So if you're a high school student who would like to get your "Glee" on (only in a much cooler way), here's your chance: Community Chorus Project is looking for a few good singers. A few score good singers, actually.

Local arts entrepreneur Lauren Hodge assembled the initial Community Chorus Project last year, which debuted with fine performances of R.E.M.'s "Everybody Hurts" and Adele's "Rolling in the Deep." Recorded and filmed at Manifold Recording Studio with arrangements by Shana Tucker and The Beast's Eric Hirsh, videos went out far and wide, earning the approval of R.E.M. Now they're looking to do it again in August, this time covering Radiohead, Ben Folds Five, Bruno Mars and others. Members of Lost in the Trees, Megafaun and The Old Ceremony are among the local musicians participating.

If you want in, auditions will be May 12 at UNC-Chapel Hill. For details, go here.

Last Friday brought the annual outdoor music guide, which is always a frustrating endeavor because a few more events invariably pop up after deadline. And here's a biggie in some quarters: For the first time in three years, the Allman Brothers will be back at Walnut Creek. They had been the only act to play the amphitheater every year since it opened in 1991, a streak that ended because of Gregg Allman's 2010 liver transplant. They'll start a new streak on Aug. 4, with Lynyrd Skynyrd also on the bill.

Also new to the schedule is My Morning Jacket, Aug. 26 at the Downtown Raleigh Amphitheater. And here are a couple of concert series to add. First is Duke University's Music in the Gardens, which happens Wednesday (and one Thursday) evenings during June and July. This year's schedule goes like this:

June 6 -- The Beast + Big Band
June 13 -- The Old Ceremony
June 21 -- Dex Romweber & the New Romans
June 27 -- Bombadil
July 11 -- Mandolin Orange
July 18 -- Midtown Dickens with Special Guests
July 25 -- Megafaun

Tickets for the Duke series are $12, or $5 for Duke employees and students (and free for kids 12 and under).

Over in Raleigh, meanwhile, there's Oak City 7, with free shows along the lines of the old "Alive After 5" series. It will be every other Thursday evening between Memorial Day and Labor Day, on Fayetteville Street's City Plaza. And here's the lineup:

May 31 -- Tres Chicas, Antique Firearms, Saints Apollo
June 14 -- Katharine Whalen & Her Fascinators, Balsa Gliders, Nick Autry
June 28 -- I Was Totally Destroying It, Dark Water Rising, TBA
July 12 -- TBA, Chris Hendricks Band, The Broadcast
July 26 -- Annuals, TBA, LiLa
Aug. 9 -- Hobex, Jack the Radio, Paleface
Aug. 23 -- Big Daddy Love, Debonzo Brothers, Archbishops of Blount Street

According to the Hollywood Reporter, A&E has lowered the ax on "The Cleaner," the drama starring Benjamin Bratt.

The show finished what I thought was a stronger-than-the-first, 13-episode season this month.

On "The Cleaner," Bratt played a former drug addict who used extreme methods of intervention to help other addicts. With its cancellation, and the cancellation of "The Beast," the show that starred Patrick Swayze, A&E is out of the scripted drama business.

Maybe the network figured that with their hit "Intervention" they were telling the story of addiction powerfully already. And they have another hit in "Hoarders."

Still, it was nice having Bratt back on TV.

Patrick Swayze died today at the age of 57 of pancreatic cancer.

Swayze didn't have much of a TV career, although in the last year of his life, as he fought his cruel disease, he starred on A&E's "The Beast" (that's the still at left) and the 1985 mini-series "North & South" helped establish his career. Another big TV moment for Swayze was his legendary Chippendale audition dance-off with the late Chris Farley on SNL.

Of course, his big film hits were "Ghost," with "The View's" Whoopi Goldberg and "Dirty Dancing" filmed in the great state of North Carolina.

More importantly, Patrick Swayze seemed to be a lovely, graceful man who was crazy about his wife. That's not a bad legacy either.