Man alive, this town loves its festivals. And Mayor Lovely Warren, on Monday, announced the resurrection of the Rochester MusicFest in Genesee Valley Park — the festival was known as the SummerFest the last few years. The two-day festival will run Friday, July 14, and Saturday, July 15. The 2017 Rochester MusicFest kicks off on […]
MusicFest
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Notes from MusicFest 2006
Busta and Doug E. Fresh brought it; K-Ci
and JoJo should have left it back home
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Get the funk in your face
At the age of two, George Johnson was weaned on the spiritual music of Mahalia Jackson at his grandmother’s Los Angeles home, but it wasn’t long before he got all shook up. “My first major influence was seeing Elvis Presley on television when I was five,” says Johnson, who just turned 51. “During a […]
