Join the Ken Peplowski Quartet for a special concert honoring the iconic album, “Charlie Parker with Strings” at Birdland!

Cleveland native and tenor saxophonist and clarinetist Ken Peplowski, “…arguably the greatest living jazz clarinetist,” (BBC) presents “Bird With Strings” a birthday celebration of Bird’s best loved album – Charlie Parker with Strings, originally released in1950.

With a rich, raspy voice and a remarkable ear for lyrics and composition, prolific songwriter Bill Scorzari independently released The Crosswinds of Kansas Aug 19. The album was co-produced by Neilson Hubbard and was recorded in part at Scorzari’s studio in Huntington, NY—First Thunder— before bringing it to Nashville (after pandemic restrictions eased) to Skinny Elephant Recording—with a cast of incredible musicians.

Chris Shiflett of Foo Fighters, Cam and Redneck Rodeo have been added to the all-star lineup for the first annual BeachLife Ranch Country & Americana Festival, which takes place September 16-18 on the Pacific Ocean waterfront in Redondo Beach, CA. In addition, music performance times have been announced and are available at www.BeachLifeRanch.com.

We hope your summer has been filled with positivity, self-expansion, outdoor adventures, and of course, lots of live music! Despite the challenge we’ve faced this year, we’ve loved watching our community embrace change and new experiences. You are nothing less than inspiring in understanding that this world keeps spinning, and music heals all wounds.

Veteran Vermont jam quartet Twiddle will ring in the new year with a concert at The State Theater in Portland, ME. The one-night concert event is the band’s first NYE event at the historic southern Maine locale in their eighteen-year history. Ascending NJ-based Dogs in a Pile, currently scheduled to support over twenty dates on Twiddle’s recently announced fall tour, will perform an opening set.

I remember watching Asleep at the Wheel’s “Hot Rod Lincoln” on CMT with my Dad, back in the Eighties. Thirty plus years later, I had the rare treat of watching this ten-time Grammy winning band perform it live at the Boulder Theater. No need to rely on big stage glam or overcompensating back-up singers, Ray Benson sounded as robust as ever! His deep voice reverberated throughout the room, perfectly complemented by the rest of the band.