I am looking forward to this lively and engaging dialogue with Tom Meyer this Saturday, April 7th.
The Strypes are the best young rock band in Ireland. Last weekend they killed it at the U St. Music Hall and the crowd could not get enough. I saw Miles Davis at Bohemian Caverns on U St. in the mid-sixties, and this was the best show I have seen on U St. since that […]
I was sad to see that photographer Nitin Vadukul passed away at the age of 52. Govinda Gallery had one of the first exhibitions of Nitin’s photographs as part of the Hip Hop Immortals exhibition we had in the spring of 2004. He photographed Barack Obama that same year. I would visit Nitin in his […]
Chris Murray, Tom Meyer and Chris Addison. Photos by Carlotta Hester. Addison/Ripley gallery in Georgetown was the place to be last Saturday evening. An overflow crowd came to enjoy the first showing ever of Tom Meyer’s remarkable paintings, organized in association with Govinda Gallery. It seemed everyone went home with one of the artist’s works. […]
This Sunday is George Harrison’s 75th birthday. The world is a better place with George having been born. He inspired so many people. Govinda Gallery has exhibited master photographs of George Harrison by Harry Benson, Barry Feinstein, Baron Wolman, Mark Seliger, Linda McCartney, David Kennerly, Michael Cooper, Henry Grossman, Jim Marshall, Jurgen Vollmer, Astrid Kirchherr […]
Music’s ‘ground zero’ was in downtown Washington Saturday night, as The Wailers and Tedeschi Trucks Band were playing at the same time a block from each other, at Hamilton Live on 14th Street and at the Warner Theater on 13th Street. Such a powerful musical vibration had not aligned in such a spectacular way in […]
Bruce Springsteen, along New Jersey shoretowns, 1973. © Estate of David Gahr. Last month I went to see Springsteen on Broadway, one of the finest theatre performances I have seen in my lifetime. Springsteen not only entertained the audience in the most artful way, he also raised their consciousness. Outside the Walter Kerr Theatre on […]
A great gig and a great brunch can be had Sunday, February 25th, at Hamilton Live, and all for a good cause, The Kara Kennedy Fund, in support of Horizons Greater Washington and its “academic, cultural and recreational programs, designed to empower economically disadvantaged students to realize their full potential.” Kara Kennedy was a good […]
Addison/Ripley Fine Art, in association with Govinda Gallery, is presenting the first exhibition of Tom Meyer’s remarkable paintings. Artist Tom Meyer painting in his studio. Photograph by Chris Murray. A self-taught artist, Meyer’s exhibition, Narrative Visions, happens to coincide with the National Gallery of Art’s first ‘Outsider’ exhibition, Outliers and American Vanguard Art. Both are […]
Donovan seems to be everywhere at the moment. Sky TV’s engaging new series Britannia is using Donovan’s “celtic rock” song, Hurdy Gurdy Man, as its musical theme for the series this year. Jimmy Page played the amazing guitar licks on Hurdy Gurdy Man. Here is the trailer for Britannia, with Donovan’s song. I’m psyched to […]