make their kids happy. 35-year old Jody Powell hung on to a twelve-foot statue of “Hannah Montana” for six days to win tickets to a sold-out concert by Miley Cyrus. The show will be held next week in Tampa. Now Jody Powell has 4 tickets to the show and a photo of his fiancée with her 7-year-old daughter, also named Hannah. Jody was declared the winner after the other remaining contestant, Lara Padgett, became distracted and let go.

 Friday morning, some “Hannah Montana” ticket money will go to the Peyton Manning Children’s Hospital at St. Vincent. “The Bob and Tom Show” on radio station WFBQ-FM (94.7) is going to auction 4 tickets to the Hannah Montana show, 4 backstage passes, an autographed Christmas ornament signed by Miley Cyrus.

Celine Dion, who was born in Quebec, has announced she will participate in Quebec City’s 400th anniversary celebrations that will be held next year. The performer is to sing during a free outdoor concert that is scheduled for August 22 on the historic Plains of Abraham. The show is among the highlights of the city’s birthday activities, that will also include tailor-made performances by the Cirque du Soleil and writer-director Robert Lepage.

Yesterday night at sold-out Northrop Auditorium, guitar god Neil Young performed 1992’s “From Hank to Hendrix” as his opening number.

Neil’s songs speak of loneliness and longing, He opened the concert with obscure tunes but came up short on his big hits.

The Hall Of Famer has been known for presenting quirky shows. In 2003, for instance, he offered a hippie stage musical with actors, sets, and songs. He has toured alone, surrounded by a semicircle of acoustic guitars. The rock star has done ear-splitting rocking concerts, with roadies dressed as aliens and the stage dressed with cartoon amplifiers.

A most appropriate quirk was unveiled at Northrop. One electric and one solo acoustic set with a 4-piece band. The formula fit his career, during which he has been the melancholy folkie and the great rocker with equal success. Yesterday’s concert was a fan’s dream, filled with plenty of obscure and seldom-performed compositions, but it was also a casual fanatic’s disappointment if they were hoping for lots of well-known hits.

In all, it was a rewarding but a bit disappointing evening, short on consistent vocal passion and soaring highs Neil Young has provided in the past years.

The opening eleven-song, one-hour set was very even keeled, with his vocals almost as bland as the clothes he was wearing. The true fans ate up the obscurities like “Mellow My Mind” on a banjo, “Sad Movies,” and “Ambulance Blues,” as well as Nixon-era tune with the line “I know a man who tells so many lies” that resonated in these Bush times.

The popular singer Tim McGraw helped raise over $300,000 for brain tumor research during the Tug McGraw Foundation’s 3rd annual fundraising concert in St. Louis. The artist and his band, the Dancehall Doctors, performed to several hundred people during the Friday night show that also featured Lori McKenna, Lance Miller, Faith Hill, and Halfway to Hazard. In related news, a group of runners calling themselves Team McGraw raised over $200,000 by taking part in the New York Marathon that took place Sunday.