Buffy Sainte-Marie became renowned in the 1960s as a folk musician, but today her musical path keeps evolving. On Thursday (June 30) in Toronto’s Roy Thompson Hall, Sainte-Marie will perform her songs with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, and she says […]
“Those in power write the history, those who suffer write the songs.” – Frank Harte All across America on March 17 people will don Leprechaun hats of cheap green plastic and drink cups of cheap green beer and otherwise carry […]
While many of the early bluesmen were six-string pickin’, singing and whooping it up at juke joints throughout the Mississippi Delta, focusing more on vice than virtue, Blind Willie Johnson was playing his unique guitar style and singing in his […]
After a series of distressed and distressing posts on her Facebook page this week, which have been noticed by friends and by the media, Sinéad O’Connor posted a note approximately an hour ago announcing that she had taken an overdose. Half […]
