April 7, 2011 - Beloved indie folk singer/songwriter Ani DiFranco and her band are in the home stretch of a tour that began last fall. The tour has covered a lot of ground, having kicked things off on the East Coast, followed by a U.K. trek after the holiday season, and then back to North America with a run of dates along the West Coast.
September 25, 2009 - For New Orleans native and Grammy Award winner Branford Marsalis, becoming a jazz musician was almost a foregone conclusion. Alongside siblings Wynton, Delfeayo and Jason, his musical education began early by way of his pianist/teacher father Ellis Marsalis Jr., and was fine-tuned later at the Berklee College of Music.
September 16, 2009 - Bruce Hornsby's return to fronting a rock band is marred by a puzzling inconsistency. While he certainly wants to be seen as having expanded his vocabulary in the 23 years since "The Way It Is," Hornsby expends too much energy copping sonic tricks from hip-hop, Dave Matthews ("Space is the Place"), Radiohead ("Here We Are Again") and the guitar interplay that defined his onetime employer The Grateful Dead.
August 7, 2008 - Bruce Hornsby has been tickling the keys of his grand piano--and tickling the imaginations of music fans around the globe--for nearly a quarter century now, and he doesn't show any signs of slowing down. In fact, the man who won Grammys for Best New Artist, Best Bluegrass Recording and Best Pop Instrumental all in the space of his first five years in the biz still continues to cleverly and gratefully dodge the burden of categorization.
January 11, 2008 - Virginia cool will once again collide with Kentucky thunder as genre-bending pianist Bruce Hornsby and bluegrass legend Ricky Skaggs launch a new slate of dates to support their eponymous album release.
July 9, 2007 - Bruce Hornsby's tour schedule is filling up well into 2008 as the veteran singer/songwriter/pianist supports two album releases this year.
August 8, 2006 - With the ink still drying on the itinerary for a soon-to-launch, late-summer tour with his band, Bruce Hornsby has rolled out plans for a fall solo outing.
Beloved indie folk singer/songwriter Ani DiFranco and her band are in the home stretch of a tour that began last fall. The tour has covered a lot of ground, having kicked things off on the East Coast, followed by a U.K. trek after the holiday season, and then back to North America with a run of dates along the West Coast.
Bruce Hornsby's return to fronting a rock band is marred by a puzzling inconsistency. While he certainly wants to be seen as having expanded his vocabulary in the 23 years since "The Way It Is," Hornsby expends too much energy copping sonic tricks from hip-hop, Dave Matthews ("Space is the Place"), Radiohead ("Here We Are Again") and the guitar interplay that defined his onetime employer The Grateful Dead.
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