Saturday at 8 p.m., Sunday at 7 p.m. Where: 7 p.m.

Owen, who portrays John Lennon on rhythm guitar and piano, has toured internationally with productions of “Beatlemania” since he was 18. The name is a takeoff on a popular Baltimore beer. Free. D.C. CARIBBEAN CARNIVAL A parade and an international marketplace with bands, food and crafts celebrate Caribbean culture. Visit the Web site for more carnival-related events at other times and venues. NW (and they go fast). Thursday, 8 p.m. Free with tickets, which are available at the box office or The Washington Post, 1150 15th St. Parade free, carnival $10 per day. Friday-Saturday.

In addition, each bears uncanny resemblance to the artist he represents in both voice and appearance. Saturday at 11 a.m.-9 p.m., Sunday at 11 a.m.-7:30 p.m. All four contribute to the vocals. “The music is not only good, but it sends a positive message in a happy kind of music,” he said. Free. Canal Park, 200 M St. SAT June 26. Lawn chairs and blankets are welcome. 8:45 p.m.

Part of the Jazz in the Garden Series, which runs through Sept. 10. 5-8:30 p.m. Info: $20 to $85; 202-467-4600; kennedy-center.org. TV show “Chelsea Lately” and has delivered her stand-up comedy on “The Tonight Show With Jay Leno.” Thursday at 8:30 p.m., Friday-Saturday at 8 and 10:30 p.m. LONI LOVE She’s a regular on the E. FRI June 25.

For age 21 and older. 9 p.m. SE. 202-465-7093.

When I woke up today I checked my favorite site for free sheet music, and I discovered something wonderful. A new song was added to Piano-Sheets.net – Monster. Monster by Lady Gaga is a terrific song, and I’m thrilled I could write a post about it.

YAHOO I feel like a brand new man, and I’ll tell you why – PianoSheets has just released a new piano sheet: Monster. Monster by Lady Gaga is a catchy tune – I’m positive you’ve heard Monster playing on the radio, especially recently. Now I can finally learn how to play Monster on the piano – by practicing with the Monster sheet music I linked to for all of you.

download piano sheets for Monster by Lady Gaga

Something you might not know, Piano-Sheets has a Toolbar I use, it makes it easy to discover the most recently published sheet music and free piano sheets on their site. You should check it out, especially if you like to play.

I feel like it’s my birthday – I know that a few people have been sending me email asking if I knew where they could find a piano version of Gotta Go by Trey Songz – Well, the search ended a few minutes ago when I found a FREE version of Gotta Go for the piano or keyboard. Now you can all start practicing Gotta Go on the piano, and hopefully you’ll all end up as good as me!

My friend Steve was visiting me recently. You don’t want to hear all about that. He plays the piano. So, I asked him if he knew how to play Gotta Go. Gotta Go by Trey Songz is a challenging song. He started to play it from memory, then wanted me to download a sheet music arrangement for the piano. I looked on yahoo for a bit, and I finally found it at Piano-Sheets!

Gotta Go by Trey Songz free piano sheet

Something you might not know, piano-sheets.net has this neat Toolbar I adore, it helps me to locate the newest and latest sheet music and free piano sheets on their site. You should check it out, especially if you enjoy playing piano.

Free Father’s day ecards greeting cards – Free funny animated and music Happy …

Saving a little money occasionally here and there can really add up. If you are looking for a great way to save money this Father’s day, look no further than a free Fathers day ecard or greeting card. These clever online greeting cards can be fun, exciting, and not cost you a penny.

As more American have a home computer and easy access to the internet, the popularity of online greeting cards is spreading like wildfire. Just a few short year ago, the only way to send a greeting card was through the mail system which means that you had to first buy a card, pay for postage, and hope that it arrives on time (or even arrives). With online ecards, there is no need to worry about paying for the card, postage, or worrying about delivery. It is all free and delivery is instant.

While there are a handful of big names in the ecard business, there are several smaller websites who offer ecards, free of charge. To access these websites, simple perform a Google search. If you are looking for bigger names in the ecard business you may want to check out these:

Hallmark
Blue Mountain
123 Greetings
Egreetings
JibJab
American greetings

Whether you go with one of the above or you find another ecard website by searching the internet, you are going to accomplish the same results.

