Cyril Neville performed alongside his siblings in The Meters and The Neville Brothers for decades. Now, the vocalist and percussionist is the only sib still touring and performing on a […]
Adi Meyerson has studied with bassist Ron Carter and worked with pianist Monika Herzig, among others—and whether it’s been advice on touring or how to handle an instrument, the New […]
Multi-instrumentalist and singer Alice Gerrard says she’s lucky that her life turned out the way it did: making friends with and playing alongside some of folk music’s most historically resonant […]
Having a pair of Berklee College of Music-educated parents with two drum sets in the basement likely didn’t hurt Adam Deitch’s love of music—the drummer has been writing songs since […]
The late singer-songwriter Jason Molina loved playing Charlottesville, says his friend Jason Groth. Groth spent his formative years in Indiana and did a stint in North Carolina before moving to […]
Sharel Cassity says she knows at least 500 jazz tunes. Decades of experience performing across the globe brought her to that place. And it’s likely among the reasons she now […]
Filmmaker Adamu Chan sees the current fractured landscape of American life and says it doesn’t make sense to hope that his work will change anyone’s mind. Instead, Chan makes films […]
Ripley Johnson’s created such a specific body of work, his name’s been used as a song title to signify a sound. For more than two decades, the Portland guitarist has […]
In “Joan Mitchell: Uncovering 100 Years” at The Fralin Museum of Art at the University of Virginia, there’s a 1960 photo of the painter emphatically gesturing while standing in front […]
There’s a Portuguese word, saudade, that doesn’t translate exactly to English. Maybe it works out to something like “a mournful longing?” But composer and multi-instrumentalist Adrian Younge describes its meaning […]