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It was the late 1980s, and Greg Townson was playing guitar in one of the more successful acts on the Rochester scene at the time, The Essentials. A rock…
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The Genesee Brewery’s special release beers are, well, special.Not just because they’re inexpensive, good beers that complement the seasons, but because…
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If you’re lucky, here’s how Garth Fagan greets you at the front door of his home off East Avenue:“Give me a hug!”And you do. He’s earned it.Fagan played a…
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When Roy Ernst, an Eastman School of Music professor, set out in 1991 to form a band of senior citizens from around Rochester with little to no musical…
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In the Haudenosaunee creation story, Sky Woman, the daughter of the Great Spirit, descends from the heavens toward a watery world whose animals, fearing…
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Now in its fifth year, Tyler Westcott’s annual Folkfaces Fest at Cherry Hill Campground in Darien Center has become a fall tradition for the upstate New…
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Thomas Warfield was thinking back about 20 years, to when Shawn Dunwoody had created a work of art for the Rochester Museum and Science Center. “Some…
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Very few people who give a damn about music have the same kind of records, album after album, on their shelves. That was the appeal of “Smokestacks,” the…
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The name, Charming Disaster, would seem to explain everything. But I’ll go ahead with this review anyway.And as it turns out, first impressions built on…
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The Andreas Delfs era has officially begun for the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra.On Thursday, Delfs conducted his first RPO Philharmonics concert as…