The News Review:
- Home of the blues getting in step with its companion sensual dance…
- … Madonna Into Rock Hall f Fame – News Story | Music…
- PEPLE F NTE: Same Train on course at the Algonquin
- Roots: the musical
- Firestone in finals of youth showcase
- IFEST journeys to Africa
Home of the blues getting in step with its companion sensual dance…
commercialappeal.com (subscription) – Feb 26, 2008
byline –> Tuesday February 26 2008 There are two ways to trace the emergence of the recent fad called "blues dancing. "First the historical route. Back in the early part of the 20th century as blues music slithered its way up the Mississippi River people would head out to the tin-roofed juke joints and blues halls get liquored up and then make an evening of hip-grinding dancing whipped up by the lyrics and licks of the bluesmen. But homage to history is most likely not the real reason young people are now grinding out their own blues. Many of the first fans (they started in earnest about 10 years ago) say blues dancing was a result of people getting tired at swing dance parties. The mid-1990s swing revival sparked by bands such as Big Bad Voodoo Daddy and The Brian Setzer rchestra popularized "dance exchanges" which could last all night long… "With training in ballet Robyn Wolfe 24 takes to the dance floor with exuberant precision and is a favorite partner of the better male dancers. "In swing you want a partner who knows the right moves" she said. "But in blues dancing you need a partner who has an ear for music. Musicians tend to be pretty good at it. "Participants comment on the intense personal connections made within the brief span of a blues song. "It’s a three-minute relationship without the sex" joked Patrick Warren 38 from Austin Texas who will deejay a "Jack and Jill" blues dance competition Saturday in verton Park as part of Bluesalicious. "I started in 2002 dragged kicking and screaming to my first swing class by my ex-wife" Warren said.
… Madonna Into Rock Hall f Fame – News Story | Music…
MTV.com – Feb 26, 2008
” While no one would confuse her decades of dance-floor anthems with rock and roll the most successful female artist of all time has had a remarkably strong nearly three-decade career. Initially dismissed as a Bruce Springsteen wannabe Cougar hit his stride in the early ’80s when he released the rock radio staples “Jack and Diane” and “Hurts So Good. ” He soon became known for chronicling the plight of the downtrodden American farmer and worker with such folk-inspired albums as Scarecrow and The Lonesome Jubilee. Along with Neil Young and Willie Nelson Mellencamp helped found the annual Farm Aid concert benefiting small American farms… ” ne of the most popular bands from the British Invasion of the mid-1960s the Dave Clark Five rivaled the Beatles for a time in popularity thanks to hits like “Glad All ver. ” Rock instrumental band the Ventures founded by Don Wilson and Bob Bogle are best known for such hits as “Walk Don’t Run” and “Hawaii Five-” as well as their pioneering use of space-age sound effects on some of their recordings which have made them the biggest-selling rock instrumental group of all time. Hard-drinking blues player Little Walter died at age 37 in 1968 but not before putting his indelible stamp on the art of mouth-harp playing including being one of the first blues harmonica players to run his harp microphone through an amplifier pioneering the use of electronic distortion in popular music. Kenneth Gamble and Leon Huff gave Motown a run for its money in the late 1960s and early 1970s as they helped to pioneer the Philadelphia soul sound that was the signature of the Philadelphia International label. The duo are being inducted in the non-performer category under the newly named.
PEPLE F NTE: Same Train on course at the Algonquin
Eurweb.com – Feb 26, 2008
Although it needed a few nips and tucks at the dress rehearsal its message stays with you. This reviewer hasn?t been able to keep its stories out of mind since catching the show at the Algonquin Theatre located at 123 East 24th Street (between Park and Lexington Avenues) where it opened in association with Ten Grand Productions on February 13th and is expected to run until Saturday March 8th. Singers Ayeje Feamster Kami Percinthe and Cedric Turner sing songs such as Down the Road Slide Your Top Down Same Train Moon Cuts A Slingblade Flat Foot Floozie Hootchie Coochie Man Blessed Child Voulez-Vous Dancer et al with such power each melodious note is a testament to their marvelous vocal acumen as they wrap their metrical souls around the gospel jazz and blues music that integrates itself with the rhythmic verbiage of Audelco Award winner Levy Lee Simons. Narrator and storyteller ld Man Henry (Cedric Turner) keeps the audience enthralled with his amusing ditties and guitar strumming. He railroads and charms the audience into compliant and willing passengers on the SAME TRAIN segueing into each storyline while painting a portrait of black life which could be painted in any hue since the play highlights the roads of life we all walk. The talented cast consisting of Mark Bruckner Ayeje Feamster Eddie Goines Harrison Lee Kami Percinthe Levy Lee Simon Tara Thierry and Cedric Turner were phenomenal. SAME TRAIN falls in line with the mission of the Algonquin Theatre which recently took over the lease of the Blue Heron Theatre which they renamed Algonquin Theatre Productions.
Roots: the musical
Wednesday Journal – Feb 26, 2008
The program titled “The Blues: Roots of American Music” began Feb. 17 and runs through March 20. The series will feature three concerts four films a book discussion and a book reading. Blues artists Eddie Campbell Bobbi Wilsyn and Maggie Brown will perform a show apiece at Unity Temple 875 Lake St. Last Year Deborah Preiser public information director of ak Park Public Library organized a similar series titled “Looking at: Jazz America’s Art Form”.
Firestone in finals of youth showcase
Barrie Advance – Feb 26, 2008
rganizers say the showcase celebrates and encourages young artists (25 and under) to explore the wide breadth and depth of folk roots Celtic and blues music. “The Knox Acoustic Cafe Youth Showcase was designed to support a new generation of musicians” organizers said in a press release this week “by providing them with an opportunity to play for a live audience network with others in the industry and win an chance to play an opening set for a 2008 Knox Acoustic Cafe concert of their choice and play a set on the Young and Hungry Stage at Summerfolk 2008. ” Firestone a Grade 12 Collingwood Collegiate Institute student will be competing against Dave Borins 25 of Toronto Phillip Brown 23 of Toronto Jon Farmer 17 of Toronto Hayden Stewart 17 of liphant Stephen Trothen 24 of Waterloo Tyler Wagler 25 of Toronto and Kevin Myles Wilson 21 of Aurora. Firestone plays guitar harmonica piano banjo and other instruments and says songwriting is his passion. The public is encouraged to attend the Mar.
IFEST journeys to Africa
Houston Chronicle – Feb 26, 2008
Among the iFest players on the showcase World Music Stage will be blues legend Buddy Guy (April 19) soul siren Bettye LaVette (April 19) New rleans funk institution the Neville Brothers (April 26) and South African Afropop player Hugh Masekela (April 27). The National Dance Theater of Ethiopia will make its Houston debut with four performances on each of the four days of the festival and two performances during the opening ceremonies. Local talent includes blues favorites such as Earl Gilliam and Little Joe Washington alternative psyche rock band Spain Colored range honky-tonker Miss Leslie and Her Juke Jointers and Latin hip-hop artist Karina Nistal. Two stages the H-E-B Cultural Stage and the Gullah Stage will host music and dance performances as well as classes. There also will be stages dedicated to kids entertainment Latin sounds and music from Louisiana.