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."

Feast of Music Presents… SAADI

 Thursday's Feast of Music Presents headliner SAADI played Fontana's last Tuesday night, mixing guitars, synth and drum machine, and Boshra's AlSaadi's haunting, penetrating vocals. It's as catchy as it is […]

Papering the Neighborhood

 Let's just hope they're not reserving one of those for Your's Truly… See here for a larger version of that flyer.

Subway Sounds

The 4th Avenue F stop might just be the nicest busking platform in New York. Especially on a Spring Saturday.   

Don Pedro’s

 After the New Amsterdam show at The Bell House, I rode the G up to Don Pedro's: an old Spanish social club on the fringes of Williamsburg that now hosts

Friday Sublime

 After the solemn collects at yesterday's Good Friday liturgy at St. Thomas Church, there was this stretch of solemn ritual that left all present hushed with awe and wonder. A large

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