Live music is the tonic we all need. Following my thoughts on post-pandemic life and the Edinburgh Festival last week, I attended what was possibly the most life-affirming gig I have been to in a long, […]
The Union Chapel is a perfect venue for a Mavis Staples show. There was a fervour about her performance to which her audience (congregation?) responded accordingly. The palpable feeling that welcomed this great artist was love. […]
Mavis Staples is one of American music’s national treasures. She is someone with both the voice and enthusiasm that if she sung the telephone directory, it would still sound wonderfully soulful and be utterly transfixing. Having […]
Playing Patsy Cline to Willie Nelson’s Marty Robbins. Country soul artist Tami Neilson is recognised as a leading New Zealand country music, country soul, and rockabilly artist, and she has also helped develop the genre and […]
“Seventy-four years and I’m not tired yet!” declared Mavis Staples towards the end of this triumphant show. That’s not her age (she sailed past 74 in 2014) but the number of years since her father created […]
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