Cutting a different kind of soul blues
Seven-time Blues Music Award nominee Tad Robinson releases his sixth album on May 21 at The Slippery Noodle and on May 22 at the Jazz Kitchen. It's his fourth on the Severn label. Here's a bit from our conversation with Robinson about his new work.
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Lagos locals fear annual carnival's links to Brazilian past are being lost
Carnivals across the region are just one way in which tens of thousands of Brazilian – and to a lesser extent Cuban – repatriates left their mark on a crescent of nations stretching from Sierra Leone to Nigeria. But in Lagos, some in the community fear …
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Why I Support Music Education
Given the litany of other monikers bestowed upon the month of March, this particular label may not be as well known in some circles, but in recent years, through my involvement with a Chicago nonprofit organization called Foundations of Music (FoM), it …
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