Southport Magazine

For those of us of a certain age (and increasingly for some of the kiddos as well), the convenience of Spotify will never trump the visceral joy of dropping a needle on a vinyl record. I liken it to the

By Lisa Stites I can’t explain how nerve-racking it is to stand in front of a group of people and spell. I don’t like standing up in front of groups anyway, let alone spelling words out loud with people watching.

Does anything beat listening to live music on a warm summer night by the shore?  Fortunately for us, the live music scene in our area has been emerging over the last few years, with a rise in the number of

Upright bass, bass violin, double bass, standup bass, contrabass, bass fiddle…it may be called many different names, but it’s all the same instrument. The bass is a traditional orchestra’s largest and lowest-pitched string instrument, with the only exception being the