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Incoming artistic director Kwame Kwei-Armah has bold plans for Center Stage
Kwame Kwei-Armah has a way of pulling others into his gravitational field, whirling them around and then depositing them in a place at some distance from where they started out.
People leave an encounter with Center Stage's incoming artistic director...Tags: Arts and Culture, Physical Fitness and Exercise, London (England), Senegal, Celebrities
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Grazyna Auguscik takes on music of Nick Drake, to mixed effect
Jazz artists love to take chances, and Chicago singer Grazyna Auguscik has taken a big one with her plunge into the music of Nick Drake. The eclectic British singer-songwriter died in 1974, at age 26, his slim discography never embraced by the wide...
Tags: Music Industry, Music, Entertainment, Green Mill (club), Jazz (genre)
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Grazyna Auguscik jazzes music of Nick Drake
The songs of Nick Drake get under your skin, insinuating their way into your consciousness through the gentle contours of their melody lines and the expressive urgency of their lyrics. And though Drake died in 1974, at age 26, with a slender...
Tags: Music Industry, Music, Entertainment, Irving Park, Green Mill (club)
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Polish jazz blossoms at the Chopin Theatre
Jazz took root in Poland long ago – even before World War II – and the country has prized it ever since. If the music lived underground in the 1950s, when the Soviet Union considered it "decadent," Polish listeners – and their...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Jimi Hendrix, Vocal Music (genre), Festive Events, Howard Reich
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Decisive Singer-Songwriter Christopher Paul Stelling Plays a Free Show at BAR
Christopher Paul Stelling w/ Brian Dolzani. Free. 9 p.m., Sept. 12. BAR, 254 Crown St., New Haven, barnightclub.com, manicproductions.org As Christopher Paul Stelling recalls how he acquired his first guitar — a hand-me-down received at 8 or...
Tags: New Haven (New Haven, Connecticut), Music Industry, Kurt Cobain, Music, Nirvana (music group)
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Gryphon Trio: 'We love Beethoven'
The Gryphon Trio will be thinking a lot about Beethoven when this Canadian ensemble performs locally for the Candlelight Concert Society Saturday, Feb. 18 at 8 p.m. at Howard Community College's Smith Theatre.
"We love Beethoven," cellist Roman Borys...Tags: Arts and Culture, Laurie Anderson, Leonard Cohen, Ottawa (Canada), Canada
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Free Music Friday! Mellow warmth from Denison Witmer
Pennsylvania native Denison Witmer is a veteran singer-songwriter who has achieved more critical acclaim than record sales.
That's not to say his music is edgy or difficult. The song "Brooklyn With Your Highest Wall" from Witmer's new, ninth album,...Tags: Arts and Culture, Leonard Cohen, Boston, Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), Burlington (Kane, Illinois)
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2011 year in review: Best in pop music
Pop & Hiss The best music of 2011 — or, more accurately, my favorite music of the year – is a genre-blind mix of the eloquent and the aggressive. The below 10 full-length albums, organized in order or preference, are further evidence...... -
Wednesday Morning Coffee: Corbett Aide Who Edited Faith-Based Pub. Resigns.
Capitol Ideas with John L. MicekGood Wednesday Morning, Fellow Seekers. We're running a little behind this morning, so we're going to dispense with the formalities and instead will dive right into a quick countdown of the Top 5 stories making news this 18th day of...... -
Bert Jansch, influential guitarist for the prog-folk Pentangle, dies at 67
Bert Jansch, a virtuoso guitarist and singer who influenced generations of post-British Invasion luminaries including Jimmy Page, Paul Simon, Donovan, Nick Drake and Johnny Marr, died after a long battle with cancer, the Guardian reported earlier this...Tags: Paul Simon, Jimmy Page, Pentangle (music group), Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Donovan
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David Berkeley's Books and Music at Holcomb Farm in Simsbury
The New Jersey-born singer-songwriter and current San Francisco native David Berkeley (pictured), who was recently interviewed by the Huffington Post about his new album, Some Kind of Cure (the fourth he's released on his own label), and also about his...Tags: Paul Simon, Arts and Culture, Fine Arts, Arts, Simsbury
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My go-to movie cliches
LakeviewIt's no secret I love movies. The ones I relish most are the indies: anything I can find playing here in good old Lakeview, at Music Box Theatre (3733 N. Southport) or Landmark Century Centre Cinema (2828 N. Clark). Low budgets and subtitles automatically...
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