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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Savannah Music Festival: Full Schedule!
IT’S TIME ONCE AGAIN for the annual Savannah Music Festival–or time to buy tickets to it anyway! Here’s the full sked for your browsing and buying enjoyment: Balsam Range Kicking […]
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A different perspective on the Festival
Make your home in Savannah for long enough and it’s almost frighteningly easy to wake up one morning and realize you have inadvertently come to take the inherent beauty of […]
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The Turkey Callers play The Jinx
The Turkey Callers *** What do you get when you mix two fingers of local houserockin’ garage-blues band extraordinaire Bottles & Cans (singer/guitarist Ray Lundy and bassist Mike Walker) with […]
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Bonnie Raitt returns to the Mercer Theater
BACK IN the ‘70s and ‘80s, when phenomenal singer and slide guitarist Bonnie Raitt was more of a stellar club act than the superstar female icon of blues and rock-influenced […]
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Pianist Bradley Moore in concert
Bradley Moore AASU’s Dept. of Art, Music & Theater gets their yearly schedule of public events off to a rousing start with this solo guest recital by a highly acclaimed […]
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Savannah Music Festival Lineup Announcement Interviews
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 […]
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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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Spotlighted gigs and recommended shows
The Hellblinki Sextet The creepy, Tim Burton-esque brainchild of former Savannah resident Andrew Benjamin, this dark, theatrical and downright addled “Pirate Cabaret” is a mesmerizing mélange of Bertolt Brecht-ian melodrama, […]