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NPT Music Monthly December 2009

Published on November 30, 2009 By Joe Pagetta

We know Nashville is a great music town, and sometimes we want to shout it out to the world — “there’s SOOOO much going on here! More than you even know!” That’s what makes our biannual production of Christmas at Belmont so dear to our hearts. Produced by NPT locally and taped at the Schermerhorn [...]

NPT Music Monthly October 2009

Published on September 30, 2009 By Joe Pagetta

A couple of years ago, I caught Tom Waits perform at the Orpheum Theatre in Memphis during a rare trek for the artist through several Southern states. In the encore, he played a stirring version of his beautiful and lyrical anti-war lament “Day After Tomorrow.” In the song, a soldier writes home, exhausted from a [...]

NPT Music Monthly August 2009

Published on July 29, 2009 By Joe Pagetta

Over lunch last week with a friend, the topic of Leonard Cohen came up. My friend said that everyone she knows tells her that she should love Cohen. Everything about him — his acquired-taste voice, lyrical poesy and under-the-radar existence — fit her profile for music she should like. For some reason, however, she didn’t. [...]

NPT Music Monthly July 2009

Published on July 2, 2009 By Joe Pagetta

July marks the end of the first round of episodes of the locally-produced music show Legends & Lyrics, and the lineup of songwriters and local connections couldn’t be better. With legendary classic songwriters such as Jimmy Webb, Ed Bruce and Jessi Colter, and contemporary classic songwriters such as John Hiatt, Shawn Colvin and Phil Vassar [...]

NPT Music Monthly May 2009

Published on April 30, 2009 By Joe Pagetta

There’s a joke in Nashville that goes like this. Somebody is telling a story, and the story includes a famous person, though only because including the famous person might make the story more interesting. “I was at this party the other night talking to (famous person),” the storyteller may say. At this point, you, the [...]

NPT Music Monthly March 2009

Published on February 27, 2009 By Joe Pagetta

You have probably figured out by now that pledge drive months mean big concert events and special programming. I’ve always considered it a gala event on the air, where the diverse entertainment includes Johnny Cash, Roy Orbison, Andrea Bocelli, Alison Krauss, James Taylor, Elvis Presley, David Foster and more. That said, I can’t recall in [...]

The NPT Music Monthly October 2008

Published on October 3, 2008 By Joe Pagetta

The NPT Music Monthly for October ‘08 has been sent to subscribers and is up on the wnpt.net news page (under latest news) now. It’s the complete listing of all the music programming coming to NPT this month, including Janis Ian, Jakob Dylan, Bettye LaVetta, The San Francisco Symphony and plenty more. Subscribe for free [...]