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Noah Schaffer

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

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

“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

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

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

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