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Fight Song

By Darci Ratliff

Published on February 28, 2008

It's kind of like a real-life School of Rock. High school rockers have a chance to make a splash at the North Texas Battle of the Bands, courtesy of UNT, Denton Record-Chronicle, the Texas Music Project and Lone Star Attitude Inc. The contest accompanies a visit from the John Lennon Educational Tour Bus, a nonprofit mobile recording studio. Battle of the Bands winners will be able to use its professional equipment to record both audio and video. Watch Battle of the Bands finalists perform live at 7 p.m. on Friday at UNT's Murchison Performing Arts Center, Interstate 35E at North Texas Blvd. in Denton. Admission is $10. Call 940-369-7802 or visit thempac.com.
Fri., Feb. 29, 7 p.m., 2008



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