GEARFEST at our PFW Sweetwater Music Center will be amazing on June 21 and 22! Come see songwriting, recording and marketing presentations from our faculty and students along with fantastic music professionals!
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National Acts
Criss Angel
In performance, Criss Angel is slightly more Saruman than Gandolf, more Count Dooku than Obi Wan. Hi...
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Festivals & Events
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Last month, American society was stymied by a quandary that required the mobilization of one of our ...
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National Acts
Roseanne Barr
When I spoke with Roseanne Barr from her home in Hawaii, she was about to embark on a short stand-up...
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Stage & Dance
Mamma Mia!
To love a jukebox musical, you have to love what’s on that particular jukebox. In the case of Mamm...
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National Acts
Scott Bradlee's Postmodern Jukebox
In 2009, Scott Bradlee was a jazz pianist working in New York City and thinking that being a pianist...
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Festivals & Events
Sol Fest
CANCELED ON ACCOUNT OF FLOODING
In 2017, Sol Fest was cancelled due to flooding on Fox Island.
The c...
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National Acts
Tim Hawkins
Tim Hawkins decided to pursue comedy as a vocation out of desperation.
“I tried everything else,...
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National Acts
Buckcherry
A few years back, Buckcherry experienced an upheaval that saw two veteran players depart the band. A...
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Festivals & Events
Jeff Corwin
I interviewed Jeff Corwin in 2001 when he was experiencing his first wave of fame, thanks to the Ani...
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National Acts
Zakir Hussain
The name Zakir Hussain does not stir instant recognition in many Americans. But in his native India,...
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Festivals & Events
Fort Wayne TinCaps
One of the surprising things about all the activity in the front office of the Fort Wayne TinCaps is...
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National Acts
Jimmy Lee Young
Singer-songwriter Jimmy Lee Young grew up in New Orleans, the so-called “birthplace of jazz” and...
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Stage & Dance
Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike
Christopher Durang’s Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike was last presented here in 2015 at Arena ...
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Festivals & Events
Under the Big Top
After years of black-tie fundraisers, the Community Harvest Food Bank decided to try something diffe...
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Festivals & Events
Plan your St. Paddy's celebration
In 2017, Fort Wayne came in at number 26 on WalletHub’s list of the best places to spend St. Patri...
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Festivals & Events
Spring Forward Fest
It was a festival whose time had come.
In fact, it’s a festival that was long overdue.
Sure, the f...
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National Acts
Los Lobos
The year was 1982. Steve Berlin was saxophonist for the storied rockabilly revival band, The Blaster...
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National Acts
Umphrey's McGee
Before social media interaction defined what fan service means, the members of Umphrey’s McGee gav...
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National Acts
John Mellencamp
Indiana has produced a number of famous musicians: Michael Jackson, Crystal Gayle, Axl Rose, and Joh...
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Festivals & Events
John Cusack plus High Fidelity
Last year, the notoriously insular actor John Cusack was offered the chance to preside over public s...
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National Acts
Jake Shimabukuro
It was Jake Shimabukuro who proved that the ukulele could be played in virtuoso fashion.
Before Jake...
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Stage & Dance
Swan Lake
It isn’t often that a 209-year-old ballet company comes to town. The Odessa National Academic Thea...
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National Acts
Rayland Baxter
When Rayland Baxter dropped out of college after a knee injury ended his athletic career, his father...
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National Acts
Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band
In October 2017, Bob Seger was forced to postpone a number of live dates on his Runaway Train tour b...
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National Acts
Kim Richey
Singer-songwriter Kim Richey took a circuitous route to a musical career. In truth, the peripatetic ...
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National Acts
Ann Wilson
Watch videos of Heart performing live in the 1970s and try to appreciate how improbable the band was...
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National Acts
The Drifters, Cornell Gunter's Coasters & Platters Holiday Show
Since the Drifters formed in 1953, there have been many incarnations of the band, some of them exist...
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National Acts
Cece Winans
A few years back, Alvin Love III came to his mother, gospel legend CeCe Winans, with an idea for a n...
