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.”
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.”
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.
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.”
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.
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.