Peter Rowan Honors ‘Old School’ Bluegrass on 2013 Release
Bluegrass legend PETER ROWAN is in the studio with an inter-gernerational lineup of musicians recording his new album,…
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What’s So Funny ‘Bout Peace, Love and Kumbaya?
Contributing editor MICHAEL SIGMAN, surveying a raft of what he considers 'Kumbaya abuse,' says it's time to take…
Remembering Mr. Earl: They Often Called Him Speedo…
REMEMBERING EARL 'SPEEDO' CARROLL and MICKEY BAKER--Earl Carroll and Mickey Baker had but one big hit each, but…
Factoid: Casablanca Is 70
On November 26, 1942, Warner Bros. premiered its new Michael Curtiz-directed film Casablanca, starring Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman…
Turn the Tide: Benefit Concert in NYC for Hurricane Sandy Victims
On Dec. 2 some stellar New York City working musicians are getting together for a benefit to aid…
At Thanksgiving, ‘Signs of the Times’
'Signs of the Times'--Paul Laurence Dunbar's dialect poem in honor of Thanksgiving, originally published in his 1897 book…
The First ‘First Thanksgiving’
THE FIRST 'FIRST THANKSGIVING'--More than half a century before the Pilgrims landed on American shores, Spanish settlers in…
‘Our Spirit Refuses to Die’: Declaring A National Day of Mourning
The story of the National Day of Mourning marked by Native Americans on the fourth Thursday of November…
‘Now Our Minds Are One’: A Native American Thanksgiving Liturgy
A meaningful call-and-response prayer from the Haudenosaunee native tradition to give some persepctive on thanks and PRovidence this…
Learning to Savor Thanksgiving:
Learning to savor Thanksgiving: Two Native Americans explain how they have embraced certain aspects of the white man's…