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The slave trade was an awful thing, buying and selling people and treating them as less than human. But those people were able to carry a few things inside them. One was music, which took on different shapes in the countries where they were carried. Largely, though, slavery didnt |
But the money—as always with Smith—wasn’t enough, whether for the drugs he loved or the films he loved to make with them. So Smith sought out a record label head by the name of Moses Asch to buy thousands of his records. Smith needed cash more than shellac; Asch demurred.
Kate Koenig is a singer/songwriter and journalist. They are self-described as being “A very hungry experimental-folk caterpillar that eats Fleet Foxes’ progressivism and Kate Bush’s iconoclasticism and Jeff Buckley’s zeal and Leonard Cohen’s disenchantment,” and is still eating while you read this bio. They are also a fierce advocate for
Moving on! Since Shakira and Gerard Piqué announced their split after 12 years together, the songstress has been candid about dealing with heartbreak.
“This is really hard to talk about personally, especially as this is the first time I’ve ever addressed this situation in an interview,” the “Hips Don’t Lie”
The music of the 1960s will fill Knox United Church (345 Pym St.) in Parksville on Feb. 11.
Piano and organ duo Ron Klusmeier and Jenny Vincent will perform a fundraising concert, for the Craig Bay Choristers, featuring some of their favourite folk and love songs of the era, plus
Barrett Strong, one of Motown’s founding artists and most gifted songwriters who sang lead on the company’s breakthrough single Money (That’s What I Want), later collaborating with producer Norman Whitfield on such classics as I Heard It Through the Grapevine, War and Papa Was a Rollin’ Stone,