Jen Kearney; still funking, writing new songs
For five solid years, Jen Kearney has been funking up the greater-Boston music scene with her keyboard driven sexy soul music. Kearney recently moved into the city of Boston from Lowell after playing out from Lowell as her base. The Merrimac Valley are was very supportive of her. Early in her career in Lowell, there […]
Guitarist Brad Faucher takes This Is Soul Sunday to greater recognition
Guitarist, songwriter, arranger, and band leader Brad Faucher has been a fixture on the Boston music scene since he graduated from Merrimack College in 1994. Right now Faucher’s biggest thing is called This Is soul, a Sunday night event held every week at The Beehive on Tremont Street in Boston. Faucher has assembled a band […]
Professor Harp gears up for new CD; talks the blues
Hugh Holmes has gone by the title and moniker The Undaunted Professor Harp for many years. And with good reason. He knows his stuff well enough to get an honorary PhD and he isn’t afraid to try different things no matter how dire the circumstances. The Professor, who has made a name for himself […]
Peter Parcek 3 releases blues guitar masterpiece The Mathematics Of Love
Peter Parcek plays the guitar so extraordinarily well that he really owed it to his fans to get himself into the studio to record this document of his talent. The Mathematics Of Love, released on the Vizztone label, features many aspects of Parcek’s fine executions on guitar, and each dollop of talent is in the […]
Whippersnappers benefit TODAY for cancer stricken Vietnam Veteran
Whippersnappers in Londonderry, New Hampshire is having a benefit for Brian Cushing and Wayne Cushing’s Step Dad Steve St.Louis. Steve has Cancer of the lungs, kidneys and lower spine. Steve’s Cancer is terminal. Steve Served in the US ARMY and is a Vietnam Veteran 1st Battalion 92nd Artillery C Battery. Steve has lived in Maine and […]
Rose Kula re-enters Manchester music scene
Rose Kula recently reentered the southern New Hampshire music scene after a long absence. She was recently featured at a Wan-Tu Blues Jam at Johnny Bad’s on Elm Street in the Queen city. Kula was invited by the Wan-Tu promoter because Wan-Tu was hosting a reunion of players who were associated with what is widely […]
Lisa Marie & All Shook Up boogied for Village Trestle Halloween bash
Lisa Marie & All Shook Up blues band provided the entertainment at the annual Halloween bash at the Village Trestle in Goffstown, New Hampshire last night. Lisa Marie was in rare form last night. Her voice has developed a raspy edge of the last two years and her she has expanded her repertoire of songs […]
Track44 offers up plentitude of blues on debut CD Prove It
Traditional blues idioms with a modern edge is the best way to describe the band Track 44. Guitarist Jimmy Pircio and keyboardist Dan Sevush formed a band based on their admiration of vintage blues masters. They usually rounded out the live band with drummer Joe Bellomo and bass player Steve Dubois. On Track 44’s debut […]
Bird Mancini provide many nice atmosphers on Tuning In/Tuning Out
Another release from Bird Mancinci, the husband and wife team of Billy Carl Mancini and Ruby Bird, finds the duo again in top form and again stretching their own boundaries. Tuning In/Tuning Out maintains the usual qualities of their CDs. This time around, though, they show more of their Beatles influence, get a little bit […]
Roomful Of Blues rocked Tupelo Music Hall in Londonderry last night
They were soulful. They were jumping. They were swinging. They were rocking. Roomful Of Blues played to a roomful of devoted fans last Saturday night at the Tupelo Music Hall in Londonderry, New Hampshire. Their performance in this acoustically superior room matched the standard they always set for themselves. Those eight talented guys took the […]
