DarkViolin reviews Karla Bonoff in a 2017 Landmark double bill with Livingston Taylor. Bonoff was again accompanied by gifted guitarist Nina Gerber. Sylvia Plath probably had no particular song in mind when she wrote from a nightgown’s vantage … Read More»
Rufus Wainwright and the Temptations of Perfection
Sloan Wainwright Joins Nephew Rufus Wainwright at Landmark Almost exactly a year ago before his April premiere performance at Landmark, Rufus Wainwright released Take All My Loves: Nine Shakespeare Sonnets (Deutsche Grammophon). The pedigree of that … Read More»
Folk Seer Sarah Jarosz Shines at a Beautiful Moon
Sarah Jarosz and Ten String Symphony Bring Folk and Fiddles to Landmark With songs like the Poe-inspired “Annabelle Lee“ (2011), Sarah Jarosz has been busy alternately absorbing and lighting up the folk and bluegrass circuits. In venues like Prairie … Read More»
Climate Change is Real but so is Kathy Mattea
Kathy Mattea and Two Thirds Goat Heat Up Landmark Stage It happened to be Grammy night when Kathy Mattea returned to Landmark (see “Kathy Mattea: Long-lost Daughter”) after a difficult journey by car to perform at parts further north (Natick, … Read More»
Ani DiFranco’s Lesson in the Bioelectricity of Music
Ani DiFranco electrifies an already charged audience in her brilliant Landmark debut In the early days of human physiology, no one dreamed of Walt Whitman’s Body Electric -- what we now call bioelectricity. That discovery, which didn’t happen until … Read More»