A week ago I had to work a few hours at the Liverpool Public Library. Shooting video of Ron Spencer and Jumpstart entertaining a standing-room-only crowd in the Carman Community Room was so much fun that I had to pull out one right here today to share with the rest of the world. That’s Mark…
I still vividly remember that Saturday night of April 4, 2009. I was sitting on my recliner in the Little Bitty in the Syracuse city neighborhood of Eastwood when the phone rang. Former New York state Senator Nancy Larraine Hoffman was on the line for me. I wasn’t working on any sort of story for…
You sure can have a wicked case of the blues with the sun shining, temperatures in the 70s and bands doing their best on the big stage non-stop in front of you. Food trucks at few steps away, too. Friday at the 23rd edition of the New York State Blues festival in downtown Syracuse’s Clinton…
I was on the phone last night interviewing two guys in the Syracuse music scene I’ve been fortunate enough to have seen play many times. Guitarist Terry Mulhauser and harp-blower and singer Pete McMahon are veterans who’ve played with different bands and a wide array of other musicians. But the cream always rises to the…
It was his time. B.B. King passed away Thursday at the age of 89 after a lifetime of delivering a world of wonder to anybody who opened their ears to the blues. With the famous guitar he named Lucille, Riley “Blues Boy” King rang out notes of beauty that struck you that second, hung out…
The 23rd edition of the New York State Blues Festival is two months-plus in the future, but time does fly. Besides, there’s new direction at the top of the event that will bring its 23rd edition to downtown Syracuse’s Clinton Square on July 10 and 11, so I invited first-year executive director Eric McElveen and…
The wind chill was way into double-digit-negatives and the murky white banks flanking Syracuse’s James Street were way over your waist as the music fans some 150 strong braved their way into the Palace Theatre. Promoter and host Tom Honan had the right words to set the mood. “We were going to do it outside,”…
The guy walking the railroad tracks as I watched “American Idol” tonight looked familiar. The long hair, the acoustic guitar, the face. It hit me before I heard the distinctive singing voice or saw the name flash on the screen. This season of the singing competition on FOX has just gotten way more interesting. To…
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