Gift brings music back to Nock
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- Gift brings music back to Nock
- Peekskill plays the blues and jazz
- ‘WC Handy’: new book about the man who brought blues to the mainstream
- Maxim Ludwig tears fearlessly into uncharted territory
- Stage(s) set for shorter festival
Gift brings music back to Nock
The Daily News of Newburyport
Each Nock student will receive anywhere from 18 to 20 lessons each in piano keyboard fundamentals learning how to use the basic building blocks that go into a piece of music such as rhythmic harmonic and melodic components. At some point in the course Stolar expects students to begin work on their own piece of music using whatever genre that moves them whether it’s the blues of Miles Davis or the classic rock of Led Zeppelin. “Pop music and blues music lends itself to an introductory course like this because it tends to be much more harmonically simple than trying to reconstruct a symphony by one of the masters” Stolar said. NEF executive director Cindy Johnson said the foundation agreed to fund the lab with the hope that the community would step in and pay for it with charitable contributions over the next year. Though the foundation is still trying to raise money to finish its three-year $100000 campaign to outfit literacy closets and fund virtual high school breathing life back into the failed program was something so compelling to foundation principals they didn’t want to wait until the money was in the bank. “We made the decision to fund it and try to raise the monies between now and when we need to pay the bills to keep on track with our campaign” Johnson said. “We will buy enough work stations for them to go ahead with the program in the fall.
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Peekskill plays the blues and jazz
Lower Hudson Journal news
“And that is jazz music at its best. “Johnny Feds of Johnny Feds and Da Bluez Boyz shared the old saying: The blues are the roots and everything else are the fruits. The smooth tones and melodies in blues music has been a jumping off point for many other genres of music in the world today he said. “The audience should listen to see how emotionally the music pours out of a blues player” Feds said. “When a guitar player or a sax player plays a note and the hair stands up on the back of your neck you get the feeling that that note is coming from some place very deep. “The players like to see younger audience members at the festival because their improvisational style often provides that unexpected moment when they realize they’re listening to a something new something beyond the comfort zone of their own playlists. “Young audiences are the most special in some regard because they aren’t prejudice in any way” Basile said.
‘WC Handy’: new book about the man who brought blues to the mainstream
Seattle Times
Author David Robertson an Alabama native advances the theory that though minstrel music appeared to be a debased form of racist buffoonery black minstrels were slyly mocking the racist attitudes of their white listeners. Minstrelsy was the precursor to vaudeville and ragtime “the final innovation of the minstrel show. When a job as a bandleader in Clarksdale Miss. in the heart of blues country opened up Handy discovered the music of black blues players notably the “blue note” the minor-themed undercurrent in blues music that invariably strikes an emotional chord with its listeners. Handy worked the bones of the blues into his formal compositions and the music began to make its way into the white world. Though he did not really “make” the blues between 1904 and 1920 Handy’s “genius” “was his realizing the commercial potential of the Mississippi Delta blues music to reach beyond a regional and racial folk song and become part of mainstream American music” Robertson writes.
Maxim Ludwig tears fearlessly into uncharted territory
Los Angeles Times
"Paradise Cove" inspired by the coastal trailer park community outside Malibu where Ludwig spent some formative years was a knockout — a haunting blues-rock waltz meditation on life outside the gates of heaven. He punctuated it with dramatic pauses that demonstrated a savvy awareness of the power of silence amid the noise. "Big Black Train" let the group crank up a Stones-cum-White Stripes-worthy blues-raucousness hammered home with intuitive contributions from guitarist Eli Pearl keyboardist Evan Vidar (who is all of 18) bassist Jake Faulkner and drummer Sam Kauffman-Skloff. Ludwig also worked in several newer compositions which he said he writes at the rate of about two a day. "I'm a huge fan of people like Irving Berlin and Hoagy Carmichael" Ludwig said immediately after the set. "I wouldn't compare myself to those people but I was reading the biography of Hoagy Carmichael 'Stardust Melody' and he talked about getting up every day going into his office and writing songs. That's what I want to do: just write songs.
Stage(s) set for shorter festival
Duluth News Tribune
* The three-time Grammy Award winning decades-spanning ?La Bamba?-singing Los Angeles band Los Lobos on Saturday night ? fresh from a show in Zurich. * The Legendary Rhythm and Blues Revue featuring Tommy Castro Band Magic Dick Bernard Allison and Deanna Bogart on Sunday night. Castro won the 2008 Blues Music Award for Entertainer of the Year and his CD ?Hard Believer? will be released next week. It?s a genre-spanning lineup says local musicologist Chris Harwood host of the KUMD 103. 3FM programs ?Soul Village? (5-6 p. Fridays) and ?Blues Alley? (6-9 p.
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