The Cuban pianist Harold López-Nussa was born into music. His mother was a piano teacher and his father a professional drummer. His uncle and grandmother were both piano players.
While he was growing up in Central Havana, López-Nussa’s family gathered at his grandmother’s house every Sunday for musical reunions. “I remember my parents and my uncle playing jazz, classical music, and some French music as well,” he says. His grandmother was from France.
September 2012, somewhere south of Hell’s Kitchen and the end of my first night as a full-time citizen of New York City. I was crouched on a sidewalk corner cleaning up after my dog, Sofia, when that unmistakable voice rang out.
Folk musician Patty Larkin, 72, tripped and fell in a dark room during a family vacation last June, suffering a spinal cord injury that could have left her a quadriplegic. On July 13, Larkin will make her Outer Cape comeback at the Payomet Performing Arts Center in Truro with veteran singer-songwriters Cliff Eberhardt, John Gorka, and Lucy Kaplansky in a group show titled “On a Summer’s Night.”
Wampanoag performers use song, dance, and narrative to teach about their tribe
THE PROVINCETOWN INDEPENDENT
Photos by Agata Storer - March 15, 2023
PROVINCETOWN — CheeNulKa Pocknett and David Pocknett Jr. of the Red Hawk Singers and Dancers put on a program of music and dance at the Provincetown Schools’ Fishermen Hall on Saturday that had an audience of some 150 guests hanging on every drumbeat.
Graham Nash is 80 years old now, and he’s still on tour. The singer-songwriter of Crosby, Stills & Nash fame has a new live album (and, because one art form isn’t enough, a new book of photography). He’s playing at the Payomet Performing Arts Center in North Truro on Tuesday night, July 26.
