Posts by Nancy Lasher and Jordan Hamowy

The 7th annual Sea.Hear.Now (SHN) music festival in Asbury Park, NJ, was held on September 13th & 14th, and went off with hardly a hitch. It is a festival rooted in Asbury Park beach culture with a mix of local and big-name acts that center on rock music, but dip into punk, reggae, roots, electronica, […]

Sea Hear Now 2024 in Asbury Park on September 13 and 14th, 2024, started with a lot of fuss and commotion. For the first time, tickets went on sale after the lineup was announced. With Bruce Springsteen on the lineup, tickets sold out in seconds, and many long-time attendees were shut out in one of […]

The 38th Green River Festival took place from June 21-June 23 at the Franklin County Fairgrounds in Greenfield, Massachusetts, and although it faced many challenges – new ownership, severe thunderstorms, and even a tornado warning – one thing shone through: it is impossible to dampen the spirits or friendliness of the plucky people of the […]

If you were at the Capitol Theatre in Port Chester, NY on Saturday night, March 30, 2024, at 8:45pm you witnessed a great performer light up the stage and reclaim his status as one of the more dynamic acts touring today. You see, it had been ten years since JJ Grey & Mofro released a […]

Sea.Hear.Now (SHN) is a two-day rock music festival that took place mostly on the beach in Asbury Park, NJ the weekend of September 16th & 17th. The festival runs from noon – 10:30pm and combines music (30 bands divided among three stages); art (several custom art installations, the statue of Asbury Park founder James Bradley […]

The 2023 Rhythm & Roots Festival took place over Labor Day weekend (Sept 1-3) at Ninigret Park in Charlestown, Rhode Island, and went off without a hitch. The festival was owned and operated by the Wentworth family who sold it to GoodWorks Entertainment just over a year ago. While it isn’t technically an independent festival […]

Expectations are high for first-year music festivals, especially those run by a large festival production company like C3 Presents/LiveNation. But combine that expertise with the seasoned staff and infrastructure of the Bethel Woods Arts Center, the mystique of holding a festival at the original Woodstock site, and perfect weather, and you get a beautifully-run festival […]

If you were one of the 3000 attendees at the Kings Theatre in Brooklyn on the evening of June 27th count yourself among the lucky ones. Rodrigo y Gabriela treated a theater full of fans to a 90-minute guitar fireworks show that would make the Macy’s 4th of July fireworks display envious. They are touring […]

The 2023 Green River Festival in Greenfield, MA delivered on an impressive folk-leaning line-up and its reputation as one of the most endearing local festivals in the country. The three-day festival took place over the weekend of June 23-25th with a number of regional and national acts performed on three main stages. The festival has […]

Ali McGuirk celebrated the release of her new CD Til It’s Gone with a blistering show on Thursday night at Brooklyn’s Bell House. The album is on the Signature Sounds label, is co-produced by Jonah Tolchin, a great singer-songwriter in his own right, and features some expert studio musicians like Fred Tackett. The show was […]