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Music, Mentoring, & Design

Music, Mentoring, & Design

Well hello there! As soon as the ice melts, salty seas, baby whales, butterflies and Hummingbirds all call me up to play. Summer Fun has always been about nature for me, with so many challenges, it can be overwhelming finding ways to help our poor planet. But here are...

Songs For Mary Launches at Minotti Boston

Songs For Mary Launches at Minotti Boston

Top Boston-area Designers, Musicians, Artists, Producers, and Esteemed Guests packed Minotti Boston on February 7 to celebrate the Songs For Mary Soundtrack release.   My sincerest gratitude to all who made this night happen! Thank you to our Speakers!Thank you...

Two Award Winners Merge Design Dreams 

Two Award Winners Merge Design Dreams 

Dawn Carroll is launching a collaboration with award-winning kitchen and bath designer Rosemary Porto, who left her long-term position as Senior Designer for Poggenpohl in Boston last year. The two have been close friends and collaborators for decades, and are...

Rise! A Conversation With the Past

Rise! A Conversation With the Past

By Larry Katz A rap song pleading for the preservation of the home of an opera company? Unexpected. But no more unexpected than the collaboration between a 29-year-old Houston rapper, Michael Berry, and a 60-year-old Boston songwriter, Dawn Carroll. The two partnered...

JON BUTCHER – MAKES AN HISTORIC STOP ON HIS MUSICAL JOURNEY

JON BUTCHER – MAKES AN HISTORIC STOP ON HIS MUSICAL JOURNEY

By Larry Katz JON BUTCHER has covered a lot of ground in his long career. A guitarist, singer, songwriter and producer best known as the leader of the hard-rocking Jon Butcher Axis, he’s spent much of the past 30 years creating music for television, movies and...

Tell Tchaikovsky the News

Tell Tchaikovsky the News

By Larry Katz Music can surprise you. It can sneak into your head, penetrate your soul and become a part of you, sometimes against all expectations. More than 30 years ago, Dawn Carroll was a hard rock singer when she heard a piece by Tchaikovsky that has stuck with...

Crack The Bat – The Ballad of Roberto and Manny

Crack The Bat – The Ballad of Roberto and Manny

By Larry Katz On New Year’s Eve, 1972, a plane carrying baseball legend Roberto Clemente crashed off the coast of Puerto Rico. When his Pittsburgh Pirates teammate Manny Sanguillen heard the news, he sprang into action. Sanguillen spent days diving into churning,...

“SLOWLY” CAME IN A FLASH

“SLOWLY” CAME IN A FLASH

By Larry Katz The call came deep in the night, a call to speak out that roused Dawn Carroll from sleep. Words came to a song she needed to write. Carroll’s mind had been churning after she chanced to see a TV interview earlier that evening. It was part of a piece shot...

Jonnet Solomon – An Extraordinary Treasure

Jonnet Solomon – An Extraordinary Treasure

By Larry Katz One day in 2000 while driving along Apple Street in Pittsburgh, Jonnet Solomon noticed a historical marker in front of a large, abandoned house. Solomon, a young woman who had emigrated to the United States from Guyana in 1984 with her family when she...