Although it’s rife with familiar names and faces of musicians who’ve played here year in past editions, the lineup for the 2012 Savannah Music Festival puts the focus on musical […]
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Review: Maceo Parker at the Morris Center
It was a bittersweet goodbye at the final performance of the 2011 Music Festival, a later-than-usual 10:30 p.m. performance by funk legend Maceo Parker. There might have been more time […]
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Review: Salif Keita
As regular readers will know, I was bitten by the Afropop bug a few years ago at the Savannah Music Festival and haven’t really been the same since. Once bitten, […]
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Review: ‘Death Cell Memoirs of an Extraterrestrial’
If you didn’t catch Death Cell Memoirs of an Extraterrestrial Tuesday night at the Lucas Theatre, “what was it all about?” would be a valid question. Well, I saw it. […]
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‘There’s always hope in it’
One of the cornerstones of hardscrabble Chicago blues is the harmonica. It’s an integral part of the electric blues framework, like the violin in a proper orchestra. Blues harp, of […]
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Cotton is King
James Cotton is the reigning monarch of the blues harmonica players. Born in 1935 in tiny Tunica, Miss., he was, as a young boy, tutored by none other than Sonny […]
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Bluegrass on the Rize
The 1970s saw the debut of a new generation of bluegrass musicians, young people weaned on the masters but dedicated to exploring different ways of playing the acoustic music of […]
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SMF: A few more sure things
ALLEN TOUSSAINT BAND At 7:30 p.m. April 7, Trustees Theater Songwriter, pianist, producer and arranger Allen Toussaint has been one of the most influential figures in New Orleans R&B for […]
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Review: Dianne Reeves & Chico Pinheiro
The first time I saw Dianne Reeves — at her initial visit to the Savannah Music Festival , also at the Lucas — I had never before witnessed A) a […]
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Review: Chris Thile & the Punch Brothers
During their 2009 Savannah Music Festival performance, the Punch Brothers reached deep into their considerable bag of tricks and produced one seriously unexpected rabbit: The Beatles’ “Martha My Dear.” This […]
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Review: Avett Bros @ Johnny Mercer Theatre
CELLOS ARE GREAT. I have no problem with cellos. But sometimes there’s just no replacing a steel guitar. It was during this realization, about halfway through their concert at the […]
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Review: Bela Fleck, Edgar Meyer and Zakir Hussain
What a treat to see and hear three master musicians, each at the top of his game, playing together as one. Bela Fleck, Edgar Meyer and Zakir Hussain – on […]