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If Bill Monroe was the Father of Bluegrass, Lester Flatt is surely one of its disciples. Born on this day (June 19) in 1914 in Overton County, Tennessee, Flatt teamed up with banjo virtuoso Earl ...

Paul Rudd and Nick Jonas go head-to-head in the latest music dramedy from Irish writer/director John Carney. "Power Ballad" follows Rick Power (Rudd), an American wedding singer living in Ireland who ...

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After a career spent exploring transcendent friendships sparked by music, Carney directs Paul Rudd and Nick Jonas in a story that gives the ugly side of human nature a fighting chance. Once you ...

About mid-way through co-writer/director John Carney’s Power Ballad, his protagonist, Rick Power (Paul Rudd)—an American-born musician now fronting a Dublin-based wedding band—spots a street busker ...

In case you forgot that Paul Rudd’s a star, Power Ballad—an affable yet bland dramedy about a wedding singer who gets ripped off by Nick Jonas, who plays an ex-boy-band pop star—is here to remind you ...

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