What an absolutely perfect night for Lincoln Center Out of Doors and Americana Fest NY. They’ve built a program of country, roots, gospel, blues, and jazz at Damrosch Park that is playing to full crowds on beautiful summer nights. First out was Robert Ellis and his band and I immediately noticed that he’s cut his […]
Another summer day in NYC and another outdoor play in the park. This time rtb and I saw Shakespeare’s As You Like It presented by New York Classical Theatre in Battery Park. This was a panoramic play so we had to walk from site to site as the play moved. It started right outside Clinton […]
Every summer NYC is filled with free theater in its parks and streets. And I’m not talking about just people watching, which is another kind of theater, but real theater and real actors performing. rtb and I saw Hudson Warehouse’s production of The Importance of Being Earnest on the steps near the Soldiers’ and Sailors’ […]
This time, both feet in. My boys were in town and I’d missed them last year when my mother had her first stroke. Now I was going to let my boys help in dealing with my grief over my mother’s death. I had written to the Lucero press people asking if I could interview the […]
It’s been awhile. I thought I wasn’t going to see any music for six months because I was away taking care of my mother. Then my sister decided to join me and I thought it was important I get in some face time at work. So I bought tickets for Lucero so I could jump […]
My last concert before a six-month hiatus. It could have been a bigger blowout but what I got was pretty damn good. Both acts brought out all the anarchic old hippies switching seats as soon as they came in and throughout the show. No photos were allowed and there was constant picture taking. I was […]
The Milk Carton Kids are The Smothers Brothers for today’s generation. Part folk singers and part stand-up comedy with sweet harmonies, great guitar picking, and dry wit. The comparison is not perfect but the Milk Carton Kids stand apart from their contemporaries with those ethereal harmonies and the ability to laugh at themselves when everyone […]
Five dollar movie, good wine, and good food. The only thing better would be a great movie, which 20 Feet From Stardom most definitely is. There seems to be a theme to my City Winery movie viewing (the last one was Big Star: Nothing Can Hurt Me), which is seeing great artists not receive commercial […]
The Carolina Chocolate Drops performing at BAM’s Howard Gilman Opera House. A performance which would include a premiere of Cornbread Duet choreographed by Twyla Tharp and danced by real-life couple New York City Ballet principal dancers Robert Fairchild and Tiler Peck. Whew. This was happening the same evening as the Rock and Roll Hall of […]
LLTS. Ladies Love Trombone Shorty. And quite a lot of men also. Church, Mardi Gras, Jazz Fest, a rock/R&B/funk concert – Trombone Shorty is all that and more. Before the show I stopped off at the Grand Central Centennial Quilts exhibit at the New York Transit Museum Annex in Grand Central Station. It’s free and […]
