Well for those that didn’t know, I just got back Monday morning from spending my days hiking 10 miles up mountains to breathtaking views of rivers, canyons, glaciers, and wildlife [ … ]
Category: Columns
Guest Writer-Musician on Musician: Ian Fitzgerald on Krista Baroni
I get a particular pleasure from watching an artist perform new material; that pleasure is enhanced when I’m hearing the songs for the first time; and it’s a true [ … ]
Guest Writer – Musician on Musician: Ian Fitzgerald on Will Houlihan
“Okay, Conor. You’re scaring me.” That’s what Ryan Adams wrote after seeing Conor Oberst perform for the first time. Ryan went on for 900-something more words (some of it nonsense; [ … ]
Providence Music: What the Hell Is in the Water down There?
It’s true, I often times am so engulfed in what is happening here in Boston (and more accurately Cambridge/Somerville) I can forget that we are a “regional” and occasionally [ … ]
Making Music With Mark Whitaker
Making music with Mark Whitaker… I can speak from experience that creating and performing music with Mark Whitaker is a special thing. He somehow makes you feel better about your [ … ]
Random Thought Thursday: “Making It”
“Those guys have ‘made’ it”, “oh man, making it in the music business is tough”, “their new record is making its way to the top”…what the f*ck does it all [ … ]
The Best Things I Have Heard in 2014 So Far…
It’s July and 2014 is halfway over already. That being the case, I’d like to step back, take a breather and reflect on the year so far. I have [ … ]
Well, Its out There Now…
Today everything has come to a head. All 11 tracks from the Locals Covering Locals project have been released and are out there for the world to listen to, to [ … ]
Double Up! Passim Seeks to Increase New Donors and Members while Raising Donations with Eight-Day Matching-Gift Campaign
Cambridge , MA June 20, 2104 — A donation to Passim, the Cambridge-based arts organization, will have double the impact if made between June 23-30, 2014. Members of the Passim [ … ]
7th Annual Make Music Harvard Square This Saturday!
I dropped the ball on this with planning for our Passim release show and other gigs and while we were supposed to potentially have a Red Line curated stage and [ … ]