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Born in Manhattan, raised in New Jersey, matured in Paris, Asheville, and Brooklyn, Megg Farrell’s music encapsulates all of her travels and experiences into one beautifully eclectic blend of honest simplicity and musical sophistication. When she was 16, she began singing blues music her father taught her and her own original tunes the East Village. At 18, she left New York for North Carolina and worked along the river learning folk traditions of the South. A few years later she moved to Paris to study jazz. Her music retained the stomp of the Southern influence and the blues of her childhood influences but added a new level of vocal and harmonic complexity. She now lives in Brooklyn where she has been professionally singing in the jazz world for four years. Her newest concoction Megg Farrell & Friends has brought her full circle back into her original music. She performs with musicians from the jazz word performing country numbers, blues, and her original folk. In 2016 she released her first full length album Fear Nothing which sprung this group into action. Fear Nothing is a mix of songs she has written throughout these years of growth, travel, romance, sorrow, and unabashed joie… (read more)

I carried him to my neighbor’s house. Sure enuf, the last hutch on the end was cocked open and it was empty. I took that rabbit and folded him…into a rabbit position. Put a smile on his lips. all three of ‘em. Gave him a camel filter and leaned him up against the wire.

As I sit staring at the healed fracture on my x-ray, as the doctor guides my hand to the corresponding place on my lower back and I feel, yes, a tiny calcified lump, a frozen pea beneath the skin, I am struck by the strangeness of it all. We think we know our bodies, these shells of blood and muscle and tissue and bone, but they lead lives of their own, they keep secrets from us. We inhabit them but they remain unknowable, elusive, brave, carrying on with the business of living, despite our accidents and choices and incursions and foolishnesses.

Ezekiel 34:8 “… and my flock became prey to every beast of the field because there was no shepherd …”

Sir Samuel Griffith, credited with drafting the bulk of Australia’s Constitution, was educated in Maitland in the late 1850s when his father was a Congregational church minister in the town. 

In this edition of the Pulitzer Prize–winning holiday classic by David Lang, the emphasis is on the Passion aspect of the work: the audience is the congregation and is invited to participate in the performance, contributing interstitial hymns and songs that are familiar to all, and that bind us as a community.

“Is this the vet?” asked an authoritative voice. “This is Dr. Black,” I said nervously. “My name is Dr. I.M. Good, I’m an M.D. from San Francisco; internal medicine.”

[Hour One] Raw opened with a “Night Before Christmas” themed preview of the various matches… The broadcast team was Michael Cole, Corey Graves, and Renee Young…

Despite my qualms about the logic of the interior spaces, the ground floor gas station and mechanic’s shop are very well executed. The gas pump island even includes a water bucket with a squeegee.

The Herald dedicated four pages and a poster to the “fairytale” of the Japanese Grand Prix win in Motegi where Stoner was crowned winner, saying he and his Ducati “overcame rain, a chaotic mid-race pit stop and the challenge of the great Valentino Rossi”.

Heunis Steel believes it is on par with international manufacturers. It has everything under one roof in its factory, ensuring a good flow of materials. This includes the distribution of the finished goods to the warehouse, and from there to the trucks. Double handling has been brought down to the bare minimum with most things being containerised.

Before the art of song was divided into narrow stylistic slices, before there was Jazz or Pop or Rock, there was Nightclub Singing. Like Sammy Davis, Jr, Ethel Water and Mel Tormé before him, Julian Fleisher mixes masterful interpretations of a wide range of popular songs with kick-ass showmanship and a generously endowed band that — as the Washington Post put it — "blew the roof off of Joe’s Pub. "I have seen the future of vocal Jazz! He’s got a marvelous, resonate baritone, with impeccable intonation, and a wonderful choice of material…talented, funny and hip."- LA Jazz Scene, East/ West Connections