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Bluegrass Keeps Growing

Tri-State Bluegrass Festival

If it’s Labor Day weekend, it must be time for some serious pickin’, with acoustic string instru...

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Inspiration from Isolation

elle/the Remnant

Hicksville, Ohio, seems an unlikely place for a pair of musicians to have formed a bond, or for that...

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Skies I've Learned How To Love

elle/the Remnant

When local band elle/the Remnant released Skies I’ve Learned How to Love in January 2018, it must ...

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A Taste of Arab Music & Culture

Arab Fest

The 4th annual Arab Fest kicks off the summer festival season with a lineup of world-renowned perfo...

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A Finger Pickin' Weekend

Northern Indiana Bluegrass Festival

The mission of the Northern Indiana Bluegrass Association is simple: to introduce and promote blueg...

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Phil Schurger / Echos of the Ancestors

Local Spin

It’s often said that musicians spend their whole lives working on their debut albums. As a result...

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Horizon Arcs

Featured Musician

It’s not unusual for a band to change its name. It happens a lot for a variety of reasons. A name...

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Writers & Books

Deborah Kennedy

Featured Writer

Weird stuff happens in writer Deborah E. Kennedy's fictional world. In the case of her compelling d...

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Catching the Wind

The Accidentals

Watching The Accidentals perform is like hitching a ride on a rocket. Savannah Buist and Kati...

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In a Key All His Own

Ben Folds

Ben Folds has the appearance of someone you might find spilling off your couch the morning after a ...

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Art

A Convergence of Artists

Oil Painters of America

Oil painter John Michael Carter spends a lot of time traveling the world looking for scenes that ex...

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A Passion for Rock n' Roll

An Evening With Doc West

For 37 years, Rick "Doc" West has skillfully welcomed and introduced hundreds of rock bands to doze...

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Kzoo's Baddest Band

Zion Lion

Regardless of what anyone says, summer isn't over until after Labor Day weekend. The kids may be lo...

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Forging a Cultural Community

Roots Rock Society

It's turning out to be a good summer for Stann Champion. On July 1, the Chicago-based musician took...

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Indiana Landscape

Rick Wilson

The artist Rick Wilson lives and works in Edinburgh, Indiana, a small town whose central location b...

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Stage & Dance

New Fuzz on an Old Peach

Fairy Tale Fest

Fort Wayne Youtheater can never be accused of shying away from a challenge. Or from controversy. Re...

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Blues the Chicago Way

Toronzo Cannon

Toronzo Cannon sounds like the name of some kind of space weapon. It isn't. Toronzo Cannon is the...

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Preserving Independents

Record Store Day

Ten years ago Bob Roets was more than a little concerned about the financial viability of his busin...

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Let's Go for Even Bigger!

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 r...

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Stage & Dance

Display of Creative Force

Battery Dance

Gannery Htoo is about to have the experience of a lifetime. Htoo is a junior at South Side High Sch...

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Expressions of Soul

Larry McCray

Guitarist Larry McCray has always said a lot with his blend of blues and rock. But in recent years,...

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The World to Our Doorstep

Anoushka Shankar

Sitar player Anoushka Shankar has spent her life immersed in three cultures. Born in England, she s...

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Voices As Big As Texas

Texas Tenors

Don't let the black cowboy hats fool you. The Texas Tenors aren't your typical horse-ridin', calf-r...

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Putting Himself Out There

Gabriel Iglesias

Call him "Fluffy." Comedian Gabriel "Fluffy" Iglesias has carved out quite a career for himself te...

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Everything You Can Imagine

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-Flori...

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Destinations

You Got to Get In to Get Out

Escape Rooms

Want to make time fly? Have yourself locked in a room with a group of friends and try to solve a se...

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Paul New Stewart

Featured Musician

I had barely settled into my chair on the patio of the Venice Restaurant when Paul New Stewart aske...

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Secret Mezzanine

Featured Musician

It’s been two years since Cai Caudill wandered into Canterbury High School cradling a homemade uk...

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Expanding Man

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Bob Bailey has just two rules for his outstanding band, Expanding Man. Rule No.1: no drama. Rule ...

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Destinations

Green Frog Inn

Destination

The worst thing about Sunday brunch at the Green Frog is deciding what to order. The best thing is ...

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Chris Worth

Featured Musician

Fort Wayne is loaded with talent, and many folks toil for years without ever getting the attention ...

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BC Fuzzz

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Being a musician boils down to two basic skills: knowing what to play and knowing when to play it. ...

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B45s

Featured Musician

Things happen fast in rock n’ roll. One minute you’re throwing a band together to help out a fr...

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Jon Gillespie

Featured Musician

For the past 15 years, Jon Gillespie has been immersed in a project that could go on forever. A c...

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Triple Play

Featured Musician

If having groupies is a measure of a band’s success, then Triple Play must be doing something rig...

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Juke Joint Jive

Featured Musician

Every once in a while a band comes along and throws new light on old classic rock tunes. Juke Joint...

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Phil Schurger

Featured Musician

The last few years have been busy for Fort Wayne guitarist and composer Phil Schurger. And the way t...

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Rains

Featured Musician

Getting out of Fort Wayne can be tough. Especially when you’re from Ligonier. But against the odd...

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Clusterfolk / Circle the Wagons

Local Spin

It’s been four and a half years since James Ellsworth & the Dynasorrows released Heart on Sleeve,...

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Juke Joint Jive

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Every once in a while a band comes along and throws new light on old classic rock tunes. Juke Joint...

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Jan Krist

Featured Musician

For Jan Krist, the singer/songwriter hosting the March 30 songwriters workshop at Come2Go Ministrie...

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Clusterfolk

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A few years ago, Nick Hornby - who wrote the novels High Fidelity and About a Boy and a small libra...

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Brother

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The casual observer would be hard-pressed to determine the specific demographic targeted by the ba...

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Huckleberry Blue Band

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There is a line dividing fans of country music. On one side stands the pop-country enthusiast, fan...

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Tone Junkies

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Ryan, the frontman and singer for the Warsaw-based punk band Corporate Circus, says he and severa...

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600 North

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The band 600 North didn't always go by that name. In a moment of clarity, while practicing at the ...

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The Distractions

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The scene at Deer Park Irish Pub, on the last Saturday in August, was like a birthday party. In fa...

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Vandolah

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The appropriately named J Taylors – husband and wife Jonathan and Janelle Taylor – are a husban...

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Loose Change

Featured Musician

As the name implies, Loose Change like to keep things, well, loose. But in order to keep things lo...

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Deuce

Featured Musician

As watering holes go, the Latch String is among the more unassuming you're likely to find. Squ...

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12 And 2

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Robby Savoie lives on 16th Street in Bloomington in a shining example of that town's housing s...

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G-Money & The Fabulous Rhythm Kids

Featured Musician

Ask G-Money about his role as host of the All-Star Blues Jam, the weekly gathering of local an...

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The Legendary Trainhoppers

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It's rare that a band gets hyped without so much as a demo disc or single public performance under...

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Chris Shaffer

Featured Musician

It was the kind of perfect moment that is normally reserved for fiction. Some friends and I were dr...

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Jettingham

Featured Musician

The first song on Jettingham's first album is called "Good Life." The lyrics convey the frustration...

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Troolee Dangerous Blues Revue

Featured Musician

The card he handed me said Troolie Dangerous Enterprizes, Nicholas M. Crickmore at your service....

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Ellie Bogue / Lay Your Burden Down

Local Spin

Anyone familiar with the work of Fort Wayne photojournalist Ellie Bogue knows she has a good eye....

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