Porthole

Support your local musicians ... please.

PROMPT March 10th

What artist or band do you always recommend
when someone asks for a music recommendation?

Easy answer. Anyone local!

Literally. Live, in person, sitting close enough to see their zits. Nothing better.

I went to a trad session in Cork at Sin E. A visitor who knew how to dance on a board joined in. Locals hushed and heads turned. He was a professional dancer who just decided to join in.

I sat on a porch in Tahlequah listening to Cherokee drum, squeeze box and fiddle. I wrote about one of the musicians putting his cigarette 'on pause'. That's music.

I went to see Celia in a coffeeshop in Kansas. She's very accomplished and still does gigs around the US but she's not well-known. But her beautiful voice and nutty characters like the Pink Trestle Fairy should be.

Support the local cover band, the starving artist, the group playing on the street corner. That's who I recommend. Anyone who still has enough flesh to hug post-covid. They are the keepers of music.