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Doug Heselgrave

Anoushka Shankar Uses Music to See Beyond Boundaries

Anoushka Shankar Uses Music to See Beyond Boundaries

It was a riveting image that was seen around the world. The photograph of the lifeless body of Aylan Kurdi, a small Syrian boy washed up on a Turkish beach that gave a human face to the almost incomprehensible suffering of thousands of Syrians who were risking everything to flee

Bob's Route 66

Bob's Route 66

I went to my first concert in the summer of 1973. It was a triple bill featuring Bachman Turner Overdrive, Bob Seger and Charlie Daniels. I wasn’t really a fan of any of the artists and would never have gone to see them were it not for a cousin

Miles Davis at Newport 1955 - 1975

Review by Douglas Heselgrave A new four CD box set featuring highlights from Miles Davis’ appearances at the Newport Jazz Festival 1955, 1958, 1966, 1967, 1969, 1973, 1975 as well as from Newport Jazz Festival in Europe 1971 With the dozens of albums he released during his lifetime, and the

Old World Strings : Home By Anoushka Shankar

Review by Douglas Heselgrave Some things can’t be written about without diminishing them. Anoushka Shankar’s newest CD of Indian classical music, ‘Home’ is like that. After listening to it over and over again for the past week as Vancouver continues to suffer through a grass crunching, dust inducing

Time Passes Quickly: Bob Dylan - The 30th Anniversary Concert Celebration (CD/DVD Review)

Time Passes Quickly: Bob Dylan - The 30th Anniversary Concert Celebration (CD/DVD Review)

When the 30th anniversary concert was announced and advertised as a pay per view television special, the event seemed curious and as if it came out of nowhere. To be sure, the 30th anniversary of Bob Dylan’s arrival in New York and everything that grew out of the cultural

Nora Guthrie on Woody Guthrie’s Wardy Forty - Greystone Park Hospital Revisited

Nora Guthrie on Woody Guthrie’s Wardy Forty - Greystone Park Hospital Revisited

"Woody Guthrie's Wardy Forty," by Philip Buehler in Collaboration with Nora Guthrie and The Woody Guthrie Archives Review and interview by Douglas HeselgraveWhen Nora Guthrie invited me to call her at her home to talk about ‘Woody Guthrie’s Wardy Forty’, I took it as a

Dave Van Ronk – Down In Washington Square

Dave Van Ronk – Down In Washington Square

It’s been nearly forty years since I first heard an old Dave Van Ronk record at a friend’s house near my old high school, and it’s probably been about a dozen years since I’ve given his music much thought at all. There was a flurry of