(July, 28, 2011) Westerly, RI native Johnny Nicholas celebrates a new album along with a yogi birthday party and fundraiser during a well-attended appearance at the Bridge Restaurant downtown. Nicholas helped raise funds for High Street Yoga’s “HSY Teacher Training Scholarship Fund,” as well as celebrate the local studio owner, Tamsy Markham’s 49th birthday, while also promoting his new album (the first for him since 2005) “Future Blues.” Cindy Cashdollar on slide complimented Nicholas seamlessly, prodding and stroking an arms-length [...]
WERI-FM Archives ~ Johnny Nicholas
I met >>Johnny Nicholas in 1997 when he performed on my radio show at our studio in downtown Westerly, RI. He brought an old guitar and I pulled a single microphone down and positioned it just about midway between his head and his guitar. He was perfectly happy with that, and it sounded pretty great. I had much enjoyed John’s work with Asleep at the Wheel, particularly the 1979 live album “Served Live,” recorded at the Austin Opry House, Texas. [...]
Dave Van Ronk, Stone Soup Coffeehouse
Providence, Rhode Island Saturday, December 04, 1999 by Mark T. Urso Photograph ©1999 Mark T. Urso Dave Van Ronk brought Greenwich Village in the 1960s back to life at a popular Providence, Rhode Island coffeehouse Saturday night. The “grand uncle” of the Village coffeehouse music scene treated his audience at the Stone Soup coffeehouse to his collection of rearranged classic acoustic blues tunes. The genteel 63 year-old urban bluesman donned a tan canvas “Indiana Jones” hat with a yellow cloth [...]
Keb’ Mo, Garde Arts Center
New London, Connecticut Friday, November 19, 1999 by Mark T. Urso Photograph ©1999 Mark T. Urso The hoity-toity from Southeastern Connecticut gathered Friday night for a wild, rockin’ bash. The Garde Arts Center, a newly-restored 1920s movie palace in downtown New London with a Moroccan motif that gives it one of the most unique theatre interiors in America, has a schedule that includes opera, ballet, Broadway, and, this particular evening, blues. One of the classiest blues acts that will ever [...]
