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  Linda Ronstadt Tickets, Linda Ronstadt Concert Tickets at StubHub!
Linda Ronstadt concert tickets are available, and this star of music in general has been lighting up venues for more than 30 years.
Ronstadt is known above all else for her diversity, as she has performed songs that fall into the rock and roll, country, blues, folk, new wave and even opera genres.
Ronstadt was born in Tucson, Arizona on July 15, 1946, and she got into music while a student at the University of Arizona.
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  divastation: linda ronstadt
when ronstadt was eighteen, she followed her muse to los angeles, banding together with a folk group known as the stone poneys.
though, in retrospect, ronstadt is reluctant to recognize the glamourous image that the multitude of her fans perceived, it is undeniable that songs like her debut solo hit, "you're no good", thrust her into the center of the folk/rock scene for the remainder of the decade.
what little is known about ronstadt's current life has her living in san francisco, california, with an adopted daugther—a domestic bliss which may have inspired appearances with the muppets and the release of dedicated to the one i love, an album of children's songs.
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 Linda Ronstadt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Linda Maria Ronstadt (born July 15, 1946) is an American singer most closely associated with the country rock genre prevalent in the 1970s.
Ronstadt's success is, in part, connected with the influence she had on or the influence she received from artists such as Harris, Parton, J.D. Souther, the Eagles, Andrew Gold, Kate and Anna McGarrigle, Paul Simon, Mark Goldenberg, Karla Bonoff, Aaron Neville, James Taylor, Warren Zevon, Maria Muldaur, Nicolette Larson and Elvis Costello.
Linda Ronstadt was born in Tucson, Arizona to a father of Mexican and German ancestry and a mother of Dutch Jewish-English descent.
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 Linda Ronstadt . . . a fans perspective . . .
Linda's new album, Adieu False Heart, was released on July 25th in the US and will be released on August 7th in UK.
Considered to be Linda's breakthrough album, Heart Like A Wheel set the formula for her 70s sound and launched her into the California country/rock Queen.
Linda has stated that she's not a fan of this period of her music any longer, however she occassionally drops one or two old tunes into her concerts.
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 Linda Ronstadt Tickets - Linda Ronstadt Concert Tickets
In addition, all Linda Ronstadt ticket sales are final and only refundable in the event of a cancelled show.
In the event that Linda Ronstadt canceles the show for which you have purchased tickets, you will have 30 days from the date of cancellation to request a refund from our office.
Once you have received your Linda Ronstadt tickets, please keep them in a safe place.   We are not able to replace them if lost or stolen.
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 The real deal | The San Diego Union-Tribune
Ronstadt, who would go on to sell 50 million albums and win 10 Grammy Awards as a solo artist, left Arizona for L.A. in 1964 as a member of the folk music trio the Stone Poneys.
Ronstadt calls her current tour with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra "a history lesson of music," although the emphasis is more on sophisticated entertainment than dry education.
Ronstadt's tour offers a retrospective of her career, although it skips her mariachi music forays and her shimmering duets with Emmylou Harris.
www.signonsandiego.com /uniontrib/20040715/news_lz1w15linda.html   (1269 words)

  
 Linda Ronstadt at opensource encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Linda Maria Ronstadt (born July 15, 1946) is an American singer and songwriter.
Born in Tucson, Arizona, Linda Ronstadt began her career in the mid 1960s singing in Los Angeles, California clubs with the folk-rock group, the Stone Poneys.
Ronstadt dated California governor Jerry Brown in the late 1970's.
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 SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Features -- Political praise polarizes Linda Ronstadt's fans at Humphrey's
As Ronstadt started to perform her encore, an impassioned version of the Eagles'; "Desperado," dozens of concertgoers angrily streamed toward the exits, while others gave her an ovation.
According to Ronstadt, audiences at each stop on her ongoing summer tour have reacted to her Moore dedication with a similarly intense mix of emotions.
Ronstadt performed each song with a winning combination of soul and finesse, rising from a whisper to a full-bodied vocal swoop and back again.
www.signonsandiego.com /news/features/20040720-9999-1c20linda.html   (603 words)

