Rebecca Rafferty I’m the Arts & Entertainment staff writer for City, and a freelance writer with work published in 12oz Prophet and Afterimage, among other publications. This is my fifth year covering the Rochester Fringe Festival, and I’m excited to check out more than 20 shows, especially, Denton Crawford’s "Savage Sanctuaries" exhibit at Gallery r; […]
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Jazz Fest 2016: Meet City’s jazz bloggers
Ron Netsky [IMAGE-1] My real job is chairman of the art department at Nazareth College, but I’ve been writing about jazz for City since the late-1990’s. My love of music can be traced to the people I grew up with: my uncle was a Broadway composer; my twin brother, Steve, is a songwriter; and my […]
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Jazz Fest 2015: Meet City’s jazz bloggers
Ron Netsky This year’s Xerox Rochester International Jazz Festival opens with one of my favorite artists from last year’s XRIJF, Cecile McLorinSalvant. If you haven’t heard this wonderfully expressive singer, come to Kilbourn Hall and you’ll understand why she won DownBeat Magazine’s Critics Poll as Jazz Artist of the Year in 2014. I’m also looking […]
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JAZZ FEST 2014: Meet City’s jazz bloggers
Ron Netsky XRIJF Music Director John Nugent’s slogan, “It’s not who you know, it’s who you don’t know,” rings true for me. Every year at the festival, I purposely seek out artists I don’t know and that usually means taking in acts from the United Kingdom and Scandinavia. So it’s a good bet you’ll find […]
