Entries from Bostonist tagged with 'daveholland'
April 16, 2007
A weekend stand of winning baseball at home when the Sox take it to the Angels followed by the all day boozy spectator sport that is the Boston Marathon it's going to be a long week. Lucky for music fans there's a lot to look forward to and keep you up all night with that lovely ringing in your ears that only comes from live music. Tuesday, 4/17 Sammy Miami's Southern Alternative Acoustic Jamboree......
Continue Reading "Weekly Music Picks: Soggy Marathon Edition"October 23, 2006
There's no good reason to be sitting at home carving pumpkins this week with all the good shows happening around the Hub. Take a moment to put down your $3 carving kit and your pumpkin to sing the pumpkin carving song as you head out to catch some live music. Oh, and if you wear your costume we won't tell. Tuesday, 10/24 Project Move with Elemental Zazen Local hip hop heroes Project Move and......
Continue Reading "Weekly Music Picks: Pumpkin Carving Edition"April 22, 2005
Bleeding Gums Murphy testified for the Simpsons showing the children of Springfield and the comical ignorance of Homer the light of Jazz. Tonight and tomorrow Dave Holland will be Bleeding Gums for Boston. Bringing on the new wave of the big band song Dave Holland and his big band will perform at the Regatta Bar in Cambridge. When Bostonist checked out the Bjorkestra last month we knew big band was coming back and this time......
Continue Reading "And the Jazz Man…"March 25, 2005
Bostonist just pulled True Love Waits, Christopher O'Riley's renditions of Radiohead’s music for piano out of the CD Changer. The passion of O’Riley’s rock-to-classical piano transcriptions left us singing the lyrics to the song in our head, though the arrangements did seem like they would compliment Tori Amos’ trademark lyrics of archetypal subjects like Mother Earth. What’s next for the cross-genre enthusiast? Bjorkestra. Travis Sullivan leads the Bjorkestra, a big-band jazz ensemble playing the......
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