David Ford is back in the USA and this time for a book tour – but there are no bookstore readings. Instead we get David doing what he enjoys – playing music for an appreciative audience. Like most people, I was always asking myself, “Why isn’t this guy a huge star?” He’s got the talent […]
Happy to be back at the Bell House since I hadn’t been there for a while. Happy to see Alejandro Escovedo again even though it was only a month ago that I last saw him. Happy to see an opening act with whom I was unfamiliar but was in love with by the end of […]
When there’s an opportunity to see Emmylou Harris in a small venue, you jump at the chance. Hell, the woman is legend – she even has two official websites – the official one and the the comprehensive (supposedly former but still current) official one. But sometimes you have to ask yourself if there’s a catch […]
Great Balls of Fire! A Broadway show that uses the acoustics of a beautiful intimate theater built in 1921 instead of trying to blast out the ears of the audience. The Nederlander has only 1200 seats and it was built so that you could hear the actors in the back row. Before the show I […]
It’s April and that means penpals and jazz. At least in my world it does. My penpal and her family were visiting and on Friday night we headed out to the Jazz Standard for a tribute to Gil Evans’ Out of the Cool and a celebration of Evans’ centennial curated by Ryan Truesdell. Truesdell has […]
A terrible pun could have been made about death and taxes but thankfully the IRS changed the filing due date and prevented me from doing so. What caught my eye was the name of the band – how cool is O’Death as a band name? – and when I read the blurb that said they […]
Sleep No More is an immersive theater experience where the masked audience follows around as many of the actors as possible as they run around an abandoned hotel mostly miming parts of Macbeth and Rebecca while the audience opens drawers and doors to inspect the contents within. If you read rtb’s review and that didn’t […]
In trying to take advantage of all that my city has to offer I do see more than music – Here are dance performances I’ve seen. Theater – both on and Off-Broaday. And opera.
“The good news is we had a great time playing for y’all. The bad news is we can only play one more song because of the fucking disco coming in.” Rhett’s good news/bad news line pretty much summed up the evening. I was excited to see The Old 97’s. I was disappointed it was at […]
Many of you were receiving my concert write-ups by email and I thank you for your support. For those of you not on my email list and interested in reading some of my past reviews, here are a couple of links: My first write-up: Rolling Stones: Madison Square Garden 13 September 2005 My other reviews […]
