Fionn Reilly
Account Information
Login Information
Articles and Blog Entries
A profile of retro-futurist local musician Brian Dewan.
Peter Aaron talks with jazz legend Carla Bley about the Jazz Composer’s Orchestra, her Remarkable Big Band, and the culmination of “Christmas all year ‘round.”
Peter Aaron talks to Kelleigh McKenzie about the banjo, the stomp box, and her debut album Chances.
Peter Aaron talks to Todd Mack, founder of FODFest (the “Friends of Danny” festival) which remembers musician and journalist Daniel Pearl on what would have been his 45th birthday this month.
Whole lotta impersonatin’ going on: Peter Aaron profiles Elvis impersonator Joseph John Eigo.
Peter Aaron profiles Vladimir Pleshakov, owner of The Pleshakov Piano Museum, which houses restored pianos that date back to the 1700s.
“To play [music] correctly, you really have to leave your ego out of it.” Peter Aaron profiles self-taught Cottekill-based saxophonist Joe Giardullo about how music has shaped his life since his discovery of R&B in the early ‘50s.
Peter Aaron profiles Woodstock-based quietists Ida.
Peter Aaron finds musical history in West Hurley.
Rock legend Genya Ravan discusses her long and winding career in the music business.
Triumphing over many hardships, local legend Levon Helm continues to make great music.
Blueberry is Snyder’s ongoing “band” concept, a project that has released three albums of sultry, psychedelic pop-soul on the singer and multi-instrumentalist’s own The Shaz Records.
Meet Eric Mingus. He makes quite an impression.
Fionn Reilly risked lens and limb to get photographs of sword slinging Barushka, and the rest of November’s Chronogram sponsored performers.
Peter Aaron interviews Graham Parker.
Weird isn’t the word for this spectacle; the Laura Pepitone Show and her infinite energy are almost too much—dizzying, inspiring, funny, and extremely entertaining, in one surreal serving.
This is TONTO, which, at a height of five feet and occupying 300 square feet, is the world’s largest analog synthesizer and the very one played by Stevie Wonder.
Part of a burgeoning scene of new, tradition-conscious American acoustic artists, The Hunger Mountain Boys bypass the ill turns country has made in recent times.
The Hunger Mountain Boys bypass the ill turns country has made in recent times, instead taking the music back to its 1920s and ’30s rural, string-band roots.
It’s a rhythm and adventure that’s been repeated for the past six summers, as the Great Hudson River Paddle has become a signature summertime event.
“I really believe that years from now we will look back on some of Joe McPhee’s records as some of the most important records ever made,” says jazz historian and Chicagoan John Corbett.
It’s 2007 and there’s a war on. If you’re a teen or twenty-something with a brain, what do you want, The Cranberries?
Architect and visionary Daniela Bertol’s Sun Farm is not only a sprawling show ground for her sacred geometry-inspired creations, but also a work in progress itself. By Sparrow.
In 2001, ex-Del Fuegos frontman Dan Zanes kicked off the kids’ music revival. Local acts like Dog on Fleas, Uncle Rock, and Elizabeth Mitchell are furthering the renaissance, crafting tunes even adults can love.
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.
Comments