Category: Past Articles
Extensive catalogue found at Bryce Harmon, Author at The Murfreesboro Pulse.
Contributing F&P Authors found in Category, “Local Writing.”
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![Lillie Mae and Family’s Festival Eyes Release @ The [OG] Basement, November 17, 2023.](https://folkandproper.news/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/IMG_9942-rotated.jpg)
Lillie Mae and Family’s Festival Eyes Release @ The [OG] Basement, November 17, 2023.
Walking into Nashville’s The Basement, November 17, last year, as an ambient mix of traffic and outdoor PA systems chaperone into the second generation-historic, sister-addition to the 8th Ave… “[Lillie Mae]’s at the OG Basement,” said a Basement East crew member setting up the empty venue for the next event. “Yeah, we’ve already had a…
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5 Spot Hot Dad Bod Rock
“When I look over and I see Nate crushing the bass, and Tony killing it, and Alex doing the things he does, and Ben hittin’ the rhythms, it’s so therapeutic. It’s therapy that’d be priceless to try to even pay for it all. These guys keep it going, for sure,” Lee Ramsey said.
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William Womack’s, “The Hotel”/WNXP, Bobby Nashville Rooftop Concerts/Great Barrier Reef Live(s)!
As he drove hurriedly down the street, he couldn’t help but notice the sun was shining. It was supposed to be a cloudy day; there was even a small chance of rain. He liked the rain. Rain, darkness, and clouds; these all fit his personality. The sadness that permeated his life was still very much…
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Under the Jefferson St. Bridge: Bob Dylan’s Rough and Rowdy Ways at the Brooklyn Bowl, Marches 26th, 27th
Songwriter/Musician, Bob Dylan, made an appearance at Nashville, neon-laned bowling alley/music venue, Brooklyn Bowl Nashville, March 26-27, 2024, to promote his latest album, Rough and Rowdy Ways, just a stone’s throw down the hill from the Nashville-Metro courthouse. Rough and Rowdy Ways was released out of Columbia Records, June 19, 2020. As segmental as the rest to Dylan’s unofficially,…
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Be Belcourt Member: Ethan Hawke, post-Wildcat q&a; Maya Hawke @ The Blue Room, 6/1; Molly Frances, The Basement, 5/22
Actor/Director Ethan Hawke (Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead, First Reformed) visited Nashville’s Belcourt Theatre, May 8, 2024, to discuss his most recent movie and directorial debut, Wildcat, his 2023 biographical adaptation of the latter life and works of American, Southern Gothic author, Flannery O’Connor (1925-1964), with a discussion/question and answer forum, in tow. Hawke…
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Hatch Show Print, January 18, 2024; Haley Gallery’s Winter; Emmylou’s Live at the Ryman
Nashville, Tenn. – Downtown Nashville’s “Smithsonian of country music,” The Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, opened in ‘67 on Nashville’s Music Row (“the neighborhood attracted music industry firms after WSM announcer David Cobb referred to Nashville as ‘Music City, USA,’ during a broadcast in 1950″), becoming accredited by the American Alliance of Museums…
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A Prairie Home Companion celebrates 50 Years @ Ryman Auditorium (in Hymn & Harmony, again), Jan 11, 2024; Mead’s musical; Keillor drops F-bomb on stage
Nashville, Tenn. – Early 70’s, Opry’s final-Ryman-days-inspired, radio, variety program, A Prairie Home Companion, performed at mutual, area-mother church, Ryman Auditorium, January 11, 2024, to not only turn host, Garrison Keillor’s newly found opportunities to lead full Ryman Auditorium audiences in hymn, patriotic, and secular harmonies, back into tradition, but to celebrate America’s staple-wholesome, A…
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The Cosmic Perspective: Neil deGrasse Tyson @ TPAC, Feb 26, 2024; Nashville (Metro) Officially Recognizes Life Work of Dr. N.d’G.Tyson; Another Jack White, Nashville moment
Nashville, Tenn. – Neil deGrasse Tyson dropped by the Tennessee Performing Arts Center, Monday, February 26, 2024, to present The Cosmic Perspective, his somewhat comprehensive macro-view of a (slightly corrected) modern world a la Dr. Tyson’s well-known, jovial media personality. The topic is chosen by the inviting city from a list offered by Dr. Tyson upon invitation, according to…
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Be Belcourt Member: Jack White’s Joan Baez/Susan O’Connor Interview, Oct. 20; …WPLN-sponsored, “Kids of Rutherford County” discussion, Nov. 29.
To “a sold-out show of mostly Belcourt members and their guests,” Nashville non-profit film center, the Belcourt Theatre, ran the Joan Baez biopic, I Am a Noise (released Feb. 17, 2023; directed by Karen O’Connor, Miri Navasky, and Maeve O’Boyle) from October 20 through November 9. The opening night included an appearance by internationally acclaimed…
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Growth in “Pedal Taverns”: Saxophonist Don Aliquo’s Hidden Nashville Jazz Collective in The Gulch
Nashville, Tenn. – Shouldered against a stonewall-elevated, neighborhood service spur off-shooting the main Chattanooga Subdivision at 8th Ave. S. and Gleaves St. (the Chattanooga Subdivision is the major CSX Train line that runs through Murfreesboro, directly connecting Chattanooga and Nashville), Rudy’s Jazz Room has been hiding MTSU Jazz Faculty/tenured area saxophonist, Don Aliquo, Jr. in…
