Foot-stomping, singing along, musicians in the crowd – an all-acoustic evening of Americana and post-punk. The Revival Tour hit the Bell House and all of Brooklyn was rocking. This is my second year seeing the Revival Tour and my only disappointment is that I didn’t know about this sooner. Chuck Ragan leads a band of […]
Sometimes, just some times, when you are good then good things happen to you. Mrs. Devereaux had tickets for Emmylou Harris and Rodney Crowell with Richard Thompson opening at the Beacon Theatre and she gave one to me. So I got to spend an evening with a lovely person, in a wonderful venue, listening to […]
New (to me) venue, new (to me) band, favorite band, and good friends – I was hoping this evening out would be the cure to my curious sleeping sickness. A combination of physical and mental ailments have prevented me from getting any rest or my sleeping at odd hours or from even leaving the house […]
Michael Dorf has done it again. Another wonderful tribute concert at Carnegie Hall to raise money for music arts education. This time he gathered musicians together for a tribute to the music of Prince. One thing that became very clear – Prince’s music is so over-the-top fantastic that it almost doesn’t matter who is singing, […]
The last time we were at City Winery, Mrs. Devereaux mentioned that she’d be back in February to see Teddy Thompson and his cover band Poundcake doing mostly rockabilly. The name Teddy Thompson was enough for me to say I’ll join you. (By the way, if you Google Poundcake they are not the grunge/metal band.) […]
Second night with my boyfriend Eddie Izzard as he works on his routine for his upcoming Force Majeure world tour. Before the show rtb and I met up again at NoHo Star and it was very busy. We were happy to see that because the last time we were there the place was very empty […]
It’s been almost three years since I saw Joe Pug open for Justin Townes Earle. I’ve only seen him once since then and not even for a full set but I never forgot about him and I’ve been looking forward to seeing him in NYC again. Finally I got that chance this past Sunday at […]
This is not the first time I’ve seen Eddie Izzard in a small theater. In fact I saw him at a late show at Culture Project a few years ago. This is another of his workshops – a month of shows (two a night!) developing what will become the material for his Force Majeure world […]
This night with Rhett was special not only because it was a group of 12 but more than half had never seen Rhett live so in a lot of ways it was like experiencing him for the first time. Crispy and family were visiting NYC so we took a look at who would be in […]
“New Year’s Eve with The Hold Steady,” Ben Nichols said from the stage. “New Year’s Eve with Lucero!” shouted someone from the audience. How much fun is it to see a band that is as excited to see the music that night as the audience is? A lot of fun. As soon as the announcement […]
