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Muscente, who uses the name Calvi professionally, resigned yesterday from her position as assistant principal at Alexander Hamilton High School and asked for the appointment, a request that was approved during a special meeting.
unknown title 2008
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Tell and his associates.] [Footnote 5: 'Calvi's rocky shore:' the noble stand made by Paschal
Poetical Works of Johnson, Parnell, Gray, and Smollett With Memoirs, Critical Dissertations, and Explanatory Notes Thomas Parnell 1698
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Spotlit on a black stage, Calvi has the guts to open her set with an instrumental track, "Rider To The Sea", made up solely of arpeggiating guitar tones.
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Harpaz provides wooze and drone for Calvi's own extraordinary guitar-playing, pegged somewhere between atmospheric and malevolent.
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Anna Calvi 's self-titled debut on the Domino label is a remarkable distillation of such varied sources as David Bowie, Leonard Cohen, Roy Orbison and Edith Piaf.
Lucinda Williams Snarls, Mary J. Blige Thrills Jim Fusilli 2011
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But the best of them – "Desire" in which PJ Harvey turns into Bruce Springsteen and "Love Won't Be Leaving" – are red in tooth and nail with lust and loss, and the masterful reverberations of Calvi's instrument.
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Introducing Anna Calvi, Sexsmith's support act, he enthuses about how the singing guitarist sounds like nothing else around.
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Calvi's 50s-tinged chanson has little to do with either the Kinks, or the 60s.
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Jools is back next week: Elbow, Anna Calvi, The Tallest Man On The Earth, and, um, Beady Eye.twitter.com/guideguardian guardianguide.tumblr.com
From Big Freedia to Jools Holland, this week's winners and losers 2011
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It's just as well Calvi got her own slot: she would have been wasted in the slightly barmy line-up of Ready Steady Go!
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