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Wooden Birds Take Flight
This week’s “Music” feature offers an interview with Andrew Kenny, singer-songwriter-guitarist-bassist for the Austin/Brooklyn folk pop outfit The Wooden Birds. Kenny was born in...
Joy and Pain
Many songwriters often disguise the depth of their meaning innocuously beneath a veneer of hooks and cheery melody. The contrast of infectious sing-alongs containing...
R.I.P., Tommy Alverson
A “songwriter’s songwriter,” Texas Music great Tommy Alverson has died of cancer at age 74. Perhaps best known for his 1999 hit “Una Más...
Music Benefit Raises $1,700
Last Thursday’s Music is Medicine benefit raised about $1,700 for the Zachary Foundation’s mission of bringing music instruction and instruments to hospitalized teens at...
Samuel Barber: Music, Moody Food
UTA Wind Symphony is performing Samuel Barber’s Commando March on Thursday as part of an all-American composers program for Tax Day. Interestingly enough, they’re...
FWISD Race Continues to Heat Up
The number of folks who want to shape the policies of the Fort Worth ISD has now grown to eight as all four of...
New Moon
If you walk into The Moon on West Berry Street by TCU this Friday, you'll notice a couple of drastic changes:
The room has...
Breaking In, Out
Several weeks ago, when local musician John Zaskoda opened Sessions Music, a boutique guitar store on White Settlement Road near downtown, he had grand,...
Old-Timey Tunes
I didn’t know what the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival was until I heard about it in 2014, and I was confused as...
Sly & the Family Stone
Sly Stone’s brief, dramatic performance at the 2006 Grammy Awards was the reclusive singer-player-writer-producer’s first major appearance since his 1993 induction into the Rock...
