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Guest Review: Ballister and Vandermark/Wooley/Lytton at Bop Stop

Nate Wooley                                                                                        Fred Lonberg-Holm

If you’re reading this page, it’s fair to assume that for you, creative music is life. It certainly is for me, yet sometimes life intervenes. That happened last week when a veterinary emergency demanded what little energy I had after a mad dash to the April 15 tax finish line. I was whupped, and not even the crash-cart energy of a New Ghosts double bill of Dave Rempis’ Ballister band and the trio of Ken Vandermark, Nate Wooley and Paul Lytton could rouse me to leave the house.

Fortunately, my colleague and fellow western Pennsylvanian Mike Shanley is made of sterner stuff. Not only did he make the drive from Pittsburgh, he blogged about it on his shanleyonmusic site. Mike and I have similar tastes, and if you like what you read here, his blog is well worth a follow (bless you, Mike, for enabling RSS).

Commitments, finances and, of course, life, will keep me away from some events I would otherwise like to cover, but inasmuch as this blog is a way to magnify the NEO scene, I’d love to publish guest posts about creative music in NEO. If you’re interested, hit me up on the Contact page–but not until you read Mike’s review. It’s good.