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Trivia Question: how many acts playing the city this past weekend can claim 16 Grammys? No, not Dave Matthews, not Roger Waters, not even The Police. Only one man can […]

While the hordes were making their way out to Giants Stadium for Live Earth yesterday, my friend Greg and I decided to check out the Boredoms show at Brooklyn Bridge

File this one under "Miscellaneous": the Second Annual NYC Main Squeeze Accordion Festival kicks off tomorrow at 2p in Riverside Park on the Hudson at West 70th St. Featured sounds

Yesterday, I hosted a barbecue at my house, and Ronen Givony, director of the brilliant cross-genre Wordless Music Series, was kind enough to supply the indie rock soundtrack. (He also

The late Leonard Bernstein didn’t invent the New York Philharmonic’s Young People’s Concerts, but by bringing them to a national TV audience, he made music lovers out of an entire

Ravi Coltrane and Groove Collective, Celebrate Brooklyn, 6/29/07    

The talented singer-songwriter Gabriel Kahane, who describes his material as "somewhere between Shostakovich and Rufus Wainwright," is all about bringing art music to the masses. Perhaps best known for his

If you were to ask someone where you could hear some "free" jazz yesterday, most folks probably would have told you to check out the 12th annual Vision Festival over

Ralph Stanley and the Clinch Mountain Boys, Celebrate Brooklyn, June 22, 2007 (From Left: fiddler Dewey Brown, mandolin player Nathan Stanley (Ralph’s grandson), lead guitarist James Shelton, and me)