Arko Pravo Mukherjee performing at DAG New York The New Jersey-based Bollywood-centered AVS (Asian Variety Show) weekly program provider, in conjunction with South Asian entertainment websites DissDash and Starrlife and India’s Yuvraj Entertainment, kicked off the holiday season with the first of what is hoped will be a continuing series of informal arts-promoting get-togethers Tuesday evening at Midtown Manhattan’s Delhi Art Gallery (DAG). Accompanied by an acoustic guitaris

Sugar Bar's celebratory box set cake “We gonna fix it tonight!” said Valerie Simpson, getting the Monday night party celebrating a new three-CD Ashford & Simpson box set started at Ashford & Simpson’s Sugar Bar on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. She was talking about the dreadful late November weather—a cold rain that had tormented the city all day—while also tying in with the new compilation’s title: Ashford & Simpson: Love Will Fix It—The Warner Bros. Records Anthology 1973-19

(Greystone Books) Now 77 and with over 50 years of writing and performing influential songs while backing them with intense social activism, Buffy Sainte-Marie is the subject of a new book, Buffy Sainte-Marie--The Authorized Biography (Greystone Books). Written by music critic Andrea Warner (author of We Oughta Know: How Four Women Ruled the ’90s and Changed Canadian Music), the book delves deep into the extraordinary life and career of Saint-Marie, a member of

Mark Stewart (left) and Jimmy Vivino play guitar at City Winery's Guitar Mash Urban Campfire The seventh annual ​Guitar Mash​ Urban Campfire was a big success yesterday afternoon at City Winery, where featured participants ​Ani DiFranco, Biodun Kuti, Fernandito Ferrer, Jimmy Vivino, Kat Edmonson​​, Toshi Reagon and ​Marc Ribot demonstrated guitar technique and sang songs relating to this year’s theme “Songs for Change.” Backed by a stellar house band led by Guitar Mash Artist