Joel Brown gets the details on the five-day Berklee Beantown Jazz Festival this September; he says it's way bigger than last year's.

I'd like to see demonstrations of the skills, the talents
people expert in piano accompaniment for voice
presented at the New York University College of Dentistry...

See also

Steinhardt at Saklad: Yoo Jung Kim

6:30-8:30pm
Wednesday 11 February 2009

Saklad Auditorium
345 East 24th Street
New York NY 10010
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=345+East+24th+St+new+york+ny

Steinhardt at Saklad
Curated by Marilyn Nonken, Director, Piano Studies
http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/profiles/faculty/marilyn_nonken

Cocktail-hour concerts, followed by

This week on Radio Boston! We bring you some of the magical sounds of the season...with Chanukah music from the Klezmer Conservancy Band, and Christmas music from the Boston Camerata. This week on Radio Boston. Friday at 1. WBUR.
or go to www.radioboston.org.

I was a big fan of the Dropkick Murphys hit and Red Sox fight song "I'm Shipping Up To Boston" which also found its way to the soundtrack for The Departed (on YouTube here.) Their more recent effort from this summer, which they wrote for Improper Bostonian is called "The Chosen Few" and has been derided as "sorta like drunken karaoke." What do you think? Lyrics after the break.

The Return of the all new "HOT 97.1 FM." (Formerly Hot 97.7 WILD-FM)
Boston representing today's hottest Hip-Hop, R&B, Reggae, Reggaeton; Coming in November of 2008.

Question:
Will the return of "Hot 97FM" in Boston will reach out to the Eastern Massachusetts/Boston Area, like how the original Hot 97.7 FM reached out the the Hip-Hop Community of Roxbury, Dorchester, Mattapan, Jamaica Plain and Mission Hill?

So I know this guy Jim Infantino. I met him in the late 80s when I managed a coffee house and slummed around with folk musicians. Twenty years on, he's a band now called Jim's Big Ego (see http://www.bigego.com ) An ego so big it needs three people on stage to get all that amazing music out there. He's (They've) got a new album coming out, and I figured I'd share it here because there are some folks who will really totally dig his political message and the music.

The Dropkick Murphys I'm Shipping Up To Boston was a ready made fight song for the Red Sox during the championship run, and it also gave some punch and local flavor to Scorsese's Boston-based crime thriller, The Departed.

So there he was: John Mellencamp, in the flesh, about 10 feet away from me, at the Copley Square Farmers Market. I knew he'd be there. I had come to see him. But, I must admit, my imagination isn't usually so far off from the reality...

"High Times" Magazine Publisher Rick Cusick and
Keith Stroup Founder of the National
Organization to Reform Marijuana Laws (NORML) were arrested
for allegedly sharing a marijuana
cigarette on Boston Common in September 2007.

The two have refused the offer to dismiss the case with an apology.

The two and their defense team plan to challenge
the constitutionality of marijuana prohibition.

Their next court date is May 15th, 10AM, 24 New Chardon St., Boston. Press conference to follow.

Get on the radio as part of this Sunday's audience participation event for "Radio With A View" at Jimmy Tingle's Off-Broadway Theater in Davis Square, Somerville. The event begins at 4:00 pm.