Maggie Nicols is a self-described musician, performer, community catalyst, teacher, dancer, singer of songs and sounds, improviser, composer, actor, and activist. With a background in theater and dance, she has incorporated coughing, multiphonics, ad-lib speech, tap dancing, and humorously laying across the stage wearing a t-shirt that says "Who's going to dip me in chocolate and throw me to the lesbians?"...
(Maggie Nicols is playing 2/15/09 at DiverseWorks, with Fred Frith & Susan Alcorn.) [more] || [Michelle Yom] || [02/09/09]
Gifted song writers don't quit writing songs just because some people say that most of their hits are far behind them. Two of the founding members of classic rock group
America,
Dewey Bunnell and
Gerry Beckley, demonstrated that they are the epitome of that saying, bringing material both old and new to their sold-out performance last Saturday night at the
Stafford Centre...
[more] || [Bill Reed] || [2/26/09]
Looks like it's once again time for my annual
Fishbone Show ReviewTM. Well, at least I
thought it was an annual thing, but a quick
SCR search reveals my last live show review for the 'Bone was back in 2000. I know I've seen them at
least four times since then, so I must be slacking off as I creep toward my tenth year of
Space City Rock-itude...
[more] || [Mel House] || [02/09/09]