Category: Features – Archive

August 19, 2022 / Features - Archive

The day that came to define him occurred when he was only four. This was in 1960, when government agencies forcibly took Archie Roach and his siblings away from their parents. In his autobiography, Tell Me Why, Roach recounts a memory that came back to him many years later of…

June 4, 2022 / Features - Archive

Of all the reasons for dropping out of music school, Eric Harland’s has to be among the weirdest. There he was at the prestigious Manhattan School of Music on a full scholarship, his career as a jazz drummer taking off like a rocket-ship, and the notoriously hard-to-please singing great Betty…

April 30, 2022 / Features - Archive

A year ago Emma Pask lost a close friend and fellow singer to breast cancer. Pask was with this person when she drew her last breath, and the experience had a profound effect. Grief was tangled with guilt that she could keep singing, herself, and then came a hunger to…