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Upcoming Events
21 Jun - 05 Jul
Gary Sinise and the Lt Dan Band
(Rock) Korea, Okinawa
24 June - 7 July
Hollywood Handshake
Tour 09
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26 - 29 June
NFL Tour
(Sports) Guantanamo Bay
26 Jun – 04 Jul
Craig Ferguson
(Comedy) Europe
28 June - 4 July
City Like Drive
(Country/Rock) Honduras, Colombia
30 Jun - 5 Jul
NFL Coaches Tour
(Sports) Iraq, Kuwait
28 June – 2 July
Stephen Kellogg and the Sixers
(Rock) Israel
1 July – 5 July
Brenn
(Rock) Turkey
1 July- 5 July
Boots 'N Hoots
(Variety)
Singapore
01- 10 Jul
Ying Yang Twins
(Rap) Germany
1 July – 20 July
Elevation
(Rock) Kyrgyzstan, UAE, Qatar, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia
1 July – 13 July
The Ugli Stick
(Rock) Hawaii, Kwajalein, Guam
20 - 28 Jul
Sean Avery and
Efren Ramirez E
(Celebrity/Sports) Bahrain, Djibouti, UA
27 - 30 Jul
Congressional Medal of Honor Society
(Motivational) Cuba
09 Aug – 01 Sep
The Comedy Squad
(Comedy) Kyrgyzstan, UAE, Qatar, Djibouti, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia
17 - 25 Aug
Operation Hardwood
(Sports)Kuwait and Afghanistan
21 - 30 Aug
Paul Wall and DJ Smallz
(DJ) Kuwait and Afghanistan
23 Aug – 16 Sep
The Scarlet Ending
(Rock/Pop) Kyrgyzstan, UAE, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia
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Rock bands Hinder and Ember welcome home troops from the frontlines at US Army Garrison Baumholder
Home of the Iron Brigade, US Army Garrison Baumholder is settled among the green rolling hills of Central Germany. Most compare it to the setting for the famed movie, The Sound of Music. But the sound of the music from the festival tent on June 4 will forgo the soft, sultry folk voice of Julie Andrews for heavy guitar riffs and booming base. full
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Jim Tressel Visits Troops
B-roll of Ohio State Buckeyes football coach Jim Tressel visiting troops. Scenes include him exiting McConnel Air Force Base in Wichita Kansas, conducting an interview while in the air, meeting troops while giving autographs and taking pictures as well as the Air Force plane being loaded and taking off. full story |
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Coaches in Kansas
Three NCAA football coaches--(from left to right) Jim Tressel of Ohio State, Jim Grobe of Wake Forest, and Troy Calhoun of Air Force--listen to Staff Sgt. James Long talk about the boom of a KC-135 Stratotanker at McConnell Air Force Base, Kan., on May 27. The coaches visited different units at the base to start Coaches Tour 2009, a second annual morale-boosting mission that allows U.S. servicemembers to interact with icons of college football. Full Story |
Military recruits emerging bands to tour bases,
entertain troops overseas |
The Dallas Morning News, AUSTIN – The military is looking for a few good bands.
And so a platoon of recruiters arrived at the South by Southwest music fest and pressed themselves into teeming venues. full story |
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Good Day Live Music:
Subrosa Union |
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Fox 7, AUSTIN - Subrosa Union has found a way to simultaneously play music while helping people. The band is part of Armed Forces Entertainment and spends part of its time playing rasta rock to soldiers. Yearly around 130 bands, including several from Austin, are sent to bases around the world for a totally unique touring experience. video |
NOISE:
Music News and More, Played at Full Blast
Hordes of young people gather in the middle of nowhere, raising devil
horns and pumping fists along to a rock-radio staple. Laser lights penetrate the deep night sky and catch dust particles launched by the stomping of boots on desert ground. But these are not Doc Martens in the Coachella mosh pit; they’re the combat boots of 5,000 men and women who are mostly wrapped in the sandstone camouflage of the U.S. Army, and strapped with M16 rifles.
by Peter Gaston
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Tour of Duty:
Bands Go to Iraq
On the road with the young acts the military books for the scariest gigs on earth.
by Evan Serpick
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Iraq & Roll:
Texas music and the troops
Country music good ol' boys Charlie Robison and Kevin Fowler brave oh-six-hundred wake-up calls, fire warnings an several stomach-churning combat-roll landings to bring a slice of home to our men and women on the front lines of the Iraq War.
by Stewart Ramser
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