Lewis was interviewed by the trade magazine in Las Vegas, as part of a special edition focusing on performers still working in their 10th decade.
Young begins with Vashti Bunyan, who wrote plaintive songs while travelling across industrial England by horse and cart, and focusses on performers who drew on, and updated, notions of a bygone pastoral time.
Although other Connecticut museums have music series, the Aldrich's is distinguished by its focus on contemporary performers.
One of the most passionate and knowledgeable historians of the vaudeville era, with a focus on black performers, Delilah Jackson will present "Harlem Is Heaven," a program on the days of the Cotton Club and the Apollo.
At that point, it becomes a community project: do we shush the offender, thus adding to the commotion, or stifle our fury and try to focus on the performers, who themselves are desperately trying to act through their rage (or, in Patti LuPone's case, breaking loose all hell).
The karaoke atmosphere is relaxed and decentralized, the focus on the performer is intense but ever-shifting, with the spotlight moving on to the next contender the moment a song is over.
The attention paid to the actors' accessories also had to be focused on the performers themselves.
Much of Ms. Smith's work focuses on jazz performers, though her range of subjects is wide.
54 Below, he said, will have a unique niche, focusing on Broadway performers and falling somewhere between mid-priced, downtown spaces like Joe's Pub and pricier rooms like Café Carlyle, Feinstein's and the Oak Room.
In "Nollywood," his latest body of work, currently at the Yossi Milo Gallery, Mr. Hugo once again focuses his camera on performers, only this time his subjects are actors from Nigeria's surprisingly robust film industry, which is apparently one of the largest in the world.
