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Write Now: Musicians And Writers Should Trust The Creative Process

You may have heard musicians say they sometimes don’t like the recording process because it makes a song or project final. I think an author can make the same argument but with words. For a musician, he may like a different version of a song that ended up on the release. Same for an author. He may not like his revised version of his writing that ended up being printed. For both artists it’s the finality of it all. A musician listens to the playback of his song and may think to himself that he could have played his part differently whereas the writer sees his words in print and ...

Lowest Of The Low Set To Perform

For Lowest of the Low singer, Ron Hawkins, the path of writing has come full circle and he can’t be any more pleased with it. The 54-year-old singer says the Big “P” politics and the small “P” politics come together for a more complete view of the social change, modern protest music. ...

Legacy Intact

“I still get chills before going out on stage.” The chills subside when Roger Earl begins playing. “I love my work,” the drummer and co-founder of Foghat admitted. Formed in 1971 when “Lonesome” Dave Peverett and Earl left the British blues-rock band, Savoy Brown, Foghat has ...

Drummer: There Is A Physical Side To Playing Instrument

Roger Earl began playing drums in his early teens. He hasn’t stopped. “There is a physical side to it. I stay in shape,” the co-founder of the band Foghat said. “I walk. I stretch. I exercise. I workout with light weights and (exercise) bands. Every day I practice one to two ...

‘Harvey’ To Be Staged At Little Theatre

Exploring serious themes in a comical way is what “Harvey” does The Pulitzer Prize-winning play, “Harvey,” written by Mary Chase, opens Friday at the Lucille Ball Little Theatre of Jamestown. Director Richard Walter describes the play as “more than just a comedy. It explores ...

Author Talks To Students At WACS

“How would a robot react to the wilderness and how would nature react to a robot?” That’s the question that Caldecott-honor author and illustrator, Peter Brown, asked himself in creating his book, The Wild Robot, he told students at Westfield Academy and Central School. Brown visited ...