Lily O'Brien
Music: Giving Back
When Mario Guarneri was just 13 years old, he played trumpet onstage in a concert with jazz legend Louis Armstrong. The life-changing experience, which...
Music: Pickin’ Pretty
As the memories of three days full of easy, breezy, bluegrassy music from the annual Hardly Strictly Bluegrass festival in San Francisco begin to...
Music: Young Again
“Each show is an adventure,” says singer/songwriter Jesse Colin Young, who formed a new band with his son last year. “It’s a thrill.”
“It’s...
Music: True Identity
By Lily O’Brien
“We call ourselves the musketeers,” says Sebastian Saint James, guitarist and lead singer for The Highway Poets, about he and his bandmates....
Music: Afro-Cuban
By Lily O’Brien
Although ‘multicultural’ is a controversial term in the current political climate in this country, in the world of music, it’s a celebrated...
Music: New Directions
By Lily O’Brien
“I have this commitment right now to just follow my heart when it comes to music,” says jazz guitarist Ila Cantor by...
Music: Hang Time
By Lily O’Brien
In an era when ’60s and ’70s tribute bands are all the rage (particularly this year, the 50th anniversary of the Summer...
Music: Stringing Along
By Lily O’Brien
Grammy-nominated multi-instrumentalist David Lindley was deeply immersed in the 1960s Los Angeles music scene, a hotbed of creativity full of aspiring musicians—many...
Music: New Beginning
By Lily O’Brien
In the early ’20s and ’30s, a lot of great blues came out of Chicago, launching careers for performers like Muddy Waters...
Music: Solid Blend
By Lily O’Brien
“I think sometimes the best art and the best music comes from inner conflict and turmoil,” says Matt Ducey, one of the...
