Sad folk-country, beautiful harmonies make up the sounds of The Novel Ideas
When The Novel Ideas were still just a novel idea, and not yet a band, there were two musicians involved: longtime friends, guitarists and Newton natives Daniel Radin and Danny Hoshino.“Danny and I...
View ArticleBSO's Andris Nelsons is the perfect messenger
Nelsons also loves the rapport -- with his musicians with his subscribers, with his grocers. It’s a conversation that’s just beginning. When the BSO launches its new season with an Opening Night...
View ArticleBerklee College of Music starts a Fred Taylor Scholarship Fund
Who is Fred Taylor and why are so many people getting ready to do and say so many nice things for and about him? The Newton native and, within jazz circles, a Boston icon, has, at different moments in...
View ArticleA last musical blast of summer with Festival on the Farm
There’s just enough time left in the summer of 2017 to squeeze in one more outdoor music fest. That event would be Festival at the Farm, and the location is Prowse Farm in Canton. The two-day event...
View ArticleKevin So happy to be playing, living back on his stomping ground
Singer-songwriter-guitarist-pianist Kevin So cut his musical teeth in the Boston area. He grew up in Allston, then Brighton, grew to appreciate music early on via his older cousin’s record collection –...
View ArticleDan Mills offers 'Something Good'
“Sincere and bittersweet” are words that have been used to describe the music of Dan Mills, who wears classic country, folk and Americana sounds like a smooth, but leathery pair of broken-in...
View ArticleSounds Around Town: Jonny Lang gets back to the blues at the Wilbur in Boston
Guitarist and blues belter Jonny Lang did not start out as a guitarist and blues belter. Before he even touched a guitar (he got his first one at 13), he played saxophone. Before he heard the blues for...
View ArticleRock superstar Tom Petty dies; sold 80 million records
Petty, who suffered cardiac arrest, was 66.
View ArticleSounds Around Town: Jack DeJohnette drives the beat with Hudson at Berklee...
Legendary drummer and pianist Jack DeJohnette turned 75 over the summer, but that sure hasn’t slowed him down ... at all.His ascent into the world of jazz, starting in the 1960s, included stints with,...
View ArticleSOUNDS AROUND TOWN: Peter Wolf is still belting out blues (and rock and more)...
Long before Peter Wolf embarked on a solo career, singing with his current band the Midnight Travelers; well before he gyrated and growled and spouted out epic blasts of seemingly off-the-cuff rhymes –...
View ArticleThe Shout Out Louds bright pop, stealth tour hits Boston
Stockholm's Shout Out Louds continue to churn out bright and danceable pop-rock, and their brand new album “Ease My Mind” is another refreshing collection from the Swedish quintet. The band's 90-minute...
View ArticleMusic from cloud nine with the Boston Camerata
Founding an ensemble in 1954 that would use instruments from other cultures to play music from earlier eras, Narcissa Williamson called it the Camerata from an Italian word meaning "an intimate...
View ArticleA liberating holiday performance
It’s the blend, says Patrick Swanson, “the interesting mix of high art and low art. The Revels is always doing that — a sophisticated piece, and then some street theater. We keep entertaining both...
View ArticleOld music gets new life
The holiday season has brought with it the idea of suggesting a few new, slightly offbeat CDs that would make splendid gifts for friends and family. Truth is, they’d provide equally great listening for...
View ArticleHank Wonder releases new CD in Somerville Dec. 10
There’s no one in the group Hank Wonder called Hank Wonder. The core members – vocalist Darren Buck, fiddler and violist Annie Bartlett, and guitarist Michael Loria – play music that’s described by...
View ArticleA perfect holiday menu
The Renaissance Men vocal music ensemble may have been around only since 2014, but its once-a-year, one-night-only holiday gala – featuring classical musical as well as carols and a not-to-be-missed...
View ArticleREVIEW: Revels' 'Venetian Celebration' glitters
CAMBRIDGE - This year’s edition of the Christmas Revels veers off to Renaissance Venice where a glittering-robed Doge governs a lively group of singers, dancers and comedians. As always, several...
View ArticleMartin Sexton and his trio star in their own ‘variety show’ at the Wilbur
Long before Martin Sexton gained a huge fan base for his pick-less guitar strumming and his wide-ranging vocals as a contemporary troubadour, he was singing and playing guitar in a series of rock bands...
View ArticleStephen Kellogg offers up the best of him at Club Passim
Stephen Kellogg’s singing-songwriting career, one that fits comfortably at the junction of folk and pop and country, was likely borne out of the contradictory listening experiences he had as a kid....
View ArticleSounds Around Town: A look back at what some of our favorite musicians had to...
It's time to look back at the sometimes wise, sometimes insightful, sometimes goofy things that musicians of all sorts said in 50 Sounds Around Town in 2017.
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