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Blues Festival Guide Magazine 2022 Digital Edition
LACKAWANNA BLUES is actor, playwright, and director Ruben Santiago-Hudson’s ode to his 1950s childhood home: Lackawanna, New York. Santiago-Hudson’s autobiographical play focuses on the woman who raised him, Rachel “Nanny” Crosby, and the eccentric community of lost souls and abandoned lovers she nurtured. Inspired by African griot
In the 1950s and '60s, young Ruben Santiago Jr. (Marcus Franklin) lives in a lively boardinghouse in the blue-collar town of Lackawanna, New York, with his f...
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Robert Hokum from Ealing Blues Festival is playing at The Legion on Thursday and Friday, celebrating 60 years of British rock music. He is bringing some of the Ealing festival artists with him, including singer-songwriter Tim Staffell, former bandmate of Queen’s Brian May, who is even depicted in the film Bohemian Rhapsody. Bob Hokum’s Diamond Rock...
Steve Darrington, festival organiser, said: But taking on venues such as The Centre and keeping them part of the ‘pub trail’ feel of the festival involves extra costs. The original business model for the event was based on venues paying bands the same amount they would pay local bands anyway.
It looks likely future festivals will involve a big change from the ‘£10 covers all, voluntary support wristband’ to some places charging for a particular concert or concerts. Steve explained:
In the meantime, this week’s 35th Swanage Blues Festival serves up plenty of good music, with a dazzling array of acts, as well as offering the opportunity to take part in jam sessions and open mics, not to mention inviting visitors to discover and enjoy the whole of Swanage and its surroundings.
Sep 28, 2021 · Lackawanna Blues’ Review: A Soulful Master Class in Storytelling. From: New York Times By: Maya Phillips Date: 2021-10-07 9 / 10. It always comes back to Nanny, with her stiff back and neatly ...
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Lackawanna Blues is an American play written by Ruben Santiago-Hudson that premiered in 2001. It was later adapted as a television movie that aired in 2005. The play dramatizes the character of the author's primary caregiver when he was growing up in Lackawanna, New York , during the 1950s and 1960s.
