By Richard Burnett for Curtains Up @bugsburnett There is an ancient Greek theatre on the southern slope of the Acropolis in Athens called the Herodes Atticus Theatre, built by the Greek aristocrat Herodes Atticus in 161 AD. Some 1,800 years later, another Greek, the musician Yiannis Hrysomallis – better known by his stage name Yanni […]
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Heart raise the roof in Montreal, the city that launched band’s career
By Richard Burnett for Curtains Up @bugsburnett Heart’s longtime love affair with Canada – and Montreal in particular – dates back almost 40 years, to the night in 1976 when they were fired from Lucifer’s nightclub in Calgary, back when Heart was just another bar band . “I made some disparaging remark about the club […]