As he stands in the splendour of Manchester’s Albert Hall, Bill Callahan almost looks like he is enjoying himself. He cracks the odd joke and flashes an occasional smile. ‘This is the first time we’ve played Manchester since Mark E…
‘Good to see you again, folks!’ read the screens next to stage one on Thursday, the opening evening of 2019’s Cambridge Folk Festival; a not unfounded assumption that audiences return year after year. Thursday night has traditionally been a soft…
The heat index was topping out at 108 degrees Fahrenheit (43 degrees Celsius) as Pitchfork began. Even hotter than the temperature was the performance of the Great Black Music Ensemble, a 13-piece band under the direction of AACM’s Ernest Dawkins.…
Cambridge has always been much more than ‘just’ a music festival, and this year’s programme again demonstrates what has become their trademark: forward-thinking, confident belief in the potential of people gathered together around music and ideas. Throughout the weekend there’ll…
As the wool-sweatered Henry Jamison points out during his opening set, Village Underground in Shoreditch is not actually underground. What misleading times we live in. The renovated warehouse with its vaulted bricked arches is, though, objectively sold out for what…
For Irish electric-folk duo Saint Sister, Friday night’s performance (5 October 2018) in San Francisco marked a double celebration: It was the duo’s first time in the ‘City by the Bay,’ and it also marked the long-awaited release of its…
Now in it’s 3rd year, #Blogtober is a month-long festival ran by Lost In The Manor at The Finsbury in London. Each night in October they host a line-up curated by a different blog. We’ve been taken part since the…
On almost every last Sunday of the month throughout the year, you will find P.D. Ronstadt & the Company bringing their southwestern blend of blues, folk, and rock to Tucson’s Monterey Court. Predating the Company was Ronstadt Generations, a band…
In Tucson, Little House of Funk is a staple of the dance band scene. Frontwoman Connie Brannock and her band of consummate musicians never cease in lighting the stage alight wherever and whenever they’re playing. Last July’s show at Monterey…
Friday, July 20, 2018 In a light drizzle, Chicago’s own The Curls took to the stage at 1 p.m. Blending everything from the B-52s to Frank Zappa, this five-piece band didn’t even notice the weather as they played with abandon. Throwing out…