Shannon McNally – The Ardmore Music Hall – Ardmore, PA – May 11, 2017 – photo by Jim Rinaldi © 2017 Shannon McNally Gets Her Irish Up by Jay S. Jacobs It’s hard to believe that Shannon McNally has been flying under the radar for about 20 years now. A strong-voiced songstress with a love of musical variety, she was signed up by Capitol Nashville in 1997 while still playing coffee houses and attending Franklin and Marshall College. Her acclaimed debut album Jukebox Sparrows was

Get On Up GET ON UP (2014) Starring Chadwick Boseman, Nelsan Ellis, Dan Aykroyd, Viola Davis, Jill Scott, Craig Robinson, Keith Robinson, Octavia Spencer, Brandon Smith, Lennie James, Fred Melamed, Josh Hopkins, Tika Sumpter, Aunjanue Ellis, Tariq Trotter, Aloe Blacc, Nick Eversman, J.D. Evermore, Phyllis Montana LeBlanc, John Benjamin Hickey and Allison Janney. Screenplay by Jez Butterworth and John-Henry Butterworth. Directed by Tate Taylor. Distributed by Universal Picture

Chadwick Boseman and Octavia Spencer at the New York Press Conference for “Get On Up.” Photo by Brad Balfour copyright 2014. Chadwick Boseman, Octavia Spencer, Nelsan Ellis, Jill Scott, Dan Aykroyd, Mick Jagger, Tate Taylor and Brian Grazer In This Cinematic Telling Soul Godfather James Brown Taught Us How to Get On Up by Brad Balfour Though by no means a perfect film or conventional biopic, the recently released Get On Up wrangles with the complicated life of one of pop musi

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