Word: concert
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Steve Hoss, the drummer, delivered the surprise of the evening. Hoss had flown to Rochester earlier that day to teach and returned to Boston for the concert before traveling to Europe for another show. His passionate playing contained sounds reminiscent of the same African drumbeats that lead to the beginnings of jazz. Lonnie Plaxico on bass, who had lost his waist-length dreds for a shaved look, rounded off the quartet...
...with the rest of Boston to WBMX 98.5's MIXFEST, a free concert featuring all sorts of great bands and artists. Elvis Costello, Bruce Hornsby, Heather Nova and Blue Man Group headline the acts on Saturday, and then the hip, happening, trendy, Canadian and actually good Barenaked Ladies play on Sunday. 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Saturday and noon to 8 p.m. Sunday. City Hall Plaza (Government Center T-stop). FREE. You can call me Pavlov...
...culminating atop Carlton Hill with a huge bonfire. The city center will then be transformed into one blazing outdoor party for some 200,000 hardy celebrators. Nightly festivities will continue throughout the week. While much of the entertainment is free, tickets are required for such events as the rock concert in Princes Street Gardens, which will have a floodlighted Edinburgh Castle as its backdrop. Though the Scottish city can be cold in late December, wool sweaters, drams of single-malt whisky and drafts of Guinness will no doubt ward off the chill...
...Choral concerts are planned for every evening, with organizers hoping to sign up the incomparable Three Tenors--Jose Carreras, Placido Domingo and Luciano Pavarotti--for a New Year's Eve Concert of Hope in Manger Square...
...Boston, and even to the modern classical music world are unparalleled on today's music scene. In 25 years he has brought a broader symphony repertoire to a larger audience and ceaseless energy and grace to an art form many consider dead. Nothing short of Sunday's enormous concert--an outreach in itself--should have been considered to celebrate the Maestro's extraordinary contributions...