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Drummer Michael Carvin says there is no real mystery about why so many great drummers have come from Pittsburgh. He looks at a hard-working city, where success is never guaranteed, and says that simply creates an attitude that demands a high level of effort. "It wasn't that the city produced great drummers," he says. "Rather, they were simply great people who played drums." Carvin, who runs the Michael Carvin School of Drumming in New York City, will be here Saturday for a workshop, panel… Continue

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MEMORY OF MIKE TAYLOR – A YEAR ROUND [Poem by Michael Dennison] A spring day, rain for the grass puts the green on the table and evenings of late sun and then the History Channel time in a man’s life to ripen, to pass as June crawls in with a birthday, stands up like green corn on the stalk, fresh and wide open to a good joke, the promise of a late show loaded with guests, with irony gentle, universal as night and June struts into July. Fireworks churn in endless blue dusk of heaven as steaks… Continue