SHORELINE TIMES: Like most of us, acclaimed folk singer-songwriter Iris DeMent, who will appear at The Kate on Friday, June 10, had never heard of the dissident Stalin-era poet Anna Akhmatova.
THE SUN CHRONICLE: We awoke at dawn and felt the gentle breeze as we opened the balcony doors. Another mega-yacht had docked at the Saybrook Point Marina, dwarfing one that arrived the day before
THE DAY: Any time a 12-year-old kid enters the school talent show and belts out Koko Taylor’s “Never Trust a Man,” well, that’s a child with spirit and wisdom well beyond the sixth grade. As it turns out, that’s precisely the case with blueswoman Danielle Nicole, performing Thursday in the Katharine Hepburn Cultural Arts […]
BROADWAY WORLD CT: The critically acclaimed My Mother Has 4 Noses, a musical play written and performed by renowned singer/songwriter Jonatha Brooke and directed by Jeremy B. Cohen, will return to the Tri-State area this July 4th weekend, playing three performances at The Katharine Hepburn Cultural Arts Center, located at 300 Main Street in Old […]
BILLBOARD: While a whole new crop of inductees will be brought into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame this Friday (April 8), today (April 6) we’re taking a look back at what a recent Rock Hall inductee has been up to with an exclusive video of Heart’s Ann Wilson performing a raw, stunning […]
BILLBOARD: Ana Gasteyer can sing — and we’re not just talking about her hamming it up with Will Ferrell on Saturday Night Live. Although she made her name as a comedian, Gasteyer is a classically trained singer as well — although she didn’t really sing in Fox’s Grease: Live!, she’s owned the stage in musicals like Wicked and Rocky […]