Block Party Next Week
Friend Sylvia put this note from the ProJO up on Facebook– Join Mayor Taveras, House Speaker Gordon Fox and Councilman Kevin Jackson on Saturday, April 21 for a free block party and concert to dedicate Olney Street in Providence’s Mount Hope neighborhood as ‘Jeffrey Osborne Way,’ in honor of Jeffrey Osborne, who grew up in [...]
Baggin’ Frodo Hit the Big Time with Over 1000 Views on Several Videos!
My nieces have founded a new music genre, “Hobbit Rock” — and they are steadily growing their talent and their fan base. Check them out!
Gil Scott-Heron
Gil Scott-Heron, jazz poet, has died. “Revolution” established Mr. Scott-Heron as a rising star of the black cultural left, and its cool, biting ridicule of a nation anesthetized by mass media has resonated with the socially disaffected of various stripes — campus activists, media theorists, coffeehouse poets — for four decades. With sharp, sardonic wit [...]
Phoebe Snow
She had a lovely and distinctive voice, she was a dedicated and loving mother, she’s one of the sounds of our youth. Phoebe Snow has died. She could have been a superstar, but she left the career behind to care for her daughter, Valerie Rose, born with hydrocephalus. She had soul, on and off the [...]
I Feel Young Again
It’s the joy of breathing. Also, The Met is hosting three days of music by the Young Adults May 27-29. Rudy Cheeks might stop shaving his head and let his full flowing locks grow again. It’s a complex world.
A Pint With Dave
I like to visit Dave’s Corner Tavern once in a while, especially today when Dave Von Ebbers gives credit to one of the great, underestimated music groups of the 80′s, The Bus Boys.
Bambi vs Eminem
I don’t usually link to Fox ‘News’, but they got the scoop on the attempted attack on our beloved national crooner, Eminem. Fortunately, the terroristic feral intruder was stopped by a gate. Hang tough, Eminem. No random deer gonna sneak up on you.
Steve Stycos with News Cranstonians Can Use
COMING AND GOING The faces at the Pawtuxet Village Farmers Market are shifting in the last few weeks of the season, but we will have plenty of fall vegetables like winter squash, carrots, apples and honey. After a week off, Zephyr Farm will be back on Saturday, but Pak Express will be absent as Chang [...]
Bake, Baby, Bake!
From Cranston Councilman-Elect Steve Stycos (Congratulations, Steve! I am proud to have worked for your campaign!), some advice for the season and news of upcoming events: BAKE, BABY, BAKE The Pawtuxet Village Farmers Market will have plenty of good food left this Saturday, Saturday November 13 and at our big final Thanksgiving market Saturday November [...]
The Schemers
I got to see Mark Cutler and the Schemers play in Warwick last night. I didn’t plan to dance but it was impossible not to. It’s a good summer for music.
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