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National Acts
Michael McDonald
The phrase Yacht Rock encompasses certain soft rock, jazz-rock and blue-eyed soul hits of the 1970s ...
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National Acts
Here Come the Mummies
There are two ways to interview Here Come the Mummies.
One way involves challenging their subterfuge...
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National Acts
Halestorm
Where guitarists for heavy metal bands are concerned, Halestorm’s Joe Hottinger is atypical.
Most ...
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National Acts
Craig Ferguson
When former CBS talk show host Craig Ferguson visits the Honeywell Center in Wabash on November 25, ...
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National Acts
Dweezil Zappa
For a dozen years now, Dweezil Zappa has been recreating his father Frank’s music in concert.
When...
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National Acts
Ricky Skaggs
Ricky Skaggs knows how blessed he is, even when facing a musical injury.
He won’t be able to play ...
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National Acts
David Sanborn Electric Band
Saxophonist David Sanborn is sometimes described as one of the most successful crossover artists in ...
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Local Musicians
Dirty Dozen Brass Band
Roger Lewis, longtime baritone saxophonist with the Dirty Dozen Brass Band, said his first “horns...
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National Acts
LeAnn Rimes
Since the release of her first album, Blue, in 1996, LeAnn Rimes has been a tabloid magnet.
Asked wh...
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National Acts
Dark Star Orchestra
When it formed in 1997, Dark Star Orchestra set itself a Herculean task that few cover bands have ev...
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National Acts
Charlie Daniels Band
It’s a good bet that Charlie Daniels doesn’t get asked about time travel very often, so I was ha...
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National Acts
Steely Dan
When Steely Dan performs at the Embassy Theatre on October 4, it will be without the band’s cofoun...
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National Acts
Buddy Guy
You should know why it’s important to see blues guitarist Buddy Guy perform at the Clyde Theatre w...
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Local Musicians
whatzup Pick
Electro-pop and electro-funk duos are all the rage these days.
Nationally and internationally, we ha...
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Whatzup Picks
whatzup Pick
Frogapalooza may be the best “-palooza” ever devised.
It is the annual Eagle Marsh fundraiser: A...
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National Acts
Modest Mouse
In recent years, the Foellinger has grown more ambitious in its summer programming: booking ever lar...
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National Acts
Jim Gaffigan
In 2017, Jim Gaffigan’s wife, Jeannie, underwent surgery to remove a benign brain tumor and Gaffig...
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National Acts
Anderson East
At present, R&B singer Anderson East may be more well known for his personal life than for his music...
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Festivals & Events
Brewed IN the Fort
Mad Anthony’s first craft beer festival happened 20 years ago under a tent in a parking lot behind...
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Whatzup Picks
whatzup Pick
Ask a popular music experts to name the most successful tribute acts in history, and they are likely...
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Whatzup Picks
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In August and September, Headwaters Park seems to be a place where inaugural festivals that aim to b...
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National Acts
The Flaming Lips
In 2016, Fort Wayne crossed a threshold from “almost cool” to “indisputably cool” when it wa...
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Whatzup Picks
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When B.B. King died in 2015 at the age of 89, his musical immortality was assured thanks to dozens o...
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National Acts
Jonny Lang
Jon Gordon Langseth Jr., alias Jonny Lang, was discovered in the late 1990s as part of a wave of blu...
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Stage & Dance
Curtain Call
With “Newsies,” Disney (which has proved it can do almost anything) turned a failed film into a ...
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National Acts
Jay Leno
Jay Leno said he hasn’t touched a dime of his Tonight Show earnings.
That’s a lot of dimes.
Le...
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National Acts
Blues Traveler
Blues Traveler have gone through three distinct phases since the band formed in Princeton, New Jerse...
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Whatzup Picks
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Neil Hamburger is the most famous anti-comedian since Andy Kaufmann.
In stand-up comedy, the aim of ...
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Festivals & Events
Three Rivers Festival
This year’s Three Rivers Festival is the 50th annual edition, but executive director Jack Hammer ...
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National Acts
George Clinton & Parliament Funkadelic
In April, George Clinton, aka "the Prime Minister of Funk" and "Dr. Funkenstein," announced that he...
