What’s with the festival circuit the past few years? Roxodus died a quick and very public, painful death….especially painful to all those who bought tickets and the dream. The demise…..headlines for about 30 seconds and then gone. However, that one will be a sea of lawsuits for years to come, but hey, the bands got their deposits. Go figure.
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Pat Blythe – Thoughts & Tyler Simmons, Beach Jazz Festival & Riverboat Mondays
Posted in Opinion, Review with tags A Girl With A Camera "The Picture Taker", Annette Shaffer, Beaches International Jazz Festival, Berklee College, Bestival, Bob Segarini, Danforth Music Hall and House of Blues, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Dora Keogh's, Drew Winters, Eddie Bullen, Elise LeGrow, Frank Zirone, Harry Styles, Jann Arden, Johnny Max, Julian Taylor, Kid Carson, Koerner Hall, London Bluesfest, Maia Van Raes, Matt Swift, Pat Blythe, Paul Sanderson, Quincy Bullen, Riverboat Monday, Sam Taylor, suicide, The Opera House., TURF, Tyler Ellis, Tyler Simmons on August 30, 2017 by segariniMy heart is heavy and my brain is trying to digest what has happened because it doesn’t make any sense. But then, suicide never does, at least not to the living. ….and so I start with the first new column in five weeks talking about a topic that has been highlighted in the news far too much lately……but the famous are not alone in their despair. I know, I know, not a very uplifting subject but it’s one that has hit precariously close to home…..twice in exactly one week.
Pat Blythe – Summertime Blues
Posted in Opinion, Review with tags A Girl With A Camera "The Picture Taker", AHI, Beach Village BIA, Beaches International Jazz Festival, Bob Segarini, Bold Step Dancers, Celtic Sun, Chris Birkett, Club 120, DBAWIS, Don Graham, Don't Believe a Word I Say, For The Love Of It School of Dance, Gary Richardson, Ivan Forrest Park, JK Vibrations Steel Band, Lawrie Ingles, Metis Fiddlers, Michael Williams, Move to the Music, Pat Blythe, Risa Black, Robin Campbell, Sam Taylor and the East End Love, Sari Santangelo, Taste of Colombia, The Boot Scooters Line Dancers, TJ Whitelaw, Toney Springer on July 27, 2016 by segariniWe’re back!!!! Tales from the city….clubs, parks and more birthday festivities. Speaking of birthdays, I swear everyone was born between June 1 and September 1. Growing up my birthday was always sort of tagging along at the end….a fall baby. All my friends celebrated anywhere from March through to August but it as especially busy during the summer months.