Rochester Overture caught two unconventional sonic collaborations at Sunday's Rochester Fringe Festival, featuring local musicians.
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From comedian heckling to a musical revue about baseball to Broadway songs that got the axe before making it to the stage, the ESL Rochester Fringe Festival had plenty to offer. Rochester Overture writers caught several shows on Friday and Saturday, some of which you can still see later today.
Had we prayed to the sun gods for good weather, it’s unlikely they could’ve produced a day as perfect as the final one of the Rochester International Jazz Festival on Saturday. With a high of 77, minimal humidity, and barely a cloud in the sky, it was the perfect backdrop…
A hypnotic beat, clings and clangs on the drums, and an urgent voice in a parlando of social calls all came from the voice of Brittany Davis, the blind, non-binary Seattle singer, at Montage Music Hall on Friday night. The first stop on my daily jazz festival trek was an…
“There’s no boundaries to music,” Camila Meza said in her early set in Kilbourn Hall last night. The Chilean singer-songwriter/guitarist said she was attracted to the New York jazz scene and, from there, all the beats, harmonies, and languages of Latin-American music and jazz tumbled together to create Meza, the…