From Combo Corner to the World: the Diaspora of the Winston-Salem Sound Community Event Thursday, April 29, 2021 - 7:00pm to 8:30pm
MUSE Winston-Salem is launching the new, monthly Arts and Performance Programming Series and this will be the perfect kick-off! We re partnering with the Ramkat to bring you a fun musical program about Winston-Salem and North Carolina music. Our panelists are author David Menconi and two legendary Winston-Salem musicians: Chris Stamey and Peter Holsapple.
Menconi’s new book Step It Up & Go: the Story of North Carolina Popular Music, from Blind Boy Fuller and Doc Watson to Nina Simone and Superchunk was released last October on UNC Press. You can purchase this book at Bookmarks with a discount, by following this link: https://www.bookmarksnc.org/NCMusic and using the code MUSIC21.
Corona In India: Policy, Ethics, Politics And Corona - संक्रमण चार्ट में शीर्ष पर भारत: नीति, नैतिकता, राजनीति और कोरोना amarujala.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from amarujala.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
The numbers are stark and scary. The magnitude of the wave is expounded by the data. India is topping the infection charts again. On Friday, the country recorded over 1.4 lakh new COVID-19 cases and over 700 deaths that is over 100 cases every minute and a death every two minutes. The force of the surge, some epidemiologists estimate, may see daily case count triple and the death toll can top 2,000 by mid-May.
The spectre unfolding across India represents failures at multiple levels policy, politics and personal behaviour. Most importantly, it represents contextual amnesia the collapse of collective accountability, the quarantine of reason and lockdown of pro-active public policy response across states even as the pandemic was alive and kicking. The tragedy of commons is exacerbated by the failure of those in positions of power and influence to deploy the ‘power of example’.
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2020 was an exceptionally chaotic year, for the world in general and the music community in particular, and 2021 doesnât seem like itâll be smooth sailing either. Yet a kaleidoscopic array of Nashville musicians continued to make great music in abundance.
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Sceneâs music writers have nine new recommendations of recent releases for you. Note that Bandcamp Friday, the promotion in which the platform waives its cut of sales on the first Friday of each month, is coming back from at least February to May. If youâre saving up, you can add these to your shopping list and put them in your streaming rotation.