SINCE 2003, when the long-running Savannah Onstage International Arts Festival broadened its scope significantly and was reborn as the diverse Savannah Music Festival, our city has played host to one […]
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‘It’s a revolt against all this lifeless junk’
Every year around this time, the Savannah Music Festival holds a high-profile, invite-only soiree that’s part press conference, part horn-tooting, and part arts-scene-and-regional media shmoozefest. Ostensibly, the intention is to […]
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Pick of the litter: Cult songstress Cat Power plays Savannah
As legend has it, Georgia native Cat Power (nee Chan Marshall) was infamously slated to perform at MLK, Jr. Blvd.’s sorely-missed Café Metropole several years ago — right around the […]
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Noteworthy live shows
Von Barlow The Coastal Jazz Association presents a special show by this trap drumming master likened to the great Gene Krupa and known for an unusually expressive way with improvisation. […]
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A taste of this week’s live gigs
A Nickel Bag of Funk Female-fronted funk and soul party band. Fri., 9 pm, Mansion on Forsyth Park. Between The Trees New Fl. indie-rockers likened to Jimmy Eat World. Sat., […]
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Noteworthy live shows
Eric Culberson Blues Band at GreenFest When are the blues green? When they’re played in support of environmentally-sound principals, baby! This stellar local electric blues trio seems thrilled to be […]
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A taste of this week’s live gigs
Annual Senior Jazz Concert Free show for area senior citizens by the 16-piece Savannah Jazz Orchestra. Info: www.coastaljazz.org, or call 675-5419. Thurs., 6 pm, Civic Center Ballroom. Argyle Hard-hitting local […]
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John Gorka headlines Folk Music Festival
For the past two decades, guitarist John Gorka has been heralded as one of the finest singer/songwriters in this country. A gifted lyricist with a disarming knack for penning insightful, […]
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A nod in Nashville
This past Thursday, October 4, the International Bluegrass Music Association kicked off its annual World of Bluegrass convention and trade show in Nashville. A massive, week long event that finds […]
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Who’s minding the Stoehr?
ALTHOUGH IT’S BEEN WELL OVER half a decade ago, I still vividly recall the very first time I spoke to John Stoehr. I’d called to let him know one of […]
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Noteworthy live gigs
The Dirty Dozen Brass Band For 30 years, this famed N’awlins group have been known far and wide as one of the premier exponents of Big Easy-style party music. However, […]
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This butterfly spreads her wings
LAUREN LAPOINTE’S BACK STORY is tailor-made for a newspaper writer. It comes with a ready-made hook. Back in 2001, the youthful Savannah resident was toiling away at an otherwise unnamed […]