New Music Abounding in Maine
Terri Bruce
October 30, 2024
Hello friends! It’s been a while since I’ve shared the trad jazz happenings in Maine—though, certainly, not due to a lack of goings on. In
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Hello friends! It’s been a while since I’ve shared the trad jazz happenings in Maine—though, certainly, not due to a lack of goings on. In
When the musician walks in carrying four instruments—two banjos, one guitar, and one fiddle– and takes a seat at the piano and then proceeds to
It was a busy fall, trad jazz wise, in New England. Friends, I have now seen the Soggy Po’ Boys four times (FOUR TIMES!) in
Loose pages, handsomely hard-bound volumes with ornate covers, and every configuration in between of sheet music are stacked on floor-to-ceiling shelves, cascading out of boxes
On July 27, 2023, I had the pleasure of attending a one-night-only, 90-minute show by The Duke Ellington Orchestra Quintet at the Criterion Theater in
Yellow sweaters, my friends, yellow sweaters galore! I read a quote recently comparing history to items that float by on the surface of a river
On a warm August evening, I had the pleasure of sitting with six (of the seven) members of the Soggy Po’ Boys, a New Orleans-style
As I read Andy Senior’s February 2023 “Static in My Attic” column where he recounted pushback he’d received on the need to save trad jazz,
I’m standing in my favorite flea-markety antiques store panicking a little as I stare at milk crates filled with used records. My husband and I
