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From Woodstock to Paris, from Bob Dylan and Rolling Thunder and solo albums, for decades Bob Neuwirth was never far from the centre of everything. Photo: Bob Neuwirth with Bob Dylan 19 May 2022 | Chris Willman | Reuters |With additional photos and videos LOS ANGELES (Variety.com) – Bob Neuwirth, a recording artist, painter, mainstay…
Singer/Songwriter/Guitarist Extraordinaire has released his latest video, a dreamlike ode to… well love and regret. Photo Credit: Jesse Faatz 03 March 2022 | JONNY THERRIEN | The Bluegrass Situation Billy Strings’ video for “Love and Regret” is an entrancing narrative that mirrors the song’s story. Directed by Nick Ray McCann, the video opens with shots…
It is too late to listen to Europe ’72 set on the day of (50 years ago) but we do have a year, after all. Photo: Album Cover – Grateful Dead – Europe ’72 18 May 2022 | James Porteous | Clipper Music News Math has never been one of my stronger points. So it…
Mama’s Broke’s ‘dark, fiery folk-without-borders sound’ absorbs traditions from their maritime home in Eastern Canada all the way to Ireland and Indonesia. Photo: Canadian folk duo Mama’s Broke (Amy Lou and Lisa Marie) live at Sidmouth Folk Festival 2019 16 May 2022 | James Porteous | Clipper Media News We find ourselves at a place in time when…
Buffy Sainte-Marie sings four songs with the same passion she has shown throughout her nearly 60-year career Photo: Screenshot: Singer/songwriter Buffy Sainte-Marie 15 May 2022 | Ann Powers | NPR PLEASE NOTE: The video is available to view on the NRP site and YouTube (linked below) “Tiny Desk at home? I kinda live on the…
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‘Box of Rain’ looks at the community that evolved around the Dead and their music. Photo: A Deadhead poses in front of Grateful Dead posters at a Haight-Ashbury apartment in January 1980 in San Francisco.Ed Perlstein/Redferns 10 May 2-22 | Nicholas G. Meriwether | SFGate More than 25 years after the Grateful Dead’s last concert,…
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The song, written by Elton John and lyricist Bernie Taupin, went on to become their musical anthem Photo: Elton John began working with song-writing partner Bernie Taupin in 1967. (Supplied) 30 April 2022 | Matt Neal | ABC News Rocket Man changed Elton John’s career almost overnight — 50 years on, it remains an anthem…
Classical: The two string quartets are ‘focused and fragile investigations of sound… live in the shadows, slowly shifting, finding form, and melting away.’ 01 May 2022 | James Porteous | Clipper Media News Manchester Collective Manchester Collective is a new kind of arts organisation, built for a fresh and diverse musical world. We create intimate…
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His music, Timba, was ‘fast, loud, and characterized by its multiple overlapping rhythms and deep booming bass lines’ Photo: José Luis Cortés leading the band NG La Banda at Lincoln Center in New York in 1997. His performance, one reviewer said, had the audience “up on its feet and screaming.”Credit…Jack Vartoogian 28 April 2022 |…
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30 April 2022 – Stay Awake: Various Interpretations of Music from Vintage Disney Films Photo: ClipperMusic Cover. Graphic James Porteous 30 April 2022 | James Porteous | Clipper Media News 30 April 2022 – Stay Awake: Various Interpretations of Music from Vintage Disney Films Stay Awake: Various Interpretations of Music from Vintage Disney Films, produced…
Singin’ in the Rain turns 70 this year and although the reviews were good, no one expected it to become known as a classic. Photo: Gene Kelly in Singin’ in the Rain. Photograph: AF archive/Alamy Stock Photo 15 April 2022 | Keith Garlington | Arkansas Online The studio musical has seen a bit of a resurgence…
Dozens of folk musicians from both sides of the Atlantic, such as Emmylou, Guy Clark, Kate and Anna, Iris Dement, Mary Black, Jerry Douglas, Aly Bain, Danny Thompson and John Martyn join what has been called ‘the greatest backporch shows ever’ 16 April 2022 | James Porteous | Clipper Media News This is Session One…
