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."

Outside

The show's not so bad out here, either.

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White Man Sleeps

Kevin Volans' minimalist, dancing piece for string quartet may have been made famous by Kronos and their 1990 recording, but

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Bill

For all the times I could have caught guitarist Bill Frisell – at Barbes, at jazz festivals and top-tier jazz

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Marathon

(Pictured: Todd Reynolds String Quartet, performing Meredith Monk's "Stringsongs")

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Home Show

Home shows are a fairly common practice in New York, where musicians (mainly classical) play small, private concerts in the

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Toronto In Tow

After last weekend's Over The Top fest, I thought I'd had enough of Toronto bands, but when I heard the

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Discovered

Galapagos seems to have become the latest locus for new and interesting music in New York, thanks in no small

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Detour

A funny thing happened on my way to see Missy Mizzoli's chamber opera "Song From The Uproar" tonight in DUMBO.

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Basement Vibes

Last night, I caught Seattle expats Das Vibenbass play the early set downstairs at The Delancey, to a mostly-empty room. The foursome

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