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Ed Ward at his home in South Austin on Nov. 14, 2019 (Photo by John Anderson) In 1964, when the New Yorker (born Nov. 2, 1948) began scribbling prose for mimeographed folk fanzine Broadside at the age of 16, rock & roll ranked right up there with newsprint at the bottom of the birdcage or litter pan: utterly disposable. Teen Beat and 16 ruled the day with “fab pix and fax,” but Ward lit out for an entirely unexplored musical universe the moment Bob Dylan strapped on a Fender Stratocaster and hired young white Chicagoan Mike Bloomfield to issue slashing, bluesy vol...

8 p.m., Friday, May 7, 2021 It was an old recording of Mongo Santamaria doing a cover of The Beatles’ classic “Day Tripper” as an Afro-Cuban cha cha cha dance beat that inspired the birth of Los Day Trippers. This unique and lively band started their musical journey at a neighborhood Mexican restaurant in 2018, striking a chord with generations of Beatles lovers while hitting a groove that drew from Latin music traditions like mambo, cumbia, cha cha cha, bossa nova, merengue, bolero, and others. In the experimental spirit of the Fab Four, let Los Day Trippers take you on an adventure of...

Written by Emily Morrow on April 12, 2021 What brought you to hosting a show on WICN? Why do you love being on the air? I moved into Worcester proper in the summer of 2007. I had been listening to The Folk Revival on WICN on and off—I love folk music and I was working on a book about folk music. I had known then-host Norah Dooley through The Revels in Boston, and I called her and asked if I could drop by the station some Thursday to see her in action. By late summer, I was a regular guest on her weekly Folk Revival show, bringing in CDs to share and talking a...

CAPITAL REGION, N.Y. — Spring is a season of rebirth, a fact proven by local entertainment announcements over the past week. Playhouse Stage company announced that at the end of April it will be producing a musical indoors at the Cohoes Music Hall. “I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change” will run Fridays through Sundays, April 30-May 9. Seating is limited to 50 people a performance. Masks, social distancing and contact tracing will be in effect. Tickets are $30 each. - Advertisement - The four person cast details the joys and problems of courtship and marriage. The first ...

Five decades later, she can still remember the high points, like meeting a few Beatles, encountering Mick Jagger or a very young Michael Jackson in the studio, or sharing a bill with Tina Turner. And she can also recall the precise moment when she decided to shut it all down, at least for a long while. It was the summer of 1971, and Kate Taylor — along with her siblings, especially her older brother James — was having a moment. Earlier that year, Atlantic Records had released her first album, Sister Kate. The record boasted contributions from Carole King, Linda Ronstadt, John Hartford, a...