A longtime supporting songwriter in several bands, Adam Wilcox took the lead in penning the tracks on “Songs for My Friends to Sing.”
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‘Homegrown’ festival stays at home, goes virtual again
The pandemic forced Homegrown to go virtual last year. Saturday’s event — a survival triumvirate of music, food and beer — will be livestreamed again.
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Zilch Fletcher’s 1970s novelty folk album finds new life in streaming era
“Nobody’s Dreamboat,” the local novelty album from 1977 that influenced “Weird Al” Yankovic, will be celebrated with a Dec. 17 concert at Lovin’ Cup.
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On ‘Here We Are,’ songwriter Teagan Ward navigates the politics of empathy and rage
Singer-songwriter Teagan Ward has been using newly written music to process the current political situation and her own fight with COVID-19.
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Three Heads’ annual ‘Homegrown’ event — which goes virtual in January — just got cozier
In the face of COVID-19’s winter surge, Three Heads Brewing and Lovin’ Cup keep their annual “Homegrown” party going with an immersive virtual event.
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The F Word: Filling up the Lovin’ Cup
Leslie Ward, co-owner of the Lovin’ Cup, was torn over what to do when the inevitable effects of the coronavirus pandemic set in.
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JAZZ | Nancy Kelly
Nancy Kelly has been looking back into classic vocal jazz since she was a wee one, just four years old. Growing up in Rochester, she studied piano, clarinet, drama, and dance before settling on voice, which she studied at the Eastman School of Music. Kelly was twice named “Best Female Jazz Vocalist” in the DownBeat […]
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South Australia benefit show adds up to New Math reunion
Deb Jones has lived in Rochester for two decades, but is a native of Australia, where the landscape has been ravaged by fires since late July. She’s assembled “Songs for South Australia Bushfire Relief”; the January 31 show at Lovin’ Cup features the reunion of New Math.
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Album review: ‘Something to Prove’
The Byways ‘Something to Prove’ Self-released bywaysroc.com There’s a lot of “wanna” — actual and implied — on The Byways’ new EP “Something to Prove.” It’s acoustically based, and hits its stride immediately on tunes like “Man I Wanna Be.” It all circles back to the quartet’s principal songwriter and quarterback Alex Goettel, and the […]
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JAZZ | Levin Brothers
After studying at Eastman School of Music, bassist Tony Levin was enlisted by Chuck Mangione. But that was just the beginning of a career that would include work with Peter Gabriel, King Crimson, John Lennon, Pink Floyd, and many other top artists. Meanwhile, Tony’s brother Pete Levin was playing various keyboards with stars such as […]
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Leaving the stage
It’s a reasonable question to ask: What the hell were Bat McGrath and Tricia Cast doing in Nashville? True, the city is exploding, and fantabulous architecture can be found on many downtown street corners. When the hotel doorman asks, “Looking for the honky-tonks?” he needs to point only a couple of blocks up the street, […]
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The F Word: Tears in ¾ time
Got to poke my head into the studio during Scott Regan’s “Open Tunings” broadcast Friday to eyeball
French jazz guitarist Stephane Wrembel disassemble his guitar and the way I
listen to it.
