It is a summer excursion that most festival goers put on their lists. The Great Blue Heron Music Festival is once again here and it brings great music to all who travel from nearby and far away to attend the event Friday, Saturday, and Sunday in Sherman. For nearly three decades, ...
It is my favorite play by Shakespeare. And like all plays by Shakespeare, it’s meant to be heard and not read. “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” is my favorite because it is a play within a play. In my opinion, the best word to describe how it was written is — clever. The play is full of magic, wit, love, and comedy. I’ll admit, it was hard reading the play, so I borrowed a recording from a library and listened to it while I read the lines from The Pelican Shakespeare edition. It made the play make more sense because I understood what the characters were doing. In the ...
For Matteo Lane, comedy is a calling. “Comedy — it’s not an easy life,” the comedian said. “Comedy, for me at least, I wasn’t consciously planning on doing it. I fell into it realizing that’s what I was supposed to be doing.” Lane has other artistic endeavors as well. ...
Imagine being a student in Orange County, California in the 1990s, surrounded by bands like No Doubt and Reel Big Fish. Imagine finding yourself in a place where all you want to do is write and design album covers as you sit in class. “I just kind of stopped paying attention in class around junior high,” Ash Costello, the frontwoman with the two-toned hair for the band, New Years Day. “I spent those days dreaming of what my stage show would be like, what my band would wear on the stage, and how we would sound.” The bar was set pretty high in that 12-year-old mind that had ...
There are some songs that when hear them on the radio on a warm summer day, you roll down the window, crank the volume, and sing at the top of your lungs. Better Than Ezra’s main songwriter and vocalist, Kevin Griffin, has contributed one of the band’s best-known songs, “Desperately ...
Michael Glabicki is no stranger to Jamestown. The founder of Rusted Root, a worldbeat band, traveled from Pittsburgh to perform frequently in the early 1990s at Joyce’s Keg Room. Saturday, Glabicki will again perform in Jamestown with his new band Uprooted as part of the inaugural Best Day ...
