TOM GRAHAM ON PERFORMING WITH CABINET, FINALLY PLAYING THE KIRBY CENTER & THE MAGIC OF HOUSE SHOWS
Tom Graham jokes that it will have taken him 2,101 shows to get to the F.M. Kirby Center stage in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., where he will open for the Steve Miller Band on Sunday, Oct. 30. And that gig will ...
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CONCERT AND FESTIVAL BOOKING PANEL SATURDAY AT ECMC
The Electric City Music Conference will host a Concert and Festival Booking Panel on Saturday, Sept. 19 at 2 p.m. at The AfA Gallery in Scranton (514 Lackawanna Ave.). Admission is free for the discus...
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WILL CALL: THE CURIOUS CASE OF JOE BONAMASSA
People to tell me I have a great job, and I don’t argue with them. It’s true. I’m lucky. But they think it’s great because I get to see all of these events for free. And that’s where they’re wrong....
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WILL CALL: AN INTRODUCTION
Welcome to WILL CALL, my own small corner of Highway 81 Revisited. As someone who watched Mike Lello and his team build this blog from the ground up, I’m very excited to be a small part of it. Musi...
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KIRBY CENTER “LOBBYING” FOR INTIMATE SHOWS
IMG_0515 By Michael Lello Photos by Jesse Faatz What do you do if you’re in charge of booking an 1,800-seat theater, but you want to host ...
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MY BACK PAGES: SOCIAL DISTORTION
My Back Pages is a series that explores our relationships with the music we grew up with. Social Distortion is the subject of this installment. It was the middle of 1992, and I was just beginning my ...
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