JOHN MORGAN KIMOCK RECONNECTS WITH PENNSYLVANIA FRIENDS AT RESIDENCY
For the past few Thursdays, drummer John Morgan Kimock has been leading a band that has been offering up what he calls "a northeastern Pa. musician spin on some funky music with some improvisational, ...
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BLUES FESTIVAL GOES TO CHURCH IN BLOOMSBURG
BLOOMSBURG, Pa. — It’s not every Sunday you arrive to church to find a soundtrack of rock and rhythm and blues house music playing while a blues trio tinkers with and tunes instruments near the pulpit...
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KID KOALA BRINGS ‘NUFONIA MUST FALL LIVE’ TO BLOOMSBURG: PUPPET PERFORMANCE HAS BROUGHT ‘ACTUAL ADULTS TO TEARS’
BLOOMSBURG — Canadian record-scratching deejay Eric San marvels whenever he looks out over the crowd attending his high-tech puppet show and spots adults reduced to tears at what they’re witnessing. ...
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CEDRIC BURNSIDE: THE BLUES IS IN HIS BLOOD
Back on Dec. 7, around noon, Cedric Burnside, a drummer who descends from Mississippi Hill Country blues royalty, received a troubling phone call from his girlfriend and publicist, Mona Ables. “Oh ...
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RANI ARBO & DAISY MAYHEM BRING ROOTSY SOUND TO BLOOMSBURG
Fiddler, guitarist and sultry vocalist Rani Arbo “wrote” half of the 12 tracks for her band’s latest album in her head during regular walks inside a 19th century cemetery and a tranquil state park nea...
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FUNKY TROMBONE SHORTY HORNS IN ON KIRBY CENTER
By Michael Lester Photos by Jim Gavenus WILKES-BARRE -- Troy Andrews lowered his shiny trombone to his waist, wiped his mouth and swiveled from his dual microphones at the front of the F.M. Kirby ...
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ALEXIS P. SUTER’S “SINGING JOURNAL”
By Michael Lello Can the blues make you happy? It seems counterintuitive, but Alexis P. Suter seems downright sunshiny in a recent conversation with Highway 81 Revisited. The powerhouse vocalist wi...
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