Mustard Plug
5/20/2011
Event Rating: ★★★★☆
Venue: Culture Room (Fort Lauderdale, FL)

You do it. Your friends do it. Some of you are ashamed of it while others embrace it. It is the rhythmic art of dancing known as skanking: a circular formation of random skipping and hopping to bands that incorporate such odd instruments like trumpets and trombones. […]

Zach Deputy
2/10/2011
Event Rating: ★★★★☆
Venue: Culture Room (Fort Lauderdale, FL)

There are few people who when they enter any room instantly become the focal point. Zach Deputy is such an individual. During the opening band’s set, Deputy casually makes his way through the Culture Room, smiling and hugging anyone who asked him with a big smile on […]

Gaelic Storm
1/12/2011
Event Rating: ★★★★☆
Venue: Culture Room (Fort Lauderdale, FL)

Gaelic Storm came prepared. Spoon solos, bagpipe chimes, accordion drones, harmonica hums, guitar strums, and fiddle bows filled the intimate space of the Culture Room on January 12.

Brewing with anticipation well before the first act even left the stage, the crowd was ready too. With cup-fulls of […]

The Short Straw Pickers
1/12/2011
Event Rating: ★★½☆☆
Venue: Culture Room (Fort Lauderdale, FL)

This seven-man South Florida based bluegrass group definitely brought hope to the stage. Whether that hope was realized, is another story.

Speckled with harmonies gone bad and a few pitch misunderstandings, the performance certainly had its lows. The band basically showcased its talent during numbers […]