His father and uncles fought in France alongside the Americans in WWII, and Gerard Alcantara grew up immersed in the American jazz sounds of Glenn Miller, Duke Ellington and Count Basie. He instinctively recreated the sounds of the large instrumental ensembles with his voice, not realizing that what he was doing was called, “scat singing”.

Every once in awhile you run into someone with a knack for living, someone who just ‘lives’. And it’s not always quiet or pretty or perfect. But most of the time it is. And even when it’s not, you know it is just something better about to happen.

Patti Holladay is that person.

The most recent edition of “Podium”, the publication of the Atlanta Federation of Musicians reflects a sobering state of affairs, for musicians at least.
On the front page, local president John Head outlines an attempt at planning a move to a more modern model.
Inside, Michael Moore paints a colorful, powerful and depressing picture of a once [...]

Phil McKenna, a fixture on the avant garde music scenes in Atlanta and upstate New York, has launched a new services enterprise in Atlanta called, ‘4 The Boids‘.
Heeding the guidance of the universe, and following the rich advice of Marsha Sinetar in “Do What You Love, The Money Will Follow” Phil set out to form [...]

August is hot every year in Atlanta. But this year, there’s a lot of hot, new stuff coming out of the studio at Earthshaking Music in the East Atlanta Village. . When Evan Tyor, Luke McGinnis, Joshua Orbulous, Jessie Lane and Simon Reiter get together, it makes for an amazing creative mix of music and fun.