Duo returns to Maine for July 12 show at Portland House of Music and Events.

Ever since the North Atlantic Blues Festival began back in 1994 I have interviewed one of the performers to bring attention to each of this award-winning festival for the last 29 years (the 2020 Festival was canceled due to the pandemic). I am continuing that streak by selecting an artist from the 2024 line-up and […]

There are a few artists that impacted my early years of listening to music, one was singer/songwriter/artist Joni Mitchell, her first two albums “Song To A Seagull” (March 1968) and “Clouds” (April 1969), affected me  and the album covers of both of those Reprise Records releases were done by Mitchell. But it was her distinctive […]

Live Bullet is scheduled to perform on June 28 at the Somerset Abbey.

Since 1994 I’ve had the pleasure of chatting with Will Turpin, bassist and backing vocalist, with the Georgia-based, five-piece band Collective Soul. But 2024 is a special year for this group in that it marks their 30th year together as well as their latest album (a double one, in fact) “Here To Eternity,” which came […]

This week’s artist, Phillip-Michael Scales, has a connection to a gentleman I worked with a couple of times over his illustrious career: the late, great B.B. King. The legendary bluesman was a close friend to Scales’ aunt and he even called the young man “nephew.” I learned this when I got the press release that […]

I really like finding new-to-me bands, especially when they are heading to Maine — such is the case with the trio of Annalise Mahanes (vocals), Cal Tucker (bass) and Michael Monahan (guitar) better known as IMY2. These rockers will perform on Sunday, May 26, at the Sandy River Music Festival in Farmington and to that […]

The show set for May 20 at Rockland’s Rock Harbor Brewing Co.

It seems that recently I’ve been enamored by groups that work on the outer fringes of genres, The Kitchen Dwellers springs to mind, so it’s not surprising that a new-to-me act called Damn Tall Buildings caught my attention and led me to requesting an interview. This trio is made up of Sasha Dubyk (upright bass […]