  
 FrontPage magazine.com :: She's No Good, She's No Good.... by Don Feder
During a Las Vegas performance last week, Ronstadt was driven to put in a plug for lefty filmmaker Michael Moore and his Bush-haters’ fantasy "Fahrenheit 9/11." But describing the mammoth Marxist as a "great American patriot" who is "spreading the truth," was beyond the pale for some in the audience.
If we’d listened to song-birdbrains like Ronstadt in the ‘80s (she used to perform at No Nukes concerts), the Berlin Wall would still be standing, Daniel Ortega would be in power in Nicaragua, Sandinista clones would rule most of Central America, and the USSR would still be in business issuing stock dividends.
Ronstadt had mega-hits in the ‘80s, with her albums "What’s New?" and "’Round Midnight," in which she crooned torch songs and ‘40s favorites.
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 Linda Ronstadt   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Linda Maria Ronstadt was born in Tucson, Arizona to a German-Mexican father and a Dutch-English mother.
Ronstadt began her career in the mid 1960s singing in Los Angeles, California clubs with the folk-rock group, the Stone Poneys.
Ronstadt is the single mother of two young adopted children, Carlos and Mary.
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 Pop Singer Linda Ronstadt Fired After Getting Booed for Publicly Supporting Moore
Ronstadt was performing a one-night concert at the Alladin casino on Saturday night and dedicated her encore finale of the Eagles classic "Desperado" to Moore, whom she described as a "great American patriot...
In addition, Ronstadt was physically escorted off the property to her tour bus because she "spoiled a wonderful evening for our guests and we had to do something about it," Timmins told the AP, noting that this was the first time he has ever had to do that to a performer at his hotel.
The Washington Post reported earlier this month that Ronstadt was performing at the Wolf Trap near Washington, DC and made her remarks about Moore before singing "Desperado," only to be interrupted and drowned out by groans and boos from those in attendance.
www.mensnewsdaily.com /archive/newswire/news2004/0704/072004-linda.htm   (836 words)

  
 Linda Ronstadt Guest Appearances
Linda Ronstadt and Aaron Neville are good friends and on this album from Aaron and his brothers she sings in one song.
Linda Ronstadt is singing in a Hank Williams composition.
Linda Ronstadt knew Parsons because of her friendship with Emmylou Harris and is singing backgroundvocals in one song.
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 USATODAY.com - Linda Ronstadt, hummin' an outraged tune   (Site not responding. Last check: )
NEW YORK — Linda Ronstadt has been many things to many people: a rock 'n' roll pinup girl, a rootsy balladeer, a traditional pop crooner and, recently, a vocal Michael Moore supporter.
But as her adopted son, Carlos, 10, digs into lunch, Ronstadt, who just released Hummin' to Myself — her first collection of pop standards since a successful trio of albums with arranger Nelson Riddle in the '80s — is persuaded to discuss music and politics, though not necessarily in that order.
Ronstadt had cited Moore at many previous concerts without any problems, she says, and she learned of unrest at the Aladdin after hearing TV reports that concertgoers had thrown drinks and ripped down posters.
www.usatoday.com /life/music/news/2004-11-16-ronstadt_x.htm   (587 words)

  
 Aladdin expels Ronstadt after political remarks
Timmins, who was among the almost 5,000 fans in the audience at the Aladdin Theatre for the Performing Arts, had Ronstadt escorted to her tour bus and her belongings from her hotel room sent to her.
Ronstadt has been making the dedication at each of her engagements since she began a national tour earlier this summer, but it has never sparked such a reaction.
Ronstadt started the evening with her 1983 hit "What's New?" and then set her fans straight about what they might expect during the concert.
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 CMT.com : Linda Ronstadt : Biography
After a brief flirtation with pre-rock pop, Ronstadt settled into a pattern of adult contemporary pop and Latin albums, sustaining her popularity in both fields.
While Ronstadt was a student at Arizona State University, she met guitarist Bob Kimmel.
Ronstadt's next two albums -- Lush Life (1984) and For Sentimental Reasons (1986) -- were also albums of pre-rock standards recorded with Riddle.
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 Soul Shine Magazine : Linda Ronstadt Banned For Tribute To Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11   (Site not responding. Last check: )
For her comments Ronstadt was booed and cheered in equal parts.
Ronstadt was not pleased by the treatment but left without incident.
Ronstadt is the latest of stars who has been dismissed for speaking her mind.
www.soulshine.ca /news/newsarticle.php?nid=903   (260 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Casino boots Linda Ronstadt after performance   (Site not responding. Last check: )
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Singer Linda Ronstadt not only got booed, she got the boot after lauding filmmaker Michael Moore and his new movie, Fahrenheit 9/11 during a performance at the Aladdin hotel-casino.
Ronstadt's comments drew loud boos and some of the 4,500 people in attendance stormed out of the theater.
Timmins said he didn't allow Ronstadt back in her luxury suite and she was escorted off the property.
www.usatoday.com /life/people/2004-07-19-ronstadt-moore_x.htm?csp=27   (355 words)

