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Articles by Anjali Verghis

Chris and the Crowes continue to fly high

26 Oct 2007

When I told people I was going to see The Black Crowes, they either had no idea who I was talking about (“The Counting Crows, you mean?”) or only knew frontman Chris Robinson as actress Kate Huds...

Kirkwoods, Meat Puppets still put on a good show

19 Sep 2007

“Let’s see . . . there was our late ’90s rap album that got lost in a downloading power outage. Then there was our boy band album. That...

Sitar-playing Shankars shine at Symphony Center

17 Apr 2007

“There are so many Indians here,” commented the woman behind me as we pushed through the crowd at Symphony Center to see the sold-out Ravi and Anoushka Shankar concert. Sh...

Shortcuts—Mary Chapin Carpenter's The Calling

06 Mar 2007

I just spent the last hour deep in conversation with Mary Chapin Carpenter...

Jazz stars old and new perform solid set at CSO

06 Feb 2007

I was privileged to hear two of the finest current jazz groups at the Symphony Center on Friday night in a joint concert of the Joey DeFrancesco Trio and the Count Basie Orchestra...