world cafe live

by Andi Bricklin Long before most of us fell in love with everyone’s favorite curly haired spectacled contestant on Season 7 of The Voice, Matt McAndrew was a student at UArts in Philadelphia, trying out his tunes on the patrons of Fergie’s Pub during open mic night.  These days Read More

by Andi Bricklin Long before his four-chair turn on Season 7 of The Voice, Luke Wade was writing and recording with his band No Civilians back home in Texas.  “I was working on The River from about October 2013 until maybe March 2014.”  The album was released, but promotion got Read More

by Dan Williams Ray Benson is asked all the time how his Philadelphia roots led him to Texas to become today’s best-selling practitioner of Western Swing in the world.  The nine-time Grammy winning leader of Asleep at the Wheel compared the perceived disconnect to Van Read More

by Jane Roser “Brothers and Sisters! Our song is on the radio in the United States of America. Yes, I am famous. Chicks are gonna dig us!” Alan Doyle was having fun joking with the audience at his solo show last week at The Birchmere. He continues to win hearts Read More

by Adam McGrath Hopefully Aly Spaltro doesn’t mind if I call her a rocker chick. The diminutive musician known as Lady Lamb more than earned the moniker upstairs at World Café Live Wednesday night. Playing to a large, youthful crowd, Spaltro and the two men who make up her rhythm Read More

by Tom Noonan Drew Holcomb sounds content.  Not just on his newest release, Medicine, which was released in January and recorded, as always, alongside his sturdy stable of “and” collaborators known as “the Neighbors”, but also in the way he talks about the music he’s making right Read More