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Pres. Hall Leader on Big Easy Christmasnew
For all that hurricanes and oil spills can take away, tradition isn’t among them. At least not while institutions like Preservation Hall exists. After a series of commemorative shows at home, the famed jazz club’s house band is preparing to celebrate 50 years as the standard bearers for New Orleans jazz by doing what they do best: hitting the road for a special performance at Carnegie Hall in January. Until then, the Preservation Hall Jazz Band is evangelizing other Big Easy musical traditions with their Creole Holiday tour, coming to SECCA in Winston-Salem this Friday. Below, Preservation Hall Cre- ative Director and tuba player extraordinaire Ben Jaffe, son of hall founder Allan Jaffe, waxes on NOLA holiday traditions influenc- ing seasonal music and how relationships formed during the recording of the band’s 2010 benefit album have shaped the institu tions future.
YES! Weekly |
Ryan Snyder |
12-15-2011 |
Music
Laurelyn Dossett’s Gathering
From the Green Room in the basement of Meymandi Concert Hall in Raleigh, a cascade of banjo notes can be heard trailing down the hallway from the dressing room shared by Joe Newberry and Mike Compton. Soon, the virtuosic voice of Rhiannon Giddens Laffan — classically trained but steeped in traditional music practices — fills the air with operatic scales.
YES! Weekly |
Jordan Green |
12-03-2011 |
Music
Tags: Banjo, Laurelyn Dossett
California Streaming: The Best of Coachella via YouTubenew
Not that it did any good, it's easy to rationalize missing out on the Coachella Music and Arts Festival this past weekend. It was something like 98 degrees out in Indio, Calif., all the people were probably on drugs and Kings of Leon suck.
YES! Weekly |
Ryan Snyder |
04-21-2011 |
Music
Wiz Khalifa "Continues to Smoke" Two Days After Arrestnew
It’s hard to say how many of the hundreds of people slowly filtering through the doors of the cavernous Education Building were there after hearing of the rapper being hosted by a state correctional facility, but the sporadic chants of “free Wiz” gave some idea.
YES! Weekly |
Ryan Snyder |
11-18-2010 |
Music
When With Rome: Sublime's New face Accepts His Newfound Responsibilitynew
Drummer Bud Gaugh and bassist Eric Wilson reunited for an unannounced show in early 2009 with the 20-year-old singer and guitarist Rome Ramirez under the Sublime name.
YES! Weekly |
Ryan Snyder |
10-22-2010 |
Music
