Bad Mother rocked Smoken’ Joe’s last night
Bad Mother was low key as they kicked off the dinner hour entertainment at Smoken’ Joe’s BBQ & Blues in Brighton last night. Once it got closer to the hour of nine, though, the adept, turbocharged blues musicians went to town, serving up frothy mounds of exciting music. The foursome began with a jazzy, quasi-swinging […]
Geoff Bartley kept Cantab Monday Night Open Mic going strong last night; 21 years of success
Geoff Bartley has been hosting the Monday Night Open Mic at the Cantab Lounge in Cambridge, Massachusetts for 21 years. Last night’s open mic was only a microscopic sample of what has been offered in the decades old nightclub. Yet, it was enough to get an idea of why Bartley has been able to keep […]
HeatherFest 19 shined like a bright lovely day; great blues abounded
HeatherFest 19 just might have been thee music event of the fall season. Amidst beautiful weather, the annual backyard party in blues supporter Heather McKibben’s backyard went off without a hitch. A $25 donation upon entering the premises forms a charitable fund with one hundred percent of it going to HeatherFest charities. With that incredible […]
Barrence Whitfield And The Savages command thee to Dig Thy Savage Soul CD
Barrence Whitfield And The Savages have been around for a long time, and they’re still kicking out their feisty marriage of rockabilly and punk. On their latest CD, Dig Thy Savage Soul, Whitfield and his crew finesses their rock and roll, R&B, and soul influences into their already dynamite mix of hard-charging music. Tight musicianship […]
Daphne Lee Martin dazzles with her arrangements on Moxie
Daphne Lee Martin’s latest CD Moxie is ten tracks of original music heavily influenced by the great blues, jazz, and Broadway vocalists of the early 20th century. That this music is so refreshingly modern at the same time is a testament to Martin’s talents as a songwriter and as an interpreter of her own material. […]
Ten Foot Polecats music featured on History Channel
BillCopelandMusicNews.com just received the following exciting new from the Ten Foot Polecats. Here is their press release: We did receive some great news on the way down to Muddy Roots, two of our songs were picked up by a History Channel show called “Hatfields and McCoys: White Lightning”. Last Thursday our song “So Good To […]
Shikiboo hit the ground running in Boston music scene
Going by her locally famous stage name, Shikiboo has been guest singing all over greater-Boston as well as getting down with her own outfit she calls Shikiboo Boston. After only about two years in the Boston scene, this woman who only first got up on stage a few years back, has become a household word […]
Jose Ramos continues his amazing singing career in greater-Boston
Jose Ramos has been fronting his No Way Jose Band for ten years now. He’s the band leader, the musical director, the booking agent, and the lead vocalist. Ramos goes over well at his regular haunts like Smoken’ Joe’s BBQ & Blues in Brighton, Glenn’s Cool Bar and The Grog in Newburyport, The C Note […]
Rev Tor’s The Last Waltz found right emotional vibe at Bull Run concert
The Last Waltz in concert at the Bull Run in Shirley, Massachusetts went off without a hitch last night. It was a good, solid performance of all of the music from The Band’s farewell concert and the Martin Scorsese film made of that Thanksgiving Day event in 1975. There were fine dramatic details added to […]
Adam Ezra Group’s 4th Ramble benefited homeless veterans
Adam Ezra Group’s 4th Annual Ramble at Salisbury Beach last night was a benefit to raise money for homeless veterans. The concept was simple. Invite a bunch of Adam Ezra Group fans and other bands and their fans for a day long free concert. During the headlining Ezra Group set, pass around a “Bucket Of […]
