The JazzFest 2025 Trip: Week One
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 […]
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New Orleans JazzFest 2025 – First Weekend
NEW ORLEANS JAZZ & HERITAGE FESTIVAL WEEKEND 1 – THURSDAY APRIL 24 – SUNDAY APRIL 27, 2025 It has been two years since my last JazzFest but some things about it never change. The range […]
Worshipping At The Church of Gillian & Dave in Hamer Hall
By Brian Wise AN EVENING WITH GILLIAN WELCH & DAVID RAWLINGS Hamer Hall, Melbourne – January 28, 2025 The reverence of the audience for Gillian Welch and David Rawlings, on only their third tour here […]
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The Chart – November 2024
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 – […]
Nashville – Austin #10 : Sunday September 22, 2024
Sunday September 22 I am on the way home via Austin. Anne McCue kindly drove me to Nashville airport at 5.45am and it only took me 20 minutes to clear check in and security. The […]
Nashville #10 – Saturday September 21
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 […]
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Nashville #9 – Friday September 20
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 […]
Nashville 2024 #8 – Thursday September 19
Thursday September 19 It was a day of sessions at the Americana Conference starting with My Black Country: A Journey Through Country Music’s Black Past, Present and Future. This was really a tribute to songwriter […]
Nashville 2024 #7 – Wednesday September 18
Wednesday September 18, 2024 This is the big day. The conference kicks off run earnest and the American Honors & Awards are on at the Ryman Auditorium this evening. There is almost too much on […]
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Nashville 2024 #6 – Tuesday September 17
Tuesday September 17 I woke up at midnight after about an hour’s sleep having got home from the City Winery at around 10.30pm, put my washing on and fell into bed listening to BBC Radio […]