A Proper Homecoming
Memphis bluesman DARREN JAY returns to the U.S. this month after being deployed to Kuwait with the U.S.…
Something Old, Something New, Lots of Blues
MARIA MULDAUR's 40th album, one of her best yet, is a tribute to a woman who was one…
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…
The Royal Family of Guitar In a Festive Mood
After a half-century at the pole position of the guitar quartet, Los Romeros have finally recorded their…
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…