Deep Roots Magazine

Deep Roots Magazine

Roots Music and Meaningful Matters

 
 

 
Classical Perspectives

Being About an Instrument ‘At Once Familiar and Unknown’

In ART OF THE MANDOLIN, AVI AVITAL offers a perspective on 300 years of music composed specifically for his instrument of choice. A range of perspectives--via reviews, interviews and first-person observations-help explain the a...
by David McGee
 
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Features / News

Pandemic Passover: A Moment of Rupture May Lead to a New Path

RABBI MICHAEL ROTHBAUM, reflecting on Passover's history of being recreated in 'inhospitable worlds of exile,' sees the traditional as having lessons to teach a COVID-19 planet.
by David McGee
 
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Bob Marovich's Gospel Picks

Softly and Tenderly. Pass It On.

MARIE LACEY's new album is a scintillating mix of southern gospel and African-American gospel songs frequently adopted by southern gospel singers.
by David McGee
 
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Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast
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A Late-Night Breakfast with Christian Robinson

Get out the veggies, eggs, and coffee mugs. Illustrator Christian Robinson is visiting for a late-night breakfast. (Why not? Breakfast for dinner! I say.) Given that he’s a vegetarian-though he admits he kinda misses his ...
by David McGee
 
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Border Crossings

To Seek a Better World

On its new album, U.K. collective DON KIPPER offers music taut with intention to meet the moment.
by David McGee
 
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Spotlight Album
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A ‘Joyful Rebellion’ for Our Times

India's Nobel Prize winning poet Rabindranath Tagore provies the inspiration for composer CHRISTOPHER TIN's 'Joyful rebellion' in addressing the temper of our times in his new work, SONG OFFERINGS and TRANSFIGURATIONS with the...
by David McGee
 
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Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast

Bully: A Visit with Laura Vaccaro Seeger

Pictured above is an early image from Caldecott Honor medalist Laura Vaccaro Seeger’s Bully, released in July from Neal Porter/Roaring Brook. A little birdie (named Neal Porter, in fact) told me months ago that Laura created ...
by David McGee
 
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Talking Animals

Jackson Galaxy: Feline Miracle Worker

An exclusive interview with JACKSON GALAXY, the feline miracle worker and host of Animal Planet's popular 'MY CAT FROM HELL'
by David McGee
 
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