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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 Deadâs 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 â 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: JosĂ© Luis CortĂ©s leading the band NG La Banda at Lincoln Center in New York in 1997. His performance, one reviewer said, had the audience âup on its feet and screaming.âCredit…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 Singinâ 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…
Francisco GonzĂĄlez always said âWe are gardeners of the seeds of our culture. We plant our seeds patiently, and we nurture the plants of our culture’ Photo: In Mexico, musicians said Francisco GonzĂĄlezâs handiwork with strings made instruments resonate with a sound they hadnât heard in decades (Scott MacDonald) 04 April 2022 | GUSTAVO ARELLANO…
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Master jazz trumpeter Dave Douglas is back with a work inspired by the 15th Century painting, The Adoration of the Mystic Lamb Photo: Jazz Musician Dave Douglas See below for information on the Dave Douglas / Greenleaf Subscription 01 April 2022 | James Porteous | Clipper Media News Buy from the Dave Douglas BANDCAMP website…
The set is said to be ‘an album thatâs at once a time capsule and a memorial, a blissful homecoming and a fond farewell’ Photo: Mavis Staples and Levon Helm 27 March 2022 | James Porteous | Clipper Media News ANTI-Records Press Release CAPTURED AT WOODSTOCK, NEW YORKâS LEVON HELM STUDIOS IN THE SUMMER OF…
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The law, passed 100 years ago, deemed that ‘jazz music and jazz dancing in schools should be stopped at once’ but it was never enforced Photo: American jazzman Louis Armstrong during a concert in Paris, June 5, 1965. AFP/GETTY IMAGES 26 March 2022 | James Porteous | Clipper Media News 25 March 2022 | ANDREW…
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Faces: Kenney Jones | Ronnie Wood |Ian McLagan | Rod Stewart | Ronnie Lane | Say no more The Faces perform in Detroit, Michigan, September 6, 1972. Faces were an English rock band formed in 1969 by members of Small Faces after lead singer/guitarist Steve Marriott left that group to form Humble Pie. The remaining Small FacesâIan McLagan (keyboards), Ronnie Lane (bass guitar, vocals), and Kenney Jones (drums…
