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Harold López-Nussa Brings the Piano to Life

THE PROVINCETOWN INDEPENDENT

By Eve Samaha - August 2, 2023

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.

Circus Performers Juggle Locations to Keep Flying

THE PROVINCETOWN INDEPENDENT

By Kathi Scrizzi Driscoll – August 2, 2023

WELLFLEET — A live scarecrow tumbles, sways, and hangs — precarious and loose-limbed — high above a field. Farmhands wildly flip ears of corn as crops “multiply.” A unicycle seems to till soil, red scarves become a barn fire’s flames, animal puppets dance.

The Startling, Vulnerable, Wildly Theatrical Sandra Bernhard

THE PROVINCETOWN INDEPENDENT

By James Judd – July 26, 2023

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.

"Audience" by Ellen Lebow

THE TRURO TENT – July 2023

Ellen Lebow, Audience. 

Patty Larkin’s Outer Cape Comeback

THE PROVINCETOWN INDEPENDENT

By Eve Samaha - July 5, 2023

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.”

Rufus Wainwright Comes Home to Provincetown for the First Time

The ‘baroque pop’ star returns to his folk music roots

THE PROVINCETOWN INDEPENDENT

By Sophie Mann-Shafir - May 3, 2023

Rufus Wainwright has never been to Provincetown, though it’s been on his radar for a long time.

The Red Hawk Singers and Dancers Bring Stories to the Stage

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.

Celebrating 50 Years of Sweet Honey in the Rock

Voices and musical styles come together in an ensemble’s dedication to song and social justice

THE PROVINCETOWN INDEPENDENT

By Sophie Mann-Shafir - December 14, 2022

“Music does everything for me,” says Aisha Kahlil. “It heals me. It uplifts me. It has brought me back from the brink of despair.”

James Montgomery Returns to a Place He Loves

The music legend and his band bring the blues to Eastham this weekend

THE PROVINCETOWN INDEPENDENT

By Sophie Mann-Shafir - November 2, 2022

Taj Mahal Comes to Truro

Going strong at 80, the blues legend performs this weekend at Payomet

THE PROVINCETOWN INDEPENDENT

By Will Powers - September 14, 2022

In May, Taj Mahal turned 80 — and everybody knows the blues only get better with age.

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