London Calling

 ABOVE: Image of the Tower Bridge courtesy London and Partners British 18th Century poet Samuel Johnson once wrote: “When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.”  He was absolutely right — and the city has only

Violin virtuoso gets set to descend upon the Alpha Art Gallery

 Drenched in sweat, the crowd noise still ringing in his ear from where he’s just left them dazzled and riotous, the man they call Dr. Draw finally takes a breath and lowers his instrument. He has a moment to remember the words Bon Jovi rocker Richie Sambora once told him.

Invitation to the Blues

 Photos courtesy of Blues & Company Before 1993, Kevin Ficzere was living a regular life filled with bills to pay, kids to raise and work to do. Then he got the blues. First he found a guitar God. A still self-professed Hendrix junkie, Ficzere discovered the legend in the late

Under the Influence with Philip Sayce

 Imagine, if you will, growing up on a musical diet cooked up by you parents' record collection. The needle drops and Stevie Ray Vaughan, Hendrix and BB King, legends of guitar, write the script of your youthful fantasies of one day, just maybe, you would play even a slice of

Back When Every Night Was Saturday Night

 By Jean-Pierre Allard I was much too young to remember Elvis Presley’s 1957 concert at the old Auditorium on Argyle, but how can I ever forget when the Beatles invaded North America in February 1964 and changed our humdrum existence overnight?  Having just lost my dad a few weeks before, the