AIN’T TOO PROUD
Here’s Ginny, showing that she ain’t too proud to see a Broadway show featuring all the hits of the fabulous Temptations, even if it means standing in the heat amidst a milling crowd posing for her annoying husband.
Music
BROMBERG IN IRVINGTON
Accompanied by our friends Cathy and Tim and Susan And Greg, Ginny and I saw the wonderful David Bromberg quintet last night at the Irvington Town Hall. His voals were strong and supple, and his playing was supple. Great show!
JANUARY 2019: “THE BUCK STOPS WITH EVERYBODY”
1.21 Wealth held by the world’s billionaires has grown from $3.4 trillion in 2009, right after the meltdown, to $8.9 trillion in 2017. (UBS and PwC Billionaires Insights via Bloomberg) The 3.8 billion people who make up the world’s poorest half saw their wealth decline by 11% last year. (Oxfam, which works to alleviate poverty, …
SOMEDAY SOME WAY
We caught Marshall Crenshaw at the Turning Point in Piermont with our friends Cathy Gallagher and Tim Hart.
A MAN WALKS INTO A DAVID BROMBERG CONCERT. . .
We went to see see David Bromberg at the Colony in Woodstock, and who wandered onto the stage but Larry Campbell? Bromberg was terrific–in great voice, he performed with great verve and personality. And Larry was at his Larryest. We had a very good time.
THERE GOES RHYMIN’ SIMON
Gradually, in 1964 and 1965, my onsetting adolescence, arriving amid a changing world, new influences and interests came into my life.Some really stuck: Marvel comics, so bold and imaginative; The Man from UNCLE, so exotic and seemingly sophisticated; and Top 40 radio, most especially the performers of the folk rock genre, most particularly Simon & …
THE GREAT GORDON LIGHTFOOT
Just short of his 80th birthday, the great Gordon Lightfoot appeared at the Paramount theater in Peekskill on Sunday, August 12. Having battled various illnesses for the better part of a decade, Lightfoot was a gaunt but cheerful presence. The robust baritone was gone; Lightfoot sang in a thin voice, but on key, and with …
HAMILTON
Unbelievably, Cara won two front row tickets to Hamilton, which for years has been the toughest ticket on Broadway. Turns out there is a lottery for tickets to most Broadway shows; the odds against winning Hamilton tox were quoted as 10000 to one. It took Cara two weeks before she won (my friend Belinda Luscombe …
THE COLONY HOTEL, WOODSTOCK NY, DECEMBER 2, 2017
We took our good friends Paul and Anne Lindstrom to a new/old club in Woodstock called The Colony Hotel to see my particular favorites Larry Campbell and Teresa Williams, who really rocked the house. I enjoy them more every time I see them. Both of them. All of them.
MIDNIGHT RAMBLE, MAY 26
Greg Schmidt and I went to the Ramble in Woodstock on Friday night, on what would have been Levon Helm‘s 77th birthday. Another fabulous show: Larry Campbell, Teresa Williams, Bryan Mitchell, Amy Helm, Jim Weider, Jay Collins, Steve Bernstein, Eric Lawrence, Shawn Pelton and Jacob Silver were joined by many special guests, including Billy Payne, …