Crawdaddys will invade City Park (Edwardsville Intelligencer)
The Zydeco Crawdaddys will return to the city’s Arts in the Park concert series on Friday. Parks Program Coordinator Katie Grable said the band has not played in the series since 2002, but will rejoin the series again this year. Grable said the band, founded by Paul Javis (PJ) in 1996, plays French Creole music of southern Louisiana using traditional Zydeco instruments such as the accordion and ...

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Puppet show to feature chef and lobster (Crookston Daily Times)
Join the fun at Crookston Library on Monday, July 21 at 3 p.m. as Circus Minimus Puppetry stages "A la Carte: In a Fool's Kitchen," a classic battle between a clown French chef and a wily lobster set to live accordion music. Please note the special date and time for this summer reading program. A family-friendly spectacle, "A la Carte" is a highly physical, playfully interactive comedy featuring ...

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Families yield in Port St. Lucie shutter squabble (The Palm Beach Post)
Art and Doris Haendel will interrupt their North Carolina vacation next week to drive home and open the accordion shutters on their Kings Isle house.

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Donkey tails, dogs and dolphins: Irish island saved by art (AFP via Yahoo! News)
Locals on a tiny storm-ravaged island off the coast of Ireland have battled to survive over the centuries -- but now hope that art will help save them.

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