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- h mama! Festival will be a celebration of mothers: SATURDAY AT…
- Love and death from Nick Cave
- ARTSMNDAY: ‘Bravura and Blues’ a Lovely Ballet Show
- With mix of music and dancing Fiesta ends another run
- The Music Goes Round
- The thrill is found
h mama! Festival will be a celebration of mothers: SATURDAY AT…
Free with registration – Charlotte bserver – AccessMyLibrary.com – Apr 29, 2007
(29-APR-07) Charlotte bserver (Charlotte NC ). 29–In the Charlotte area we have festivals that celebrate spring barbecue blues music dogs Greek culture and even the Renaissance. Now there will finally be one d.
Love and death from Nick Cave
Boston Globe – Apr 29, 2007
Backup singers offer a feminine counterpoint to the band’s overwhelming occasionally stifling masculine ardor which threatens to tip over into self-parody. “Abattoir” cannot sustain a single mood for the entirety of its four discs and its dirges are occasionally tempered by harder-edged songs guided by Ellis’s violin. The music loses something in the translation from studio to stage pomp compromised by the occasional sloppiness of live performance but “Abattoir Blues Tour” offers a compelling look at Cave the wandering minstrel bringing news of death from city to city.
ARTSMNDAY: ‘Bravura and Blues’ a Lovely Ballet Show
Harvard Crimson – Apr 29, 2007
?Bravura andBlues? featuring five short numbers and variations from the famouspiece ?Paquita? provided an evening of elegant entertainment. Excerpts from ?Blue Until June? first took the stagefeaturing six talented dancers in a stylistic mixture of classicalballet and blues. The dancers embraced the music capturing jazz-likeriffs in the movement of their body. There were three sections to thepiece which was staged by Jason Hartley and each was uniquelystriking: an impressive opening group number a captivating pas dedeux and a strange?but nevertheless entertaining?final ensemble. The second piece ?Untitled (Baroque in Black Dresses)? wasthe greatest disappointment of the night. With thoughtful choreographyby Diana L. Limbach ?05 many of the simple movements originated fromminuet dancing perhaps commenting on old-fashioned dance forms.
With mix of music and dancing Fiesta ends another run
San Antonio Express – Apr 29, 2007
They’ve got the blues A cool breeze blew through Sunset Station’s Lone Star Pavilion in the afternoon providing a nice balance to hot harmonica licks onstage. In its first year as an official Fiesta event the San Antonio Blues Society’s Fiesta Blues Heritage Series "Harmonicapalooza" drew about 300 people to East Commerce Street. The music a mixture of Chicago Mississippi Louisiana and Texas blues from the straight-ahead to the funky attracted an array of fans. "I like the blues. I was raised with it" said George Dismuke 69 who grew up on the East Side. Dancing and remembering For those seeking both culture and religion the fifth annual Praise Dance Celebration at the Carver Community Cultural Center hit the spot. With sweeping arm motions animated expressions fleet-footed steps and soulful rhythms 18 dance groups from 14 area churches gave 19 performances from slow poignant free-form ballet movements to highly synchronized routines.
The Music Goes Round
Washington Post – Apr 29, 2007
95Now that they may all be history we’re accumulating notable record-label histories including those of Atlantic Chess Elektra and the Warner Music Group. The latest addition Gary Marmorstein’s The Label is about Columbia the grandest label of them all the oldest brand name in recorded sound the first to promote recording as an entertainment medium. Lineal ancestor of Sony BMG the label dates back to 1889 its name derived from the District of where the Columbia Phonograph Company initially sold and distributed Edison phonographs and cylinders. Columbia began its march to glory with such wax cylinder stars as Eddie Giguere a yodeler and an officer in the Washington Police Patrol and John Y. Atlee a whistler who by day clerked at the Treasury Department… Even the dilemma of digital downloads at once the industry’s salvation and curse recalls the doom-saying in the 1920s and ’30s when the record industry seemed convinced it would not withstand the rise of radio and its free music. Even as the business models crumble Columbia’s legacy remains unassailable whether it’s found in the grooves or as digital bytes. But The Label lacks the passion of the late Ahmet Ertegun’s Atlantic Records photo-rich memoir What’d I Say and the insights of Nadine Cohodas’s Chess history Spinning Blues Into Gold much less the hilarious yet profound mix of business social and musical threads that make Stan Cornyn’s Exploding: The Highs Hits Hype Heroes and Hustlers of the Warner Music Group the very best corporate music chronicle. The Label expands the field without particularly enriching it. *Richard Harrington writes about popular music for The Washington Post.
The thrill is found
New York Daily News – Apr 29, 2007
It makes sense then that most musicians would long to tackle it at one time or other. It took Joan Armatrading 57 years… But the choice bits worked in here and there trace the tunes thoughtfully and with feeling. Her focus remains the melodies as full and careful as Armatrading’s usual bounty. Suited to the blues there’s more eroticism to the music both in the lyrics and the riffs. Usually there’s something ethereal if not vague about Armatrading’s expressions of love. But aided by urgency of this style her longing has more lust evinced by “Play the Blues” in which she sings about the music inspiring her to lose every stitch of clothing. There’s eroticism too in the song “Liza” where she crosses class lines to find a new friend (if not more) with a girl from the poor side of town. Armatrading’s blues may not be fiery or fleet.