By the time Kenny the sound guy texted me about Lenny Kaye’s 70th birthday party at the Bowery Ballroom it was sold out. But lucky me – Kenny put me on the list. While I was at the downstairs bar waiting for the doors to open I noticed a lot of gray-haired men and women […]
Since it was first performed in the US in the early 1990s, I have wanted to see Mark Morris’ The Hard Nut. I’ve seen the American Ballet Theatre perform The Nutcracker but I knew Morris’ interpretation would be fun. And now that I have seen it, I’m so disappointed that I didn’t see it sooner. […]
It was time for Ingrid Michaelson’s 10th Annual Holiday Hop. For this year, she went back to where it began at Bowery Ballroom. I had asked Kenny (the sound guy) if he could reserve a table for me and I hadn’t heard from him before I would have to leave the house in order to […]
The official annual event was taking place in Town Hall, one of the best auditoriums in NYC. It’s intimate and there’s not a bad seat in the house. This is Steve Earle’s benefit for the Keswell School (formerly known as the McCarton School), a school for children and young adults with autism, which Earle’s son, […]
This is now an annual event since this is the second year that Steve Earle is putting on this show to raise money for the Keswell School (formerly known as the McCarton School) for children and young adults with autism, which Earle’s son, John Henry, attends. The actual show would be the next night at […]
