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She was a teen-ager when she first realized something wasn't quite right with her father.

"I started noticing his memory loss when I was in high school," Ashley Campbell, 25, says. "He would ask the same questions a couple of times in a row."

Two years after her college graduation in 2009, she...

 

In the middle of making what he hoped would be a fourth-act comeback, Glen Campbell was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. By the time "Ghost on the Canvas" was released last fall, the singer was calling it his goodbye album.
In the liner notes he expresses pride in the music he's been ab...

 

Powerful voices join together in homage to all things country music in the new American Music Theatre original production "Country Classics."
Put together by AMT artistic director Andrea McCormick, the show brings back longtime AMT regulars Wess Cooke and Michelle Rajotte.
It's easy to see...

Andrea McCormick found a love of old-style country music in a production of contemporary country hits.

McCormick, who wrote, choreographed and is directing "Country Classics" at American Music Theatre, says she got inspiration a few years back while producing an AMT show called "Nashville City Li...

Some theater thoughts, all connected in degrees of separation.

• Congratulations to Eliseo Roman, who is on Broadway again. He's playing one of the Angels of Mercy in "Leap of Faith," now in previews. It opens April 26 at the St. James Theatre.

Roman, who was born and raised in Lancaster ...

CONCERT REVIEW

This week history was made in Lancaster County — Disney history. Disney's "Fantasia" in concert made its national premiere at the American Music Theatre on Wednesday, featuring the talent of our own Lancaster Symphony Orchestra.

The concert combined the music of the l...

Once again it's time to rock and roll with Rios and Roberts, the two guys who keep you up to date on the local music scene.

• We told you in our last column that April was going to be a great month for music in Lancaster, but even we didn't see everything that was coming out way. So let...

Just imagine a high-def Mickey Mouse carrying those water buckets on the big screen while the Lancaster Symphony Orchestra plays Dukas' "The Sorcerer's Apprentice."

Or watch the ballet troupe of dancing hippos, ostriches, elephants and alligators perform to "Dance of the Hours" by Ponchielli.

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It ain't your daddy's rock and roll anymore.

That's a position held by Cory Wells, singer for Three Dog Night, the classic rock band appearing at the American Music Theatre on Sunday.

"It was fantastic," Wells says, refering to the late 1960s and early '70s, when TDN was pumping out hits such ...

Just because the Oak Ridge Boys is one of country music's longest-running acts doesn't mean it's averse to trying something new.

The band, which will perform two shows Saturday at the American Music Theatre, decided to try and inject some hipness into its act when it went into the studio to recor...