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Brewster Music Festival  – Wells Park  –   June 9, 2018 What could be more convenient?  A festival right in my hometown, thanks to the Town of Southeast Cultural Arts Commission.  Only had time for a couple of hours of … Continue reading →

Marcia Ball  –  CHIRP, Ballard Park, Ridgefield  –  June 5, 2018 CHIRP just keeps getting better and better, quite an extensive lineup for this year, congratulations Ridgefield.   Blues belle Ball has got her red beans cookin’, I don’t know … Continue reading →

Victor Goines & Friends  –  Woodlawn Cemetery  –  June 3, 2018 Goines is an oft-seen element of the Jazz-at-Lincoln-Center/New Orleans pipeline, occasionally a group leader, as he was in this instance.  He’s got some cool friends indeed – top-shelf pianist … Continue reading →

Thornetta Davis  –  Rubenstein Atrium  –   May 10, 2018 Davis is Detroit’s Queen of the Blues, and there’s no mistaking that – I told her that she must have gone to Aretha-school.  Her band provides a full sound to … Continue reading →

Four-Ever Yours String Quartet  –  New York Botanical Garden  –  May 5, 2018 This was a NYC Urban Sketchers event, in conjunction with a few other things going on at the NYBG.  So what do I do?  Go to the … Continue reading →

Downtown Comes Uptown  –  Rubenstein Atrium  –  April 26, 2018 Because uptown isn’t sufficiently alt-; there’s a feeder program from Rockwell Music Hall so that the uptown crowd doesn’t have to descend into the hurly-burly (I’m projecting here, having never … Continue reading →

SketchCrawl #59  –  Van Cortlandt Park  –  April 21, 2018 ———– by Paula ————– by Laura ————- by Mark —————- by Paula —————– by Mark —————- by Leslie ————- by Leslie ————— by Mel ————- by Joan ————– by Janet … Continue reading →

Shamisen and Shakuhachi  –  Greenwich Library  –  April 22, 2018 I had no clue how to title this post – “Japanese Music” seemed too crass.  So I named it for the musical instruments.  What an intriguing presentation – the fruit … Continue reading →

Arturo O’Farrill Sextet  –  Bronx Library Center  –  April 14, 2018 This is a family affair, and a royal jazz family to boot.  Arturo is already the second generation of O’Farrill players, and he’s brought along two sons into the business. … Continue reading →

Busking New York  –  Kenny John  –  April 11, 2018 I’m afraid that Kenny might be playing the same song all day.  He was one of those buskers who was trying to give money to me!  Is that the upside … Continue reading →