For many watching Richard Shindell’s performance at Boccelli’s last March, the high point came when Antje Duvekot joined him on stage.
Her airy voice hushed the room as the two worked through “Vertigo” – a song that typifies the beauty and danger coursing through much of Duvekot’s work.
Love is a balancing act at dizzying [...]
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I remember my first night in Claremont almost 30 years ago.
After wrapping up a six-hour shift on the radio, I was looking for something to do. The Shades (a band from my then-hometown Worcester) were playing a club gig.
Having no clue about regional geography, I planned on going – until learning the [...]
Country music today is what rock and roll was in 1974 – exciting, surprising and fan driven.
It’s exciting when guitar legend B.B. King lends his talents (on “Let The Good Times Roll”) to Brad Paisley’s guitar mash note, “Play.” It’s surprising when Americana goddess Patty Griffin trades vocals with Dierks Bentley on the tender, twangy [...]
Ever had a conversation that begins with the question, “have you heard [insert musician’s name]?” – followed by the statement, “they’re the next [insert musician’s name].”?
If you’re talking with Partridge “Buzz” Boswell, here’s some advice: pay attention.
Buzz has ears, as they say in the trade, and during his 10-year tenure at the Lebanon Opera House, [...]
The Jenny Brook Bluegrass Festival has a new home – Tunbridge, Vermont – and a more ambitious focus this year.
The latter, says founder/director Candi Sawyer, is a circumstance born of necessity. The venue change required the four-day festival to begin a week earlier than usual. Many performers who’d played Jenny Brook in years past were [...]
As show time approached, music fans milled in front of the Bellows Falls Opera House, munching on barbeque and comparing notes from past festivals. Downstairs in the reception area, festival organizer Ray Massucco unveiled an enormous “Fred X” cake, and later when he introduced local singer/songwriter Josh Maiocco, he offered everyone in the house a [...]
Southern Vermont’s most awesome weekend of music begins tonight at the Bellows Falls Opera House, continuing at locations in and around BF and Rockingham. Foremost in the thoughts of many (especially show organizer Ray Massucco) is the current unstable weather system.
The bad news is that an inch and a half of rain is expected tonight, [...]
“Roots on the River” begins tonight at the Bellows Falls Opera House, with a double bill featuring Sonny Landreth and Chris Smither.
In 10 years, the four-day festival has become one of Vermont’s most-loved events.
Three separate performances by Fred J. Eaglesmith and his band leave no doubt about why the long weekend of [...]
Following a week that saw the band win a gold medal in the Great East competition at Six Flags Agawam, and the chorus earn a “Superior” rating at the annual “Trills and Thrills” gathering in Lake George, the Claremont Middle School music program held its final concert of the year.
If the sixth grade band’s performance [...]
In my hand, the Palm Pre feels like a river-smoothed stone. There’s not a rough edge anywhere on the device. With a small on/off button next to a ringer/vibrate switch at the top right, and a two-button volume control on the left, it’s the picture of minimalism.
A round selection button is the only other thing [...]
