Author name: Peter Matthews

Feast of Music covers live music in NYC, and occasionally other places. Launched in 2007, it aspires to give equal voice to all kinds of music: everything from an indie show in a Williamsburg dive, to an orchestra concert in Carnegie Hall. As Duke Ellington once said: "There are only two kinds of music: good music...and the other kind."

Steve @ Sonar

An extraordinary concert tonight at Barcelona's l'Auditori, where local new music ensemble bcn216 and London's Synergy Vocals just finished performing Steve Reich's "Music For 18 Musicians" to officially open Sonar […]

Sonar by Day: Thursday

Hola from Barcelona, where Sonar 2011 is already in full swing. For today's Sonar By Day, there are a half-dozen stages hosting various DJs and live acts, but the most

Barcelona Bound

Tonight, I leave for Europe, with ports of call throughout Spain, France and – for the first time – Switzerland. Music is a big part of the agenda, with festivals

Brooklyn Folk Festival 2011

I had access to a car yesterday afternoon, so I decided to take a ride out to the 3rd annual Brooklyn Folk Festival out in Red Hook, which was held this year

The Transfinite

 I made it just in the nick of time yesterday to see Ryoji Ikeda's extraordinary the transfinite at the Park Avenue Armory (now closed.) Projected on both sides of a

Stepgaard: Izzy O’Connell

After last night's Celebrate Brooklyn show, I hopped on the train all the way to midtown, arriving just in time for the latest installment of Tristan and Lesley's Stepgaard, which

Andrew Bird Opens Celebrate Brooklyn

For me, the official start of summer is always the opening concert at Celebrate Brooklyn, which is always free and always draws a multitude of happy concertgoers. Last night was

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