Miss Pat, reggae’s Chinese-Jamaican matriarch, reflects on a life in riddim.
Film/Music Review: The Best Music Documentaries of 2020 — With Some Disppointments
Some of the best music documentaries of 2020 – and some disappointments
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.”
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.”
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.
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.”