On Sunday, the Jamestown Area Community Orchestra will present a free concert at 4 p.m. at the First Covenant Church in Jamestown. Guest Conductor John Cross has programmed a variety of audience-friendly music, including “William Tell Overture,” “The New World Symphony,” and the ...
Imagine having something in your bones, in the very make up of who you are, who you have been since childhood that drives you every step of the way, each and every day. Now, imagine that path, the thing you know you were meant to do just fades away and you have nothing left. That was almost the case for alternative musician, JJ Wilde. “I had been living in this bad apartment. My band had broken up,” she said. “I was 22 or 23 when that broke up. I was so invested in it and I was so sure that that was it and that was going to be my career. So when that broke up I was left a bit ...
There are some that hold to the idea that your mindset has a direct effect on your physical health. When you find yourself in dark places, mentally, the physical degradation is not far behind. It is for these reasons that fans of the band, New Years Day, have seen a shift in the feel of the music. The band’s rhythm guitarist, Nikki Misery, says that the shift to more of an empowering sound was intentional. “We really started to feel that, internally, as a band, we were getting worse, getting darker, and it was starting to add to some stresses,” he said. “We were seeing it in ...
BUFFALO — Christian Contemporary music may get a bad reputation. Most of it is due to the roots of the music. Growing pains and learning the ropes made for a rough bit of time for the genre but lessons were learned, and Thursday, Oct. 3 was a night that three artists, Micah Tyler, Crowder, ...
LOS ANGELES (AP) — When she began writing her new memoir, Liz Phair found she wanted to tell inside-the-mind stories, not behind-the-scenes stories. “I’m more interested in the life of a human being than I am about a path to career success,” said the 52-year-old singer-rocker-songwriter whose book, “Horror Stories,” was released Tuesday. “I’ve never been the kind of person that read those types of memoirs, so for me, I like the internal world, the life of the mind. So that’s the kind of memoir that I chose to write, just naturally.” For more than a quarter-century ...
They travel abroad and learn about art, fashion, music, and other creations. Andrew McDermott and his wife Adrienne have created a company, Various Roots, that is more than a company. It may be a movement. “We want to play a role in breaking stereotypes to fight bigotry and increase ...
