Before the ear candy
Cover your eyes. Two fellow Aussies braved the searing heat of the sun that is the guitar-wielding Tommy Emmanuel and lived to tell the tale. As this review was being prepared, many Long Islanders were making eclipse party preparations. A few days … Read More»
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»
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»
Was he a Michael Feinstein on guitar? Way more fun. DarkViolin reviews the John Pizzarelli Quartet debut at the Landmark. The path from the storied Carlyle Hotel to the Jeanne Rimsky Theater is only eight leagues (or, if you prefer, less than an … Read More»
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»
