Two nights of Rhett Miller. If tonight is only half as good as it was last night it will still be one of the best shows of the year. Last night it was violaleeblue and me at Maxwell’s. I’d forgotten how long that walk was from the PATH station. We sat at the bar to […]
This was a show I was looking forward to. The concert was organized by Noah Chernin (Sam Champion) to help continue Levon Helm’s Midnight Rambles in his barn in Woodstock. The back-up band was Marco Benevento (keyboards), Dave Dreiwitz (bass) Scott Metzger (guitar), and Joe Russo (drums) from Led Zeppelin cover band Bustle in Your […]
Another concert crossed off my bucket list. Willie Nile is pure rock and roll. I’ve wanted to see Willie Nile since he was first playing in the Village in the late 1970s/early 1980s and I heard his first album. Why didn’t I? I have no idea. I do know it was difficult to keep up […]
Despite the full weekend that rtb, violaleeblue, and I had we also knew we had to check out the first Great GoogaMooga Festival at Prospect Park in Brooklyn. Sunday was the only day we could make it, which worked out well since that was the night that Hall and Oates would be performing. The focus […]
Last week I had tickets for M Ward at Webster Hall and the Avett Brothers at Terminal 5. Since both then booked outdoor shows for Celebrate Brooklyn and SummerStage respectively, I decided to sell those tickets. I was especially happy to not have to go to T5. I hate that place. But here I was […]
Lisa Bianco is an artist that people fall in love with the first time they see her perform. It happened to me years ago when she was fronting Red Jacket and I was at a small East Village bar to watch my friends perform. And it’s happened to friends of mine when I take them […]
Last May NYC got David Ford for three nights (spread out – Piermont, Manhattan, and Brooklyn) but this year it’s a short tour with only one night in NYC. There were pleas to buy tickets because if we didn’t then David might never come back to the US. And you know we couldn’t let that […]
Two friends had an extra ticket (in the orchestra!) for the Metropolitan Opera and invited me to join them to see Guiseppe Verdi’s La Traviata with libretto by Francesco Maria Piave and based on Alexandre Dumas’ La Dame aux Camélias. (Dumas is the son of the author of The Three Musketeers.) The novel and play […]
Many years ago Schaefer and then Dr. Pepper used to sponsor summer concerts at the Wollman Rink in Central Park. For $5 to $15 you could see top acts surrounded by NYC’s green oasis. Later the concerts moved to the pier next to the Intrepid (where I did not see U2 because who knew they […]
My Boys™ were back at Webster Hall. Not my favorite venue for them, especially on a Friday night. Webster Hall starts the live music an hour earlier on Fridays and Saturdays because at 11pm the show has to end so they can clear the audience out and become a dance club. Back in the old […]
