It’s been a wild and wooly year for Pink Martini, the cocktail–cool, multi–lingual “retro” band from Portland, Oregon that’s playing one of the most hotly–anticipated Savannah Music Festival shows this […]
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Victor Wooten: Home bass
Since 1988, Bela Fleck and the Flecktones have been one of America’s most musically adventurous and consistently enjoyable instrumental bands. Fronted by the banjo–wielding Bela, the band incorporates elements of […]
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You gotta have Hope
As associate artistic director of the Savannah Music Festival, Daniel Hope is in charge of building the classical side of the program — a pursuit which has brought numerous world […]
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Don’t STOP the BOP
One of the most influential and revered pianists in modern jazz, Cedar Walton began his professional career at the tail end of the 1950s, playing with Art Farmer and J.J. […]
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Stopover: Girl in a Coma
Nina Diaz is the lead singer for the San Antonio rock ‘n’ roll trio Girl in a Coma. She also plays wicked guitar, and she writes the band’s songs (although […]
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Stopover: XRay Eyeballs
Dark, dank and decadent, the music of XRay Eyeballs is unmistakably from New York’s soft white underbelly, a sort of 3 a.m. barbiturate crawl on the wild side. Ah, but […]
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Stopover: Christ, Lord
Christian Ballew is the founder, songwriter and overall visionary behind the engaging six–piece Atlanta band called Christ, Lord. He plays accordion, banjo, piano and organ and sings. There’s violin, trumpet, […]
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Stopover: Chelsea Crowell
Once upon a time Rodney Crowell, one of the great Texas singer/songwriters, was hired to produce a country/pop album for Johnny Cash’s daughter Rosanne, also a writer of considerable strengths. […]
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Grimes: In a dangerous spot
A melting–pot concoction of beat–heavy dance pop, cucumber–cool Britwave synthesizer, ethereal vocal harmonies from the Enya songbook and a lead falsetto borrowed from Bee Gee Barry Gibb, Claire Boucher’s music […]
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Stopover: Brown Bird
David Lamb and MorganEve Swain’s voices blend, move, wax and wane together like the grain in a fine cut of wood; they turn and travel in tandem like a school […]
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Oberhofer: The innocent abroad
Out of the bedroom and into the indie bloodstream … Tacoma, Wash., native Brad Oberhofer started writing songs and making lo–fi demos with ProTools and a computer when he was […]
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Stopover Spotlight
Here’s our second collection of mini-profiles of the Savannah Stopover acts we’re most excited about. You can find the first installment at www.connectsavannah.com. Unless you’ve been living under a rock […]