Music - Tom Irwin | Thursday, June 30,2011

July music explodes

There are a couple of dandy weekends coming up, the first with a bit of Yankee Doodle in it counting the Fourth of July celebration and the next a yummy treat during the Taste of Downtown, so let&rsqu

Music - Tom Irwin | Thursday, June 23,2011

Bottoms up

A tribute to the bass

By Tom Irwin

Last year our introduction of the first BassBerg event contained a list of silly bass player jokes collected from sources not particularly friendly to our bassist buddies. Let’s begin this year&

Music - Tom Irwin | Thursday, June 16,2011

Human harmony through music

By Tom Irwin

In a world increasingly riddled with cacophony, rifled in over-stimulation and ruled by dissonance, our lives could use more peacefulness. Music, when presented in a healing form, has existed as a bal

Music - Tom Irwin | Thursday, June 9,2011

June music abounds

By Tom Irwin

Oh my goodness, I hardly know where to begin with the vast assortment of entertainment possibilities awaiting you, my listening friends of the music arts. So no more chitchatting, let’s get on w

Music - Tom Irwin | Thursday, June 2,2011

Watch for wayward, wandering minstrels

By Tom Irwin

In these days of well-planned careers featuring well-manicured appearances and well-kept personalities, designed by well-managed curators of societal conveniences meant to make all things acceptable,

Music - Tom Irwin | Thursday, May 26,2011

Cures for the summertime blues

By Tom Irwin

Here we go again into the summer months with a load of good live music going on out of doors and hopefully some inside when the heat and humidity rises to usual unbearable levels and thunderstorms and

Music - Tom Irwin | Thursday, May 19,2011

A-May-zing music

By Tom Irwin

As I looked for an event to highlight in this week’s column, it was shocking to see the amount of stuff happening. Without even picking a favorite and likely missing something to boot, here is a

Music - Tom Irwin | Thursday, May 12,2011

From Ha Ha Tonka to Freedy

By Tom Irwin

I do believe this season could be the best Bedrock 66 Live! series ever. Already we’ve had so much national talent hanging out at the Hoogland, who could ask for more? The nice thing is you don&

Music - Tom Irwin | Thursday, May 5,2011

A ringing success

By Tom Irwin

Bells in Motion, a locally based, nationally known, professional handbell ensemble, gets my vote as one of the most interesting creative organizations in town. The 16-member group literally puts bells

Music - Tom Irwin | Thursday, April 28,2011

A bomb, a brunch and a barbershop chorus

By Tom Irwin

How’s that for a titillating title? Somehow the alliteration came as the bits fit together for this week’s suggestions. I could add bells and bring in the May 7 Bells in Motion concert, bu