“It’s hard to find a more fruitful meditation on American music than in the compositions of guitarist Bill Frisell,” The New York Times wrote in 1991. In the ensuing decades the guitarist and composer has lived up to that praise time and time again...
When Phil Wiggins and George Kilby Jr. share a stage there’s more than music going on. Sure, audiences hear great music from these genre-hopping veterans, but as George tells it, you’ll also get to sit in on one of their conversations. When holding such a...
Swallow Hill audiences know Tony Furtado as an always-restless and inventive genre-hopping musician. They also know that no matter how many times they’ve seen him in concert, they can expect something new and different from him every time he visits Daniels Hall,...
In August, 1963, a coal mine in Sheppton, Pennsylvania collapsed. The ensuing efforts to rescue three miners trapped hundreds of feet beneath the surface captivated the nation. Among those who closely followed developments was an adolescent boy who lived not far from...
