Often credited with continuing the tradition of vocal jazz, one of Reeves’ greatest strengths is her taste for fusion, bringing in reggae, soul, and salsa influences to her sound.
Special Issues
Connect Savannah College Issue, Savannah Film Festival Issue, Savannah Music Festival Issue, Saint Patrick’s Day Issue, Best of Savannah Issue.
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Savannah Music Festival: Drew Holcomb & the Neighbors @Ships of the Sea
Even when the going gets rough, Holcomb has a way of lifting his audience up.
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Savannah Music Festival: Josh Ritter is ready to ring your bell
JOSH RITTER has been counted among the world’s greatest living songwriters. With a voice distinguished by a kind of summery wear and compassionate ease, Ritter guides listeners through searing narrative […]
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Savannah Music Festival Review: Lucinda Williams
Williams told the crowd that she had long considered turning one of her poet father’s works into a song and had finally done it with “Compassion,” one of his best-loved poems.
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Emerson String Quartet: ‘Love at first note’
THE Emerson String Quartet is to chamber music what the Rolling Stones are to rock ‘n’ roll: Seminal, timeless, and extremely long-lived. It’s no exaggeration to say that in their […]
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Lucinda Williams: All Killer, No Filler
THE IDEA that suffering makes for great art is one of those time-honored rock ‘n’ roll tropes that even made its way into the title of a 1982 Todd Rundgren […]
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Savannah Music Festival Review: Dawes
Can we give a big shout-out to the hardworking folks handling the sound at Trustees? With the help of Meyer Sound’s new loudspeakers, they’ve made it the best-sounding room in town. When Taylor Goldsmith hit his first note, it was like the room collectively gasped in wonder at the mix.
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Savannah Music Festival Review: Heritage Blues Orchestra/Jarekus Singleton
With an energetic bassist and drummer, Singleton is a dynamic player, employing finger-tapping and a kind of loose precision that surprised the crowd with each number.
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Savannah Music Festival Review: Shakey Graves/Shovels & Rope
The last time Shovels & Rope were in Savannah (Dare Dukes’ Thugs & China Dolls CD release party at The Jinx), it was the crucial moment, teetering on the release of their surprise hit record O’ Be Joyful, before their Letterman appearance. Their Savannah Music Festival performance was so representative of their growth that it made for the perfect return;
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SMF: Just Jarekus
AT 30 years old, Jarekus Singleton is bringing blues to a new generation, earning many noteworthy awards and feathers in his cap along the way. But to the humble and […]
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Opera @SMF: Sex, Lies, & Multimedia
“THERE ARE only two kinds of music. We do the good kind,” smiles Rob Gibson, Executive and Artistic Director of the Savannah Music Festival. The next chapter in the Music […]
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Opera @SMF: Darn those kids and their loud arias!
‘The first year I went to Savannah Children’s Choir camp made me love it even more—it just grew from there.’