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- Weekly open stage draws blues devotees to Irwin
- Blues singer Shemekia Copeland comes to TC
- Jolene Higgins a small town girl at heart
- ’20s blues hits stage
- Blues sources include Chicago Langston Hughes
- Music – New York Times
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WFAA – Jan 18, 2008
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Weekly open stage draws blues devotees to Irwin
Tribune Review – Jan 18, 2008
Noting a few of the other musical participants he said “I have to thank Marc Freddie James Hilton and Randall Troy. I have them on rotation here and they helped me start this thing out. Additionally the Mystic Knight keyboardist relied on the resilience of an Eagles social member who shares Snyder’s passion for blues music. “My cohort in all this was Dave ‘Slim’ Tomko and he was instrumental in having this all take place” Snyder said. “I sort of went in and really pushed about three months ago for the club to do this” said Tomko of his desire to see the event held at his club. Not only a member he currently volunteers as the show’s doorman video tech and all-around show coordinator. And last November he and Snyder’s concept indeed became a reality when the Irwin Eagles played host to the first open-stage show.
Blues singer Shemekia Copeland comes to TC
Traverse City Record Eagle – Jan 18, 2008
26 at the Dennos Museum Center. While it won’t be her first time on the Milliken Auditorium stage the appearance will help mark her first decade as a performer since bursting on the scene as the 19-year-old daughter of the late Texas blues guitarist Johnny Clyde Copeland. Since releasing her 1998 debut CD “Turn the Heat Up” Copeland has collected five Blues Music Awards five Living Blues Awards a Grammy nomination and DownBeat magazine’s “Rising Star f The Blues” title. A favorite on “The Late Show With David Letterman” she recently won over a new batch of television fans when her song “Better Not Touch” was chosen for a solo by “So You Think You Can Dance” winner Sabra Johnson. “It’s always so cool to be watching a movie or something and hearing your music” said Copeland whose mix of funky blues R&B and Memphis soul also has been featured in the films “The Thing About My Folks” and “Lightning in a Bottle. ” “I would have chosen that song if I was a dancer. I was happy that somebody used that.
Jolene Higgins a small town girl at heart
Toronto Star – Jan 18, 2008
That’s where Jolene Higgins more or less grew up the dimpled daughter of an oil man who apparently knew a good deal when he spotted one. Jolene ? better known in contemporary music circles as rising retro-country blues star Little Miss Higgins ? immediately carved her name in it then settled into scales that would eventually lead to Mendelssohn Brahms and Mozart. "It was a small prairie town much like the one we’d left behind in southern Alberta" Higgins said over the phone from her present home in Nokomis Sask. another small prairie town ? this one located about halfway between Saskatoon and Regina. Nokomis was at one time the point where the Canadian Pacific and Canadian National rail lines crossed in that neck of the woods. These days it’s a small and isolated bit of the Prairies’ fabled past home to just 400 souls.
’20s blues hits stage
UCLA Daily Bruin – The UCLA Daily Bruin – Jan 18, 2008
not just for writers and directors but for people behind the stage ? women in all capacities of theater? Cox said. The title ?Prove it on Me? comes from a song of the same name by Ma Rainey a famous blues singer of the 1920s who served as an inspiration for the character Georgia. The storyline is comprised of controversial elements such as the Harlem Renaissance the Great Depression racism Voodoo blues music and a love story between two very different women. However Sweet Baby J?ai who plays Georgia said this ?gumbo? just spices up the melting pot of the play. ?All this stuff is thrown in at these people and what happens (to them). And that?s always what makes a story interesting? she said. ?Then you?re left with something that?s palatable.
Blues sources include Chicago Langston Hughes
TheNewsTribune.com (subscription) – Jan 18, 2008
Mandel has performed with artists such as Charlie Musselwhite Canned Heat John Mayall the Rolling Stones and the Ventures. Corky Siegel: With his legendary Siegel-Schwall Band Siegel has earned a reputation as one of the great blues harmonica players. He’s also worked with symphonies around the world to develop innovative blues-classical music connections. Your tickets to get “Buried Alive in the Blues” will cost $24 to $44 and are available at 253-591-5894 or.
Music – New York Times
New York Times – Jan 18, 2008
“Brahms who is so huge to us today has overshadowed so many wonderful composers that also worked in his time and were his friends and colleagues people like Friedrich Gernsheim and Anselm Hüttenbrenner. We’ve done their pieces and the audience gets to see not only that Brahms is alive but that there were other people in his time who are alive. ”Just as new to me was the eerily beautiful medieval music performed by the vocal and instrumental trio Trefoil the week before Christmas. As part of the weekly Midtown Concerts series at St. Bartholomew’s Church on Park Avenue the members of Trefoil played 14th-century Italian nativity music in the church’s intimate chapel at 1:15. They began by slowly walking up the aisle and from my spot in the 6th of 15 rows I could hear each voice distinctly as it passed in clear otherworldly harmonies. The 35-minute program was free and every spot was taken with the last three rows expeditiously “reserved for latecomers.