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."

Back and Forth

More than anything, I've been impressed with the bilingual nature of Montreal, the ability of its inhabitants to effortlessly switch between French and English. Like this charming folk singer, who

Street Musique

Just some of the many street musicians I came across on my wanderings yesterday. 

Dimanche à Montreal

Sitting out back of my little B&B on St-Hubert Street, I'm treated to a concert of church bells, chiming all through the morning. These aren't the electronic bells you hear

Jazz Women

I managed to make it back to Centro Gallego last night in time to catch Nicole Mitchell's Suono per il Popolo set with her Chicago-based band, Truth or Dare. The music was described

French Pop

Pop Montreal is known as an Anglophone festival, but this is Quebec, and so it only made sense to have a couple of French-speaking acts on the bill at yesterday's

Pink Noise

I'm not really sure what "pink" noise is, but Dapinknoise sound like a cross between David Bowie, Kraftwerk, and Tupac (or, according to the comic who introduced them, "like the

Outdoor Noise

On stage at the Parc des Ameriques: Les Ghost's of Ghazals, who sound like any number of Brooklyn or Baltimore scream bands, with their wailing guitars and throbbing electro-rays. Except

Quebecois Bossa Nova

So, I was bummed to find out that today's free Parc de Popolo concert was cancelled on account of rain, but walking back down Boulevard Ste-Laurent, I come across this

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