The Jared Daniel Experience: Neo-soul with a hint of more

When MUSICAlive! reconnects with Jared Daniel, after a 6 year interval since our first interview about his Fireside Music events, we ask if he’s gotten married and divorced and had kids and now is starting up a rock band to express all that?
“Yeah,” he laughs. Like, how did you know?” HE DOES now have a 2 year old … Continue Reading >The Jared Daniel Experience: Neo-soul with a hint of more

Calgary’s FiresideMusic.ca: Rhythm & Folk, or Indie Jazz?

This story is all about creating and supporting your community, musical or whatever it may be.
Jared Clark, founder and enthusiast of the Fireside Music monthly events, held in this city, tells us:
“My Dad started folk clubs in the cities where we lived: being a musician himself, he just wanted to create community around music . . . ” … Continue Reading >Calgary’s FiresideMusic.ca: Rhythm & Folk, or Indie Jazz?

Erin Costello brings the past into the present: Classic Soul in her personal voice.

This is a pile of contradictions, thanks entirely to Erin Costello. Imagine her new album being downloaded via email from Pigeon Row Records, not really existing in another form in this humble reviewer’s domicile; just a 21st century digital musical promotion. But the music on this release was not only recorded On Tape (really: on reels of magnetized plastic strips dragged over small glass and metal charging units) in . . .
Continue Reading >Erin Costello brings the past into the present: Classic Soul in her personal voice.