Using GREP to bold Date and Event Name

Question

Hi
I am stumped at how to properly apply a bold style to a combination of dates and event names using GREP. I am including three examples below. I do have Paragraph and Characters styles set up. The area I would like to effect the change is in all caps. I am trying to add a bold style only to the dates and the title of the event with out changing the rest of the information.
I started of with this GREP Style:
\d{1,2}\/\d{1,2}|\d\-?\s|\u
It is bolding the dates and the name of the event. But it's not bolding the small dash between events that have a beginning and end dates or the en dash. It is randomly bolding other numbers and capital letters that it should not. Very frustrating. Each time I alter the GREP Style above, it makes it worse. This is as close as I got to the desired effect. Any ideas how to fix this?
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Answer 1

Thanks! That works. I am using a paragraph style for the body and have a bold character style for the information that needs to be bolded. I notice there are some listings that uses a colon and the bolding continued into the description where the first period appears (see samples below). I added a colon (to the shorter GREP style you suggested) in addition to the perod and excalamation point to search for.. Now the bolding stops at the colon but does not include up to the word "CARRY" (see first example). The second example, the bolding should stop after "FAIRE" but cotinues to the word Wisdom because of the period.
I wish there was a option in the GREP drop menu to search for All Caps only and not Any Uppercase Letter. Is it a case were I need to manually edit those instances so it conforms to the norm? Or is there away to modify the GREP expression ^.+?[.!] to also include other instance like the example below?
I alread try to add an additional rule using the Postive Look Ahead and nothing. And using the Any Uppercase Letter option, either forces the text back to the begining looking unstylized or it forces any capital letters to be bolded.
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