In anticipation of this week’s public unveiling of the lineup for the 2009 Savannah Music Festival, Connect spoke briefly with the SMF’s Communications Manager and Director of Marketing and Public […]
Savannah Music Festival Issue
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The SMF drops it like it’s hot
Much to the delight of all manner of folks throughout our community —and elsewhere— 2009 will mark the seventh installment of the Savannah Music Festival. Initially known as the Savannah […]
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From Bonnaroo to Beijing: Abigail Washburn, Béla Fleck & The Sparrow Quartet break the acoustic string-band mold
IN JUST A FEW SHORT WEEKS, The Sparrow Quartet will release their second album. Led by multicultural tunesmith and banjoist Abigail Washburn, the scandalously talented group —featuring cellist Ben Sollee, […]
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Pianist Marcus Roberts once more graces the SMF
ONE OF THE MOST GIFTED and highly regarded stride and jazz pianists of his generation, Marcus Roberts made a name for himself at a relatively young age by reinterpreting the […]
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Japanese piano virtuoso Yu Kosuge’s Savannah debut
THE PHENOMENAL, AWARD-WINNING, TOKYO-BORN Yu Kosuge gave her first piano recitals at the tender age of nine, and by ten was studying under some of the finest instructors in Germany […]
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Afro-Pop’s reigning queen comes to town
TO CALL ANGELIQUE KIDJO an impressive booking for this year’s Savannah Music Festival would be a supreme understatement. This hit-making Beninese singer/songwriter is truly a global sensation — a modern-day […]
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‘Bluegrass on steroids’
How is it that one of the hottest bluegrass groups in America today learned bluegrass not from tradition, but from scratch? And based in California, no less? The family band […]
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Slide guru
One of the most unique artists to come to town in an already uniquely diverse Savannah Music Festival is Indian slide guitar virtuoso Debashish Bhattacharya, who performs in a one-of-a-kind […]
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In this corner, from Athens, Georgia…
Local success came quickly for the Modern Skirts. Though the Athens, Ga.-based indie-pop quartet had played together informally for quite a while, within six months of choosing a name and […]
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Sean Costello lays it down
At only 28, Atlanta blues guitarist and singer Sean Costello has already spent well over a decade in the public eye. Picking up the guitar at the age of nine, […]
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‘The Officer’s Ball’
When the Savannah Music Festival announced that The Police’s drummer Stewart Copeland was among the internationally-known musicians slated to appear at their 2008 event, it was widely perceived as a […]
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Cajun phenom Steve Riley says, ‘People eventually wind up dancing’
To most of us, playing the accordion can often seem a deceptively simple task. In fact, even though I know it’s a tricky instrument to master, when I see one […]