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Comments: 0 Views: 153After an impromptu concert at Malaprop’s Saturday and a long night rocking out at Moog and Echo Mountain, Amanda Palmer, lead singer of the ‘Brechtian punk cabaret’ act the Dresden Dolls, is still in town. She Tweeted at 1:24 today (Sun) that she’s at World Coffee, where there’s a piano.
Get more info on Twitter at @amandapalmer or @blogasheville, or search hashtag #avlafp
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She’s on the road now and headed to Knoxville, just an FYI for ya’ll that might want to run by there to see her (1:50pm). |
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Here are couple tweets from @amandapalmer (forwarded by @blogasheville) • went back to malaprops and gifted gina w/wkap book, now at world coffee, ashevegas http://bit.ly/4qRbSo • thanks y’all who warned us about the rockslide. we’re on highway 209, heading to Knoxville. playing WUTK around 4:30 |
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