Worth checking out on Sept. 23 at Strumm’s is the one-night gig of smooth jazz artist Brian Simpson. Born in...
On a Tuesday night, the full-house crowd of business leaders and middle-aged couples and friends at Strumm’s yell out their...
The Black Cows, a local band composed of accomplished session musicians, popular solo acts and members of other groups, will perform on Feb. 7 at Strumm’s Makati.
Tuesday night at Strumm’s in Jupiter, Makati, a full-house crowd awaits the band Glass Onion’s first set. It’s been a while since we last caught its weekly gig here, and oh, what a surprise—the band’s members, which used to be about a dozen, now add up to 17.
PRIMOS, a club across the Shangri-La Plaza part of Shaw Boulevard in Pasig, will be filled on Sunday, Jan. 11, with kindred spirits and friends of musician Ed “Sarge” Cariño, who passed away last week.
Moments before getting onstage for a homecoming gig last Wednesday, Aug. 12, at Strumm’s, Binky Lampano looked a bit nervous. His wife Donna seemed to be admonishing him on how many beers he’d had. His curt reply, “tatlo.”
A rare triple blues bill is scheduled on Aug. 12 at Strumm’s in Makati, featuring two seasoned acts, Bluesviminda and Lampano Alley, and the young group Ian Lofamia Band.
In 2014, the iPhone got bigger. It’s also the year when both the biggest nightclub in Asia and the biggest indoor arena in the world opened in the Philippines.
“After midnight,” as the JJ Cale song famously covered by Eric Clapton goes, “we’re gonna let it all hang out...” That’s exactly what happened last week, as we stepped out of the office a few minutes after 12 a.m. to go to Strumm’s—whose owner Mari Lagdameo was celebrating his birthday.
In the past few months we’ve covered the nightlife at the Greenhills Shopping Center in San Juan, where two live performance venues are located. To be held there for successive Fridays this month are two shows that promise lots of humor: Rex Navarrete at Teatrino on Nov. 21, and an all-star tribute to Fritz Ynfante at Music Museum on Nov. 28.
