Concert Hall, February 4 About nine years ago – well into her phenomenally successful career – Diana Krall began to come out of her shell. Now the need for that shell is almost gone. Having gradually grown chattier and more at ease with the frightening reality of an audience over…
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Lennox Theatre, January 19 Orquesta Típica Fernández Fierro is to tango what Nigel Kennedy is to classical music. The 13 members dress in jeans or shorts, tee-shirts or singlets, and sport assorted shades, dreadlocks or baseball caps. Their leader and double bassist, Yuri Venturín, has an amplifier and speakers to…
State Theatre, January 18 Perhaps it’s the absence of gravity, but exploring outer space via the music of Sun Ra for 57 years has made Marshall Allen the youngest 89-year-old man I’ve seen. Each time he detonated the incendiary device known as his alto saxophone the State Theatre’s glorious ceiling…