Blog | Jack Grace

THE BUZZ IS STILL GROWING

Buzzy Linhart passed away February, 13, 2020. He was 76. Buzzy was a musician and songwriter revered among the Greenwich Village scene of...

SPOTIFY, APPLE, STREAMING, AND STEREOS

Listening to music on the speaker of a cell phone is about as enjoyable as eating a burrito through a straw. You can get the taste but...

DRINKING ON THE JOB

Let’s say you get hired as a librarian. You go to your first day eager to please; suddenly they line up a bunch of Jameson shots to begin...

WHERE ARE ALL THE PROTEST SONGS?

You are outraged and have written a protest song. You’d like it to be a part of the catalyst for change; march out in the streets, sing...

Dumbo Americana: The Brooklyn Music Festival

The fifth annual Brooklyn Americana Festival is September 19 to 22 in several spots primarily surrounding the East River in Brooklyn, New...

HANKS SALOON HAS LEFT THE BUILDING… AGAIN…

Hank’s Saloon, a century old dive bar, is gone. It tried to reinvent itself through relocation, but it ended in an ill-fated merger with...

Paying in the Band - Top Tips from Jack Grace

Playing music live in a band is one of the greatest sensations a living being can experience; when it is right, there is really nothing...

Musicians Form Upstate Brooklyn

There was a time when Brooklyn was an artist’s bedroom community: many musicians only moved here to flee the oppressive Manhattan rents....