Category Archives: concert photos
An Evening Of Extraordinary Music
The On Stage! Series at The Chevalier Theatre was an ideal venue to host the incredible Shun Ng and the Shunettes on a lovely winter evening. This series seats around one hundred people at cloth-covered tables on the stage along with the musicians.
Shun Ng and the Shunettes
I am extremely familiar with Shun and his superb guitar playing, but have only seen him with the Shunettes (Deon Mose and Angel Chisholm) a couple of times (including a very cold New Year’s Day outdoor show). I am almost at a loss for words to describe the power of these artists.
I Was Transported to a Tropical Oasis
For my No Depression review of this Hawaiian music show at Club Passim, click here.
Kawika Kahiapo, Nathan Aweau, George Kahumoku Jr. (l to r) with an audience member providing interpretive dance
George Kahumoku Jr.
Nathan Aweau
Kawika Kahiapo
George Kahumoku Jr.
Nathan Aweau
Kawika Kahiapo
Nathan Aweau
Boston Musicians Channel The Carter Family
For my No Depression review of the Wayworn Travelers show at Club Passim, click here.
Jerome Deupree
Anita Suhanin, Bruce Millard, Elijah Wald
Anita Suhanin, Bruce Millard, Elijah Wald, Matt Leavenworth
Anita Suhanin, Bruce Millard, Elijah Wald, Matt Leavenworth
Anita Suhanin, Bruce Millard, Elijah Wald, Matt Leavenworth
Anita Suhanin, Bruce Millard, Elijah Wald, Matt Leavenworth
Anita Suhanin, Bruce Millard, Elijah Wald
Jim Haggerty
My Top Ten Shows of 2016
I saw 242 shows last year, which made choosing my top ten shows particularly difficult. While there were some shows I did not love, there were far more incredible shows.
As always, I do not include sets from festivals because the energy at a festival adds so much to an artist’s performance that it is unfair to compare festival sets to ‘regular’ shows.
New Year’s Day Shows!
I started 2017 with a couple of excellent shows. Boston’s First Night celebration continued into First Day at Copley Square with Bradley Bartlett-Roche, also known as Boston’s Piano Kid. He was followed by Shun Ng and the Shunettes and then by Ruby Rose Fox. Then I meandered to The Plough and Stars to see Sarah Levecque. What a great start to my concert adventures version 2017!
Shun Ng
A Night Of Entrancing Music
Seeing Trixie Whitley perform has been on my radar since a friend introduced me to her music three years ago, and my wish was finally granted over the weekend at The Red Room at Café 939 (a Berklee College of Music venue).
Trixie Whitley
The Great American Songbook Is Alive And Well
I first heard of Michael Feinstein at least thirty years ago, but did not see him perform until recently. I have no idea why I waited – if you enjoy songs by the Gershwins, Cole Porter, Irving Berlin, Harold Arlen and others as I do, you should see Feinstein.
Michael Feinstein
Magic Happened
It is rare that I use ‘magic’ to describe a music or any other event, but magical is the perfect description for the evening with Livingston Taylor at The Extended Play Sessions at the Fallout Shelter.
Livingston Taylor
If You Like Boz Scaggs, You Will Love Garrett Lebeau!
Sometimes I go on faith that the person booking a show knows something I do not. Such was the case recently when I saw Garrett Lebeau at The Extended Play Sessions at the Fallout Shelter.
Garrett Lebeau
An Evening of Guitar Magic
While I have seen Jason Isbell perform a number of times over the past four years, I had not seen him with the 400 Unit since the band swept the 2014 Americana Music Association top awards with the album Southeastern nor since they won the best album and song awards at this year’s AMA.
Jason Isbell
I love the latest album, Something More Than Free, so I knew I was in for a treat at his recent show at the Lowell Memorial Auditorium.
suze reviews the blues 