Was it a political rally or a rock concert? Last night’s Convention Grande Finale featured about as much live-on-stage performance as the previous 3 nights …
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Miss Music Nerd
I just noticed that I’ve passed 10,000 hits! That’s a myriad to you classical Greek scholars! Thank you all for reading, and I hope you’ll …
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I suppose anything that had to follow the excitement of the first nomination of an African American for president by a major political party (What, …
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The music for Tuesday night was kind of a grab-bag — a bit of a let down from Monday night’s funk-fest, if you ask me. …
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You never know when an opportunity for music education will present itself. This is both delightful and vexing to yours truly, because it means that …
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Greetings, fellow Music Nerds! Please forgive me for my prolonged absence. This summer has really flown by, and it was mainly taken up with the …
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I decided that since I so brazenly hijacked the ax[1] of the washboard player in Chubby Carrier‘s band — his name is Earl Sally, by …
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Hé, toi! As I hinted at briefly in my last post, I got a chance to do some impromptu music-making while I was in Austin, …
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Howdy, y’all! MMN is currently in Austin, TX, where, yes, it is hot! I’m here attending Netroots Nation, a conference for political bloggers. Of course, …
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Yesterday on NPR’s Fresh Air, I heard an interview with singer and composer Theo Bleckmann, a German native who moved to New York in 1989 …
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