Hartford All-Women Jazz Trio Breaks Sound Barriers GATHER Women in Jazz: Interview and Concert with Mimi Jones Hartford Public Library Center for Contemporary Culture Hartford March 26, 2024 I’d never seen an all-women jazz performance before, Jamil Ragland 28 Mar 2024 · 3 min read
Oakland Anything Goes Chorus Rings in Spring Anything Goes Chorus 2024 Spring Concert First Unitarian Church 695 14th St. Oakland March 24, 2024 I didn’t expect the First Unitarian Church downtown on the corner of 14th Breezy Bratton 26 Mar 2024 · 2 min read
Oakland The Battle Of The Lanky British Frontmen The Vaccines and The Kooks The Fox Theater Oakland March 22, 2024 It was the unofficial early aughts battle of the lanky British frontmen this past Friday night at The Robin Lapid 26 Mar 2024 · 2 min read
NYC Composer-Performer Welps Across Genres H.G. Welp Heaven Can Wait LES, NYC March 23, 2024 I’ve said it once before, and I’ll say it again — I cannot stand the venue Heaven Can K Hank Jost 25 Mar 2024 · 2 min read
New Haven Shandy Lawson Sings Stories A chair and a guitar. A table holding an old-fashioned radio. A vase full of purple flowers. A teacup and saucer. Was this a scene from an oft-told tale or Karen Ponzio 25 Mar 2024 · 1 min read
Oakland Monday Is Still West Coast Blues Night In Oakland Lady E & The Best of the Bay Eli’s Mile High Club 3629 Martin Luther King Jr Way Oakland March 18, 2024 An influx of Black workers in the Breezy Bratton 25 Mar 2024 · 3 min read
Tulsa Pussy Riot Burns On Meet & Greet: Pussy Riot Woody Guthrie Center March 14, 2024 Pussy Riot’s transgressive artivism has the world frothing — and Moscow fuming. Yet in Tulsa on March 14, their Jennie Lloyd 24 Mar 2024 · 2 min read
NYC With Joy, Julian Lage Faces The Music Julian Lage The Town Hall Manhattan, NYC 3/23/24 To the uninitiated, jazz music can seem a secret language — rendering one’s witnessing of a performance akin more to K Hank Jost 24 Mar 2024 · 3 min read
Tulsa Discomfort Breeds Discovery At A Tulsa Music-Poetry Smash Poetry & Music Smash-Up Living Arts of Tulsa March 13, 2024 Apparently Zhenya Yevtushenko, our emcee for last Friday’s Poetry & Music Smash-Up, had been dreaming of this “one-night-only” Cassidy McCants 24 Mar 2024 · 4 min read
Tulsa Chamber Music, Tulsa Style Chamber Music Tulsa Friday Gallery Concert: Horszowski Trio 101 Archer March 15, 2024 When I moved to Tulsa from Paris last year, I knew I’d have to make some Yvonne Hazelton 24 Mar 2024 · 3 min read
Hartford Metalhead Journey Avenged Avenged Sevenfold with Poppy and Sullivan King Mohegan Sun Casino Uncasville March 21, 2024 The last time I wrote about attending a metal show, I talked about how I’d Jamil Ragland 22 Mar 2024 · 3 min read
Oakland Atomic Blondes And Gothic Angels Stalk The Fox The Kills and Heartworms The Fox Theater Oakland March 16, 2024 If you’ve ever wondered whether a band consisting of just two people could make enough of a racket Robin Lapid 21 Mar 2024 · 3 min read
New Haven Punks Rock For Choice Addie and Jacey of the Connecticut Democratic Socialists of America declared themselves “thrilled” to be on Cafe Nine’s stage Tuesday night. The DSA is involved in a number of Brian Slattery 20 Mar 2024 · 1 min read
Hartford Organist Moves Us Beyond Thunderous Calamity Trinity College Organ Series: Twilight Tuesdays Christopher Houlihan Trinity College Chapel Hartford March 19, 2024 Despite being a student and an employee at Trinity College for seven years, I never Jamil Ragland 20 Mar 2024 · 2 min read
New Haven Firehouse 12 Ignites New Jazz Season Ingrid Laubrock’s Lilith opened Firehouse 12’s spring season of shows at its concert space, recording studio, and bar on Crown Street with a fiery set of Laubrock’s Brian Slattery 19 Mar 2024 · 1 min read
Tulsa Dombrance & The Collapse Of Meaning Dombrance Cain’s Ballroom Tulsa March 9, 2024 The character of Dombrance — with his red suit, black tie, distinctive mustache, and high-energy beats — was well-received, and deservingly so, at Cain’ Z.B. Reeves 18 Mar 2024 · 4 min read
Nashville Honky Tonk Tuesday Holds Down The Fort Honky Tonk Tuesday American Legion Post 82 Tuesdays Getting out the door for some air was honestly more difficult than getting in. Since I’d arrived, a line of 15 Libby Weitnauer 17 Mar 2024 · 3 min read
Hartford Charmagne Tripp Returns To Form In The Living Room The Living Room Series Presents: Charmagne Tripp and The High Theaterworks Hartford March 14, 2024 I’ve known Charmagne Tripp for several years, because I’ve been friends with her Jamil Ragland 15 Mar 2024 · 3 min read
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