Sad Daddy includes Melissa Carper and might sometimes remind you of Dan Hicks and His Hot Licks. The band favors acoustic instruments and playful music.
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Interview: Composer Jeff Scott on the NYC Premiere of ‘Tapestry of the Beloved Beatified’
"Each of these four figures, Marsha P. Johnson, Harvey Milk, Jeanne Manford, and Xulhaz Mannan, carried a kind of radical tenderness into a world that often met them with hostility."
Read More »Music Review: ‘A Forest Unfolding’ – a Collaborative Cantata Inspired by Trees
Four composers combine in an appealing work promoting "a shared community between us and the other living creatures that make us possible."
Read More »Music Reviews: Bruce Springsteen’s ‘Live from Asbury Park,’ plus the Knack, Iris DeMent, Rachelle Garniez, and R.W. Hampton
Springsteen’s return to his home turf lends a special flavor to this performance.
Read More »Concert Review: Simone Dinnerstein, Baroklyn, Concora Play Bach and Philip Glass at the Naumburg Bandshell
One of our foremost contemporary Bach interpreters, Dinnerstein also consistently celebrates the music of the now 89-year-old Philip Glass.
Read More »Music Review: Noah Meites – ‘COUNTING’
Let your mind create its own pictures...
Read More »Music Reviews: Willie Nelson’s ‘Dream Chaser,’ Gene Parsons’s ‘Kindling and Beyond,’ and More
“Today, I looked in the mirror, and I caught me by surprise. The man I saw lookin’ back at me, I almost didn’t recognize."
Read More »I Shall Be Released: Chuck Berry, Jo Dee Messina, Pussy Riot, Renée Fleming & Béla Fleck, and Dinnerstein Plays Glass
"While the world is waiting for the UFC Freedom 250 on June 14 at the White House, I challenge President Putin to a cage match," says Pussy Riot.
Read More »Music Reviews: Lovin’ Spoonful’s Complete Recordings, plus Joey Quinones and JP Soars with Anne Harris
The band continually reinvented itself, serving up hits that each seemed quite unlike the one that came before.
Read More »Concert Review: Soprano Liv Redpath and Pianist Harry Rylance – Chansons of Love
Redpath's wonderful control of shifts in mood and register charmed and impressed in French chansons by Poulenc, Debussy, Fauré and Messaien.
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