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Over the past few years many of country music’s male stars have hit the charts with songs that celebrate beer, girls and trucks. Pretty much all of them focus on the moment, like snapshots taken at a wild party, heated by bonfires and cooled by swimming holes. Trace Adkins knows that life well. But on his new album, the 55-year-old superstar takes us to a quieter place.  Something’s Going On  is more about reflection that revelry. There’s plenty of romance in the title cut, heartbreak in  If Only You Were Lonely  and redemption in the triumph of love over pain in  Whippoorwills  And Freight Trains . But each tells its story with a depth that’s rare in any kind of popular music. “Whether I wrote it or it’s something one of my friends wrote for me, these songs are about maturity,” he says from his Tennessee farm on a rare day off from his 80-date concert tour. “I’ve reached the age where I can’t sing a lot of those lyrics that the younger ...

We are about to begin a three month work cycle with BROOKLYN REZOUND with the support of  Exploring the Metropoli s. We are bringing in two new performers, editing our material and filling out the skeletal structure that we developed last fall. We are still fundraising with a final deadline set for February 1st. If we raise $70 every day we will reach our minimum goal! All funds will be used to cover our performers’ fees. PLEASE MAKE A PLEDGE TO OUR CAMPAIGN (further notes from our process) In the Q&A session after our last performance at BRIC, Anaïs Maviel said that the choir allows her to work beyond herself and be involved in a greater energy than she could otherwise engage. The epic scale of the work we’ve laid out for ourselves in 2017 is as exhilarating as it is humbling. “Epic” form is a telling of history that identifies a people; integral to this classic form we work with the story of each performer—thus we’re situated in the contradiction of a ...