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Kat Violin On the Prowl

Kat Violin Interview Photo Thumbnail SixYou want Classical music; she has that covered. You want Rock or Pop she can deliver that too. Now Beatrix Lőw-Beer who doubles as Kat Violin for those of you who crave a little mystery with your music, has taken classic music by highly regarded composers and blended them with original modern beats and just like Cat Woman transforms herself into Kat Violin the DJ and violinist. Meow. Do not try and label Beatrix Lőw-Beer however, because while the one we have dubbed the Lady Gaga of the violin, for her often breathtaking wardrobe selections can just as easily purr as she can hiss, while playing edgier songs.    

Well, she can describe her new persona much better than we can, “I am producing my own music, and it is a combination of Classical music and electronic beats. For instance, music from Classical composers. It is 2.0 and it is transported to the electronic music. The (goal) is to perform it live at festivals or bigger events.

It is not so easy doing my own music versus covers. I thought it would be much faster to get reach, but when you make your own music, it is like you have to convince everybody first. Even the followers you gained over the years, don’t follow you (when you branch out), because it is yours. I think it will be a lot of work to make this successful, but I will try my best. I love the idea, the concept and the character. It is all about the cat identity, but not like the animal cat, but it is about the character of the cat and the behavior and the attitude. Read More  

Dar Williams - Prolific Songwriter

Dar Williams Interview Photo Front PageKen Rich (who also was the sound engineer and mixer), Dar Williams and her accompanying musicians have created an exquisite collection of songs for her album Hummingbird Highway with a release date of September 12 (2025). It does not take long to realize, while speaking with Dar Williams that you are engaging with a thoughtful, deep thinking, beautifully creative and highly intelligent individual, who cares passionately about the world in which she lives. At the midpoint of the record, there is a brief tonal shift that caught this writer by surprise. David Chalfant co-produced “Put the Coins,” and “What Bird Did You See?” at Grand Street Recording and Norfolk Studios at Northampton, Massachusetts.    

We open our conversation with Dar Williams inviting her to talk about one of the prettiest songs you will hear in 2025, “Tu Sais Le Printemps.”

“The best way to go about writing a song and if you feel something coming on, is to do your best to feel curious about it. This seemed light, breezy, spring like and romantic. I thought well let’s just keep on going. I pulled out (she laughs lightly) all the pictures of France, pictures of spring, of gardens and bridges and then I looked at them to see where the story (was going). My favorite part is the dog standing outside Read More

 Noah Vonne - Heart Of It

Noah Vonne Interview Front Page PhotoNoah Vonne a native of Texas, who has called Nashville and Los Angeles home was our guest recently at Riveting Riffs Magazine and the reason we were excited about her joining us is her vocals remind us of a mix of Joss Stone, Amy Winehouse, and Taylor Dayne, not that she sounds like a clone of those singers, because she does not. We use those comparisons, because Noah Vonne’s vocals are powerful, soulful, and emotive and at a standard that already reflects the vocal abilities of those three artists. She is a splendid songwriter who can accompany herself on the guitar or keyboards and she has a knack for knowing what works best with her music videos.  

Most of her childhood and teenage years were spent growing up in New Braunfels nestled between Austin Texas and San Antonio, in a family with five older sisters. All of them were softball players, almost enough to form their own team.

When asked if she was spoiled, being the baby of the family, she says while laughing, “ It is true. All of my sisters would say one thousand percent. In comparison to some of my friends, maybe not so, because  Read More

 Rachael Sage and The Sequins

Rachael Sage Interview 2025 Photo TwoRachael Sage’s current album Canopy creates a welcoming vibe for the listener, and the singer songwriter musician has a way with her musical canvass of creating a big tent that says come on in, everybody is welcome. This collection of songs creates an intimate setting in which she seems comfortable combined with an orchestral sound (more on that later).   

“That is always what we are striving for. When I hear you say that it is almost like you might be picking up on this concerted intention to have this be more of a band type of a project and even though I have been playing for many years with most of the folks on this record there was definitely something different, in knowing before I rolled my sleeves up that I wanted this to be a Rachael Sage and the Sequins record.

I had already worked a couple of times before with my engineer Mikhail Pivovarov. He has been very graciously coming up to where I live in the Hudson Valley and doing a lot of the recording with me in my actual home space. We did maybe fifty percent of it up here and the other half with bass, drums and piano in Connecticut at the Carriage House (Carriage House Studios). Maybe that is what you are hearing. Read More

Floating on the Dreamline

Alan Williams Interview Photo Front Page On March 29, 2026, singer, songwriter, musician Alan Williams’ journey that began as a child and Julie Andrews will come to a rest with Floating on the Dreamline the unofficial release of his new album and his retirement concert. As we sat thousands of miles apart recently, at opposite ends of a Zoom call this writer could only have wished that our conversation had taken place in person. Alan Williams is the kind of person you warm up to in a heartbeat. He is thoughtful, intelligent, and he is as much interested in the interviewer as you are in him.  

Let us add some clarity to that Julie Andrews comment we made, a reference to him as a child seeing The Sound of Music. With a smile only leaving his face for fleeting seconds during our entire conversation he explains.

“Who can say no to Julie Andrews on the top of a mountain? I don’t normally gravitate toward musicals, but as a young impressionable child that seemed larger than life. It was so successful back in the day you could trot it back out to the theaters a couple of years later and the crowds would pour in. My dad took me to see it when I was three years old.  We were in Morristown Tennessee,” smiling he continues, “I don’t think Julie Andrews was ever planning to make an appearance there.  Read More 

 

Lucy Gale - It's Never Too Late

Lucy Gale Interview Photo Front PageOn May 24th (2025) in Australia at the JazzLab a sold-out audience gave singer, songwriter, Lucy Gale a standing ovation as her album  It’s Never Too Late made it’s debut. This collection of songs  plays to Gale’s soulful, bluesy vocals and for the recorded album, helmed by producer, composer and keyboardist Dominic Ross, she surrounded herself with some superb musicians, drummer Darryn Farrugia, bassist David Rosa, organist Harry Mullany (who also contributed vocal harmonies) and guitarist Dragan Stanic. They were complimented by saxophonist Gary Deleo, percussionists Alejandro Vega and Sam Oliveri, as well as guitarists Eddie De Marchi and Ben Dewhirst. Adam Calaitzis served as the sound engineer and mastered the record at Toyland Studios.   

Songs like “It’s Never Too Late,” seek to rekindle how love first felt or perhaps get back a love lost, and the  breathtakingly beautiful “Turn Up That Love Song,” remind us of how we felt or may still feel when we are so in love with another that those emotions and feelings burn within us. This latter song should be in a scene for a movie or series, so pay Read More

 

 

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