Dave Pahanish | Do You Believe Me Now?
There was no doubt about it in this youngster’s mind. From the time he was 10 years old, Dave Pahanish knew he was going to be a songwriter. Music came easily to him and filled him with such joy that …
Sonny Rollins | A Tenor Titan at 81
Legendary critic Whitney balliet once labeled jazz “the sound of surprise,” and no one exemplifies that more than the great sonny rollins. As a composer and soloist, he has dazzled, delighted, and stunned musicians and fans with inventive passages, unusual …
Béla Fleck | Positively Left of Cool
Though he didn’t invent the three-finger picking technique on the banjo, Earl Scruggs’ brilliant, imaginative solos and playing elevated the standard of excellence on the instrument. The songs of Scruggs and his partner guitarist Lester Flatt triggered a …
K.S. Rhoads | Pop Opus
Prepping for what could be the music year’s most quintessentially “Nashville” collaboration, genre-melding indie pop singer-songwriter K.S. Rhoads was talking to the Nashville Symphony Orchestra’s principal librarian, Wilson Ochoa. “I’ve got a song called “Hiyayayaya,” with a hip-hop beat, and …
The 73rd National Folk Festival
The National Folk Festival, one of the longest-running celebrations of the arts, is coming to Nashville for a three-year tenure in September of 2011. Husband and wife team Garry West and Alison Brown, founders of Compass Records, fought hard for …
Annie Sellick | The Singing Circle
Sunday nights can be slow in Sylvan Park. But behind Charlotte Avenue’s dark storefronts, across N. 49th Street from Betty’s Grill, a light shines over the entryway into the Global Education Center. Step inside and you’re in a spacious, …
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