Queens Library's Blog

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A Ride Down Country Music’s Backroads	As of last month, New York City has a country music station again. That’s great, but the country genre has a vast and rewarding back catalog that may be more appealing than some of the...	0	07-02-2013	02-07-2013	No	jwalsh	1	Read More..	1 Comment Login to comment	Music	Library	Beatles, Country, Dolly Parton, Garth Brooks, Gram Parsons, Jack White, Jimmie Rodgers, Johnny Cash, Loretta Lynn, Merle Haggard, Nashville, Patsy Cline, Ringo Starr, Toby Keith, Willie Nelson	Jeremy Walsh	0	Blog entry
Happy Birthday to a Legendary Percussionist	January 15 marks the birthday of one of the greatest drummers of all time: Gene Krupa. Born in Chicago in 1909, Krupa had been groomed for the priesthood by his parents, but decided to go his...	1	08-01-2013	01-02-2013	No	jwalsh	0	Read More..	Login to comment	Music	Library	Benny Goodman, big band, drummers, Gene Krupa, jazz, KISS, Martin Scorsese, Neal Peart, Peter Criss, Rush, Taxi Driver, World War II	jwalsh	20	Blog entry
"Casablanca" at 70: That Piano, That Song (And That Songwriter!)	2012 marked the 70th anniversary of the classic 1942 film Casablanca. We hope you made it out to one of Queens Library’s free screenings of the movie. You may know that recently, Sotheby...	0	04-02-2013	12-12-2012	No	jwalsh	0	Read More..	Login to comment	Music	Library	As Time Goes By, Broadway, Casablanca, Dooley Wilson, Herbert Hupfield, Humphrey Bogart, Ingmar Bergman, jazz standards, piano, songwriting, World War II, WWII	Jeremy Walsh	0	Blog entry
My First Album: The B-52’s	The topic of “my first album” seems so quaint and odd in this modern age of immediate downloading of virtually any song you could imagine, streaming audio, and file-sharing. ...	0	11-10-2012	10-11-2012	No	rschnell	0	Read More..	Login to comment	Music	Library	albums, B52s, dance this mess around, Music, records, rock, songs	rschnell	0	Blog entry
It’s All About Armstrong at Queens Library…This Weekend and Always!	Louis Armstrong, the legendary jazz musician and longtime resident of Corona, Queens, bequeathed a huge legacy to the world, with much of it right at our fingertips, right here in our borough! This...	5	17-01-2013	09-07-2012	No	prodadmin	0	Read More..	Login to comment	Music	Library	free concert, jazz, Lincoln Center, Louis Armstrong, Music	Mary Kearl	100	Blog entry