Archive for the ‘randy shields’ Category

YAHOOMANS IN PARADISE: WHERE THE WEIRD THINGS GO

Sunday, March 4th, 2018

TO DONATE TO BigO, USE SKRILL As of now, we have stopped all restarts of older shows to reduce ...

THE TOMATO PIE AWARDS: TOP TEN MOVIES OF 2017

Wednesday, January 3rd, 2018

TO DONATE TO BigO, USE SKRILL As of now, we have stopped all restarts of older shows to reduce the cost ...

FAREWELL TO THE WIZARD: THE MUSIC OF KEITH EMERSON

Wednesday, March 16th, 2016

JUST TO LET YOU KNOW To reduce spamming, the BigO website is going through Cloudflare. What it does is scan your browser to ensure the visitor is not a spam. Do not be alarmed as this usually takes only a few seconds. Email us if you still have difficulty accessing the ...

AIN’T NO NEW THING

Sunday, October 14th, 2012

On May 27, 2011, poet, spoken-word artist, musician and author Gil Scott-Heron died in New York. He was 62. Randy Shields still remembers the man. The commanding voice that named the names, that directed a musical letter of rage (air mail special) to whitey on the moon, and lived to see ...

THE LAURA NYRO INCARNATIONS

Wednesday, October 3rd, 2012

I’m gonna take a day off from hating America - I’ll be back on the job tomorrow - and, instead, rhapsodize about Laura Nyro. I was inspired by a performance I saw this past week at the Sellersville Theater of “One Child Born,” a one-woman play/performance about Nyro and the ...