Bret Peretz had repeatedly told me about a band from Atlanta that his company, Don’t Fret Entertainment, was helping to book. This was going to be the first visit south of Georgia for Voodoo Visionary, playing several venues, the prime one of which was opening at the Crowbar in Tampa for Displace, holding their album…
In a bizarre turn of events at the Rototom Sunsplash reggae festival north of Valencia, Spain, Jewish American musician Matisyahu was removed from the bill. He was scheduled to appear on Saturday, August 22nd. As you read more about this, keep in mind that this is a week-long reggae festival, not a political event. Or…
Day Two (August 8) of the craziness began just as Day One did, at Della’s After Dark, with Fil Pate, performing as Filoop, looping his guitar and mandolin in beautiful style. I am truly amazed that jazz was the most recent of his musical genre acquisitions. He had another stellar first set before I had…