By Bill Copeland on February 20, 2012
Dianna Martin is on a roll. The single mom and skin care business owner has just come off an eight week string of gigs with her ten month old band, Skin On Skin. “We’re taking a little bit of a break to learn new tunes and to discover what we all sound best in,” Martin [...]
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By Bill Copeland on February 8, 2012
Gardner Berry turned 62 just hours before New Year’s Day, and the retirement age musicians shows no interest in retiring. “I think the fact that I’m still doing it 48 years later,” he said, when asked what is his most important career accomplishment. “48 years this month I did my first gig,” Berry added. The [...]
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By Bill Copeland on January 13, 2012
Ephraim Lowell, the Rhode Island drummer who is usually associated with the international blues band Roomful Of Blues, has been moonlighting the last two years with a group named Fried Miracle. Lowell formed Fried Miracle to have a vehicle for countless numbers of original songs he and Fried Miracle singer Aaron Lehtonen have been writing [...]
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By Bill Copeland on January 8, 2012
Arthur James is gearing up for his trip to Memphis to compete in the International Blues Competition. His first step, since winning the Granite State Blues Society’s blues challenge last June, will be a fundraiser on January 20th at the VFW hall in Milford. Funds will be used to defray the costs of traveling down [...]
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By Bill Copeland on January 2, 2012
Jessica Prouty Band just headlined a successful pre-New Year’s show at The Sad Café in Plaistow, New Hampshire, a regular room for them since 2007. Jessica Prouty Band has been busy touring New England, releasing CDs, and winning numerous band competitions. And that’s pretty darn good for band of teenagers, most of whom just graduated [...]
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By Bill Copeland on December 4, 2011
Finding a lot of fans and a lot of success for a blues band that formed less than two years ago, A Ton Of Blues have already won the Worcester Music Awards for best blues and R&B band, and they recently won the Boston Blues Challenge, a victory that sets them up for the International [...]
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By Bill Copeland on November 23, 2011
Jamie Lynn Hart is on a roll. She just released her CD Anticipate, and she’s gearing up for a tour of the northeast to promote it. Local reviewers have been praising Anticipate, and that should come as no surprise to those who have seen Hart during her five years on the scene. Hart has been [...]
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By Bill Copeland on November 16, 2011
Diana Shonk recently celebrated her 20th year as publisher of the Blues Audience Newsletter. With a blues party at the Bull Run in Shirley, Massachusetts and an award presented to her at HeatherFest in Norton, Massachusetts last September, Shonk has been receiving many recognitions for her longevity in the difficult businesses of publishing and music [...]
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By Bill Copeland on October 23, 2011
Susan Angeletti has released her fifth CD Wisdom and she has the wisdom of a lady who is five CDs into a whirlwind career in blues and hard rock. Her first CD was released in 1998 and she’s been in bands since she was a 16 years high schooler in western Massachusetts. Wisdom is her [...]
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By Bill Copeland on October 12, 2011
Shea Rose just graduated from Berklee College Of Music earlier this year, and shortly after that she released her second recording, a downloadable mix tape called Little Warrior. Rose’s album cover captures the eye with a nude pose and far out hairstyle. She captures the ear with her special blend of rock, soul, and hip [...]
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