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National Acts
The Wailers
As the son of Aston "Family Man" Barrett, Wailers multi-instrumentalist Aston Barrett Jr. is part o...
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Festivals & Events
Buskerfest
There's at least one thing that makes busking more difficult than any other kind of performing.
Wi...
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Festivals & Events
Gearfest
Sweetwater Sound’s Gearfest is not only unusual among music industry trade shows.
It is unusual ...
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Local Musicians
Little River Band
On recordings, on the radio and on stage, Little River Band are known for feel-good hits like "Remi...
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National Acts
Fitz & The Tantrums
We live in strange times.
Many once-ubiquitous pop acts that had their heydays prior to the year ...
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National Acts
Asleep at the Wheel
If you want a robust career in the entertainment business, it helps to be in the right place at the...
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Movie Reviews
Solo: A Star Wars Story
While watching "Solo: A Star Wars Story," I kept thinking of a 1979 movie called "Butch and Sundanc...
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Local Musicians
Web Exclusive
The thing that brought Utopia back together ultimately wasn't a burying of hatchets.
It was a surfe...
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Out & About
City on the Move
After Mayor Tom Henry and City Councilmen Glynn Hines and Tom Freistroffer proposed the creation of ...
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Local Musicians
Featured Musician
“It started with a kiss,” sang Aerosmith, Hot Chocolate and The Killers in various songs. Som...
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National Acts
Victor Wooten Trio
When you ring up Victor Wooten expecting one thing, you may come away with another.
Wooten is wid...
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Local Musicians
Addison Agen
On October 2, Fort Wayne's Addison Agen wowed the world (and two judges) with her rendition of Ray ...
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CD Reviews
Local Spin
Everyone should have a chance to learn an instrument, right? But with school budget cuts often targ...
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National Acts
Barenaked Ladies
Unlike many bands, Barenaked Ladies actually relishes the moments in concert when things don't go e...
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Festivals & Events
Fort Wayne Pride
If you traveled back in time about two decades and told people that an LGBT pride festival in Fort ...
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National Acts
Blue Oyster Cult
In what is arguably one of the top 10 skits in Saturday Night Live history, actor Christopher Walke...
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Festivals & Events
GearFest
There may not be another event in the world quite like Sweetwater Sound's GearFest.
Most showcase...
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National Acts
Musicians of GearFest
Terry Bozzio, one of the world's premier rock drummers, first learned about the power of music from...
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National Acts
Musicians of GearFest
It is not uncommon for famous musicians to try to dissuade their kids from getting into the family ...
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Festivals & Events
Buskerfest
Launching an event called Buskerfest was a brave thing to do in Fort Wayne in 2009.
Busking, both...
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National Acts
Joe Walsh
Most music aficionados who do not play an instrument know Joe Walsh by his nickname, "the clown pri...
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National Acts
Chicago
Before dawn every day, Chicago trumpeter Phil Cohran woke his numerous sons and made them practice ...
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Destinations
Sweetwater Sound
When renowned producer, engineer and music industry guru Mark Hornsby came to Sweetwater Sound more...
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Stage & Dance
Hal Holbrook
Actor Hal Holbrook, 91, has assayed the role of author Mark Twain on stage for more than 60 years. ...
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National Acts
Tedeschi Trucks Band
If you want to quickly understand why Derek Trucks is widely considered to be one of the best blues...
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National Acts
The Goo Goo Dolls
The Goo Goo Dolls have been celebrating three decades of existence in 2016 and more besides.
Lead...
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National Acts
I Love the 90s Tour
The 1990s were a simpler time.
In those days, people had not yet given up their search for Carmen...
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National Acts
Gallagher
Gallagher has had a rough few years: professed insolvency, multiple heart attacks and bad press for...
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Festivals & Events
Hysterium
By the time that local haunted attraction impresario Brett Molitor acquired the Haunted Cave in 201...
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National Acts
Such a Night
In 2012, Fort Wayne-native and longtime Indianapolis-based musician Bill Mallers sat backstage with...
