Tag: New England
Music is an essential part of winter. Sometimes, though, those familiar winter music songs and carols can get a bit overdone or seem a bit , well, too familiar. …
Whales. These days you may see them in a distance out to sea, or in a book, or as part of an exhibit in a museum. Time was that …
Acorn Street. You may have seen its cobblestones or red brick walls as backdrop to an advertisement or a fashion shoot. Do you know the backstory of this street …
Boston Public Market: when I am in the Boston area, I have always enjoyed visiting. Sometimes I’d meet up with friends for lunch, and at other times I’d enjoy …
Music opens doors to other cultures, other landscapes. It can open connections, share stories, and help us go more deeply into places new, and places familiar. Music can bring …
The Harvard University campus — the whole Boston area, in fact — is filled with world class museums. The Fogg, the Busch Reisinger, the Museum of Fine Arts, the …
Music makes a good gift, and one that invites adventure: it may be enjoyed in company or in solitude. It can inspire movement or stillness. It comes in all …
Winter: it’s a time for celebrations and reflection, for comings and goings and returnings, for seeing new landscapes and finding familiar ones transformed by the season. Whether your winter …
Crossing borders goes along with traveling. In many ways crossing borders goes along with playing music, too. In both cases, there’s an art to keeping centered while taking on …
A world renown guitarist and singer from Brazil who reinvents popular songs with Afro Latin beats, a woman who frames songs of ranch life in the grit of Texas, …
New England, the far northeastern part of the United States, is a place of contrasts — big cities and small towns, seashores and lake shores, ponds, rivers, forests, cutting …
Across the years, I’ve spent a good bit of time in the Boston area. Almost all of that time, though, has been spent across the Charles, in Cambridge, Somerville, …
