Word: funs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Melt into the audience and enjoy the thrill of a vicarious performance. That's part of the fun...realizing that that could be you up there! Even if you've never touched a guitar, you'll have a great time just tapping your feet--just don't kick your cider on to the guy next...
Speaking of selling out, Herbie Hancock is coming to town this weekend with his "All-Star Funk Unit", also a part of the Globe Festival. We can all have fun sticking up our noses at disco, funk, and other repetitive mood music, but when musicians of Hancock's caliber choose this route it forces some serious questions. Hancock is a terrific jazz musician who rose through the tradition and then (many would say) abandoned it to form the Headhunters, a prototypical jazz-funk fusion group. The Headhunters brought Hancock mass appeal of a kind never before experienced by a jazz...
WHARTON'S WRITING quietly expresses the ultimate humanity of the two boys. Wharton writes cleanly, simply. His words let Birdy fly. Wharton's writing is fun and inventive. For example, about canaries: "They were put in cages because they sang and now they sing because they're in cages." Or, on feeding birds: "I try to think what it would be like to have some gigantic bird come and stick his claws into the window of my room with some potato chips or a hoagie...
...crawled across the finish line in 3:29.59 I would've been happy," she tells me. She says, "I just though it'd be fun." She's modest. She says she "wasn't aware" of her position until near the end of the race. "I just wanted to qualify for the Boston Marathon," she says...