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Wallace Baine on March 11, 2020
Dreamers’ Circus is a trio out of Copenhagen, Denmark that fuses classical music and Nordic folk (with jazz influences as well), a formula that has made them one of the most big-ticket acts in their home country. Using the basic ingredients of piano/accordion, violin and cistern (a string instrument similar to a…
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Metro Staff on February 26, 2020
Bridging the space between French Canada and the Caribbean, Jane Bunnett & Maqueque are a virtuosic powerhouse. While Bunnett’s smouldering soprano saxophone and flute take center stage, the group derives its gravitational heft from the roiling rhythms of Maqueque drummer Yissy Garcia and her supporting cast of all-female all-stars. Bunnett, a Juno…
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Wallace Baine on February 13, 2019
The Brooklyn-based performance group Half Straddle presents this hybrid show, which is part rock concert and part theatrical production, centered on a live band working through issues such as complicated family dynamics, sexuality and feminism with songs. It’s all based on playwright and Half Straddle artistic director Tina Satter’s real-life estrangement from…
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Tad Malone on December 5, 2018
The zany, uptempo style of Louisiana folk music known as Zydeco first emerged from the sweltering swamps of New Orleans—the result of French, German, Spanish, American Indian and Afro-Caribbean co-mingling. The genre has been centuries in the making, and Dwayne “Dopsie” Rubin aims to keep the tradition fluid with his zydeco-fusion band,…
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Yousif Kassab on May 9, 2018
Things are looking up for Hot Flash Heat Wave. With an Outside Lands performance on the horizon and a SXSW set safely in the books, guitarists Nathan Blum, Adam Abildgaard and bassist Ted Davis have no complaints.
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