Holli Harms

6 days ago | thefrontrowcenter.com | Holli Harms

By Holli HarmsThe Hot Sardines is one of the best old-time jazz bands I have enjoyed seeing. Many of you may know them from their sold-out Joe’s Pub shows, and they bring that magic to the Birdland stage and making the room come alive from the first note. They are a celebration of the music of the early 20th century and a celebration of us, where we’ve been and how that relates to where we are now. Their music is rejoicing in life, in sound, in stories.

1 week ago | thefrontrowcenter.com | Holli Harms

By Holli HarmsWhat is the truth of war? The bottom line of it? People, average, everyday humans kill other average, everyday humans for a belief, a cause, a hope for a better world. That, better, of course, is always subjective, based on the wants and beliefs of the side you are on. The belief that particular members of the world are inferior, that a certain political stance overrides another. Often, the beliefs center on racism, sexism, and separatism of the other.

3 weeks ago | thefrontrowcenter.com | Holli Harms

By Holli HarmsThe ambience in the room was charged with excitement, anticipation of not knowing what to expect, and hopeful wonderment of the promise of free form expression. The theme of the evening, if there was one, “Let’s See What Happens.” And what happened at the New York Irish Center was a fusion of Irish and Brazilian Samba that created an earth-shattering beauty that is our essence, our deepest truth.

1 month ago | thefrontrowcenter.com | Holli Harms

By Holli Harms“Celia Berk: For The Record” is an evening of songs that are not that well known. Once you hear the music though, the sounds are oh so familiar, the melodies already have a place in your heart, and Celia’s vocal range will take you into the time of the heyday of jazz when life was not fraught with phones, text, emails, instagrams, and all the distractions that keep us from the beauty of the moments of everyday magic. This is s ode to the unknown songs of maestros and quiet creators.

1 month ago | thefrontrowcenter.com | Holli Harms

By Holli Harms Mingus Big Band, formed by Charles Mingus’ widow Sue Mingus, and now playing at Birdland Jazz Club, is a force to be reckoned with —emotionally charged, musically based non-stop energy. Charles Mingus, virtuoso bass player and visionary of music whose compositions transcend melody and rhythm with kinetic reimagining and human emotion, was like no other composer.