I’ve had the chance to talk to Jimmy Cavallo for a quarter century now. Back when I worked for the big daily, he and his bud Stan Colella even allowed myself and a photographer colleague to tail them around a downtown Syracuse joint called Styleen’s Rhythm Palace as they posed for the cover of their…
Yes, they like making music together. It comes quite natural to Gary Frenay and Nick Frenay, these notes that link them. Gary has been inducted into the Syracuse Area Music Awards Hall of Fame twice. Nick won a Sammys trophy this year for best pop album. So I invited the son and father to the…
Somebody up near the top at the New York State Fair has a sense of humor. This I could tell as my dear wife Karen and I walked from out most excellent parking spot in the Pink Lot on early Sunday morning to enter gate three. Along the side of the road, I had to…
For a glorius half-dozen years, Kim Lembo was the real deal in Syracuse music, and constantly threatening to be the Next Big Thing to take the world’s ears by storm. I covered her voice and her four albums and her live shows, from her debut in 1994 on Baldwinsville’s Blue Wave Records until she moved…
For a business meeting for one of my freelance gigs this week, the boss suggested the public library located in the Galleries of Syracuse. That’s the shiny mall that opened in downtown in 1987. I showed you the outside of the place after a walk with fellow blogger and friend Jim McKeever in March. I…
On Saturdays and Sunday when the weather’s right, Central New Yorkers don’t seem to mind fighting for a parking spot at the Regional Market. Nestled in the middle of NBT Bank Stadium, Destiny USA and the Transportation Center, this spot holds a series of sheds built on a parking lot that at first blush, doesn’t…
What a good year for the roses Many blooms still linger there The lawn could stand another mowin’ Funny I don’t even care As you turn to walk away As the door behind you closes The only thing I have to say It’s been a good year for the roses Sorry, George Jones and Elvis…
The members of the Syracuse Sunshine Rotary Club are getting fired up. It’s not the biggest organization going, this 20-or-so-member philanthropic club. But, oh, they have big dreams for a festival they’ve cooked up for Aug. 15 at Kellish Hill Farms in Manlius, just a bit to the southeast of the city. It’s a music…
For most of the minutes he appeared in front of the crowd of the big and important festival he put together so well for the community of Syracuse this past weekend, founder and executive director Frank Malfitano was a happy guy. As well he should be, I thought from my spot in the roped-off VIP…
It’s a huge weekend for music where I live. Wynton Marsalis leads the Lincoln Center Orchestra onto the stage of the M&T Syracuse Jazz Fest as the headliner Friday night. If you’ve never had the opportunity to sit in the same place as, oh, a couple dozen of the best jazz players on the planet…
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