Sending an ecard to your dad is relatively simple and requires about as much effort as sending an email. Simply enter your email address and information and your dads email and information and customize your card. Once you are finished, you can sometimes select a scheduled date to send or send it instantly. Sending an ecard is that simple and saving money this way is also easy. Switch to E-cards for the and save hundreds of dollars throughout the year.

Author: Allen Dukes

Free Chrome add-on turns Web into music library

ExtensionFM is a free Chrome add-on that catalogs every free MP3 file you run across and builds a virtual library. It’s an amazingly convenient way to discover and catalog new music without waiting for downloads, and may convince me to use Chrome on a regular basis.

Chrome has always seemed like a solution in search of a problem: I’ve had Firefox installed on my PCs and Mac for years now and it works fine 99 percent of the time. If I need an alternative I can always go with the built-in Internet Explorer (Windows) or Safari (Mac). Chrome may render some pages more quickly, and I like some of its user interface features, but not enough to switch.

The ExtensionFM music library contains links to MP3s from sites that you surf with the Chrome browser.

(Credit: Screenshot)

But ExtensionFM actually changed how I think of Web browsing, blurring the line between offline and online in a very seductive way. The basic idea is straightforward: install the add-on, and from that point on, any time you run across a page that has a link to a downloadable MP3 file, ExtensionFM will add a permanent link to that MP3 to its library, which looks a lot like iTunes (or just about any other music player). The ExtensionFM library is always accessible from Chrome–just click the icon in the upper-right corner of the browser, and you’ll launch a tab with the library. The library itself lets you organize all the MP3 links by source, artist, or album, and you can stream any song on demand or add it to a queue. If you don’t like a song, you can delete it from the library.

The experience is a lot like surfing the Web for free MP3s and downloading every single one of them, except without waiting for downloads. I installed it and after about five minutes of surfing I had an on-demand library containing more than 100 songs from music blogs like Spinner and Brooklyn Vegan, as well as from a couple of Seattle bands that have made free MP3s available on their sites. ExtensionFM will continue to feed new links from these pages into its library with no further intervention on my part–every time the Spinner home page is updated with more free MP3s, they’ll appear in my library.

The experience isn’t perfect. Some of the listings in the library didn’t link to a real sound file, and I had to delete them manually. Some listings had wrong or missing data (no artist name, or a title like “Free download”). It doesn’t work at all with files that require you to launch a mini-Flash player to play. And the library could get large and cluttered quite quickly. Nonetheless, if you’re constantly on the hunt for new music, this is a great way to access large volumes of free music without having to download each file yourself.

It’s also the first really great example I’ve seen of how Google envisions the future of the Web, in which the lines between offline and online blur and the Web browser becomes the only application you need. Sure, there are plenty of Web apps today–I spend a large part of my day in them, including Google’s Gmail service. But most Web apps run inside a browser window and disappear as soon as you close that window, and the application itself is responsible for storing data (usually in a back-end database, sometimes in the browser cache). ExtensionFM is a persistent application that runs in conjunction with the browser regardless of where the browser’s currently pointed, and it stores only the links to data, which can come from multiple sources around the Web–the data themselves never leave their original spots. It’s a subtle but fascinating difference.

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CMT Music Awards

Kid Rock hosts this year’s awards spectacular from Nashville. Country stars Toby Keith, Lady Antebellum, Miranda Lambert, Carrie Underwood and Keith Urban are slated to perform as the industry honours its best videos. CMT, 7 p.m.

Happy Town

Determined to find out more about Rachel’s recent kidnapping, Meritt reveals a long-standing secret to her. Elsewhere, Henley realizes just how powerful Peggy Haplin is when he returns the goat-handled hammer. ABC, 9 p.m.

Heavy Metal Task Force

Things could get dicey as the largest aircraft in the world prepares to transport the heaviest load ever carried by air. Also, in South America, massive trucks are used to save a large mine, and a giant floating crane overpowers a heavy ship. Discovery, 5 p.m.

