Over at Gannett’s faux-alternative Velocity, David Daley previews Erin McKeown’s Friday show at the Phoenix Hill Tavern.
Josh Hammann previews TV on The Radio, which includes former Louisvillian Jaleel Bunton. Bunton left the Ville after high school and headed out to the Big Apple.
Former VHS Or Beta guitarist Zeke Buck’s band People Noise [...]
Your hard-working editor has been busy as usual here at the end of the month, getting the dead tree edition of Louisville Music News prepared and off to the printer, plus getting all the content formatted properly and ready for upload to the site on Thursday. All this by way of explaining the lack of [...]
Here’s an interesting article from the ArtsJournal.com site about the average age of audiences attending American Orchestra’s performances. The data seem to indicate that the average age is increasing rapidly. Consider this quote: “In 1982 the average age of this audience was 40, in 1992 it was 45, in 2002 it was 49.”
There’s quite a [...]
While Marty Rosen was over at the Bach Society, Andrew Adler was at the U of L School of Music for the Speed Art Museum Speed Endowed Concert Series season-ending concert by violinist Miriam Fried and her son, pianist Jonathan Biss. He was impressed with the integrity. Read the whole review here.
Marty Rosen has a review of the latest Bach Society performance, which is not exactly the kind of music he normally covers. But Rosen rises to occasion.
Byron Crawford has the story of 14-year-old Jordan Leigh Young of Mayo, Kentucky getting the chance to sing with Dolly Parton. Read his column here.
The C-J’s Andrew Adler defends public financing for the arts in his Sunday column for the paper, dismissing charges of elitism and arguing that it’s all for the public good. Read it yourself here.
Busy with getting the dead tree edition of Louisville Music News wrapped up. Our cover subject this month is Louisville native Darnell Levine, who is just launching his career in soulful r&b, plus our usual lineup of columnists.
After a slow January and February, live music in Louisville looks to be taking off in March, with [...]
I exchanged a series of email with a band manager recently; he was interested in getting info about his group on the LMN website and, of course, possibly a write-up in the dead tree edition as well. As I frequently do, I asked for gigs, a color photo, website and, if possible, a short, 75-word [...]
The Courier-Journal’s Jeffrey Lee Puckett takes a listen to Lucinda Williams‘ new CD, West, gives it, oh, a thumb up and a shrug. Read the review for yourself.