Forget the recent burst of warm, sunny weather. To my tune-addled brain, spring fever kicks in when summer music festival announcements begin arriving in my inbox.
Get ready to dust off the low-slung lawn chairs, it’s going to be a great season. .
I was a bit worried when Charlie Hunter suggested the annual FredFest, formally known [...]
Few can match the music community’s generous nature. It’s amazing – most area players have day jobs, and stuggle to find the time to even practice. But when there’s a friend in need or a cause worth supporting, they won’t hesitate to step up.
For example, there’s the COVER show featuring Jay Ungar and [...]
To Live’s To Fly
The Ballad of the Late, Great Townes Van Zandt
by John Kruth
Townes Van Zandt died young at 52, but he was lucky to have made it past 30. The subtitle of John Kruth’s biography refers to a 1973 album, “The Late Great Townes Van Zandt,” which got its’ title from the time [...]
Folksinger Dar Williams does her part for a local cause next Friday, when she performs at the Bellows Falls Opera House in support of their farmer’s market.
David Francey, a Canadian singer-songwriter who’s built a following through several area performances, opens the show. The Bellows Falls Farmers Market will host a reception in the lobby [...]
There are plenty of reasons for the music business to rue iTunes, but killing the album isn’t one of them. If anything, the leading Internet download site is the long-player’s biggest supporter.
Wait, you say – doesn’t the availability of 99 cent tracks make it easy to snap up just that one Fergie tune I [...]
Three years ago this week, I submitted the first “Local Rhythms” column to the Eagle Times. My editor at the time had only one question: “can you keep it up every week?” I wasn’t sure - and not because I feared writer’s block.
When I approached the paper, my original idea was to write [...]
Via BBC comes word that EMI Music will sell songs unencumbered by Digital Rights Management (DRM) schemes on iTunes beginning in May, with more digital music sites to follow. EMI will offer the so-called “premium” tracks at a higher price than the current 99 cents/track. The non-DRM’d tracks will have better audio [...]
