What has happened or may happen in the local music scene
From time to time it is kind of fun to go back and look at how we got here. For WOAS-FM, ‘here’ means ‘still here as we enter our 40th year on the air’. While yours truly has been in Ontonagon as long as the station has been on the air, I was more […]
Would the Porcupine Mountain Music Festival’s 13th edition prove to be a convergence of bad luck? For people who suffer from triskaidekaphobia, it would seem that PMMF # 13 would have been the one to avoid. For those of us who harbor no such fears, we would have found that the unnatural fear of […]
There are many categories of band gigs: teen dances, wedding receptions, private parties, and bar gigs make up the normal mix for most bands. To my personal list, I could add playing in a tent at the U.P. State Fair and gigs in churches (both in the basement and the sanctuary). Again, bands from just […]
After many months of teasing – Jack Spann’s new CD hits the streets on June 16th! We have been sent frequent updates on the new album by Spann’s producer Gary Tanin at Daystrom Records in Milwaukee. We will be going on summer hiatus about the time Beautiful Man from Mars hits the street, but […]
It is always interesting to hear the sound bites that the news media gather in the graduation season. Every person tabbed as a graduation speaker will put their spin on “Oh the places you will go”, with some resorting to reading the whole tome of the same name written by the late Dr. Seuss. […]
Saturday at the Singing Hills Stage kicked off with an artist I was not familiar with. Reading Seth Walker’s biography was like a geography lesson: born in North Carolina, he has also spent time in Jacksonville, Florida, Austin, Texas, Nashville, Tennessee, and his current home port, New Orleans, Louisiana. His music is likewise from all […]
Our usual modus operandi for August is to dust off the broadcast board and spend the week before the Porcupine Mountain Music Festival cranking out tunes by past, present, and even possible future artists who have (or might) grace the PMMF stages. As a result, I end up with a pretty good working knowledge of […]
Were we nervous? Probably, but not as nervous as one would expect playing in front of an audience of 2,000 at the spring all school talent assembly. The reason we were not overly nerved up is because a couple of months earlier, we had played for a crowd of 4,000 who had come from all […]
Searching for an article to reference, I realized that the list has gotten a bit out of hand. Here is the CHRONOLOGICAL LISTING of FTV articles through 2016 (with 2017 being added to as time goes on) to make it easier to find past articles I may reference from time to time (who was it that […]
Okay. His name was really Dwight Kater, but every time I listen to the band Chicago, I think back to Dwight, therefore, Dwight Chicago is how I remember him. When Dwight and his family first came to Marquette, they lived in the faculty housing units on Center St. two blocks from my house and halfway […]