Eddie From Ohio, and opener Pat McGee, celebrated their personal and professional histories with an audience of family, friends, and the dedicated fans known as “Ed Heads.” It was also a night of firsts, both for McGee and EFO. Pat […]
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Time seems to stand still when you’re on a cruise ship out at sea. And yet, when it comes to time spent strictly having fun — encouraged all the more by a cruise that puts the focus entirely on music […]
Another new year, and another Celtic Connections festival to bring rays of sunshine and warmth to an otherwise dark, cold month. Taking place over 18 days in Glasgow, and with literally hundreds of artists, the festival has become an annual pilgrimage […]
On a cold night that felt more like western New York than the Piedmont of Georgia, Donna the Buffalo brought a three-hour party to Duluth with positive vibes and extended jams that had nearly everyone dancing in the aisles. Even […]
Once, hunters and their tribes and families roamed and thrived through the plains and deep woods of America. Then the white man came, and eventually, after many bloody physical and political battles, came what Johnny Cash called “bitter tears.” I […]
I have been a fan of Missing Cats, a singer-songwriter duo formed by John “Jojo”Hermann and Sherman Ewing. I was pleased to learn of Ewing’s solo project, and his newest single “Cross My Broken Heart” is a nice introduction of […]
Like a lot of roots musicians, Evan Murdock began in bluegrass. His mandolin work for Madison’s infamous Lonesome Rogues was front and center in live shows during their six-year, weekly residency at Madison’s Wonder’s Pub. The venerable tavern eventually closed […]
Henhouse Prowlers, the Chicago-based bluegrass outfit, had played Africa before. In 2013, the band was chosen to do a month-long tour of the African countries Congo, Liberia, Mauritania and Niger as part of a State Department-funded program called American Music […]
“Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all […]
While it didn’t generate the same Cheeseland buzz as this weekend’s Packer vs. Seahawks game will, there was plenty to cheer about at Wednesday night’s world premiere of Tight Tiger. Lead singer/songwriter Brian Knapp’s new quartet turned a birthday show […]
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