BOSTON For Father Francis Godkin, FPO, the idea of being an instrument of God s peace, as the Prayer of St. Francis says, has always been important though his understanding of what that means has changed over time.
Growing up in Houston, Texas, Father Godkin went to local schools and received the sacraments from St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Parish. His mother consecrated him and his two siblings, individually, in the Marian consecration when they were children.
For many years, Father Godkin thought he would become a professional musician. He played piano and percussion from a young age, and it made him happy to see that people enjoyed hearing him play.
NEXT s Morgan Springer interviews Lake Street Dive bassist Bridget Kearney and keyboardist Akie Bermiss.
In 2017, the genre-bending band Lake Street Dive went from a quartet to a quintet. The band members asked their newest musician, keyboardist Akie Bermiss, to come on board with a “marriage proposal.”
On a day off from touring, they took Bermiss out to a nice restaurant in Chicago. Midway through the meal, someone said, “What’s that?” And Bermiss turned away from the table, falling for the age-old trick.
“When I turned back there were five plastic engagement rings on my salad plate,” he told
NEXT. “And I was formally propositioned to become a member of the band.”
Rusty Warren, Brash Comic in a Strait-Laced Time, Dies at 91
In the 1950s and ’60s, Ms. Warren made sex the central subject of her nightclub routines, and of popular comedy albums like “Knockers Up!”
In nightclubs and on records, Rusty Warren entertained audiences with a lusty, bawdy brand of humor. “I like helping inhibited females enjoy themselves,” she once said.Credit.Jubilee Records
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Rusty Warren started out in the early 1950s performing harmless fare in bars and clubs in the Boston area and the Catskills.
“Mostly I’d play the piano and I sang a little,” she said. “But every so often I would get a heckler, and I’d talk back to him, and people would start to laugh. And of course I liked that laughter much better than I did some of that applause, so I started to talk more, and to sing and to play less.”
Fearless, refreshing, commanding, captivating and delightful are just some of the descriptions of Jewish-American violinist Ilana Zaks, who will be performing at Falmouth Art Center on Tuesday, June 1.
The performance will take place at 4 PM outside in the back yard lawn of the Falmouth Art Center. Chairs will be provided out on the lawn.
Ms. Zaks has performed as a soloist with the Boston Civic Symphony, Rhode Island Philharmonic Orchestra, New England Philharmonic, and Pioneer Valley Symphony, among other groups. Her many honors include top prizes at concerto competitions and she was recently a featured performer on the National Public Radio program, âFrom the Top.â
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