by Deb Martin | May 29, 2021 | Culture, Entertainment, Featured, Featured, Music
Bandleader, composer, musician, entrepreneur – Jon Batiste’s moment is now KEY OF LIFE Jon Batiste gives an impromptu concert on a Steinway & Sons baby grand piano, looking out over the city from the 79th floor of 3 World Trade Center. Batiste stands in...
by Alice Teeple | May 25, 2020 | Culture, Featured, Featured, Music, Power Women
Lesley Barth has often wrestled with a sense of feeling like an outsider in her own life. The questions arising around the key to happiness; a sense of identity that deems outside validation unnecessary; the corporate grind. What is it all for, in the end?...
by Downtown Magazine | Apr 22, 2020 | Entertainment, Featured, Music
With a powerful voice, Yoli Mayor wants her music to be real and mean something to others. Besides her singing, Yoli Mayor, a Cuban American has also written and performed in plays and dabbled in jewelry and clothing design. With a powerful voice, YOLI MAYOR wants her...
by Alice Teeple | Nov 29, 2019 | Culture, Featured, Featured, Music
By Alice Teeple Photos by Alice Teeple Christine Smith takes a drag from her well-deserved cigarette outside the Bowery Electric. She’s just wrapped a spectacular solo performance for her sophomore album release, Meet Me On The Far Side Of A Star. It’s fitting this...
by Alice Teeple | Aug 24, 2019 | Culture, Featured, Music
Natalie Clark By Alice Teeple Scene: Hot August night, secret location in SoHo. A hundred people sit on the floor, eagerly awaiting the show. A petite, raven-haired woman enters the room with a merry wave and vermillion red smile. She thumps her guitar,...