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Movers & Shakers
The 2019 H. Stanley Liddell Award
It was quiet at the Shriner Lake home of Anita and Doug Driscoll the afternoon I arrived to talk to Doug about something he didn’t want to talk abou...
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Festivals & Events
Tri-State Bluegrass Festival
If it’s Labor Day weekend, it must be time for some serious pickin’, with acoustic string instruments, campsites, lawn chairs, and lots and lots o...
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Local Musicians
elle/the Remnant
Hicksville, Ohio, seems an unlikely place for a pair of musicians to have formed a bond, or for that matter, a band.
But that’s where Hilary Armstro...
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CD Reviews
elle/the Remnant
When local band elle/the Remnant released Skies I’ve Learned How to Love in January 2018, it must have seemed like a long time coming.
In 2014, the ...
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Festivals & Events
Arab Fest
The 4th annual Arab Fest kicks off the summer festival season with a lineup of world-renowned performers, great food, shopping and, of course, camel ...
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Festivals & Events
Northern Indiana Bluegrass Festival
The mission of the Northern Indiana Bluegrass Association is simple: to introduce and promote bluegrass music to as many people as possible at as low...
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CD Reviews
Local Spin
It’s often said that musicians spend their whole lives working on their debut albums. As a result, first records frequently set a high standard for...
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Local Musicians
Featured Musician
It’s not unusual for a band to change its name. It happens a lot for a variety of reasons. A name change is often part of the normal series transit...
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Writers & Books
Featured Writer
Weird stuff happens in writer Deborah E. Kennedy's fictional world. In the case of her compelling debut novel, Tornado Weather, that weird stuff incl...
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National Acts
The Accidentals
Watching The Accidentals perform is like hitching a ride on a rocket. Savannah Buist and Katie Larson, along with their drummer Michael Dause, ...
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National Acts
Ben Folds
Ben Folds has the appearance of someone you might find spilling off your couch the morning after a rough night. Mussed hair, beard stumbling across h...
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Art
Oil Painters of America
Oil painter John Michael Carter spends a lot of time traveling the world looking for scenes that excite him. It might be street life in Paris, a sunr...
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Local Musicians
An Evening With Doc West
For 37 years, Rick "Doc" West has skillfully welcomed and introduced hundreds of rock bands to dozens of venues around Fort Wayne. As the voice - the...
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National Acts
Zion Lion
Regardless of what anyone says, summer isn't over until after Labor Day weekend. The kids may be long back in school and store aisles may be crammed ...
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National Acts
Roots Rock Society
It's turning out to be a good summer for Stann Champion. On July 1, the Chicago-based musician took home a Lifetime Achievement Award at the 35th Chi...
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National Acts
Rick Wilson
The artist Rick Wilson lives and works in Edinburgh, Indiana, a small town whose central location between Indianapolis and Columbus was ideal for Wil...
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Stage & Dance
Fairy Tale Fest
Fort Wayne Youtheater can never be accused of shying away from a challenge. Or from controversy. Recent productions include Remembering Anne, The Kid...
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National Acts
Toronzo Cannon
Toronzo Cannon sounds like the name of some kind of space weapon. It isn't.
Toronzo Cannon is the name of a powerful force, however.
In this case...
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Festivals & Events
Record Store Day
Ten years ago Bob Roets was more than a little concerned about the financial viability of his business. And with good reason. In seven years he had t...
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National Acts
Foellinger Summer Concert Series
Two queens, a boy wizard, and an old guy in red socks. Sort of sounds like an odd poker hand. But really it's just one way to describe a small part o...
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Stage & Dance
Battery Dance
Gannery Htoo is about to have the experience of a lifetime. Htoo is a junior at South Side High School and a student dancer in the outreach program o...
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National Acts
Larry McCray
Guitarist Larry McCray has always said a lot with his blend of blues and rock. But in recent years, thanks to a health scare and the wisdom gained fr...
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National Acts
Anoushka Shankar
Sitar player Anoushka Shankar has spent her life immersed in three cultures. Born in England, she spent her childhood shuttling between London and De...
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National Acts
Texas Tenors
Don't let the black cowboy hats fool you. The Texas Tenors aren't your typical horse-ridin', calf-ropin', tobaccy-chawin' type of cowpoke. Far from i...
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National Acts
Gabriel Iglesias
Call him "Fluffy."
Comedian Gabriel "Fluffy" Iglesias has carved out quite a career for himself telling stories about the people in his life and the...
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Festivals & Events
Fort Wayne Home & Garden Show
What is the surest sign that spring is coming? It's not the mobs of people lined up for a pre-Florida tan. And it's not the sadness at watching your ...
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Destinations
Escape Rooms
Want to make time fly? Have yourself locked in a room with a group of friends and try to solve a series of puzzles, riddles and brain-twisters with t...
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Local Musicians
Featured Musician
I had barely settled into my chair on the patio of the Venice Restaurant when Paul New Stewart asked me if I had heard of a comedian from the 1950s n...
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Local Musicians
Featured Musician
It’s been two years since Cai Caudill wandered into Canterbury High School cradling a homemade ukulele and changed not only his life but the life o...
