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Downtown After Dark

Downtown After Dark is award winning journalist Russ Tarby's weekly take on the best and brightest of happenings inside and outside of Downtown Syracuse. Each week he adds best bets too.

Bio:
Central New York journalist Russ Tarby has been writing about entertainment, crime, sports and politics since the 1970s. His reviews and feature stories have appeared in newspapers such as the Village Voice, the Dallas Observer, the Auburn Citizen and the Syracuse Post-Standard.

For 12 years, he worked as music and books editor for the Syracuse New Times and while there he won several Syracuse Press Club awards including a Best Feature Story award for 'The Sweet Man,' his 1998 profile of 95-year-old jazz trombonist Spiegle Willcox.

In 2000, he was named music writer of the year for weeklies with a circulation of less than 55,000 by the international Association of Alternative Newsweeklies.

Tarby was a member of the steering committees which founded the Syracuse Area Music Awards(Sammys) and the Syracuse Walk of Fame.

He has been a member of the Jazz Appreciation Society of Syracuse's Board of Directors since 1993.

In 2007, Tarby edited "Into The Deep," a book by Dr. Andrew G. Hodges about the 2005 disappearance of Natalee Holloway on the island of Aruba.

Tarby now works as a free-lance writer and editor. He compiles two weekly columns, Downtown After Dark for the Syracuse City Eagle and Livin’ in Liverpool for The Review, both published by Eagle Newspapers.

He can be reached at 457-1517, or via e-mail at [email protected].

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Apr

Musicians mull the future - April 25 to 30

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“The future’s so bright I gotta wear shades,” Timbuk 3 once famously sang.
For many musicians, however, the future looks kinda murky.
Technology’s changing everything and at a much faster pace than anyone could’ve anticipated, least of all myopic musicians who are, by necessity, focused almost solely on practice and performance.
So the Future of Music Coalition is partnering with Central New York’s American Federation of Musicians Local 78 to host a seminar from 1 to 7 p.m. on Tuesday April 29, at Jazz Central downtown, to answer the question “What’s the Future for Musicians?” Admission is free.
The Future of Music Coalition is a national non-profit that deals with issues at the intersection of music: technology, policy and law...