The News Review:
- The Mountain Times nline
- The value of CBGB’s founder Hilly Kristal
- Pop music: Irish music in Newport; blues guitar summit at Chan’s;…
- Globe South listngs – The Boston Globe
- Music Preview: Foghat rides into the Rib Fest
- Music Hall of Williamsburg – - New York Times
The Mountain Times nline
Boone Mountain Times – Aug 30, 2007
The funny thing is when you hear good blues music it kind of wipes away your own blues and makes you feel good again. A celebration of classic blues music will be held on Saturday September 1st at Jefferson Landing on the banks of the New River. The Annual New River Blues Festival will feature a half-dozen blues acts in one of the most beautiful concert settings in the country. Jefferson Landing is located near West Jefferson in Ashe County. The host band of the 5th Annual New River Blues Festival is the King Bees… The funny thing is when you hear good blues music it kind of wipes away your own blues and makes you feel good again. A celebration of classic blues music will be held on Saturday September 1st at Jefferson Landing on the banks of the New River. The Annual New River Blues Festival will feature a half-dozen blues acts in one of the most beautiful concert settings in the country. Jefferson Landing is located near West Jefferson in Ashe County. The host band of the 5th Annual New River Blues Festival is the King Bees. ther acts to take the stage at the festival include Ann Rabson Chicago Bob Nelson Clifford Curry Roy Roberts and Howard Colbert.
The value of CBGB’s founder Hilly Kristal
PopMatters – Aug 30, 2007
By the `50s he was singing what he later described as country music though at the time it was still called “folk. ”He booked Miles Davis at the Village Vanguard. He opened a country music club. His original vision for CBGB was a small intimate room where acoustic artists could play authentic country and blues music free of the commercial corruption that in his mind was already compromised both genres. It was only when scruffy young rock `n’ rollers started frequenting the place that it began to evolve toward the CBGB of legend where these scruffy kids created their own rock `n’ roll both different from what came before and deeply rooted in it. The Ramones may have taken the three-chord two-minute song to an extreme but its roots reach clear down to Chuck Berry Elvis and the center of the rock `n’ roll earth. Kristal would later say he didn’t think some of those bands were very good at first and he could have said the same thing for some of the young bands that he was still inviting into CBGB 30 years later.
Pop music: Irish music in Newport; blues guitar summit at Chan’s;…
Providence Journal – Aug 30, 2007
Rhythm & Roots isn’t the only festival in Rhode Island this weekend: The Newport Waterfront Irish Festival mixes the serious traditional stuff such as Eileen Ivers and The Makem and Spain Brothers with modern-day updates of the sound and the Celtic ethos from rock bands such as Black 47 and the four sisters who make up The Screaming rphans. The festival runs tomorrow night through Monday and it’s all at the Newport Yachting Center off America’s Cup Avenue in Newport. For more information and a complete schedule go to.
Globe South listngs – The Boston Globe
Boston Globe – Aug 30, 2007
Cedarville: The British Beer Company 2294 State Road. Live music Thursday-Saturday.
Music Preview: Foghat rides into the Rib Fest
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette – Pittsburgh Post Gazette – Aug 30, 2007
The concert was a blues benefit for the New York City Public Library. “We raised $10000 for the library” Earl said. “They didn’t have a section that covered the blues. Because Dave didn’t trust some of the people he had to purchase some of the music. He spent about $6000 purchasing music that he considered ‘Classic American Blues. ‘ He wanted to make sure the library had a decent start. He knew the music and knew all of the collectors and stores across the country.
Music Hall of Williamsburg – - New York Times
New York Times – Aug 30, 2007
But there it is at the Music Hall of Williamsburg the latest development in a building spree that has radically changed the live-music landscape of New York over the last few years. Set to open on Tuesday with a concert by Patti Smith the Music Hall which holds 550 people has been under construction for five months by its owners the Bowery Presents a concert promoter that also operates the Bowery Ballroom and the Mercury Lounge and puts on shows at Webster Hall. And in ctober the Bowery Presents will open another club the 3000-capacity Terminal 5 on West 56th Street in Manhattan. Brian Swier the Music Hall’s architect pointed out on a recent tour some of the other details of the new space which has been built on the site of the former Northsix club on North Sixth Street. After gutting the interior and removing the ceiling between the first and second floors Mr. Swier built balconies on the side similar to those he created for the Bowery Ballroom eight years ago… Live a national company that operates the Nokia Theater in Times Square by shaking up its New York staff and investing in small and midsize rooms in the area. Live Nation is looking to open several new spaces in New York and New Jersey and to remodel the Gramercy said Kevin Morrow a former House of Blues executive who is the new president of Live Nation’s New York division. (Live Nation bought House of Blues last year for $350 million. )”We’re going to fix it up to make a certain vibe that was never there before” Mr. Morrow said of the Gramercy. “We’re going to bring in some House of Blues elements in the way it looks. ” He mentioned paintings vivid lighting and “some really cool artwork and tapestries and stuff.