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Local Musicians
Featured Musician
Bob Bailey has just two rules for his outstanding band, Expanding Man. Rule No.1: no drama. Rule No. 2: no rehearsals.
For some bands, the secon...
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Destinations
Destination
The worst thing about Sunday brunch at the Green Frog is deciding what to order. The best thing is realizing that it really doesn’t matter. There a...
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Local Musicians
Featured Musician
Fort Wayne is loaded with talent, and many folks toil for years without ever getting the attention they deserve. But Chris Worth has put the struggli...
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Local Musicians
Featured Musician
Being a musician boils down to two basic skills: knowing what to play and knowing when to play it. Implicit in the first, of course, is knowing how t...
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Local Musicians
Featured Musician
Things happen fast in rock n’ roll. One minute you’re throwing a band together to help out a friend, and the next you’re opening for a legendar...
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Local Musicians
Featured Musician
For the past 15 years, Jon Gillespie has been immersed in a project that could go on forever. A composer and ethnomusicologist by training, Gillesp...
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Local Musicians
Featured Musician
If having groupies is a measure of a band’s success, then Triple Play must be doing something right. Okay, maybe the word “groupie” is a bit mi...
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Local Musicians
Featured Musician
Every once in a while a band comes along and throws new light on old classic rock tunes. Juke Joint Jive are that band. With a setlist of songs by su...
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Local Musicians
Featured Musician
The last few years have been busy for Fort Wayne guitarist and composer Phil Schurger. And the way things are going, the next few are unlikely to offe...
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Local Musicians
Featured Musician
Getting out of Fort Wayne can be tough. Especially when you’re from Ligonier. But against the odds, or perhaps because of them, Jeff Rains and his ...
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CD Reviews
Local Spin
It’s been four and a half years since James Ellsworth & the Dynasorrows released Heart on Sleeve, a collection of songs tracing Ellsworth’s break...
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Local Musicians
Featured Musician
Every once in a while a band comes along and throws new light on old classic rock tunes. Juke Joint Jive are that band. With a setlist of songs by su...
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Local Musicians
Featured Musician
For Jan Krist, the singer/songwriter hosting the March 30 songwriters workshop at Come2Go Ministries, songwriting workshops, writing groups of all so...
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Local Musicians
Featured Musician
A few years ago, Nick Hornby - who wrote the novels High Fidelity and About a Boy and a small library of other things - submitted to McSweeney's Inte...
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Local Musicians
Featured Musician
The casual observer would be hard-pressed to determine the specific demographic targeted by the band Brother, especially if that informant were limi...
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Local Musicians
Featured Musician
There is a line dividing fans of country music. On one side stands the pop-country enthusiast, fans of so-called - hat acts - churned out by the Nas...
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Local Musicians
Featured Musician
Ryan, the frontman and singer for the Warsaw-based punk band Corporate Circus, says he and several of his musician buddies formed the band seven ye...
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Local Musicians
Featured Musician
The band 600 North didn't always go by that name.
In a moment of clarity, while practicing at the Huntington home of drummer
Blaine Sprinkle a numbe...
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Local Musicians
Featured Musician
The scene at Deer Park Irish Pub, on the last
Saturday in August, was like a birthday party. In fact, it was a birthday
party, a 40th birthday party...
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Local Musicians
Featured Musician
The appropriately named J Taylors – husband and wife Jonathan and Janelle Taylor – are a husband-and-wife vocal duo who perform a variety of popu...
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Local Musicians
Featured Musician
As the name implies, Loose Change like to keep things, well, loose. But in order to keep things loose Todd Kabisch, Cary Ausderan and Mike Pettit ha...
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Local Musicians
Featured Musician
As watering holes go, the Latch String is among
the more unassuming you're likely to find.
Squatting in the middle of the Northrop/Coldwater
Ro...
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Local Musicians
Featured Musician
Robby Savoie lives on 16th Street in Bloomington
in a shining example of that town's housing
stock. Though not a student, the Twelve and Two
ba...
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Local Musicians
Featured Musician
Ask G-Money about his role as host of the
All-Star Blues Jam, the weekly gathering of local
and regional blues musicians and fans held each
Mon...
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Local Musicians
Featured Musician
It's rare that a band gets hyped without so much as a demo disc or single public performance under their belt. But hype is all there is surrounding ...
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Local Musicians
Featured Musician
It was the kind of perfect moment that is normally reserved for fiction. Some friends and I were drinking at the Heorot, Muncie's finest bar, and lis...
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Local Musicians
Featured Musician
The first song on Jettingham's first album is called "Good Life." The lyrics convey the frustration of someone who is tired of people telling him how...
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Local Musicians
Featured Musician
The card he handed me said Troolie Dangerous Enterprizes, Nicholas M. Crickmore at your service.
We were sitting at a corner table at Kaghanns ...
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CD Reviews
Local Spin
Anyone familiar with the work of Fort Wayne photojournalist Ellie Bogue knows she has a good eye. With the release of her first CD, Lay Your Burden...
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Local Musicians
Featured Musician
My friend Dennis had just asked to borrow another $1.75 for another glass of Coors Light when I glanced at the digital clock glowing green on the c...
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