The Live Music Report
April 2005 |
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| Acoustic Blues and Beyond |
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...Michael Pickett played the blues on his 1931 National Steel guitar with such passion that he broke its strings twice last night...
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| by Stanley Fefferman |
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| CubaDisco / SalsaTour |
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... “a 9 day voyage to experience some of the greatest salsa bands in the world”...
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| by Joyce Corbett & Roger Humbert |
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| RED A night of live performance |
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...And the visually promising theatre piece with Erin Sheilds and Andrea Donaldson gradually slid around on stage...
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| by David Fujino & Roger Humbert |
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| Eve Egoyan with Dancemakers |
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...Ms. Egoyan radiates a sense of complete mental and physical readiness...
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| by Stanley Fefferman |
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| The Sisters of Sheynville |
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...The Sisters of Sheynville (Prettytown) are Isabel Fryszberg and Lenka Lichtenberg...
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| by Stanley Fefferman |
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| Kirov Orchestra of the Mariinsky Theatre |
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...Valery “The Great” (yes, indeed) Gergiev conducts with a toothpick-sized baton in his right hand and his left hand cupped and quivering...
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| by Stanley Fefferman |
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| Tommy Emmanuel |
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...Tommy Emmanuel is the Jerry Lee Lewis of the guitar. The Australian virtuoso bounded onto the stage of Hugh’s Room...
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| by Stanley Fefferman |
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| Alessandra Belloni |
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...One of her tambourines is so huge she sits like a goddess with the moon on her lap...
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| by Stanley Fefferman & Roger Humbert |
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| Theatre / Dance |
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| St. Christopher |
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...The play opens with two big crooks, Winston Churchill and Adolph Hitler doing a joint radio broadcast from hell...
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| by Stanley Fefferman |
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| The Seven Days of Simon Labrosse |
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...Simon presents the situation by addressing the audience. He is: unemployed; three months behind in his rent; missing...
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| by Stanley Fefferman |
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| Your Dream Was Mine |
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...But the sisters are stuck in the bush — a place like the magical forest in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream — where people are isolated...
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| by David Fujino |
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| Komachi |
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...Fujiwara’s movements unfold in space naturally. They grow like a smile or an eyebrow raised in astonishment...
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| by David Fujino |
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