What happens when you combine trained musicians from the world-renowned Berklee School of Music in Boston, with an articulate emcee and breathtaking beat-wizard both born and raised in sunny, southern California? Crown City Rockers, that’s what – a genre-blending hip-hop sollective whose music is original, powerful and provocative all in the same breath and follows [...]
Bassist, composer and Montana native, Chad Langford teaches privately, and is adjunct professor of double bass at Montana State University, Bozeman. He has appeared in major festivals throughout North America, including NxNW, MusicfestNW, the Yellowstone Jazz Festival, and JazzFest International in Victoria B.C. He currently performs and records with Jeni and Jake Fleming in the [...]
The Broad Comedy Broads: they’re savvy, irreverent, and they’re probably being followed by Karl Rove in a big black Hummer. These are the women who skewer the Bush White House with crowd-pleasing favorites like “The United States Extreme Right Wing Cheerleading Squad” and they gleefully lampoon the Teen Abstinence Movement with “I’m Saving My Hymen [...]
Ben Klein is a dynamic musician whose high intensity performances have led him to regional renown in the Pacific Northwest. His unique style of extreme flute, which he calls Ben Flutism, consistently ignites audiences and gains the respect of fellow musicians. In all of his music, you can hear the multi-cultural influences from his wide [...]
The Arrogant Worms are a three-man comedy troupe. Using only guitar, bass, great stage presence, super-tight harmonies and the sharpest of wit, The Worms are on a mission to make you laugh. They are Canada’s self-proclaimed Clowned Princes of Humor, Purveyors of the Absurd, and Ambassadors of Fun. One of Canada’s most popular live acts, [...]
“Sacramento’s Jackie Greene has more old-soul in him than most musicians twice his age. He’s been tagged as a blues phenom, but his album reveals an effortless flair for Texas-and-Greenwich Village-style folk, hillbilly stomp, bar-band boogie woogie, or just about any roots-related genre he cares to try on for size. He’s a songwriter, plain and [...]
Great to see you again bro. Thanks for all the little extras…..the chalkboard that was in Ani’s greenroom was killer!
Ani had a great time. Believe me, if she was annoyed, she’d have told them. She tried to lead by example and let the crowd “shush” the chatterboxes.
I wish you luck in your new town. [...]
Near the turn of the 21st century, rebel forces attacked Freetown, the capital city of Sierra Leone, forcing a panicked mass exodus to neighboring countries. Among the thousands who fled were musicians and future band mates Reuben Koroma and Francis Lamgba (Franco) who connected in a refugee camp in Guinea, West Africa. Along with Reuben’s [...]
With seven gold and six platinum recordings and over three million albums sold, this four- member vocal group is one of Canada’s top international success stories – they have become a global institution and a legend in the world of vocal music. The group has performed over 1000 concerts in dozens of tours worldwide including [...]
Ani DiFranco has written hundreds of songs, played thousands of shows, captured the imaginations of legions of followers, and jammed with folkies, orchestras, rappers, rock and roll hall-of-famers, jazz musicians, poets, pop superstars, storytellers and a martial arts legend. She’s “fixed up a few old buildings” and minimized her carbon footprint before it was trendy [...]