By Brian Wise THE AVETT BROTHERS & MIKE PATTON – AVTT/PTTN (Thirty Tigers) During the 2023 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival I witnessed the Avett Brothers in a spectacular show at the Saenger Theater […]
By Brian Wise. MAVIS STAPLES – SAD AND BEAUTIFUL WORLD (ANTI-) The fact that Mavis Staples turned 86 this year and is still out on tour is amazing, but what is even better is that […]
ON THE ROAD! By Brian Wise What do you need to produce a radio show and a magazine while travelling? Lots of useful gear! Many people ask me about the gear I use when I’m […]
By Brian Wise Hadestown, the theatre musical created by Anais Mitchell, is in Melbourne until July 13, after a season in Sydney. Anais Mitchell is a Vermont-based singer-songwriter and the Tony and Grammy award-winning creator of […]
By Brian Wise. New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival 2025 – Second Weekend, Fairgrounds Racetrack, May 1-4. If it seems like I haven’t seen the normal number (for me) of JazzFest acts along with concerts […]
The JazzFest 2025 Trip – Week One By Brian Wise ‘Welcome home,’ said our landlady Marie-Francoise when we arrived at our apartment. We’re on Ursulines Ave at one end of the quarter, close to Esplanade […]
THE CHART NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2024 Til My Song Is Done – Emma Donovan (Cooking Vinyl) Woodland – Gillian Welch & David Rawlings (Acony) More Life – Jeff Lang (ABC) Nara – Emily Wurramara (ABC) Backbone – […]
Saturday September 21 It’s not often that you get a call from the head of a record company at 8:30 am on a Saturday morning but that’s what happened when David Macias from Thirty Tigers […]
Friday September 20, 2024 I have to admit that I have seriously under-estimated the effects of my treatment over the past year. My right hip has been seriously weakened by the 13 1/4 hour flight […]
Monday September 16 Out in the East Nashville area it is a drive to the nearest coffee place and Anne dropped at Dose where I spent a pleasant hour or so having some breakfast, writing […]
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