Jon Kalish
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"I want to pass on the joy of playing this music to others, just as Rev. Davis passed it on to me."
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There are more than a thousand community bands in big cities and small towns throughout the country.
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Musician Jeremiah Lockwood hopes to introduce the world to a new music scene bubbling in Brooklyn.
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JetLAG bills itself as the largest festival of Russian, Slavic and East European musicians in the U.S. But its organizers almost canceled it this summer because of the war in Ukraine.
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Finding a thriving dance culture in the Adirondacks Mountains inspired the band to take its sound in an unexpected direction.
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Reverend Billy, the flamboyant "altar-ego" of New York performance artist William Talen, celebrates 20 years of crusading with his Stop Shopping Choir.
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"The Trojan Story" rocked the music world in 1971, introducing listeners to artists like Jimmy Cliff, the Maytals, and Lee "Scratch" Perry. Long out of print, the three-LP set is reissued on June 18.
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New Yorkers look forward to the Greenwich Village Halloween parade every year. This year, some of the city's best out-of-work artists will create a miniature virtual parade, which will stream online.
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Bob George's archive is an independent operation whose supporters have included David Bowie and Keith Richards. Now it's being forced to move due to rising rents in Manhattan.
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The Brooklyn-born Burgie studied at Juilliard and co-wrote many of the songs on Harry Belafonte's breakthrough album, Calypso, including his genre-defining hit, "Day-O (The Banana Boat Song)."