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VersoFest is The Westport Library’s annual music and media conference and festival where knowledge is shared and inspiration is discovered — a forum for media creators, artists, and fans to converge. VersoFest includes panels where experts share their perspective and vision. Intimate workshops provide creators the opportunity to deconstruct, improve, and hone their craft. PerformancesContinue reading “Check out VersoFest 26”

Today is World Water Day. Nearly two billion people are living without access to safe water, (and it could be a lot sooner than you think in this country.) World Water Day was first formally proposed in Agenda 21 of the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.Continue reading “The driving forces of all nature”

March 22, 1978 –The seminal mockumentary about The Pre-Fab Four, The Rutles: All You Need Is Cash, directed by Eric Idle and Gary Weis and starring some people from Monty Python and some other people from SNL, premiered on NBC-TV on this date. Neil Innes, Ricky Fataar and John Halsey regrouped in 1996 to recordContinue reading “Meet The Rutles”

March 22, 1980 –The variety show The Tim Conway Show – Tim Conway’s second series with this title – produced by Joe Hamilton (husband of Carol Burnett), debuted on CBS on this date. This happened to be one of the last variety shows produced. The concept, at this point, was mostly dated. Tim Conway himselfContinue reading “The Tim Conway Show premiered”

March 22, 1947 – Another glimpse into the ‘early‘ pre-celebrity life of Bugs, the Merrie Melodies short, A Hare Grows In Manhattan, directed by Friz Freleng, premiered on this date. The bulldog in this short, though not directly identified, is Hector the Bulldog, a bulldog who appeared in a number of Sylvester and Tweety cartoonsContinue reading “Dog pile on the rabbit!”

March 22, 1963 –The Beatles’ first album, Please Please Me, was released in the UK on this date. The album went to the top of the UK charts in two months and remained there for 30 weeks. Please Please Me has been ranked in the top 50 of the “500 Greatest Albums of All Time”Continue reading “Last night I said these words to my girl”

March 22, 1984 –Queen filmed the video for I Want To Break Free at Limehouse Studio in London, England, on this date. Directed by David Mallet, it was a parody of the northern British soap opera Coronation Street with the band members dressed in drag. The video for this song parodies a popular British televisionContinue reading “Oh, you naughty Freddie”

Please match the Russian Czar (Tzar, Tsar) with how he met his untimely end: A. Nicholas II B. Peter III C. Paul I D. Peter the Great E. Ivan VI F. Alexander II 2. Struck in the head with a sword, then strangled and trampled to death in his bedroom. 3. Killed by a bombContinue reading “Another Pop Quiz bunkies”

March 21, 1964 –The Beatles‘ single She Loves You, went #1 and stayed #1 for two weeks on this date. The Beatles released a German version translated as Sie Liebt Dich in the US in 1964. They learned some German when they became the house band in Hamburg in 1962, but needed a German speakerContinue reading “Yeah, yeah, yeah”

March 21, 1952 –The first rock and roll concert was held in America on this date, when DJ Alan Freed (the man who coined the phrase “Rock and Roll“) hosted The Moondog Coronation Ball in Cleveland, Ohio. The first rock and roll concert was shut down after the first act, when it appeared that aContinue reading “Rock and Roll Music took off”