Music
Transcendent connections
In late May, Kyle Donovan packed up his guitar and headed south, about a hundred miles west of Austin, to perform in the Kerville...
The ambassadors of Mexico
At around 11 a.m. local time on Sept. 19, residents of Mexico City methodically filed out of office buildings, homes and restaurants — wherever...
World music artist Chris Berry goes digital
Ten years ago, musician Chris Berry found himself narrowly escaping death in Zimbabwe. He was the lead singer of the massively popular Zimbabwean band Panjea and was trying to figure out a way to break the band in the United States. That is until Zimbabwean president...
Around the world
There’s a whole world in the sound of Colorado Springs hip-hop duo The Reminders. Not unlike The Clash’s outlook in the early 1980s, the...
Amanda Balestrieri wants to ‘see you in court’
When Amanda Balestrieri says “see you in court,” it’s an offer, not a threat.
As director of Seicento Baroque Ensemble, she knows just how much...
‘The twain shall meet’ at The Dairy
"East is East and West is West,” Rudyard Kipling famously wrote, “and never the twain shall meet.”
Kipling never met Reena Esmail. A composer who...
Two captains, one ship
On the morning of the Women’s March in January, Tennis lead singer Alaina Moore was at the airport on her way to rehearsal. Slightly...
Harnessing the hummingbirds
After consulting several dictionaries, it’s undeniable: There’s a quality about Alexa Wildish that can best be described as magical.
From Oxford: magical (adj.): “beautiful or...
A kind of dawn
Last December, Desert Dwellers (Amani Friend and Treavor Moontribe) released a three-hour video stream set, captured last summer in a verdant clearing in the...
Death in Memphis
In her landmark 1977 book On Photography, Susan Sontag calls photographs a testament to “time’s relentless melt.” For the influential essayist and cultural critic,...
VAUDEVILLE MAKES A COMEBACK
Intuitive Compass is not your average folk duo. For starters, their sound takes on more of a Vaudevillian quality than most other bands, and when it comes to their live show, let’s just say that there are bound to be some surprises...
Inspired by a tragic story, ‘Heart of Hungary’ features Edward Dusinberre...
Some stories just have to be told.
That is what composer Jeffrey Nytch thought when he heard about Sandor Feher, a violinist who died on...


















