Pariah Beat is the Upper Valley’s own Broken Social Scene, a musical collective fed by a constellation of friends and stylistic influences. The band’s been around for a few years; the current five-member core evolved through a series of open mike nights last year at Skunk Hollow and Middle Earth Music [...]
Archive for July, 2008
Eat to the Pariah Beat
July 21, 2008Blues News
July 19, 2008August 2 is a busy weekend, but blues fans should check out the “Barnful of Blues Festival” at the New Boston Fairgrounds, located near Route 13 a few miles south of Weare, New Hampshire.
It’s an all-day affair featuring two stages – acoustic and electric – and a dozen area blues bands, including Sunapee favorites Roxanne [...]
Local Rhythms – Marinating in Music
July 16, 2008I love writing about the local music scene, but it can be bittersweet at times. Since I was working away from home for much of 2007, e-mailing my column from places like Seoul, London and Youngstown, Ohio, I missed a lot of the performances I picked every week.
What a difference a year makes.
This weekend, I [...]
Donna Summer @ Meadowbrook
July 9, 2008Donna Summer
Meadowbrook U.S. Cellular Pavillion
Gilford, New Hampshire
July 8, 2008
Disco diva Donna Summer hasn’t heard the news, apparently. The album is dead, the song is king – or in her case, queen.
Performing the eighth show of her U.S. tour, Summer devoted more than half the night to selections from her first CD of new material in [...]
Local Rhythms – This Getting Old Is Getting … Old
July 8, 2008A reader and I are currently engaged in a rather lively exchange. He wants me to write about his hip-hop trio, and I may eventually do that. I tried to explain my reasons for waiting in an email. When you have a gig scheduled or a completed record, give me a call, I said. But [...]
James Montgomery – A Musician’s Musician’s Musician
July 2, 2008The River City Blues Festival in White River Junction culminates Saturday with a performance by the James Montgomery Blues Band. The W.C. Handy award-nominated harmonica player will play an outdoor show featuring songs from his soon to be released album, along with selections from “Delta Rising,” the blues documentary he worked on with Morgan Freeman.
It’s [...]
Local Rhythms – Musical Fireworks
July 1, 2008At a time when our supreme lawmakers see fit to equate money with speech, and the very foundations of democracy are sliced and diced to further political agendas, it seems like a good time to remember some of the music that speaks to my idea of patriotism.
It is, after all, our nation’s birthday. So, in [...]
