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The F Word: What’s your side hustle?
Working musicians have always had to supplement their incomes to make ends meet. But those side gigs — bartenders, servers, Uber drivers — are no longer an option.
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The F Word: Clap hands
Social distancing has gobbled up our hoorays and swallowed our hurrahs. It’s hard for a performer when there’s no way to read an audience and get the reward of applause at the end.
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The F Word: The uplifting side of live-streaming
The same internet that’s been blamed for driving a wedge between musicians and audiences may be the very thing that saves our sanity and our souls.
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Rochester music runs up-‘stream’ during pandemic
The trend of online performances by local musicians continues as plans for a Rochester Livestream Music Festival take shape.
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Quarantined: COVID-19 moves musicians to think outside the box
COVID-19 presents an entirely new challenge for musicians. With canceled shows and suddenly decreased incomes, local artists are finding alternative ways to connect to their audiences.
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VIDEO: Roger Kuhn’s beautiful blues
He’s everywhere. Roger Kuhn is a fixture around these parts, a ghost if you will, steeped in the blues. A busker at heart, Kuhn can be seen throughout Rochester with his shiny Dobro, squeezing Washingtons – and the occasional Lincoln – out of passers by. Some stop and listen before shelling out their pittance as […]
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A transgender musician uses her art to help reinvent herself
At any given time, Cora Treoir Duncan has no less than 100 CDs cluttering her car. She’s a voracious music fan devouring anything from The Byrds and The Bee Gees to Neko Case. She is a longtime musician as well. And whenever the discussion revolves around music — found in piles in the backseat or […]
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Fatima Razic builds beauty out of an ugly world
Beautiful music is even more so when born of an ugly world. Singer-songwriter Fatima Razic has a gorgeous voice: It aches, it evokes, it emotes, and it delivers a truck load of goosebumps. It is the sound of the artist crying out from within. There is no casual way to dig this 34-year-old Rochester-based musician. […]
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Mikaela Davis gets out of her own head
Rochester native and local favorite Mikaela Davis has been one busy musician: living in Brooklyn, touring nationwide, even playing with Watkins Family Hour and laying down harp tracks for two songs on Sara Watkins’s next solo album. On Saturday, October 10, the singer-songwriter returns home for a show at Anthology with Joywave, plus Grace Mitchell […]
