That Was The Week That Was

Here’s some highlights from the past week on Nippertown:

The benefits being organized for Tess’ Lark Tavern continue to pour in:
“Poets Help Now” Benefit for Tess’ Lark Tavern
Ch-Ch-Changes: Tess’ Lark Tavern Benefits
“Laughs for the Lark Tavern”
Fundraisers, Not Fire: Tess’ Lark Tavern
And we indulged ourselves with Bryan Thomas’s Babylon, filmed in The Lark’s back room.

LIVE Reviews:
The Taj Mahal Trio @ The Egg, 5/6/10
Cowboy Junkies @ Revolution Hall, 5/7/10
OK Go, etc. @ Albany Tulip Festival, 5/8/10 and Tulip Festival: The View From the Stage
Colin Hay @ The Egg, 5/8/10
Mark Knopfler @ the Palace Theatre, 5/9/10
LIVE: Deer Tick @ Valentine’s Music Hall, 5/10/10

Joe Deuel’s exquisite photos documenting performances at Caffe Lena: here, here, here, here and here.

Music Promotion 101: Kristen Parslow shows you how.

We came to realize that no one is really sure whose shoes these are and smugly gloried in our rudimentary knowledge of drug slang.

CD review: Mark Erelli’s “Little Vigils”
DVD review: “The Guitar Artistry of Geoff Muldaur”

Five Firsts: Joel Marshall of What She Said
Five Firsts: Justin Schultz of Robo-France 29

Mark your calendar – so much to do, such tiny little boxes:
Festival Fever: moe.down, 9/3-5
Festival Fever: WILDWOODstock, 5/16
Real Good for Free: Troy’s Rockin’ on the River Concert Series
Comin’ Soon…