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July, 2008 : State Fair Opening Day Offers Free Admission, Corndog
DES MOINES (AP) - Be part of history with record-setting opening ceremonies at the 2008 Iowa State Fair. On August 7 get free admission at the gate from 5-8:30 a.m. and then head to the Grand Concourse and help set a world record for the most people simultaneously eating a corndog.
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July, 2008 : Embrace Iowa: 2008 Disaster Fund
When the RAGBRAI riders roll in to Ames on Tuesday, the evening’s festivities will include performances by the rock bands Styx and the Nadas in support of Embrace Iowa: 2008 Disaster Fund. The popular arena rock band is famous for hits including “Too Much Time on My Hands,” “Come Sail Away” and Mr. Roboto.”
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July, 2008 : Iowa Natives Hold Benefit Concert to Help Flood Victims
As floodwaters continue to ravage the Midwest, Iowa natives living in Southern California wanted to find a way to help those in their home state. And on Tuesday night they came together to help their families and friends in Iowa. Tricia Takasugi tells us about “Reach Out,” a benefit concert for the flood victims in this video report.
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June, 2008 : Iowa natives plan event for flood victims
Tyler and Jessica Kamerman couldn’t take it anymore.
As the Iowa natives and now-Southern California residents watched televised accounts about the record-breaking Floods of 2008, the couple began to discuss how they could help the folks back home.
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June, 2008 : Des Moines band bringing flood efforts to St. Charles
Des Moines band The Nadas has seen first-hand the devastation that the recent flooding in Iowa has brought.
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June, 2008 : Authentic label musicians play for flood relief
Authentic Records artists performed a benefit concert Sunday night at AK O’Connors in Beaverdale to raise funds for Iowa flood relief. Donations, silent auction bids plus CD proceeds netted nearly $3,000 for United Way of Central Iowa and Gov. Chet Culver’s fund for disaster and flood relief.
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June, 2008 : ALOOGA BOOM #117 - Alternative, Indie, Rock, Metal
Alooga Media is an independent organisation of djs & musiclovers based in Germany. We produce radioshows for several international stations, organize events and soon we will start to promote great music from all over the world in the german speaking countries.
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June, 2008 : ZERO, ZILCH, NOTHING- The Nadas
Most musicians will tell you: “A band is like a marriage.” And if that’s the case, you can learn how to stay together by consulting Iowa’s The Nadas. After maintaining a musical career together for over 15 years, The Nadas prove that with all the time spent in marriage, there also comes a comfort within yourself and the music you put out.
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June, 2008 : Nadas concert rocks Creek Days
Perhaps Iowa’s most popular pop touring band, The Nadas, will bring their unique sound to Odebolt Creek Days June 20-22, for an outdoor concert to begin at 9 p.m. Saturday near the Community Center.
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June, 2008 : Iowa-based bands discuss changing music industry
Jason Walsmith of The Nadas, another Iowa-based band, agrees that the American consumer is less likely to go to a concert. ”It’s a tough battle to convince the average fan to leave their comfortable couch and their big-screen TV, to go out into the cold and pay money to see live music on any given night,” Walsmith says, “but I think there’s more and more people realizing that real, true energy and performance that they get to have a personal relationship with has a value.”
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June, 2008 : Forgotten fun: 12 summer highlights in central Iowa
Winter seems to hang around forever in Iowa. Blink twice, though, and summer’s gone. And every year, we are left lamenting all the fun things we meant to do but never got around to. Not this year. This year, we made you a checklist.Put it on your refrigerator and check off one item per week between now and when school starts back up in late August.
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June, 2008 : Templeton Rye Spirits Showcases Expanded Distillery
“I’ve met and spent time with people from all over the world,” Bush said. “Templeton Rye is a product you will someday see on the top shelf in London, New York and Shanghai.”
Templeton Rye will hold an open house from 1 to 5 p.m. on June 7. The popular Iowa music group The Nadas - which performs a Templeton Rye song - will then have a concert starting at 6 p.m.
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June, 2008 : Free Iowa State Fair Acts Announced
Coming to the fair are Lady Antebellum, Foghat, Elvis impersonator Travis LeDoyt, Bob the Builder and as well as local performers Jason Brown, The Nadas, The Blue Band and The Envy Corps.
