Laney Jones
I love bluegrass music! There, I said it… I went to Club Passim tonight to hear Laney Jones, a young bluegrass banjo/ukelele/harmonica player who writes all her own material, who was opening for Nora Jane Struthers.
Nora Jane Struthers
They each perform different styles of bluegrass/Americana, but their styles mesh well for a double-bill show. Read the rest of this entry
Terakaft
I am a fairly recent convert to the joys of African music in general and desert blues in particular. I discovered Terakaft because I received that oh-so-common suggestion of ‘If you like X, you’ll love Y.’ In this case, X was Tinariwen and Y was Terakaft, and it was right!
As it turns out, Terakaft is an offshoot of Tinariwen, a band I saw perform about a year ago and loved. When I heard Terakaft, I was drawn to their brand of desert blues, too. Read the rest of this entry
This wasn’t a very big week for announcements of new shows. Maybe I should say that not many new shows caught my attention.
Preservation Hall Jazz Band at The Narrows Center for the Arts – Wednesday, November 20
Roseanne Cash at The Narrows Center for the Arts – Thursday, December 12
Taj Mahal at The Narrows Center for the Arts – Thursday, February 13
Johnny Clegg at Somerville Theatre – Friday, April 4
Joe Bonamassa at Hampton Beach Casino Ballroom – Friday, May 16
I had no idea what to expect from Ian Anderson, the front man of Jethro Tull, a band I loved as a teenager but had never seen live. I was quite excited to see this show, in which the band was performing the original Thick as a Brick album for the first set and Thick as a Brick 2, released in 2012, for the second set. I wasn’t disappointed in the least.
I had been excited to see the Dead Sea Scrolls exhibit at Boston’s Museum of Science since I saw a billboard that featured a wonderful lidded pottery jar. I’ll look at pottery anywhere, anytime, and if the pottery is accompanied by artifacts such as the Dead Sea Scrolls, so much the better.
I thought I would start a weekly post listing concert announcements for the Boston area that I received during the previous week. Of course these are shows that I find interesting or artists I think you, my dear readers, might like. I do not intend the list to be comprehensive – for that, you should get yourself on the email list for Ticketmaster, Live Nation, and Bowery Boston, to name a few. Venues you like generally have email notifications as well. Read the rest of this entry
I had heard that The Ballroom Thieves are a good rock band disguised as a folk band, which proved to be an accurate description of them.
They are a young, Boston-based band with a CD and an EP under their belts and I was excited to see them at The Sinclair, a small-ish venue I enjoy. Read the rest of this entry
Friday is generally the day of the week when most new concerts go on sale, and today was no exception.
One of my favorite performers, Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue, is finally going to be back in Boston doing a headlining show! He’s at House of Blues on January 18,2014. Yes, my first concert tickets for 2014 are now in my hands!
A new favorite, The New Orleans Suspects, is going to be at my favorite small venue, Johnny D’s, on Thursday, November 14. The band is composed of members of The Radiators and Dirty Dozen Brass Band, to name a few, and they are awesome performers. I was introduced to them at a New Orleans music festival last summer and hoped they would add a Boston area show to their fall tour.
These are two amazing New Orleans based acts that you should see! Maybe I’ll see you at the shows!
Sep 25
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What a wonderful evening of music at the Citi Center (a/k/a the Wang Theatre)! I’d never seen Steely Dan so I was particularly excited about this show. The opening act was Deep Blue Organ Trio and they are terrific! The trio consists of organ (obviously), drums and guitar. They only played three numbers for 15 […]
i’ve been meaning to start a blog for a while… i enjoy sharing my arts escapades with my friends, and have been encouraged to make my photos and opinions more widely available. what better way than a blog! so here goes… i welcome comments and sharing, but mostly i hope to encourage people to indulge their passions, whatever those passions may be. enjoying the arts helped keep me sane during some tough times and maybe it can do the same for you!
suze reviews the blues 