Jazz in the Steel City: The 15th Annual Pittsburgh International Jazz Festival
PITTSBURGH, PA – Living in New York, where on any given night there are more than 50 clubs showcasing live jazz, it’s easy to have a myopic view of jazz in […]
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Weekend Live Music Preview: 9/17-9/19
The summer may have unofficially ended on Labor Day weekend, but with a delayed reopening to live music thanks to COVID, things are still going strong here in NYC into
Robert Randolph and the Family Band with Eric Krasno at Celebrate Brooklyn
Virtuosos come in all stripes, as Robert Randolph showed on Thursday night, as he melted the stage at BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn with his pedal steel guitars – both sitting and standing –
Chris Bergson at Jazz Standard
by Steven Pisano This winter in New York City has been so unrelentingly and inhospitably cold, so bone-numbingly frigid that a lot of sensible people have just stayed home
FREE TICKETS: Toshi Reagon at SubCulture (CONTEST ENDED)
NOTE: This contest has ended. Blues-folk singer-songwriter Toshi Reagon heads to SubCulture this Friday, June 27 at 7:30 p.m. with her band BIGLovely, and FoM is giving away a pair of
Taj Mahal Plays Solo at City Winery
by Brian Corliss Composer and multi-instrumentalist Henry St. Claire Fredricks—better known as Taj Mahal—brought forth his diverse roots to a solo show at City Winery on Memorial Day. From the moment he sat down
Preview: Black Joe Lewis at Irving Plaza
Austin natives Black Joe Lewis and the Honeybears will be making their first stop back to New York's Irving Plaza since the release of their most recent album, Electric Slave, on Wednesday, February
Vieux Farka Touré at Elebash Hall
A journey through the Mali blues last week with Vieux Farka Touré, who closed out his most recent U.S. tour with a show at CUNY's Elebash Hall. The show was
Preview: Vieux Farka Touré Tonight at Elebash Hall
Since last seeing Vieux Farka Touré—son of legendary Malian guitar player Ali Farka Touré, at Summerstage in 2008—he has emerged as one of today's leading exponents of African music, with his crisp