Celebrating 40 Years of The Recording Academy in Memphis @grammy365
The Memphis chapter of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (now The Recording Academy) was founded in 1973, at the high-water mark of …
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Live Jazz, Blues and Soul at the Greenwich
From the Jazz Club at Schwartz’s Point, I made my way over to the Greenwich on Gilbert Avenue, which is a historic-looking supper club in …
Jazz at Schwartz’s Point, Cincinnati
After dinner, I made my way to the Jazz at Schwartz’s Point night club, since it appeared that the legendary Blue Wisp was having a …
Cincinnati’s Elementz Hip Hop Youth Center @elementzhiphop
I had visited the Elementz Hip Hop Youth Center in Cincinnati’s Over-The-Rhine neighborhood first in 2008, and had met the young people there who were …
Partying in Downtown Cincinnati
After dinner, I headed downtown since the rain seemed to be holding off, first to a new rooftop bar atop the 21C Museum Hotel called …
Owen Money’s Hill Country Blues on Beale Street
Hearing blues on Beale Street is rare enough, and hearing Hill Country blues is almost unheard of, so when I heard somebody playing the North …
A Beale Street Fourth
Despite the shootings and chaos that broke out on the riverfront on July 4th, Beale Street was crowded but peaceful. There were a couple of …
Seeing the Fireworks from the South Main Arts District
Getting anywhere in downtown Memphis on July 4th was nearly impossible (we later found out it was due to a string of shootings that had …
Sharde Thomas and the Rising Star Fife and Drum Band Wake Up the Hill Country Picnic 2013
Sharde Thomas is the granddaughter of Otha Turner, and leads her grandfathers’ Rising Star Fife and Drum Band from Gravel Springs,in Tate County, Mississippi, which …
Alvin Youngblood Hart Amplifies the Blues at the Hill Country Picnic
Up until this year’s Hill Country Picnic, every performance I have heard from Alvin Youngblood Hart has been a solo acoustic effort, a style at …