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Music SceneDeep Roots - From Jamaica to New Zealand to Maui—reggae unitesApril 14, 2010 | 03:06 PMby Anuhea Yagi"Waterhouse weeps," reads a headline in a Sunday issue of The Gleaner, a Jamaican paper of record. "[T]he community has long been infamous for acts of violence," it says of the troubled district on the edge of St. Andrew, the parish bordering Kingston on all but its sea side. On this tiny West Indies isle, there were "1,361 murders in the first 10 months of |
Picks of the WeekSurreality Bites - Thursday-Saturday April 15-17April 14, 2010 | 03:28 PMby Anuhea YagiHow can you not love an event with a call to action that includes "dead-on dolphin impressions"? OK, this new talent show, "Sideshow" (the first night of what will be monthly engagements, every third Thursday at Casanova, 9-11:30pm, $10 cover, free for performers), isn't looking specifically for porpoise impersonations, but is searching for those to ready to unveil |
Picks of the Week 2Record-Related Bender - Friday (April 16), doors 8pm/show 9pm, $10 advance/$15 door, Mulligans on the Blue, WaileaApril 14, 2010 | 03:40 PMby Anuhea Yagi"To say that Vince Esquire is an awesome guitar player is a pitiful understatement. To say, 'man, that guy is a f*cking machine!' misses the point," writes preceding Pick princess, Kate Bradshaw, in a 2008 MauiTime Music Scene feature. "His solos are wildly creative, going well beyond the pentatonic with the occasional flatted fifth thrown in." (Uh... I took the liberty of looking up that last bit, and it means |
Picks of the Week 3Pick Paia, Not Your Nose - Saturday (April 17), all day, all over townApril 14, 2010 | 03:49 PMby Anuhea YagiScrew the vernal equinox. You really know spring is upon you when events slated are so thick, Picks must take on an entire town. In this case, Paia—a mecca for yoga, health food, bare feet, acoustic guitars and Brazilian bikinis. Since so many environmentally conscious people hang around Paia town all day anyway, it's easy logic for folks to come together and wield their collective activist might. The |
Picks of the Week 4Frédéric and Julio - Sunday (April 18) & Friday (April 23), MACCApril 14, 2010 | 03:58 PMby Anuhea YagiIf by age 11 you were performing piano concertos for the Tsar of Russia (Alexander I), you and Frédéric François Chopin have something in common. Probably not (no offense). But connecting with this king of the keys is easy enough, in that the subtle, narrative nuances of his compositions have made him synonymous with Romantic music (hello? he invented the piano ballade). Romance—and the |
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