Show Reviews

by Brittany Rotondo On a cool, damp Friday night at The World Cafe Live, the energy is palpable. Seems Mother Nature couldn’t stall this sold out crowd even if she tried. Opening the set is multi-talented rapper and spoken word poet, Kuf Knotz. Originally from New York, the Read More

by Erinn Fortson I am stickler for arriving to Free at Noon performances early. This most recent Friday was no exception. I was the first to line up behind the attendee entrance and the first to literally stand front and center at the helm of World Café Live’s stage. The Read More

by Jane Roser The first time I sang the old Carter Family tune “The Titanic” in public, I was sitting at a large dinner table in a dacha located in a small Russian village in the Ural Mountains. The town mayor was across from me and our host, a former KGB agent, was Read More

by Joseph Tingle It’s 9:30 pm Monday night, and Dylan has just taken the stage at Wells Fargo, accompanied by the cacophonous warm-up of his band. Moments earlier Mark Knopfler had encored, offering perhaps his only appeal to the greatest hits crowd in his set for evening. Read More

by Erinn Fortson I look around the crowd and it’s immediately clear that I’m not the only audience member enchanted by Lianne La Havas. Not only does the singer have an incredible voice, but she also has a charming personality to match her talent. “No, you’re awesome”, La Havas Read More

  Music unintentionally breaks barriers. It has the power to bring people of various backgrounds together through a common interest, temporarily setting aside any conflicting differences. Often times no one seems to care about or notice another’s age or skin color when Read More