Author: mick

HAIR counter cultural musical Opening Night Thursday 1-31-19 730pm 2 Acts Running thru 2-10-19 Mixed Blood Theater-West Bank-Minneapolis Music by Stephen Houtz, JD Lee and mick laBriola  

Blown by fast winds from a hot, massive star, this cosmic bubble is huge. Cataloged as Sharpless 2-308 it lies some 5,200 light-years away toward the constellation of the Big Dog (Canis Major) and covers slightly more of the sky than a Full Moon. That corresponds to a diameter of 60 light-years at its estimated…

Charles Douglas “Charlie” Musselwhite (born January 31, 1944) is an American electric blues harmonica player and bandleader, one of the white bluesmen who came to prominence in the early 1960s, along with Mike Bloomfield and Paul Butterfield, or bands such as Canned Heat. He has often been identified as a “white bluesman”. Musselwhite was reportedly…

Philip Glass (born January 31, 1937 Baltimore, MD) is an American composer. He is widely regarded as one of the most influential musicians of the late 20th century. Glass’s work has been described as minimal music, having similar qualities to other “minimalist” composers such as La Monte Young, Steve Reich, and Terry Riley. Glass describes…

Roosevelt Sykes (January 31, 1906 – July 17, 1983) was an American blues musician, also known as “The Honeydripper“. Sykes was born in Elmar, Arkansas, and grew up near Helena. At age 15, he went on the road playing piano in a barrelhouse style of blues. Like many bluesmen of his time, he travelled around…

Cliff passed away on 1-29-19 He was a friend of mine and had tuned my old second double tenor set of pans. I met him when he played with Shangoya in the 80’s. A wonderful musician and steel pan maker and tuner. He had taught at St Paul Central HS and formed the Compas Steel…