Back when she was a young girl on the brink of a bright road to musical success, Mary Chapin Carpenter was in a car with friends...
Hello Troubadourians! I recently started giving guitar lessons to a friend from work. I usually don’t give private lessons—for various reasons—and certainly not to people I...
“To change the world, you’ve got to be really depressed,” singer-songwriter Judy Henske once told me. “You have to have an attitude that things are really...
DATELINE: Balboa Theatre, San Diego—I’m waiting in the lobby, looking for the person who’ll take me backstage to interview emerging blues artist Christone “Kingfish” Ingram...
1. BACKGROUND When you hear the words “talent agent” a variety of images may come to your mind—a man dressed in a suit furiously yelling on...
It would seem strange that a record giving tribute to the most important jazz trumpeter in history lacks in its ensemble of estimable musicians a trumpet...
I Had a Dream: Songs of an Immigrant is a ten-track compilation that puts to music the poems authored by Betty Karon Hertz, documenting her impoverished...
Mark your calendars for the 2022 Summergrass Bluegrass Festival to be held August 19-21, 2022 at the Antique Gas and Steam Engine Museum in Vista, California....
Blues Lovers United of San Diego announces the return of the Blues Music Summer Camp, which is scheduled for August 8-12. It’s been three years since...
I’m at the bar. A gooey amalgamation of chatter, laughter, and semi-familiar songs tumbles and flows across the bamboo-festooned tiki bar decor of the The Luau’s...