Music Spotlight: While readying for a virtual Ladybug Fest, local acts hope to be back on the road this fall
By Denny Dyroff, Entertainment Editor, The Times
Soraia
The COVID-19 pandemic has altered the course of music more than any other event since the spring of 1860.
On April 9, 1860, the French inventor Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville created the first sound recording in history. An eerie rendition of the folksong “Au clair de la lune” was captured by Scott’s trademark invention —...
On Stage: Fab Faux focus on the sound of the Beatles
By Denny Dyroff, Entertainment Editor, The Times
Fab Faux
Beatles fans will never be able to see the Beatles perform live — unless John and George somehow come back from the dead. But the band’s music lives on with a wide array of tribute acts performing songs from the foursome’s impressive catalogue.
Some of these tribute acts put on stage shows in which they try to look and sound like the...
On Stage: Aucoin’s music good, good works even better
By Denny Dyroff, Entertainment Editor, The Times
Rich Aucoin
If you took Rich Aucoin’s surname and separated it, you would have gold (AU) and coin – definitely something valuable
Even if you don’t do this, you still have something valuable – a talented musician with a catalog of two albums and three EPs and a history of engaging in charitable projects.
Aucoin is a Haligonian (native of Halifax, Nova...
On Stage (Extra): KT Tunstall returns to pop roots
By Denny Dyroff, Staff Writer, The Times
KT Tunstall is a singer-songwriter-musician from Edinburgh, Scotland who burst onto the music scene in 2004 with a live solo performance of her song “Black Horse and the Cherry Tree” on the popular British TV show “Later… with Jools Holland.”
In the decade that followed, she released four full-length studio albums, along with a few EPs and live...
