Best of Outdoor music venue: Waiting for the Sun
Spring will swing at the BeachLife Festival by Gavin Heaney Springtime in the South Bay is more of a cross-up of winter and summer than its own season. The sun finally emerges from cold grey winter storms, flashing summery prospects of dazzling green gold and blue, warming up backyards and baseball games. But the beach […]
Freedom sounds: The Skatalites celebrate 60 years of Ska at Saint Rocke
by Gavin Heaney Bouncing offbeat bursts of chordal horns, guitar and keys counterpoint walking bass lines as the high hat skips around the shuffling drum beat, accenting African and Caribbean rhythms. The ska is an offset boogie woogie groove that incites riotous dancing known as skanking and The Skatalites were the innovators of ska music, […]