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...would this professor hire a grad student with little interest in a state famous for potatoes? Because in this market, she’s happy to have anyone who can offer a firm commitment as opposed to a conditional offer (“Well, if the New Hampshire gig doesn’t come through?...
Musician Eric Rosser intended to die in Bangkok, the "City of Angels." Here, the former piano player for faded American rock star John Mellencamp found a haven. He had an attractive Thai wife, a young son, a luxury apartment and what he once described as the best gig in town: playing piano at the century-old Oriental Hotel's Bamboo Bar. The city's monied set showered him with invitations to cocktail parties and they enrolled their kids at the thriving Rosser Piano Studio. "This is a fulfilling life," Rosser told the Bloomington Herald Times, his Indiana hometown paper...
...hard to picture samuel beckett rocking out, but once you clear that mental hurdle, it's easy to imagine Beckett grooving to DAVID BAERWALD. From his days as half of the '80s pop duo David + David to his gig co-writing Sheryl Crow's Tuesday Night Music Club, Baerwald has written about the misery of life and the imperative to go on. On Here Comes the New Folk Underground, his first album in 10 years, Baerwald remains the prince of rain, singing "Love is eternal as long as it lasts/ Good times come, then they pass." The lyrical dourness...
...bookstore called Passim. But the demand for folk music never died down, and they soon found themselves “forced into booking music again,” according to Smith. The Donlins were soon doing so well, they at one point turned Bruce Springsteen down for a gig...
...venue has a low-key feel by the nature of its set-up, with a window right on street level through which passers-by often crouch down to look in on the concert. At one point in his gig, Williams invited in some people he knew who had held up signs in the window cheering...