Joel Zoss River of Grass Café – 05/18/12 Davie, FL Joel Zoss (www.JoelZoss.com) played the last show of this season at River of Grass Cafe’s concert series with one Cotten-picking good performance. And I say that with full conviction, cause here’s a man whom an ex-slave took aside as a teenager to teach long forgotten […]
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Political Review – Where Obama Will Go Wrong Again
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Political Review – Where Obama Will Go Wrong Again. Preface: This is my 50th review posted on www.GotFolk.com and I want it to be something special. To date, my writings have included CD reviews, house concert reviews, extended artist interviews, and even venue reviews. Based upon this body of work, I am now able to […]
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Robert Elias, A Girl Named Chuck and Sean Waterman Chrystal Hartigan Presents the Songwriters Showcase – 05/14/12 The Broward Center For The Performing Arts, Fort Lauderdale, FL It was a night of outstanding voices and vocalizations this past Monday evening at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts when Chrystal Hartigan Presents (www.ChrystalHartiganPresents.com) (www.facebook.com/ChrystalHartigan) hosted […]
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Amy Carol Webb and Kat Eggleston The Labyrinth Café – 05/12/12 Fort Luaderdale, Florida Tender. Woman or man. Tender. Old or young. Tender. Healthy or frail. As Susan Moss stated in her opening remarks last night, regardless of everything else, if you tend to something – anything or anyone – with patience, persistence, and passion, […]
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Hard Rock Live – 05/02/12 Hollywood, Florida I have been reviewing CD’s and performances for about two years, and even though this is my forty-sixth review, it’s the first one I’ve ever done about a venue. Now, when speaking about someone else, my policy is that if I can’t say something nice, then I will […]
Read MoreCD Review – Paul Wilson – Trains and Fools
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Which came first, the train or the fool? Well according to anthropologists, fools predated trains by some 200,000 years, give or take a millennia or two. Yet, somehow, far fetched as this dis-tonic duo seems, they do go quite well together, especially when sung about by Paul Wilson (www.soundclick.com/pwmusic1) as on his latest CD aptly […]
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The Nowhere Band Aventura Arts and Cultural Center – 04/21/12 Aventura, FL History repeated itself last night when the Beatles returned to the Aventura Arts and Cultural Center for a house rocking reunion. Okay, so it wasn’t the second time the Beatles played Aventura. And alright, maybe it wasn’t even the Beatles who captivated the […]
Read MoreStang with Gonzalez and Zisholtz with Hochfelsen
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Stang with Gonzalez and Zisholtz with Hochfelsen River of Grass Café – 04/20/12 Davie, FL Even when it rains, good music is like a good marriage with something old, something new, something borrowed, and something blue. It’s a peaceful blend of the traditional with the avant-garde, the known with the possible, and the give with […]
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Boumel House Concerts, Dr. Bob, House Concert Reviews
Michael Chapdelaine – 04/14/12 Boumel House Concert Series Coral Springs, FL Magic. In the dead of summer, a twelve year old boy is placed on a bus and driven to an un-airconditioned theater mid-afternoon. Sitting in an old vaudevillian palace replete with football-field-size red velvet curtain and an old-time, uneven wood-planked stage, he sits amidst […]
Read MoreHunter Altschul, Robert Baldwin, and Diane Ward with Jack Shawde
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Hunter Altschul, Robert Baldwin, and Diane Ward with Jack Shawde Chrystal Hartigan’s Songwriters Showcase – 04/09/12 Broward Center for the Performing Arts, Fort Lauderdale Family. Six letters, three syllables, and a thousand meanings. What bonds stronger or lasts longer? Nothing that we know. And in the world of musicians, there is nothing more profound than […]
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