Groton Hill Music Center
If ever there was a musical act and a venue perfectly suited to each other, it would have to be the Wailin’ Jennys, the harmony-laden Canadian folk trio, and the Groton Hill Music Center.
If any out-there band deserves the opportunity to be in-here, Club d’Elf is it.
The magic in Eliane Elias’s performances is in how easily she slips from one musical dialect into another.
Though John Pizzarelli has written and recorded his own material, his specialty has always been embracing and interpreting the tunes of the giants and legends and making them his own.
Four players bridged divergent worlds and styles from bluegrass and jazz to Indian and Western classical music while taking virtually no time to lock in together.
It was worth driving over 70 miles of snowy roads to be rewarded with such invigorating heat. Bravo tutti.
Bill Frisell fans were blessed to hear the Denver-bred, Berklee-schooled guitar savant at a massive multi-space facility that might offer the state’s most awe-inspiring concert hall.
You can’t appreciate Béla Fleck’s virtuosity until you see him up close and live. I left the hall stunned by the two-and-half hour master class in bluegrass innovation.
Given the overwhelmingly loud and appreciative response from the sold-out crowd, which hung on every note of Leslie Odom, Jr.’s diverse and stirring set list, he’s unlikely to forget Groton anytime soon.
There is a full lineup of performances scheduled for the next few months in Groton Hill Music Center’s Meadow Hall as the organization’s donors and subscribers prepare for life in the world-class facility.
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