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Don't roll down to Lemoyne's Champion Ship with your $12 admission ticket ($10 in advance) on Tuesday night at 6 p.m. expecting to see Tony Danza.

Sure, the name of the Agents of Chaos 2008 Tour headliner is The Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza but the etched-in goofy smile of the former Who's the Boss and Taxi star will not be there.

He is presumably in Singapore filming the fourth season of the boxing reality show The Contender and, again presumably, he does not play in a mathcore band.

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It started as an idea for a high school talent show. Now Recycled Percussion boasts a "junk rock" power percussion show, complete with a beat box session, an explosive stage show and the most important, plastic buckets. If you're wondering what the plastic buckets are for, lead drummers Justin Spencer and Ryan Vezina will surely show you. Todd Griffin (DJ) and Jim Magoon (electric guitar) complete the four-man traveling show, which hits the Luhrs Center at Shippensburg University this Tuesday at 8:00 pm. Tickets are $20 and $17.

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Trio da Paz features three seasoned masters of both jazz and Brazilian music - Romero Lubambo, Nilson Matta and Duduka da Fonseca. Central Pennsylvania Friends of Jazz presents them on Sunday at the Harrisburg Hilton.

The Trez Music Education Center Youth Band opens at 5:00 p.m. Tickets range from $5-25.

Below is a live performance of "Jazz Samba."

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One brother is an international film star. The other is a songwriter/musician. Together, Kevin and brother Michael are The Bacon Brothers, formed in 1995. The duo and their band will be at the Majestic Theater on Sunday at 6:30 pm. Ticket prices vary from $40 to $100 (which includes a meet-and-greet with the artists).

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Who is the greatest Hip-Hop MC of all-time? Rakim? Jay-Z? Biggie? Nas? 2Pac? DJ Run? Big Daddy Kane? LL Cool J?

Well, 1999's canonical Ego Trip's Book of Rap Lists anointed KRS-One as the Muhammad Ali of emcees and I am not one to argue.

The Boogie Down Productions founding member who once boasted "I am hip-hop" returns to Harrisburg's Dragonfly Club on Saturday. Doors open at 9:00 p.m. Show scheduled to start at 10:30 p.m.

Don't act like you don't know.

Learn from the Teacher and proceed straight to class.

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Minneapolis string band sextet Pert Near Sandstone brings their national tour into the Appalachian Brewing Company's Abbey Bar on Saturday October 11. Music scheduled to start at 10 p.m. There is no cover charge.

Pert Near Sandstone offer a skillful, gritty set of traditional get-up-and-dance bluegrass. Their newest album's title, "Up and Down the River," befits their home near the source of Ol' Man River and also marks their stated desire to take "their music out on the rivers and roads of the country to continue the revitalization of the American string band tradition."

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The Daedalus Quartet will perform at 8 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 11, in Market Square Presbyterian Church, 20 S. Second St., Harrisburg. The date of the performance was incorrect Thursday in a story on Page 15 of the Go! entertainment section. For more information, contact Market Square Concerts. For tickets, call 214-2787 or visit Whitaker Center online.

Live Nation has announced that additional tickets have been released for Sir Elton John's Oct. 15 concert at Giant Center.

Tickets to the show, part of the "Rocket Man: Number Ones" tour, start at $49.50.

Tickets are available at the Giant Center Box Office and all Ticketmaster locations. Charge by phone by calling 534-3911 or 260-2000. Or buy online at Ticketmaster or Live Nation.

1. Travel the seven continents
-- 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Whitaker Center, 222 Market St., Harrisburg. www.openstagehbg.com.
-- The Open Stage of Harrisburg's 2008-09 Main Stage Season begins by going Around the World in 80 Days. Adventure, slapstick, mayhem and madness await the theatergoer.

2. Folk-rock legends perform
-- 8 p.m. Friday, The H. Ric Luhrs Performing Arts Center, 1871 Old Main Dr., Shippensburg. 717-477-7469.
-- Rock and Rock Hall of Fame members and sixties icons David Crosby and Graham Nash bring their litany of classic musical groups (The Byrds, The Hollies, CSN&Y) and many (lost?) memories to Shippensburg.

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What will Special Ed and the Shortbus bring to the Appalachian Brewing Company's Abbey Bar on Friday night at 10:00 p.m. Banjos, lunacy, big beards, ragtime, washboards, random Beverly Hills Cop dialogue, bluegrass, mandolins, zany humor, insane lyrics, long digressions into southeastern European music and heaven knows what else.

Did we mention lunacy? That's right we did. Don't say we didn't warn you. It's bound to be a crazy good time.

Scheduled to open is the more traditionally bluegrass Wilkes-Barre sextet Cabinet whose sweet, pleasant vocals and overlapping harmonies will enchant.

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