Category Archives: music
Help Keep Live Music Alive!
Anyone who knows me, or reads this website, knows how much I adore the Fallout Shelter (also referred to as the Extended Play Sessions). The venue had to close suddenly in December and it has been missed!
Please read the following that was released by the new venue, the Grass Roots Cultural and Performing Arts Center, and consider donating.
A New Crowdfunding Opportunity
The Lullaby Project is the first recording by Felipe Salles’ Interconnections Ensemble. Felipe is a Brazilian jazz musician (saxophone) and composer who is a professor at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
Felipe Salles (at Regattabar)
If you click on the link to The Lullaby Project above, you can read more about the project and contribute to it as well. I have had the privilege of seeing Felipe perform and know how good he is. I hope you will consider contributing to the worthy project as well.
Make Music Day In Boston
I was invited to photograph as much of Make Music Boston, part of the worldwide Make Music Day celebrations, as I could. Free events were scattered around the city as well as a few events in nearby suburbs.
I went to Boston Common to photograph a few sets during my lunch ‘hour’. This is an annual event held on the Summer Solstice. Mark your calendars for 2018!
Never Underestimate The Power Of Positive Vibrations…
Especially at the hands of Michael Franti & Spearhead, who appeared at the Lowell Summer Music Series last weekend.
Michael Franti
While the heavy rains forced the show to be held indoors, nothing dampened the spirits of either the band or the audience, who was on its feet before the show even began!
Michael Franti shaking hands with the rail-sitters
Americana Music Association℠ Announces 2017 Honorees
The Americana Music Association announced today that Robert Cray, Iris DeMent, Hi Rhythm, Graham Nash, HighTone Founders Larry Sloven and Bruce Bromberg and previously announced Van Morrison will be honored during the Americana Music Association’s℠ 16th Annual Honors & Awards on Wednesday, September 13th at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville!
BJ Barham Performs In Boston Next Week
I never saw American Aquarium, the band in which frontman BJ Barham made his mark in the Americana genre, so I will not miss the opportunity to see him at the Middle East Upstairs on Monday, June 26th.
BJ Barham (Photo by Jillian Clark)
Trombone Shorty Plus Lowell Summer Music Series Equals A Winning Combination
It does not get much better, if at all, than dancing to the groove of Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue under the stars at Boarding House Park for the kickoff show of the 2017 Lowell Summer Music Series!
Trombone Shorty
And what a way to start the season!
Great Young Americana Artists Close The Second Season Of OnStage! At The Chevalier Theatre
I had the opportunity to cover a fabulous show recently at The Chevalier Theatre On Stage! Series at which the members of all three Americana bands are friends! I have seen each band perform a number of times, but this triple bill was a rare chance to see them in one show.
Damn Tall Buildings
Is The Music Disturbing Your Conversation?
Anyone who has attended a concert with me knows that one of my pet peeves when I am out hearing live music is the audience talking (followed closely by people who sing LOUDLY along with the music without being invited to join by the artist). Part of the reason why last night’s sold-out John Moreland show at The Sinclair in Cambridge, Massachusetts was so fabulous was that the audience was so quiet, I could have heard a pin drop! Read the rest of this entry
Corporate Punk Is Neither Corporate Nor True Punk!
Click here to read my review of this terrific show on No Depression.
Corporate Punk (sans Mairi Chaimbeul)
Mairi Chaimbeul
Sean Trischka
Stash Wyslouch
Nate Sabat
Sean Trischka (on cowbell – whenever there is one, I must take a shot)
Corporate Punk
Dietrich Strause
Sean Trischka and Eleanor Buckland
Corporate Punk with Isa Burke
Corporate Punk
Eleanor Buckland
Sean Trischka
Corporate Punk
Corporate Punk with Eleanor Buckland
Eleanor Buckland and Nate Sabat
Corporate Punk with Isa Burke
Mairi Chaimbeul
Sean Trischka
Stash Wyslouch
Eleanor Buckland and Corporate Punk
Eleanor Buckland
Sean Trischka
Eleanor Buckland and Corporate Punk
Mairi Chaimbeul
Corporate Punk
Corporate Punk
Eleanor Bucklland
Sean Trischka and Eleanor Buckland
Eleanor Buckland
suze reviews the blues 