Tag Archives: festivals

The snare drum rolls in Clarksdale for the summer scholarship applicants

I can’t imagine what the two young women have been thinking since their scholarship auditions at the Delta Blues Museum on Thursday.  Jacquline Gooch and Paula Thompson, students from the Delta Blues Museum’s Arts & Education Program, were both outstanding.  Gooch, 19, accompanied herself on a guitar with a sliver of worn wood below the sound hole that [...]

Nadia Washington Quartet at the Next Generation Festival

Berklee Assistant Vice President for Public Information, Rob Hayes, writes from the Next Generation Festival in Monterey, CA, where the Nadia Washington Quartet will perform this weekend. For more information, check out the official press release on berklee.edu. Each spring, the Monterey Jazz Festival produces a three-day wonderland for high school jazz musicians – the Next [...]

Preparing for the Berklee Jazz Festival

Marty Walsh and the Berklee City Music Rock ensemble are preparing for their debut performance at Berklee’s annual High School Jazz Festival. They’re looking energized and ready to rock… I have the ring in my ears to prove it :)

My ears are still recovering…

Back from SXSW in Austin, where Berklee hosted three (!!) events this year. While I’m 90% recovered, my hearing may take longer to come back… I saw 40 bands in 4 days! including twelve alumni and student bands that played at Berklee’s parties, and two more – Pink Nasty and Royal Forest – who were [...]

Among the buzz of an adoring crowd, Joe Arroyo says he liked it

One expected to see Joe Arroyo in the dressing room back-slapping the students and posing for pictures. He had just shared the stage with them, sat through a tremendous performance of his most famous songs, and received a letter of gratitude signed by all of them. But he wasn’t around. He also didn’t go back [...]