Art Garfunkel News

ArtsQuest's Musikfest Cafe has added blues guitarist Popa Chubby, "Classic Albums Live - The Beatles," "The Music of Simon & Garfunkel performed by AJ Swearingen & Jonathan Beedle," "Big Shot - The Ultimate Billy Joel Experience" and Bethlehem-based rockers Billy Bauer Band to its summer lineup.

The Wrecking Crew was a famed Los Angeles collective of studio musicians who backed everyone from Simon & Garfunkel to the Beach Boys in the 1960s, and the Carpenters to the Captain & Tennille in the 1970s.

WHITE FANG, COLLEEN GREEN, HEAVY HAWAII, COMASERFS Shooting pleasure levels rocket-high, Colleen Green's new album Sock It to Me dips sparkly mall pop in thick layers of guitar crunch, resulting in something like deep-fried ice cream - crispy, sweet, messy, and both hot and totally cool.

The Marquette Male Chorus is ready to perform this Friday night. They will present the Sounds of the Sixties at 7:30 p.m. at Redeemer Lutheran Church on Fair Ave.

Pune-based band Acoustrix will be performing at Olive Bistro today. Known for their regular tributes to The Beatles, the band will perform songs from the '60s and '70s. The band has, in the past,covered songs of bands such as Crdence Clearwater Revival, The Everly Bros, The Eagles, Elvis Presley, Cliff Richard and Simon and Garfunkel among others.

Having been compared to the likes of Nick Drake, Simon and Garfunkel and Elliott Smith, Iron and Wine's Sam Beam is one of today's greatest folk songwriters, crafting tales full of hopeless love and dreams of longing.

Whether you began on an electric or an acoustic guitar, there's no doubt the latter will eventually find its way into your hands at some point.

It's a transitional time for Brooklyn's Woods , as the indie rock band prepares to move out of their recording studio and home Rear House and welcomes a new drummer to the fold.

The Simon and Garfunkel Songbook introduces the acoustic guitar talents of Hugo Kleinhans, along with John Dickin on percussion, Devon van Rooyen on drums, Andre Strydom on bass and Khanya Matomela on keyboards.

The Swiss consume the most chocolate per capita then any other nation. In Switzerland, people eat an average of 22 pounds of chocolate per person per year.

As the twosome becomes the first duo to send its first two singles to No.1 on the Hot 100, a look back at the chart starts of other popular pairs.

BAND OF HORSES Singer/guitarist Ben Bridwell and company have honed the reverb and experimentation of earlier records into harmony-drenched countrified rock with their latest outing, Mirage Rock , produced by the legendary knob twirler Glyn Johns.

Imagine Dragons grew up listening to alternative and classic rock, which definitely comes through in their pop-rock sound.

Nothing goes with a star-studded movie like a a star-studded soundtrack. Whether totally original or a roundup of remakes and classics, a well-timed soundtrack plastered with A-list musicians seems destined to climb the charts.

The self-titled 2009 debut by Harper Simon son of Paul Simon and Peggy Harper was a folk-rock outing that owed a lot to his dad's fingerpicking elegance and articulate lyricism.

The National Cherry Festival is only 53 days away! More musical acts and events were announced today during a preview at the Hagerty Center in Traverse City.

Jonathan Beedle, left, and A.J. Swearingen honored Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel when they performed a retrospective of their hits Saturday at Century II.

Felix Arroyo's campaign seems to have "Si Se Puede" as its theme song. Well, if his campaign can have one, maybe other mayoral campaigns could come up with one, too.

Stanley Forman is a photojournalist who over a four-year period won a Pulitzer Prize three times while working at the Boston Herald American.

"Parsley, sage, rosemary , and thyme" figured into the song lyrics for the Simon and Garfunkel hit "Scarborough Fair." These herbs deserve a place in your garden, too, whether you have a plot of earth or a container in a sunny spot outside.