Russ Hamm and I are starting in on the work of transferring the material in my library to digital format. As I told you previously, the...
Hello Troubadourians! Do you remember your guitar teacher… or really any music teacher you’ve ever had? Some of us took private lessons, some of us had...
This month includes five questions for opera singer Victoria Robertson and percussionist Nathan Hubbard, album reviews for Anton Barbeau, Chris Collins, Jamie King and Lannie Flowers,...
About Paper Theatre During the Victorian Era, London’s playhouses printed fine souvenir posters, which described architectural elements of their theatre. Aspects of set design were shown...
After suffering through the Covid shutdown, Summergrass, San Diego’s Premier Live Bluegrass Festival, is back! Headliners include top national talent: The Lonesome River Band, Special Consensus,...
To celebrate July 4, here’s a 1979 home movie of a UC San Diego computer main frame, performing “Stars & Stripes Forever” (tune into the music...
In the beginning, there was monophony. Basically just a bunch of monks moaning in monasteries. Oh, there were many other sacred and secular musical forms developing...
It took me five minutes to determine how to correctly spell “palette.” That’s weird, because it’s a word I use quite often. I mean, the stereotypical...
Someone suggested to me that I get one of those t-shirts that reads “I may be old but I got to see all the good bands.”...