Blue Highway will perform at Appalshop
      WMMT's "Bluegrass Express Live", an Alltech Festival, will present Blue Highway in the Appalshop Theatre in downtown Whitesburg, on Thursday, Oct. 9. Doors will open at 7 p.m., and the performance will start at 7:30 p.m. The theatre is located at 91 Madison Avenue.
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South Mountain Boys to perform at Norton
      South Mountain Boys will perform at 7:30 p.m., Sept. 27 at The Country Cabin II in Norton, Va. The facility is located across Alternate Rte. 58 from the original Country Cabin, 1 1/2 miles west of Norton. For more information, call (276) 679-3541.
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Outrage to perform at American Legion
      Outrage reunited will play its debut performance Saturday, Sept. 27, from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. at the Whitesburg American Legion. The group includes Tony Shortt on drums and vocals, Gary Slone on guitar and vocals, and David Crawford on bass.
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Michelle Malone returns Thursday
Rock and blues singer continues to draws accolades
      Summit City in downtown Whitesburg is hosting two special concerts during the Mountain Heritage Festival. Michelle Malone will be playing at the Summit City Lounge on Sept. 25. Malone has received accolades from a wide variety of music reviewers and is one of the most sought women blues artists touring today.
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Wright, Fields lead 'Pure and Simple' to festival's stage
      The two leaders of a Letcher County band which will perform Friday at the Mountain Heritage Festival in Whitesburg have had a passion for guitars since their preteen years. Mike Wright and Travis Fields of the Pure and Simple Band both loved Lynyrd Skynyrd, John Mellencamp, and classic rock.
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Entertainment
      This guide is published by The Mountain Eagle as a public service to help keep readers informed about entertainment events within driving distance of Letcher County. All dates are subject to change.
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Music memory cards to replace CDs?
By RACHEL METZ AP Technology Writer
      NEW YORK Just as vinyl once gave way to compact discs as the main physical medium for music, could CDs be replaced now by a fingernail-sized memory card? Perhaps not entirely, but SanDisk Corp., four major record labels and retailers Best Buy Co. and Wal-Mart Stores Inc.
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FX hit 'The Shield' is its ending 7-season run
The Associated Press
      LOS ANGELES FX's genre-bending crime thriller, "The Shield," closes its seventh and final season in November, and the fate of Michael Chiklis' hard-bitten Vic Mackey and his corrupt Los Angeles police strike team remain under as much cover as their typically unorthodox detective work.
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