Like most freelance writers, I dabble in the odd spot of ghost writing. Without wishing to open the factory door, this involves preparing drafts that may – or, most likely, may not – be tweaked by the ...

Musical talent tends to run in families. Think of Ann and Nancy Wilson of Heart, Rufus and Martha Wainwright, Colin and Jonny Greenwood of Radiohead, or The Jackson 5. But long before those musical ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — Despite being hit by the March tornado and feeling the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, Fanny's House of Music is planning a major expansion. The East Nashville music shop ...

Fanny’s House of Music opened in Five Points 12 years ago this month, and quickly became a cornerstone of the neighborhood. An alternative to the Guitar Centers of the world, the homey shop owned by ...

Brie Howard-Darling, Patti Quatro, Mia Huggins and June Millington at the Kansas City screening of Fanny: The Right To Rock at Screenland Armour Theatre, Oct. 4, 2022. For musicians, nothing is ...

Walk into Fanny's House of Music in East Nashville, and you'll see women. Women teaching music lessons. Women selling strings and picks, guitars, basses, amplifiers and straps and banjos and mandolins ...

There was a time when a woman stepped on stage in front of a rock audience at her own peril. “When you’re a woman in rock, you’re regarded as a freak — it’s hard on the ego,” Jean Millington of Fanny, ...

Once ridiculed as the hilariously embarrassing accessory of choice for fat American tourists, the fanny pack is now a practical piece of party gear for hot, young EDM fanatics. At music fests such as ...

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For musicians, nothing is stronger than the bond between performer and audience. It's an intangible joy that makes a live concert experience unlike any other, and it's what brought Kansas City, Mo.