'Glensheen' Chan Poling is best known nationally as keyboardist/vocalist for legendary Minneapolis rock band The Suburbs, as well as the same role in The New Standards. Locally, though, he’s equally renowned for his musical theater work, and on Friday the original cast album of his most successful theatrical project, Glensheen, is being released. Called “a murder-mystery-musical,” Glensheen was written by playwright/screenwriter Jeffrey Hatcher (his credits include a theater

From left: Misty Rowe, Buck Trent, Jana Jae and Lulu Roman Celebrated old acts and exciting new ones make up the annual Association of Performing Arts Professionals (APAP) showcase roster, and one act at last week’s gathering qualified as both. That was the one made up of legendary Hee Haw cast members Misty Rowe, Lulu Roman, Jana Jae and Buck Trent, who as the Kornfield Friends showcased at Funky Joe’s—a short walk from the New York Hilton Midtown APAP home base, where they

Terrance Simien at Don't Tell Mama (Photo: Michael Kornfeld/AcousticMusicScene.com) It might be atypical to call an acoustic music concert spectacular, but “Alaska’s fiddling poet” Ken Waldman’s annual roots music variety showcase From Manhattan to Moose Pass, staged at Hell’s Kitchen cabaret club Don’t Tell Mama in conjunction with the nearby Association of Performing Arts Professionals (APAP) conference, always are. The fiddler/poet/acoustic music entrepreneur’s 10th annual

Clockwise from top left: Dallas Austin, Yusuf/Cat Stevens, John Prine, Jack Tempchin, Missy Elliott and Tom T. Hall The Songwriters Hall of Fame [SHOF] has announced its 2019 inductees, to be formally ensconced into the hall at the organization’s 50th Annual Induction Awards Dinner on June 13 at New York’s Marriott Marquis Hotel. The 2019 inductees are Dallas Austin, Missy Elliott, Tom T. Hall, John Prine, Jack Tempchin and Yusuf/Cat Stevens. “The first thing you need to know