Trumpeter Ara Anderson was created in 1974 and raised in his local SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA, CA. His dad, a trombonist, gained a qualification in jazz structure through the Berklee University of Music in the first ’70s. His mom, a Syrian-born Armenian whose family members had shifted to Massachusetts, was …

Known primarily for his downtempo method of mixing jazz, home, and hip-hop — a method he dubbed “mushrooom jazz” — DJ and producer Tag Farina played a significant role within the building of San Francisco’s home music scene. Originally from Chicago, Farina began DJ’ing at age 15, greatly motivated by …

Huey Lewis & the news headlines were a bar music group that made great. With their basic, straightforward rock and roll & move, the San Francisco-based group became among America’s most well-known pop/rock bands from the middle-’80s. Inspired similarly by United kingdom pub rock and roll and ’60s R&B and …

Huey Lewis & the news headlines were a bar music group that made great. With their basic, straightforward rock and roll & move, the San Francisco-based group became among America’s most well-known pop/rock bands from the middle-’80s. Inspired similarly by English pub rock and roll and ’60s R&B and rock …

The husband-and-wife duo of Delaney & Bonnie Bramlett created a few of the most distinctive and unique music of the first ’70s, but their alchemical sound — equal parts blue-eyed soul, blues, country, and gospel — was frequently marginalized by the eye instead paid towards the contributions of the famous …

When novices uncover the experimental music from the Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey, they’re surprised to discover that there is absolutely no one named Jacob Fred — the group’s name is intended to become clever and ironic. Novices also find out that this Tulsa, Oklahoma outfit’s mildly avant-garde mixture of jazz, …

Most widely known for his use the organizations Lunasa (1999’s Otherworld and 2001’s Merry Sisters of Destiny) and Moving Cloud (1995’s self-titled launch and 1998’s Foxglove), Celtic flutist Kevin Crawford in addition has issued a set of single produces for the Green Linnet label. The D Flute Recording was released …

The trio of music artists who constitute traditional Irish folk band Bohola were friends a long time before they joined forces in 1999 to determine their group. Each acquired years of knowledge behind him and by uniting in Bohola, they melded their backgrounds in Celtic rock and roll and traditional …

Along with his ultra-rich vocals and large repertoire of traditional Irish songs, Iarla Ó Lionáird (pronounced ear-lah o’linnard) has taken the world of Celtic folk music by storm. Among Ireland’s leading performers of the original old-timey design, Ó Lionáird offers continued to create on his traditional origins. Furthermore to recording …

Guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter Susan Tedeschi is area of the new era of blues music artists researching to keep the type exciting, vital, and evolving. Tedeschi’s concert events are in no way straight-ahead metropolitan blues. Rather, she openly mixes traditional R&B, blues, and her personal gospel and blues-flavored originals into …