![]() ![]() The Journal News was part of the USA Today Network, which is owned by the Gannett Company. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, which claimed nearly 100 local residents who had been in Lower Manhattan that day. I worked there from 1995-2002 and wrote about potholes, planning board meetings and police news an FBI bribery investigation the Northern Ireland Peace Process and the Sept. I quit that job after a year to travel then got hired at The Journal News in Rockland County, where I grew up. Immediately after graduating, I took a job at a weekly newspaper in Rhinebeck. I came to Ulster County in 1990 to study journalism at SUNY New Paltz. What’s your story and how did go about becoming one of the key chroniclers of our always-evolving and very fertile music scene? We usually begin by asking when or why people came to the Hudson Valley. Here are some of Barry’s thoughts on this remarkable and still on-going musical event and his two decades-plus living and covering the ever-changing music beat in the Hudson Valley. He attended an abundance of Rambles and recorded conversations with the music legend as he traveled to gigs, recorded and hung out with friends and family at his famous barn homestead on Plochmann Lane. To create this unique backstage history, Barry literally became embedded with Helm. In his new book, veteran music journalist John Barry provides an insider’s look at the history of the Midnight Ramble, something that continues today under the direction of Helm’s renowned singer/songwriter daughter, Amy. These were intimate, homespun affairs that attracted an astounding variety of A-list musicians from around the world. ![]() This series of weekly concerts in the barn home of Helm, the legendary drummer/vocalist of The Band, were born out of desperation – the need to shore up the beloved musician’s finances as he faced bankruptcy, eviction and battled vocal cord cancer. When most people think of Woodstock, the first thing that comes to mind is the famous and famously soggy music festival that took place more than 60 miles away in Bethel in August of 1969.īut if you wanted a musical event that best exemplifies the fraternal and altruistic spirit of this small tuneful burg, it would be Levon Helm’s Midnight Ramble. ![]()
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