Friday, September 1, 2017

The Shaggs Have A Reunion Concert (This Will Never Happen Again)

The three New Hampshire sisters who formed a rock band because their father forced them to (when he died, in 1975, they stopped) developed a serious cult following, either despite or because of "deficits in what is commonly understood as standard musicality." Five years ago, a Brooklyn musician did a Shaggs tribute concert; he's since made meticulous transcriptions of their songs, and this summer he got the two surviving sisters to perform with him and his band at Mass MOCA. Howard Fishman was there.



Article source here:Arts Journal

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