Text by Bruce Gallanther (Downtown Music Gallery, January 2nd, 2025)
“Groovin’ Is Easy” by The Electric Flag, from their debut album, A Longtime Comin (released 1968)
A Homage to The Electric Flag, An American Band.
Category Archives: Musicians
Who Are Free Design (1967-1972)?
Text by Bruce Gallanter (Downtown Music Gallery, August 22, 2024)
“The Hook” by Free Design . From their reunion album, Cosmic Peekaboo (released in 2001)
All the pretty young singers with their popular songs
Kind of short on meaning but the beat goes on
You really have to love them – but not for very long
They’d like to thank their managers
And fans, and friends and yawn…
Cross-Cultural Connection (CCC) Presents “Jazz in the Park”
Text by Glenn Hoagland
On Sunday, August 11 from 1 PM to 7 PM, jazz saxophonist and MFM member Ray Blue‘s nonprofit Cross-Cultural Connection (CCC) will present its 6th Annual Jazz Festival on the beautiful Peekskill waterfront. Jazz in the Park is a free concert SUPPORTED BY VARIOUS SPONSORS. It is accessible by both Metro North train and car. It is held in Peekskill Riverfront Park, Hudson Ave., Peekskill NY, on the banks of the Hudson River.
Top-level jazz performers at this year’s event include trombonist Clifton Anderson, The Kristina Koller Band, Ray Blue Quintet, and The Carl Allen Band.
CD Review: “Nu-Bossa Elixir’s” by Future350 Feat. Vanessa Falabella (Brazil)
Nu-Bossa Elixir’s by Future350, Stephen Johnson with Vanessa Falabella
A Music Review by Dawoud Kringle
Artist: Future350 Feat. Vanessa Falabella
Titel: Nu-Bossa Elixir’s. Stephen R Johnson with Vanessa Falabella
Label: Movita Records
Genre: Nu Bossa
Stephen Johnson (guitarist, vocalist, Polydor recording artist, head of the MFM Hudson Valley Chapter, founder of Edge, Vienna, Victorian Parents, Son of John, Island of Men, ‘luckymission’ (Green) and Future350) has just released a new album called Nu-Bossa Elixir’s, a collaboration with MFM member Brazilian vocalist Venessa Falabella.
Iranian Rapper Toomaj Salehi – “Musicians with Attitude (MwA)” – Sentenced to Death
Text by Dawoud Kringle
Iranian rapper/poet Toomaj Salehi has been sentenced to death!
Salehi was born in Iran on December 3rd, 1990. He is a laborer in a metalworks factory. He began recording hip-hop as a means of protest against the social injustices of the Iranian regime.
