Ten years into his run as the festival’s associate artistic director and classical music tour guide, the acclaimed British violinist closes out a remarkable 2013 run with one of his […]
Special Issues
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Savannah Music Festival: Otis Taylor
The Colorado-based Taylor writes and sings in an unapologetically raw style, flailing away at a banjo, on stark songs that combine Delta blues and African influences (after all, Africa is […]
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Savannah Music Festival: Ana Moura
6 & 9 p.m. Sat., March 30; 5 p.m. Sun., March 31 It’s just past midnight in a smoky bar on the Lisbon docks. At a corner table, in the […]
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Savannah Music Festival: Keller Williams & the Travelin’ McCourys
Known for his quirky turns of phrase, dazzling solo guitar work and the ability to change musical horses in midstream, Keller Williams returns to Savannah with an all-new project. His […]
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Savannah Music Festival: Marcus Roberts & the ASO
“The bar’s set very high,” says the jazz pianist of his first full symphonic work. “So I spent a lot of time listening to piano music, just to figure out where my inspiration would come from …”
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Savannah Music Festival review: Jane Monheit, Jennifer Sheehan
Her voice soars, swoops and scats, leaping octaves with slippery ease.
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Savannah Music Festival: Sea Wolf
It makes sense that Alex Brown Church attended NYU film school; there’s a broad cinematic sweep to the songs he creates as Sea Wolf —haunting and moody, and committed to […]
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Savannah Music Festival Review: Ballake Sissoko & Vincent Segal
Equally skilled at melody and rhythm, Sissoko performs mini-symphonies on his handmade, beautiful instrument. In partnership with Segal, however, we are in the presence of magic.
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Savannah Music Festival Review: Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Co.
The performance was over before we knew it, the organic, gently unfolding nature of the dances enabling us to reach a near-trance state which both slowed and accelerated the passage of time.
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Savannah Music Festival: Old Crow Medicine Show
Virginia-born Chris “Critter” Fuqua and Ketch Secor are the co-founders and main songwriters for Old Crow Medicine Show, perhaps the most popular old-time string band in America at the moment. […]
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Savannah Music Festival: Charles Bradley & His Extraordinaires
“If you look into James Brown, look into Otis Redding, look into Sam Cooke, and you look into me, we’re all in that same aura,” R&B singer Bradley told Connect […]
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Savannah Music Festival: Daniel Hope
It was Savannah Music Festival executive director Rob Gibson who gave us Hope. British violin virtuoso Daniel Hope was brought in, at Gibson’s invite, to be the festival’s associate artistic […]