On Everything Is Alive, Darlingside explores the human condition, and especially the collision with impermanence so many of us experience. On these songs, they sing of one of life’s only constants, change, but also the unease it can cause, offering […]
The foundation of Darlingside’s new album is predictable. The beautiful harmonies, the rich layers, the careful (or is that care-full?) lyrics — they’re all present and accounted for on Fish Pond Fish. What’s unexpected here is a dynamism that builds […]
Cambridge Folk Festival, one of the longest running folk festivals in the world, established in 1965, has always promoted equality and inclusion. The late Ken Woollard, the original founder, gave all artists the same billing on posters and publicity argued […]
Auyon Mukharji was bescarved, delivering a mid-set speech full of large words to an audience that devoured them as though they were chubby green olives filled with prosciutto and white cheese. Tom from New Hampshire. Everyone in the crowd knew […]
If Jack Kerouac and David Foster Wallace survived the apocalypse, they’d be sitting in a movie theater in western Massachusetts watching a Rita Hayworth movie and writing songs about it. Oh, and they’d call themselves Darlingside, whose literary lineage runs […]
I remember the first time I watched Planes with my kids. If you haven’t seen it, it’s like Cars, only with, well, planes. It’s not a bad film. Basically, a small-town blue-collar dude (in this case, a crop duster) thinks […]
Thanksgiving is over, December lies ahead with its year-end reviews, assessments, and lists. While I, too, have some to share with our readers next month, it’s a good time to feature some of the outstanding pictures ND’s photographers have taken […]
This week, I’m featuring the photos of C. Elliott from Tucson, Arizona. While she and I have chatted about photography for quite some time, I was unaware till recently that we lived in Cincinnati during the same time, she in high school […]
The 55th Annual Philadelphia Folk Festival just ended, and we are fortunate that ND photographer Mark J. Smith was there to capture so many great photos and provide this week’s commentary. As he first attended the festival in 1970, he knows his way […]
