Author: Editor - the Local

The notion of standing on the shoulders of giants feels especially true when discussing music and the arts. In jazz, as Louis led to Dizzy, and from Dizzy we got Miles, we can often directly attribute our successes to our mentors and heroes. From my father, my first guitar teacher Crisanto Bautista, my jazz teacher Paulo Siqueira, to David Morgan and through Dr. David Banks who invited me to the Columbus Jazz Society in the…

“My dad was a bluegrass guitar player and loved traditional country, bluegrass, and gospel,” Charlie Starr says when asked what music he heard as a child. “My mom liked the Stones, the Beatles, and Bob Dylan. And my sister liked Rock 103.” Speaking by phone two days before Christmas from his Atlanta-area home, Starr – a Chattahoochee Valley native, having bounced across the river a few times growing up between Chambers County, Alabama and Troup…

Music, sweet music, filled the air in downtown Columbus on a warm Wednesday evening in November. The streets were alive and abuzz as middle-aged rock and rollers poured out of restaurants and bars on Broadway, giddy to see classic rock favorites “Foreigner” on their farewell tour stop at the RiverCenter. Meanwhile, the sweet sound of live music wafted from the Loft’s balcony onto the street below and baptized believers and non-believers alike. Such a vibrant…