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Articles and Blog Entries
CD Review: Janie Christensen February 28, 2012
Sharon Nichols reviews Janie Christensen’s album “Painted Birds.”
CD Review: Mimi Goese and Ben Neill January 30, 2012
Sharon Nichols reviews Mimi Goese and Ben Neill’s album “Songs for Persephone.”
CD Review: Deborah Osherow September 28, 2011
Sharon Nichols reviews Deborah Osherow’s latest release.
Local Luminary: Bob Berman July 27, 2011
Sharon Nichols talks with one of the most well-known and widely read astronomers in the world.
CD Review: Sarah Underhill July 26, 2011
Sharon Nichols reviews Sarah Underhill’s newly release 18-track album.
CD Review: Diet Kong May 27, 2011
Sharon Nichols reviews Beautiful Blackout, the third album by Diet Kong.
CD Review: Sharon Ruchman April 28, 2011
Sharon Nichols reviews a new album of chamber music by Connecticut composer and pianist, Sharon Ruchman.
CD Review: The Erin Hobson Compact March 31, 2011
A resonating voice, meaningful lyrics, and mature sound. Sharon Nichols reviews the words and sounds of The Erin Hobson Compact.
CD Review: Perrotta January 28, 2011
Sharon Nichols reviews Perotta’s new rock album, recorded at Woodstock’s Applehead Studio.
CD Review: David Temple November 24, 2010
Sharon Nichols reviews David Temple’s album “Winter Stillness (In Flight)”
Woodstock November 23, 2010
Sharon Nichols uncovers the dual personality of Woodstock: hippie nirvana and weekend haven meets a very ordinary village with ordinary concerns.
CD Review: Sharon Klein April 26, 2010
Sharon Nichols reviews Sharon Klein’s CD “The Way Back Home.”
CD Review: Richard McGraw - Burying the Dead February 25, 2010
CD review of Richard McGraw’s Burying the Dead.
CD Review: Kirsten DeHaan January 26, 2010
Sharon Nichols reviews “Thorns on a Crown” by Kirsten DeHaan.
Woodstock November 30, 2009
Sharon Nichols profiles the village that did not host a music festival in 1969.
CD Review: The Erin Hobson Compact October 29, 2009
Sharon Nichols reviews The Erin Hobson Compact’s CD “Talk Radio.”
Don Miguel Ruiz to teach toltec wisdom at Omega May 06, 2009
Don Miguel Ruiz, author of The Four Agreements, at Omega Institute.
Hymns from the Hive April 30, 2009
Frame drumming guru Layne Redmond performs a benefit concert for Michael Shacker, “The Path of the Bee Priestess: The Final Oracle,” in Woodstock.
Jazz with Soul April 15, 2009
Sharon Nichols speaks with sultry jazz singer Pamela Pentony at the Chowhound Cafe.
Cult of Immortality April 08, 2009
The drama of cults as portrayed by the opera, The Song of Eddie."
Rounding ’Em Up March 18, 2009
Songs in the Round preview. Rebecca Martin brings the music community upstate.
Bang, Bang, Baby February 27, 2009
Sharon Nichols talks with the pin-up Bonnie and Clyde duo about their film Revolver
CD Review: Spiv:UK November 25, 2008
Sharon Nichols reviews So Far Machine, the latest album from Spiv:UK.
CD Review: Hopewell November 24, 2008
Sharon Nichols reviews Beautiful Targets, an album by the New-York foursome Hopewell.
The Sounds of Scripture October 28, 2008
Masters of world music Bet Williams and John Hodian of the Epiphany Project will perform on various indigenous instruments at the Colony Café in Woodstock on November 19.
Plant Yourself October 27, 2008
From sarcophagi to seed-food, Sharon Nichols examines green burials, green cemeteries, and other options for those looking to stay green when they push up the daisies.
There's No Place Like Drone August 26, 2008
Sharon Nichols previews the All Tomorrow’s Parties Festival in Monticello on September 19 to 21.
K. Osgood July 28, 2008
Remotely akin to Fiona Apple or Norah Jones, K. Osgood’s sound in her new album Play to Win is difficult to pigeonhole as pop, rock, or jazz.
The Gypsy Nomads June 25, 2008
French pop tunes are sung in cabaret fashion in the The Gypsy Nomads latest album, Eternal Summer.
