Curation By The Beachwood Rock Local Affairs Desk
You shoulda been there.
1. Queensryche at the Concord on Sunday night.
Posted on February 5, 2016
Local Music Notebook: Blue Ridge, Chicago
Blues, Jazz, Indie, Bluegrass Meet In the Middle
“The richly detailed ensemble acting in Dominic Cooke’s revival does glowing justice to the masterly mix of hurt and humur in this 1984 play by August Wilson,” Paul Taylor writes for the Independent.
“We’re in a Chicago recording studio in 1927 where the real-life Ma Rainey, the ‘Mother of the Blues,’ and her band of musicians have gathered to lay down some tracks. The play homes in on the contradictory status of black artists in a white-controlled recording industry. Sharon D Clarke’s wittily redoubtable Rainey, with her implacable diva demands, knows that’s she a big shot on sufferance in a restricted arena. When she walks out of the studio, she can’t even hail a cab on the streets of Chicago. Once she stops making money for the whites, she’ll go back to being ‘just a dog in the alley’ to them.”
Posted on February 3, 2016
The Weekend In Chicago Rock
Curation By The Beachwood Rock Local Affairs Desk
You shoulda been there.
1. Melomaniac at the Cobra Lounge on Friday night.
Posted on February 1, 2016