Janelle Finton/Kellin Hanas’ Trumpetpalooza @Fulton Street Collective, Or, What Is This Feeling? (It’s Two Trumpets)

"I want you to look to your left," Hanas told the crowd in a sassy-yet-serious voice as she wore a tiara, pianist Nicholas Olynciw vamping behind her, "Do it. Look to your left. Now you look to your right. What do you see? A person? No, you see a friend...I think the spirit of friendship is here with us tonight."

April 3, 2025 0

Beyond Standards Trio @Cooper’s Corner, Or, Learning To Love “Happy Birthday” While The Bar Yells At The TV

Perhaps it wasn’t exactly the way the great Sonny Rollins would envision it - a typical Winfield crowd celebrating someone’s 60th birthday (give or take) does contrast with the folk songs of the 1930s Virgin Islands - but it did make everyone happy, much like that song does.

August 1, 2023 0