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Noah Schaffer

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

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”

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

Music Feature: From the Pews to the Streets — The Harmonizing Stars of Boston Celebrate 50 years

Music Feature: From the Pews to the Streets — The Harmonizing Stars of Boston Celebrate 50 years

As a capella singers, they have taken their musical ministry — and its repertoire of 500 songs — to streets, subway stations, picnics, community clean-ups, and anywhere else they might find an audience who appreciated a musical message.

By: Noah Schaffer Filed Under: Featured, Music, Popular Music, Preview Tagged: Noah Schaffer, The Harmonizing Stars of Boston

Music Interview: Michael Daves on How Anyone can be a Bluegrass Singer

Music Interview: Michael Daves on How Anyone can be a Bluegrass Singer

“You don’t really know how to perform bluegrass until you interact with others.”

By: Noah Schaffer Filed Under: Featured, Interview, Popular Music Tagged: Joe Val Bluegrass Festival, Michael Daves, Noah Schaffer

Concert Review: Soca and Calypso Fans go “Crazy” for Parang

Concert Review: Soca and Calypso Fans go “Crazy” for Parang

Septuagenarian, Edwin Ayoung, better known as Crazy, easily carried the rest of the night with his exuberant performance.

By: Noah Schaffer Filed Under: Featured, Music, Popular Music, Review, World Music Tagged: calypso, Parang, Soca, Soca Parang, Trinidad, Trinidadian Christmas, Unity Sports and Cultural Association

Book Feature: “Buy Me, Boston” — A City of Ads

Book Feature: “Buy Me, Boston” — A City of Ads

The volume is devoted to print ads and event flyers for local eateries, concert venues, theaters, stores, and community events that were printed in the ’60s, ’70s and ’80s.

By: Noah Schaffer Filed Under: Books, Featured, Preview Tagged: Brian Coleman, Buy Me Boston, Kay Bourne, Noah Schaffer

Music Feature: The Power of Boston Disco — Celebrating an Era

Music Feature: The Power of Boston Disco — Celebrating an Era

Disco is back in town! DJ Joey Carvello returns to Boston and the compilation Boston Goes Disco! is released.

By: Noah Schaffer Filed Under: Featured, Music, Popular Music Tagged: Boston disco, Boston Goes Disco, Diana Steel, Ed McMann, Jerry McKenna, Joey Carvello, Kiss 108, Lisa Lips, Serge Gamesbourg, Sunny Joe White

Music Feature: Toots & The Maytals — Cranking and Skanking in Worcester

Music Feature: Toots & The Maytals — Cranking and Skanking in Worcester

Toots Hibbert’s voice expresses both his Jamaican country church upbringing and his deep love of American R&B and soul.

By: Noah Schaffer Filed Under: Featured, Music, Popular Music Tagged: Toots and the Maytals, Toots Hibbert

Lowell Folk Fest Preview: Mariachi Mexico Antiguo’s Journey to New England

Lowell Folk Fest Preview: Mariachi Mexico Antiguo’s Journey to New England

Besides passing along the tradition of mariachi to their students, the members of Mariachi Mexico Antiguo perform as an ensemble at local events, including this weekend’s Lowell Folk Festival.

By: Noah Schaffer Filed Under: Featured, Folk, Music, Popular Music, Preview, Rock Tagged: Lowell Folk Festival, Mariachi Mexico Antiguo, Noah Schaffer, Rodbel Virula

Music Interview: The Oak Ridge Boys Get Hip With Gospel

Music Interview: The Oak Ridge Boys Get Hip With Gospel

The mainstream country trappings of the Oak Ridge Boys have obscured their crowning achievement: they helped bring the white gospel quartet tradition to the pop charts.

By: Noah Schaffer Filed Under: Featured, Music, Preview Tagged: Richard Sterban, The Oak Ridge Boys

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