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Noah Schaffer

Film/Music Review: The Best Music Documentaries of 2020 — With Some Disppointments

Some of the best music documentaries of 2020 – and some disappointments

By: Noah Schaffer Filed Under: Featured, Film, Music, Review Tagged: Elder's Corner, Gordon Lightfoot, If You Could Read My Mind, In My Own Time: A Portrait of Karen Dalton, Karen Dalton, Noah Schaffer, Once Were Brothers, Other Music, Robbie Robertson, Ronnie Scott's, Ronnie's, Suzie Q, The Changin’ Times of Ike White, Tiny Tim: King for a Day, Who Let the Dogs Out?

Arts Remembrance: Charley Pride — The Man Who Sang Honky-Tonk Best

When Charley Pride did display anger, it concerned how the country music establishment treated older artists.

By: Noah Schaffer Filed Under: Featured, Music, Popular Music Tagged: Charley Pride

Arts Remembrance: Soul Iconoclast Roy C

Roy C may not have lived to see the current regime toppled or his litigation over past royalties resolved to his satisfaction, but he died knowing that he was — without a doubt — a Black American original.

By: Noah Schaffer Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Music Tagged: Noah Schaffer, Roy C, Roy Charles Hammond, Three Gems

Book Review: Two Glimpses of Caribbean Culture in a Year without Carnival

A pair of recent books help keep the glorious spirit of Carnival alive.

By: Noah Schaffer Filed Under: Books, Featured, Music, Review Tagged: Caribbean culture, Culture, Jump Up! Caribbean Carnival Music In New York, Michael C Smith, People, Places - Trinidad and Tobago, Ray Allen

Concert Review: Ticket to Park — Johnny A Plays the British Invasion Songbook at the Tupelo Drive-In

A by-the-carload ticket gets you a spot in the Tupelo Music Hall parking lot and an empty space next to it.

By: Noah Schaffer Filed Under: Featured, Music, Popular Music, Review, Rock Tagged: Johnny A, Tupelo Drive-In

Visual Arts Review: Visiting a Museum during a Pandemic — A Trip to the deCordova

“We ask that you limit your stay to two hours, and remember that our restrooms are not open.”

By: Noah Schaffer Filed Under: Featured, Review, Visual Arts Tagged: deCordova Sculpture Park, Noah Schaffer

Arts Remembrance: Darick Campbell — Quiet Giant of the Sacred Steel Guitar

Darick Campbell was one of the Campbell Brothers, the Rochester-based group whose emergence on the roots music circuit in the late ’90s played a major role in the mainstream discovery of the sound known as “sacred steel.”

By: Noah Schaffer Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Music Tagged: Campbell Brothers, Darick Campbell, sacred steel

Arts Commentary: Big Art — Big Greed

Members of anti-arts Right are incensed by the stimulus funding going to Washington D.C.’s Kennedy Center for the Arts. And they’re right.

By: Noah Schaffer Filed Under: Commentary, Featured Tagged: COVID-19, Kennedy Center, Noah Schaffer

Concert Preview: Judy Collins Heats Up Some “Winter Stories”

“People love a story, they always have, and always will, and stories are an essential ingredient in this folk music revival, which started sometime in the early ’50s.”

By: Noah Schaffer Filed Under: Featured, Folk, Interview, Music Tagged: Judy Collins, Noah Schaffer, Winter Stories

Music Interview: Michael C. Smith on the Boston Caribbean Carnival and How “Culture Lives Here”

Michael C. Smith’s new Boston Carnival photo book proves that “Culture Lives Here.”

By: Noah Schaffer Filed Under: Books, Featured, Interview, Music Tagged: Boston Caribbean Carnival, Boston Carnival Village, Culture Lives Here, J’ouvert Face Mask boat ride, Michael C Smith

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