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March 7, 2011 at 11:04PM
(The Minnesota Star Tribune)
(The Minnesota Star Tribune)

Arctic Monkeys are returning to First Ave on May 28 Associated Press photo The Minnesota Zoo will announce its full lineup on April 4. Among the bookings are Trombone Shorty, George Thorogood, Nanci Griffith, and the Go-Go's…. At one point, the State Fair was negotiating with Van Morrison for the grandstand….Arctic Monkeys return to First Avenue on May 28… Trans-Siberian Orchestra has added a second concert for May 14 at Mystic Lake... Look for a July 2 blues fest in Mankato headlined by Taj Mahal. Curtiss A, X-Boys, Slim Dunlap and Gary Rue will perform a benefit March 15 at Bunker's for Kevin Hazlett, Minneapolis session ace in the 1980s who is fighting cancer…. Country star Blake Shelton will be the fourth judge on NBC's "The Voice" along with Christina Aguilera, Cee Lo Green and Adam Levine. Carson Daly is the host. Marc Anthony will join the cast of TNT's "Hawthorne" as a detective this summer… The Warblers on "Glee" will release their own album in April… Karrin Allyson will drop " 'Round Midnight" on May 3.... Urge Overkill's first album in more than 15 years, "Rock & Roll Submarine," is set for May 10.

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