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May, 2008 : There’s Nothing Nada About The Nadas
One of the things I love most about the Nadas is that the lead singer’s voice reminds me of Bruce Cockburn….who rocks!The Nadas is one of the best Americana bands out there today. Be sure to check out the first song from their Myspace ’Blue Lights’. The vocals are very clear with amazing southern harmonies. I am also a huge fan of good ol’ school pedal steel playing, which is featured in this song.
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Mar, 2008 : The music of being & Nada-ness : The Daily Iowan
College students have countless creative methods of spending their free time, yet barely any truly could be categorized as productive. You name it, we’ve done it. Hours get passed hurting feelings in video games, minutes spent driving golf balls into the Iowa City river, days lapsed playing outside with friends.
All of these activities are perfect for improving mental health, yet most aren’t necessarily honing career skills. Making that connection was perhaps the greatest achievement of Des Moines-based band The Nadas, whose members turned their college pastime of playing together into a career that has lasted far beyond their campus days.
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Mar, 2008 : The Nadas nail down new album : Weekender
If you see a tour bus roll into town with the marque reading “Meat Loaf,” check inside before telling your friends the American rock singer is in town.
That “Meat Loaf” bus very well could be carrying the five members of the Iowa rock band The Nadas.
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Mar, 2008 : IR Chicago: Getting Lost in the Music : Insomnia Radio
I have been listening to my mp3 player A LOT these days! This is a collection of songs that when shuffled to I couldn’t resist listening to them.
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Mar, 2008 : Entrepreneur People interviews - Persistence Pays
We round out the month with a terrific interview with Jason Walsmith of the band The Nadas. They have a new release due out March 4, called Ghosts Inside These Halls featuring Midwestern rock tunes that are sure to be well-received.
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Mar, 2008 : Film pays homage to 6-on-6 basketball : Des Moines Register
The Nadas, a central Iowa band, performed a song for the production. The show will appear as part of IPTV’s fund-raising programming.
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Feb, 2008 : New Music Binge : Podcast
Feb, 2008 : The Closing Bell : Pollstar
On the itinerary side we have new listings for The Nadas, The Holmes Brothers, Bret Michaels and Emerson Drive, while on the news side we have items about Alicia Keys, Jill Scott, Elton John and “BioWillie.” All that and more awaits your approval in your last update of the day!
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Feb, 2008 : The Nadas look inward for songs on new CD : Des Moines Register
The Nadas’ latest CD, “The Ghosts Inside These Halls,” represents a collection of introspective and retrospective lyrics set in music and production that looks decidedly forward.
“Our songwriting is more mature, by far, than any of our other records,” said vocalist-guitarist Mike Butterworth. “The playing, production and songwriting are all a little more grown up.”
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Feb, 2008 : Efforts increase to bring back former Iowans : Des Moines Register
Jason Walsmith of the Nadas will pack up more than guitars, bass and drums for the Iowa band’s 100-city tour this year.
Walsmith will take along the Greater Des Moines Partnership and its pitch that former Iowans return home. “I grew up in Des Moines and thought I couldn’t wait to leave and go somewhere else,” said Walsmith. “Now I think it’s an incredible town on the verge of a renaissance.”
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Dec, 2007 : Get Outta Our Town - The Nadas’ Lament
Click here to watch Jason Walsmith of the Nadas sing about the caucus cacophony in Iowa…it’s pretty awesome. And because of it, we’re getting calls from the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, a plethora of other regional papers, and Jason’s even going to be on NPR’s “Day To Day” on Monday!
Dec, 2007 : Katie Todd on The Nadas’ New Album
Paperwork artists Katie Todd & The Nadas team up for The Nadas’ new release, The Ghosts Inside These Halls. They’ve recorded the tune “Something’s Burning.” The Iowa roots rockers who are on the Authentic Records label are releasing the album in March of 2008. Keep your eyes & ears peeled for the goods!
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Oct, 2007 : The Nadas. The best.
We keep trying to tell these guys to slow down the touring, but they just won’t listen. They’ve been busy all year promoting Listen Through The Static and are already back in the studio recording their new release, The Ghosts Inside These Halls, out next Spring. If you’re in Chicago in December, head to the House of Blues on the 22nd to check ‘em out.
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