Someone asked me recently if the singers of the song “In the Year 2525″ were still together and what else they had done together. The group is called Zager and Evans and it turns out that they actually wrote the song a few years before it was recorded. They met each other at Nebraska Wesleyan […]
Where has Leonard Cohen been all these years? He has been overseas for a long time at this point. The singer came to his new concert series with a newfound interest in performing for our country. The audiences, however, have really found that they like him. He left the US without necessarily having the goodwill […]
Ute Lemper is in New York, performing in the place of the late Eartha Kitt, at the Cafe Carlyle. She is a very impressive singer, and presents well generally. But the reviewer that I read frequently was not impressed. He didn’t like the selection of pieces or the style of some of them. Lemper is […]
The reviews of last weekends Grammys have now been published. The reviews are generally good, without a lot of really exciting things. This was more or less expected: the show was decent, but pretty disjointed. There were lots of good performances, people doing what they do best, but it didn’t blow our minds like they […]
At the Grammys last night, Rihanna was supposed to perform during the show with her boyfriend, hip hopper Chris Brown. But they didn’t show and the rumors started to fly! Turns out, there was a fight between them. A big one. One Saturday, they were at the normal pre-Grammy parties, hearing singers and generally schmoozing. […]
Ray LaMontagne is back on the road! If you’ll remember back to October, he released his newest album, Gossip in the Rain. The album sold more than 60,000 copies and made it up to #3 in the Billboard Charts. Ray Lamontagne tickets for his newest tour are easy to find. Who doesn’t want to hear […]
Edgars Zalans, the Acting Minister for Culture and Minister for Regional Governments and Development, has reported that the Riga Concert Hall project has been shelved. The plan was to make a concert hall for the capital of Latvia that would be as good as in other European cities. But the support from the people and […]
