Happy Traum’s presence as a member of the Acoustic Blues Festival’s faculty follows 50 years of experience as a guitar instructor, a vocation that occurred in tandem with performing and recording. “These camps are the real way that folk […]
Happy Traum’s presence as a member of the Acoustic Blues Festival’s faculty follows 50 years of experience as a guitar instructor, a vocation that occurred in tandem with performing and recording. “These camps are the real way that folk […]
PORT TOWNSEND, WA— It appeared that each of the 230 attendees at this year’s Port Townsend Acoustic Blues Festival carried at least one portable electronic device. The event, in its 24th year, falls somewhere in between a music festival and summer […]
The sprawling Ghost Brothers of Darkland County is available in many shapes and sizes, but when you add them all up it still comes up short. A collaboration between John Mellencamp and Stephen King, Ghost Brothers tells the story of two […]
Once you’ve been following an artist for 30 years or more you get to know all their quirks and foibles and they become like family. You refer to them by their first names, in this case Richard and Neil, and […]
Barry McGuire was around in the 1960s, and remembers them well enough to present a historical narrative of songs and stories for the benefit of those who either need reminding or want to reinforce their recollections. McGuire and guitarist John […]
Occasional Monkee Michael Nesmith was awarded a patent on Christmas Day for a process that incorporates live video into a virtual environment. Called VR3D, it has the potential to increase the reality quotient of virtual worlds, bumping up interaction and […]