Irish group Dusty Hedgehog will pull into Offbeat Roadhouse on Friday night, November 22, from 8-9 for a concert which will also be broadcast on WTJU.  Rumor is they might even have a few dancers in tow (or is that toe)? Sure you could listen to Offbeat Roadhouse on the radio (91.1 FM) or on-line, and even video stream […]

Numbers have meaning. But meaning can depend on context. The Classics a Day team made “eleven” the theme for November, the eleventh month. The challenge is to post performances of classical music that involve the number. I chose a mix. Some pieces involve eleven players. Some are the eleventh type of piece by a composer. […]

CPO’s ambitious cycle of Christoph Graupner cantatas continues. Graupner wrote over 1,200 cantatas. This series is limited to the ten he wrote for Lent in 1741. The first of the three cantatas included in this release is the first of the Lenten cycle. Kommt, Seelen, sied in Andacht stille (Come, ye souls, be silent in worship) sets […]

New Blues News – 11/12/2019 Altered Five Blues Band – Ten Thousand Watts (Blind Pig): The Altered Five Blues Band certainly serves up some solid blues whether altered or not. They have the presence of a rock band, but this crew is serving BLUES rock rather than the other way around. Singer Jeff Taylor has […]

When I present classical music on the radio, I never identify a composer by race or sex. I think it creates the impression that these are subsets of the main group of composers. There are composers, and there are women composers. Almost as good, but not quite. I don’t think that’s true, and (apparently), neither […]

New Jazz Adds – 11/12/2019 Lolly Allen – Coming Home (OA2): “Originally from Westport, New York, Lolly studied on scholarship at the New England Conservatory and received the honor of performing her original composition “Daylight Savings” in the graduation concert.  She received classical training from world-renowned percussionist Gordon Stout at Ithaca College, and has studied improvisation […]