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For years, John Vagnoni, managing partner of the Green Parrot, looked for bands traveling in this direction from all over the Southeast and would book touring bands to perform at
After interviewing 142 Key West musicians, I’ve heard some great stories. I haven’t been able to squeeze many of the short stories into a musician’s biography or even the weekly
Often introduced by Ericson Holt as “the pride of Kankakee,” Mick Kilgos was born in Kankakee, Illinois, a small town 45 miles south of Chicago. When he was 14 years
Bill Blue and “Caffeine” Carl Wagoner have been very good friends and playing music together for almost three decades.
Listen • 5:15 Despite COVID-19, tourists have continued to come to Key West and drink. Some say the pandemic is an opportunity to re-evaluate the island's hard-partying ways. People have been drinking more during the pandemic. Almost a quarter of adults in the Keys were already heavy or binge drinkers. That's the highest rate in Florida. Now some in Key West are rethinking the hard-partying scene for a post-pandemic future. Like a lot of people, Dawn Wilder first saw Key West as a tourist. "Oh my goodness, we drank far more than we ever did back home," she said. When she...