Mikhail Horowitz & Gilles Malkine April 28, 2008
The comedic duo Mikhail Horowitz and Gilles Malkine release their latest recording of political meanderings combined with blues, hip hop, rap, and bop.
Baird Hersey & Prana with Krishna Das February 25, 2008
Bair Hersey & Prana have collaborated with chant master Krishna Das on the album Gathering in the Light.
CD Review: The Chrome Cranks December 21, 2007
Though the band’s been defunct for a decade, Atavistic recently released this high-octane, double-disc set of singles, demos, and rarities.
CD Review: Sarah Perrotta December 21, 2007
A first spin of The Well may call to mind shades of Natalie Merchant and 10,000 Maniacs, though Perrotta remains completely original and exceedingly sophisticated in her writing.
CD Review: Erik Lawrence & Hipmotism November 27, 2007
Take a trip down to New Orleans and steep in the sexy soul of jazz, blues, and rock ’n’ roll.
CD Review: Courtenay Budd October 25, 2007
So this album isn’t just for baby, it’s for anyone who enjoys top-notch classical or opera.
Burning Down the Year September 27, 2007
There are few who aren’t entranced by the magic and mystery of Halloween, but there are also few who understand the holiday’s origins, symbology, and traditions.
Queen of Controversy September 27, 2007
The uncompromising Sinead O’Connor has done it again, but this time it’s not quite as shocking as some of her past stunts.
CD Review: Venture Lift September 25, 2007
Woodstock’s Stanton Warren takes listeners tripping on the debut album of his Venture Warren project.
One Heck of a Hootenanny August 27, 2007
Dan Zanes is not afraid to employ lap steel, trombone, saxophone, tambourine, mandolin, accordion, balalaika, tuba, tin whistle, fiddle, or anything else that helps step up the fun.
CD Review: The Christine Spero Group August 27, 2007
Whether your thing is jazz, pop, or Brazilian/Latin grooves, Christine Spero’s My Spanish Dream will transport you to a loftier place.
Conversation of the Birds August 03, 2007
Perhaps science doesn’t take the topic seriously, but David Rothenberg has devoted his career to listening to nature in a musical way.
Jamming in the Ether May 31, 2007
Thirty Deep Listening musicians from across the globe converge on the Hudson Valley for a series of concerts this month.
CD Review: Scott Helland and the Traveling Band of Gypsy Nomads May 30, 2007
On this, his seventh recording, the six-string minstrel works all acoustic guitars, bass, drums, and percussion in what sounds like a band of gypsies but is really just his royal self on 12 jubilant tracks.
The Celts Are Coming April 30, 2007
More than one-third of Americans descend from Celtic roots, tracing their ancestry back to one of the eight Celtic nations: Scotland, Ireland, Wales, Cornwall, the Isle of Man, Brittany, Asturias, or Galicia.
CD Review: All the Tired Horses April 30, 2007
Mojave 3 meets the Cocteau Twins with a dude up front.
Colors of the Spectrum March 30, 2007
Autism has become a national crisis. It is the fastest-growing disability in the United States, affecting one in every 150 children. Diagnoses of autism are increasing at the startling rate of 10 to 17 percent per year.
CD: Todd Giudice March 29, 2007
Todd Giudice’s latest is aptly titled—the little-known secret is that this 12-track CD is solid as stone.
CD Review: Cleghorn / Lawrence / Hart / Miller February 22, 2007
Perhaps the thought of “jazz poetry” makes you run screaming. Chances are you’ll change your mind upon hearing Merge.
Jazz with an Edge January 26, 2007
Avant-jazz isn’t really for the casual listener (or the mentally unstable or the faint of heart, for that matter).
Vlad the Prevailer December 27, 2006
Jazz pianist Vlad Girshevich will make his East Coast debut on January 13 with a solo recital at the Windham Civic and Performing Arts Center, part of the 2007 Windham Chamber Music Festival.
CD Review: Wet Paint December 27, 2006
An artist’s paint waits to create, and the quintet Wet Paint has been laying down sonic strokes with wild abandon since 1995.
Being Andy Warhol December 27, 2006
In the 1960s, Andy Warhol said that in the future everyone would be famous for 15 minutes, and artists have been pursuing their tick of the clock with ferocity ever since.