Since we’re only nearing two weeks into 20 & 23, I hope you don’t mind that I am still wishing folks a happy and healthy New Year (here’s to ya) and dwelling upon the fact that we turned the old calendar in for a new one. Now let’s take a peek at what’s going on […]
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Hello to 2023 music
Howdy folks, and welcome to the New Year. This one is known as 20 and 23 in our Western world, just in case you’ve lost count. I’m a little bit in shock, even though I’m fully aware that time marches, leaps and crawls all while standing still, to see the numbers just keep moving on. […]
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Pre-New Year’s Music
Welcome to almost 2023 or actual 2023, depending on when you read your Illinois Times, but I always believe everyone grabs a print copy (or goes online) every Thursday with bated breath to see what we have in store for you. And while we are in the mindset, isn’t it really remarkable and wonderful we […]
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Christmas weekend music
Well, with the upcoming frightful weather and how this year Christmas falls on Sunday, therefore putting the naturally occurring Eve on Saturday night, our music forecast for this holiday weekend is slow to middling. Then again, if the pickings are slim, those events that are happening will likely be bustling, since it seems that nothing […]
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Music more and more
Get yourself all decked out for the hallowed halls and set up for fancy balls as we roll into the last weekend of doings before the big holiday cometh. With Christmas being on a Sunday this year, and therefore putting Christmas Eve on a Saturday night, here’s a heads up that it is very possible, […]
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December music and more
As Meredith Wilson (of The Music Man composer fame) wrote in one of my favorite holiday songs, “It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas everywhere you go,” and it most certainly is doing just that. Along with the dandy decorations and ubiquitous canned music, there are plenty of special parties, plus regular gigs, all […]
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December-time music
Don’t look now, but 2022 is nearly in the rearview mirror as the old calendar on the wall (remember those?) says it is now the twelfth month of the year. Sometimes time crawls, sometimes it marches on and sometimes seems to be sprinting toward the goal line. I’m going to leave that feeling up to […]
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Thanks for the music
Well, ladies and gentlemen, it’s time for our annual Thanksgiving issue and that means we should all take the time to think about thanking things. So here in our music column called Now Playing, we should not even have to think about what to thank and just get directly to giving thanks for the music. […]
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Sangamon Songs brings history to life and music
When I wander through antique stores I’m always drawn to postcards, especially those of local scenes penned – and sometimes charmingly penciled – more than 100 years ago. They are portals to another time, and often the messages speak across the decades. “Daisy had six puppies last night,” or “We visited granddad in Salem last […]
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Making music rounds
As we prepare to be thankful officially next week (but it’s a good idea to keep some thankfulness on hand all the time), I see all kinds of fun stuff happening around our fair city this weekend and into the days ahead. In remembering the short work week a-coming and the early issue of Illinois […]
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Assorted music mash-up
Welcome back my friends, to the show that, hopefully (and I have no reason to believe otherwise at this point), never ends as we continue to waft through the various music acts performing in Springfield. This week doesn’t seem to have a theme, as they sometimes appear to do, so therefore and herewith, let’s get […]
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Novembering music
Ooh-la-la and howdee-hey, let’s wind our way into November. The Halloween-ers are behind us, so it’s now time to gaze forward into the distance with fall flings and Thanksgiving ahead, the holiday season to come, and do I dare say, there’s a little 2023 peeking around the corner, ready to say hello. But first let’s […]