  
 Linda Ronstadt
I've been fan of Linda Ronstadt since the Stone Poneys in 1968 when I heard 'Different Drum'.
Through Linda I found many other artist and I continue look forward to anything she does.
I never intended to create a Linda Ronstadt web page but upon discovering that 'lindaronstadt.com' had not been taken I decided to jump in.
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 Amazon.com: Linda Ronstadt: Greatest Hits: Music: Linda Ronstadt
Linda Ronstadt's appeal crossed so many genre lines it's impossible to categorize her as anything other than a gifted vocalist.
This album give us all of Linda's formidable hits, all her in a definitive play list that anyone would want to have to ensure an accurate representation of her volumes of work, from dozens of hit albums recorded and released over more twenty years of popular work.
This Linda Ronstadt greatest hits collection evokes its time and musical style as sharply and succinctly as her southern California contemporaries and former bandmates, the Eagles, who released their celebrated greatest hits collection the same year on the same label.
www.amazon.com /Linda-Ronstadt-Greatest-Hits/dp/B000002GVU   (1189 words)

  
 Blogcritics.org: Linda Ronstadt Ejected For Supporting Michael Moore
Ronstadt has not damaged her career with this stunt, but, seriously, this is not a free speech issue, this is an employer who sets standards of behaviour for performers and one of those standards happens to be political tolerance.
Linda Ronstadt is a washed up old bag who needs to go to a Palm Beach rest home to get high and forget about her damn luggage.
The fact that this was a one-off gig, and Ronstadt said to the LV Review-Journal that she didn't like playing Vegas because the management and audiences don't respect the performers, and that she has been dedicating "Desperado" to Moore the whole tour, and she hoped she wouldn't be asked back to Vegas.
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 Amazon.co.uk: The Very Best of Linda Ronstadt: Music   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Ronstadt has been both praised and vilified for her many remakes (almost all her Top Tens); on one hand she was the first to bring songwriters like Warren Zevon, Karla Bonoff, and Kate and Anna McGarrigle to the masses.
Linda Ronstadt began her career in the sixties and continued making great music into the new millennium.
Linda's Great American Songbook recordings with Nelson Riddle, her Spanish music and her Trio work with Dolly and Emmylou are conspicuous by their absence.
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 The Horrors of an Easily Distracted Mind: 20 July 2004   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Ronstadt, who had been hired for a one-show engagement Saturday night at the Las Vegas Strip casino, dedicated a performance of "Desperado" to Moore and his controversial documentary, which criticizes President Bush and the U.S.-led war in Iraq.
The biggest excitement of the night, by a long shot, came when Ronstadt then dedicated her encore of "Desperado" to filmmaker Michael Moore, kick-starting a boo-cheer competition throughout the venue that drowned out her singing and left grown-ups in tuxes and evening gowns yelling at each other on their way to the parking lot.
For you to throw Linda Ronstadt off the premises because she dared to say a few words in support of me and my film, is simply stupid and Un-American.
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 Linda Ronstadt praises Moore in Vegas, is ejected | www.azstarnet.com ®
LAS VEGAS - Singer Linda Ronstadt not only got booed, she got the boot after praising filmmaker Michael Moore and his movie "Fahrenheit 9/11" during a performance Saturday night at the Aladdin hotel-casino.
Steven Ashlock, a Petaluma, Calif., resident was once an avid Linda Ronstadt fan, but said his admiration for the singer has waned because of her outspoken political views and he understands why many in the Las Vegas audience were angry.
Pete Ronstadt, Linda's brother and former chief of the Tucson Police Department, was not aware of the incident but didn't sound surprised when a reporter told him about it Monday.
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 BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Ronstadt casino furore over Moore
US singer Linda Ronstadt was booed and removed from a Las Vegas casino for praising film-maker Michael Moore and his film Fahrenheit 9/11 during a show.
Ronstadt called Moore a "great American patriot" and "someone who is spreading the truth" during a performance at the Aladdin venue on Saturday.
Ronstadt began her career in the mid-1960s with the folk-rock group the Stone Poneys and later emerged as a solo country artist.
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 Linda Ronstadt   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The daughter of a professional musician, Ronstadt's first singing experience was gained with her sisters in the Three Ronstadts.
Ronstadt also undertook a series of releases with veteran arranger/conductor Nelson Riddle, which resulted in three albums - What's New, Lush Life and For Sentimental Reasons - consisting of popular standards.
In 1996 she was firmly in the middle of the road with Dedicated To The One I Love, an album of lullabies and love songs "for the baby you love ages 1 to 91", although this was redressed in 1998 with the more familiar We Ran.
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