After The Weeks finished up their powerful set headlining Savannah Stopover’s free concert in Ellis Square on Saturday evening, I ended up talking to an ecstatic young woman. She works in City Market, had literally just gotten off from a…
This weirdly addictive video of Future Islands‘ recent appearance on David Letterman has now been viewed over 220,000 times: A few days after that performance, lead singer Samuel Herring and the rest of the band reprised that crazy energy at…
OK, the lighting conditions at the Congress Street Social Club were tough for last Thursday’s Savannah Stopover set by The Silver Palms, but I pulled a few decent images out. (For the photo nerds: dim lighting with a red filter…
St. Paul & The Broken Bones headlined the opening night party of the 4th annual Savannah Stopover, and many of us have learned to trust the programming of festival director Kayne Lanahan and her able staff. And, man, did they…
From USA Today: Meklit delivers a sound all her own. Born in Ethiopia and based in San Francisco, the singer-songwriter draws upon a spectrum of influences, crafting tunes that sound soulful, experimental, jazzy and even retro. (Case in point: She…
Those Darlins played their first ever Savannah gig on Friday night in a packed, rowdy, amazingly fun show at the Knights of Columbus Hall. The 12:30 a.m. show capped day 2 of the 2014 Savannah Stopover. Sometimes when you’re excited…
If you’ve been reading hissing lawns for a while, you probably know Larry Jack Sammons, who shares his voluminous weekly Magical Music Tour. Larry is a favorite of many local musicians too — after all, he saw 626 shows in…
Well I’m spent. I took a ton of photos at Savannah Stopover on Saturday and will posting many over the next few days. We’ll have posts by our other hissing lawns bloggers too (and we’ll have photos on the hissing…
Just a short post here with a few pics from my Friday at the 2014 Savannah Stopover. We’ll have some larger photo galleries and other posts coming up in the next few days. I’m so glad I forced myself to…
Just a short post here with a quick take on day 1 of Savannah Stopover. I managed to catch all or part of 9 shows last night, and I’ll likely have more to say about all of these later —…