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National Acts
Miranda Sings
In 2009, a YouTuber calling herself Miranda uploaded a video called "Free Voice Lesson."
In it, a ...
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Festivals & Events
Brewed IN the Fort Craft Beer Fest
duction and letting the music seek its own path. He says "check this out." If you like it, great. If...
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National Acts
Charlie Daniel's Band
Charlie Daniels first went on tour around 1971 and he may still be on the very same tour.
That's ...
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National Acts
America
When the British band America debuted stateside in 1972 with the hit single, "A Horse with No Name,...
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National Acts
Staying Alive
It is not known how many tribute acts there are in the universe, but it is probably safe to say tha...
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National Acts
Peter Frampton
In 1977, three pop stars vied for space on the covers of teen magazines like Tiger Beat and Teen ma...
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Festivals & Events
Fort Wayne Pride
When the Fort Wayne Pride festival debuted modestly in Freimann Square in the mid 90s, the Summit C...
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National Acts
Weird Al Yankovic
It all began with an accordion.
There aren't many tales of the rich and famous that begin that way...
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National Acts
Moonshine Bandits
Music that combines country and hip-hop calls to mind that old Reese's commercial where a guy walki...
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National Acts
Ringo Starr and His All-Starr Band
Popular local drummer and drumming instructor Todd Harrold said his young students care about exact...
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National Acts
Styx
When one of the biggest rock bands in history comes to you and asks you to be its new lead vocalist...
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Local Musicians
Steve Forbert
It takes a special sort of young man to move from Meridian, Mississippi to New York City with littl...
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Destinations
Piere's
It's hard to imagine Fort Wayne without Piere's Entertainment Center.
That doesn't mean that some...
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National Acts
Web Exclusive
THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO JOHN
If you lived in a progressive town or city in the late '80s, the so-c...
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Festivals & Events
Cherry Blossom Festival
The Cherry Blossom Festival, now in it's 11th year, has its roots in a neglected garden.
The Japan...
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National Acts
Vince Gill
When country music legend Vince Gill was first starting out, his ambitions were fixated on musician...
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Festivals & Events
Michiana Wine Festival
Nichole Thomas, Cristal Reader and Lisa Beber are three wine-loving friends who are willing to trav...
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National Acts
Andy Kindler
For two decades and counting, Andy Kindler has regularly done one of the scariest and gutsiest thin...
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National Acts
Jerry Seinfeld
After his groundbreaking sitcom ended on a high note, Jerry Seinfeld kept a low profile for a few y...
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Local Musicians
Love Hustler
There is much that is atypical about Love Hustler.
For one thing, the band practiced and tinkered ...
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National Acts
Marcus King Band
Ask guitarist Marcus King about where he got his love of music and you will hear a story that sound...
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Festivals & Events
8th Annual Northeast Indiana Playwright Festival
By Steve Penhollow
The Northeast Indiana Playwright Festival, in its eighth year, happens all day S...
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National Acts
Pink Martini
When Thomas Lauderdale's parents got divorced in the early 80s, he and his mother moved from Kosciu...
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Local Musicians
Oferle
As band names go, Oferle is a great one. It evokes the word "offer" but with an enigmatic twist sug...
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CD Reviews
Fort Wayne Funk Orchestra
If you want to celebrate some achievement in your life or curse some setback in Irish wake fashion,...
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CD Reviews
Local Spin
If you want to celebrate some achievement in your life or curse some setback in Irish wake fashion,...
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Local Musicians
Featured Musician
Shelly Dixon’s musical idols are Melissa Etheridge, Bonnie Raitt and Stevie Nicks, among many oth...
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Writers & Books
Mark R. Hunter
In his teens, Mark R. Hunter dreamed of becoming a full-time firefighter and a bestselling author....
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Local Musicians
Featured Musician
None of the five members of the Be Colony is older than 24, and yet they are all talented and creat...
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Local Musicians
Featured Musician
When Gregg Bender, longtime Journal Gazette illustrator and frontman of his eponymous band, was a t...
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Local Musicians
Featured Musician
Roughly a year after the Legendary Trainhoppers performed their last gig, the band’s bassist, Dam...
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