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."

Evangelist(a)

Carla Bozulich wants to shake you up. She wants to offend you. She wants you to put down your newspaper, […]

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Live HiFi

I don’t know if they planned it to coincide with Record Store Day, but the HiFi New Music Festival, which

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Musical Pontiff

For those who have been living under a rock for the past week, Pope Benedict XVI arrived in New York

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Birds of a Feather

I made my way up to Zankel Hall last night for a pair of new works written for and played

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Going Analog

This blog has been, and always will be, about live music. But, one of my favorite pastimes has always been

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Senior Special

This is my dad, James Matthews. He lives with my mom in the house where I grew up in New

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Quotable

"I am Music, who in sweet accents can calm each troubled heart, and now with noble anger, now with love,

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The Greatest Day

I don’t make a habit of citing historical references on FoM, but this is one for the books: exactly fifty

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Can I Get a Drink With That?

You could be forgiven, passing through the Saturday night frolic of the East Village last night, for failing to realizing

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