Category: Concert Reviews

Concert Hall, November 5 Despite all the evidence to the contrary the art of singing is not quite dead. Audra McDonald was the very embodiment of it, her work as finely nuanced and sophisticated as that of a great instrumentalist. So much was right: her apparent effortlessness, the absence of…

The Basement, October 25 How many members of a group should be alive and present for the use of the band’s name to be valid? The Mills Brothers, for instance, performed here with one Brother and three rope-ins. Seriously. As it turns 50 Canned Heat has two almost original members…