Talk Shows:

Jay Leno: Adam Sandler, Rachel Maddow

David Letterman: Bradley Cooper, Christina Aguilera

The Hour: Melissa Gilbert, Joey McIntyre

Craig Ferguson: Kyra Sedgwick, Tom Felton

Jimmy Fallon: Jessica Biel, Craig Robinson

The Daily Show: Spencer Wells

Jimmy Kimmel: Teri Hatcher, Massive Attack

Republished from the Winnipeg Free Press print edition June 9, 2010 D1

Free Brooklyn Concert Series Finds Its Biggest Fan in the US Senate

But the shows’ biggest fan has turned out to be not some bearded music blogger but one of the most powerful politicians in the United States: Senator Charles E. Schumer, Democrat of New York and chairman of the Senate Rules and Administration Committee. After turning up at a couple of concerts last summer at East River State Park, he threw his considerable support behind the events and their promoter, pressuring city and state parks officials to renew the Pool Parties’ contract for this summer, despite their having some safety concerns.

The involvement in so tiny an issue by so prominent a statesman — who has also been dealing with national problems like health care and immigration and financial reform — has sent many in the music industry and local politics scrambling to figure out the angles. Are the votes of a few thousand Pitchfork readers worth all that effort?

“It is a bit of pork,” said Kurt Andersen, the novelist and public radio host who has been a longtime observer of city politics. “But it’s probably not a bad thing to remind the youth of Brooklyn that they are Democrats, to have them think, ‘Oh, yeah, Chuck Schumer saved the concerts — that’s why we like him.’ As a long-term play to give them a reason to vote, it’s probably not stupid.”

Mr. Schumer declined to be interviewed for this article, but a spokesman said that his attachment to the concerts began with a simple bike ride: he happened across them last summer on a weekend ride in Brooklyn, where he lives, and his only interest was in seeing the shows continue, said the spokesman, Mike Morey.

Even for a politician known to get behind underdog causes, however, the senator’s support for Jelly, the small Brooklyn promoter behind the shows, is unusual. (So was the revelation of his indie tastes. His love for Bruce Springsteen is well documented. But Girl Talk? Grizzly Bear?)

Jelly has not announced its lineup for free concerts this summer, but is expected to do so soon. A series of paid concerts that benefit the Open Space Alliance for North Brooklyn, a nonprofit group that manages the concerts, begins on June 20 with Band of Horses, and continues with shows by Faith No More, Belle and Sebastian, Pavement and Modest Mouse.

At the Pool Parties, the main attractions have been music and people-watching, but messy politics have always loomed in the background. In 2006 Jelly was one of several groups that brought concerts to McCarren Park Pool, a disused Depression-era swimming pool in Williamsburg that had been a political battleground for decades. From their start, the events balanced finances with paid concerts by big promoters like Live Nation to subsidize Jelly’s free shows.

Last year, with the pool being restored to its intended use, the concerts were moved to East River State Park, a raw, postindustrial space on the nearby waterfront, and the financing equilibrium was lost. Without time to book paid shows, the park was used only for the free Pool Parties, which have highly visible corporate sponsorship.

Then Jelly repeatedly clashed with parks officials over safety regulations, security and other issues. At one show, part of a stage collapsed. (No one was hurt.) At two shows, ambulances had difficulty getting through the gate. One time, Jelly balked about stopping a show when lightning was on the horizon.

Sarah Hooper and Alexander Kane, Jelly’s owners, would not comment on the specifics of last year’s problems.

By summer’s end, frustrated parks officials were in talks with other promoters. But Mr. Schumer halted those talks, said Steve Hindy, chairman of the Open Space Alliance.

“Schumer was insisting that Jelly be part of the concerts series for this year, that there be no discussion with other people,” said Mr. Hindy, who is also president of the Brooklyn Brewery. Beer sales at the concerts, by Brooklyn Brewery and Heineken, Mr. Hindy said, will support the alliance, whose mission is to maintain and create public parkland around Williamsburg and Greenpoint.

According to a number of people with knowledge of the situation, some of whom spoke only anonymously, out of fear of riling the senator, the negotiations were long and contentious. In a series of statements, Mr. Schumer said he was “pressing officials” to save the concerts, and behind the scenes did just that, convening heated meetings and dispatching aides to mediate contract discussions. Various elected and appointed officials, including Adrian Benepe, the city parks commissioner, were involved.

When the senator was dissatisfied with alliance staff members, Mr. Hindy said, the group hired a production manager for the concerts at a cost of $40,000.

“The senator thought these concerts were tremendous, and intervened to make sure they would continue to happen,” said Mr. Morey, the Schumer spokesman. “The concerts had a following with good exposure, they had talented bands and they were free. And the senator wanted to keep it that way.”

Nicholas Confessore contributed reporting.