Jim Farber

1 week ago | theguardian.com | Jim Farber

Thirty years ago, when the music writer Jim Abbott tried to track down the “lost” folk singer Jackson C Frank, he had no idea what he’d find. All he had to guide him was a tip from an old associate of Frank’s to go to a housing facility in Queens, New York, where he was told he was living. When he finally arrived there, the man he saw bore no relation to the Frank he was expecting. “All I had to go on was his album cover from 1965 when he was much younger and looked pretty dashing,” Abbott said.

4 weeks ago | sfcv.org | Jim Farber

Long Beach Opera could not have found a more ideal setting for its time-defying production of The Library of Maps: An Opera in Many Parts than the Art Deco splendor of the RMS Queen Mary. From the moment you crossed the gangplank onto the great ship’s Promenade Deck, you entered a different world, a floating historical relic where the ghostly spirits of generations mingled — from the glamour of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald to the wide-eyed wonder of today’s tourists.

1 month ago | msn.com | Jim Farber

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1 month ago | independent.co.uk | Jim Farber

InterviewThe Scottish singer-songwriter has long found inspiration in other musicians, including the curmudgeonly Van Morrison who had one snarky song dedicated to him back in 2020. Scott speaks with Jim Farber about the wild life and times of his latest subject Dennis HopperOver four decades ago, when Mike Scott started The Waterboys, the very first song they released saluted the art of somebody else. “A Girl Named Johnny”, issued in 1983, swooned over the androgynous daring of Patti Smith.

1 month ago | sfcv.org | Jim Farber |Peter Feher

“Banned!” That was the succinct title of VOX Femina Los Angeles’ concert on Sunday, March 23, at the Wilshire Ebell Theatre. The program, conceived and conducted by the 42-member female choir’s founding artistic director, Iris S. Levine, could not have been more perfectly timed as libraries across the country take books off the shelves at the direction of government administrations, politicized school boards, and the like.