By Bill Copeland on May 17, 2013
Dara Cassidy has been fronting her hugely popular cover band The Dirty 3rds for nine years. That’s pretty good for someone who only thought she would be singing two or three songs nightly in a short lived house band. “I was a little bit nervous,” she said. “Once I got on stage and started doing [...]
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By Bill Copeland on April 29, 2013
John Medeiros Jr. has been keeping the best for a long time. In fact, he’s kept the beat for essentially everybody in the greater-Boston/New England music scene at one time or another. A life long musician, Medeiros fell in love with the drums at an early age. The defining moment came when he heard Neil [...]
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By Bill Copeland on March 23, 2013
Singer-songwriter Marty Nestor has had a storied career in the greater-Boston/New England music scene. Aside from racking up awards and nominations from the Boston Music Awards and other, Nestor’s previous bands played many of the popular nightspots in the 1970s and 1980s. His latest album, Saint of the Highway, showcases the culmination of the hard [...]
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By Bill Copeland on February 23, 2013
Last summer Smoken’ Joe’s BBQ & Blues celebrated their fifth year in business. After five years, owners Joe and Wendy Dodd are still going strong, consistently creating interest in their Boston restaurant and blues venue. The Dodds, aside from having a menu of incredibly tasty barbeque offerings, present many of New England’s better known blues [...]
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By Bill Copeland on January 14, 2013
Brenda Cadieux and Amberly Gibbs have been very busy for the last several months. Both women, for years, had been bartenders at the Village Trestle, located in Goffstown, New Hampshire. Cadieux, in fact, has been the marketing person for the Wantu Blues Jams, which the Trestle has traditionally hosted every Sunday afternoon. When the couple [...]
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By Bill Copeland on December 28, 2012
Sarah Blacker could best be described as a young woman in a hurry. The Boston-based singer-songwriter is constantly writing new songs and she’s constantly releasing new music. Her last full length CD Come What May was released in March of 2011. She released her Perfectly Imperfect E.P. this past year, and she is readying some [...]
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By Bill Copeland on December 15, 2012
Boston’s beautiful and now very well known singer Nicole Nelson has been on a roll this year. Aside from her perennial success with her long time duo partner Dwight Ritcher, Nelson won a Boston Music Award for Female Vocalist Of The Year after appearing as a contestant on NBC television’s reality show The Voice. The [...]
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By Bill Copeland on September 30, 2012
Musicians have a mix of good gig and bad gigs. Some have quite a few weird gigs. Boston saxophonist Dave Birkin recently shared one of his weird gig experiences. Birkin, of Dave B And The Hot Shots, had once opened for a circus comedy like show at the Middle East in Cambridge that featured public [...]
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By Bill Copeland on September 6, 2012
Catherine Capozzi has long been recognized as a guitar goddess on the Boston music scene. From her days with prog rockers All The Queen’s Men to her highly regarded Axemunkee instrumental work to her recent foray into the campy Sci Fi comic book themed Darling Pet Munkee, Capozzi has been a queen of the six [...]
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By Bill Copeland on August 26, 2012
Doug Bell’s musical and personal life has been one of roller coaster like ups and downs and twists and turns. Bell, also known as Professor Doug Bell, has seen his life situation change faster than a TV channel. He’s been poor, rich, poor, then rich again. Bell played in a few obscure local bands before [...]
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