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Skylar Saufley: local blues wunderkind gets down and wows audiences on his way up

Posted on November 7, 2018September 2, 2024 by Tom Ingram

Getting compared to Eric Clapton is a big deal for any blues guitarist, and 23-year-old Skylar Saufley frequently draws the comparison from those who are captivated by his playing. Born in Virginia, Skylar moved to Columbus in the 3rd grade, when his father was stationed at Fort Benning. He’s been here ever since and considers himself a Columbus native, but when people hear him play, they often ask, “where did he come from?” Some also…

(Not a) Naive Melody: this must be the place for songstress Emily Stilwell

Posted on July 27, 2018July 27, 2018 by Tom Ingram

“I don’t sound like I look—people say that to me all the time,” Emily Stilwell explains when asked how such a big-volume, bluesy vocal delivery can arrive from such a diminutive stature. Talking over a noon-hour coffee and pastry last month at Fountain City Coffee, the 26-year-old singer-songwriter discusses both her musical inspirations and inhibitors in an unassuming, full-disclosure fashion—a refreshing blend of humility, honesty and artistic purity—shortly before her shift at Whitewater Express…

Strange Brew: Gentlemen jammers Mango Strange prepare for lift off

Posted on June 12, 2018June 29, 2019 by Tom Ingram

During certain times at select places, if you pay close enough attention, you can sense a scene being born. Thick as humidity, high as a Georgia pine and real as red clay, the buzz building around the ascendant local rock band was palpable in the sultry summer air during their Saturday night set to close out the Frogtown Jam last month. Faces familiar from gathering every Wednesday night to catch Mango Strange at their Loft…

PAWS Humane: Barks and Blues Festival 2018

Posted on May 12, 2018 by Tom Ingram

Get ready to mark your calendars because the third annual Paws Humane Society Barks & Blues Festival is happening on Saturday, May 19. Due to the overwhelming popularity of the event, we are moving the concert venue to Woodruff Park this year so music lovers and their dogs can “get down” to the tunes of some of the most sought out bands in Columbus. The 2018 Barks & Blues Festival will be a slightly…

Music, May 2018

Posted on May 9, 2018 by Tom Ingram

Selwyn Birchwood @ The Loft May 5, 9:30 p.m., The Loft, 1032 Broadway, Columbus Odd Alice @ Legends May 5, 9:30 p.m., Legends, 5762 Milgen Road, Columbus GP38 @ The Outskirts May 5, 9 p.m., Ouskirts Sports Bar & Grill, 5736 Veterans Parkway, Columbus Almost Kings @ Outlaws May 5, 9 p.m. – midnight, Outlaws Saloon, 6499 Veterans Parkway, Columbus John Bonamassa @ RiverCenter for the Performing Arts May 6, 8 – 11 p.m., RiverCenter…

Lloyd Buchanan: That Gospel Groove

Posted on April 13, 2018April 13, 2018 by Tom Ingram

Like most Georgia-grown musical geniuses, Lloyd Buchanan’s roots run deep in the church. Raised in a house where secular music was forbidden by strict motherly decree, his first exposure came from watching his grandfather, Ernest Childs, Sr., wow crowds as part of gospel vocal quartets. “I grew up with a bunch of guys in a gospel quartet that was a younger version of what my grandad was doing,” Buchanan explains over coffee. “We would spend…

Strong Signal: Creating a Columbus music scene with DJ Cashflow

Posted on February 26, 2018 by Tom Ingram

by Frank Etheridge Four men wait in the dark of a January night outside the locked back door of iHeartMedia’s offices on 13th Avenue. Smoking and standing next to the towering metal-frame broadcast antennas—their radio reach maximized from this placement atop the western edge of a hilltop neighborhood once called Boogerville—they’re from Atlanta and here to see DJ Cashflow. About 45 minutes before the start of his “Cashflow Radio” program on Beat 98.3FM—on the air…

Music, February 2018

Posted on February 3, 2018February 2, 2018 by Tom Ingram

Faculty Recital: Natalie Higgins, horn Feb. 4, 4 p.m. Legacy Hall, RiverCenter for the Performing Arts, 900 Broadway, Columbus Guest Artist: Emily Brebach, english horn Feb. 4, 7:30 p.m. Free. Legacy Hall, RiverCenter for the Performing Arts. 900 Broadway, Columbus Guest Artist: Brian Meixner, euphonium Feb. 6. 6:30 p.m. Free. Legacy Hall, RiverCenter for the Performing Arts. 900 Broadway, Columbus Bobaflex returns to Soho Bar & Grill Feb. 8, 7:00 p.m. – midnight, Soho Bar & Grill, 5751…

The Stuff of Legend: Larry Mitchell lives the life of world-class musician, devoted son

Posted on January 12, 2018December 28, 2017 by Tom Ingram

By Frank Etheridge Larry Mitchell is a traveling man. Reached by phone in mid-December, Mitchell was on the road in Virginia. In this week, sandwiched between his 53rd birthday and Christmas, Grammy-winning guitar wizard Mitchell had played a gig with jazzman Stanley Jordan in New Jersey, composed a score for a theatre production directed by Jim Henson’s daughter, Heather, outside of Washington, D.C., before teaching music to special-needs children in Virginia. Perhaps best known…

Music, January 2018

Posted on January 1, 2018December 28, 2017 by Tom Ingram

The Arbitrary / Psycho Hill / Foolery at The Estate Visit Columbus’s only do-it-yourself music venue for live music. $8. Jan. 4, 7 – 10 p.m., The Estate, 1231 Midway Drive, Columbus Alabama Avenue at Soho Playing southern rock, classic country and fun party songs, Alabama Avenue returns to one of Columbus’s favorite music venues. Jan. 6, 10:30 p.m. – 1:45 a.m., Soho Bar & Grill, 5751 Milgen Road, Columbus Post Nothing / Crushed!? /…

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