by Jeff Maisey | Jun 6, 2023 | News, News & Views
By Jeff Maisey “We were backstage and there was a buffet spread out with chicken, roast beef and all kinds of good stuff,” recalled singer David Middleton, whose local band, the Waxing Poetics, opened for numerous nationally touring acts, including the Ramones, at the...
by Jeff Maisey | Aug 13, 2022 | Concert Previews, Music, Music News
(Pieces of a Dream bring their dedicated smooth jazz in Norfolk) By Jeff Maisey Festevents will present its 39th annual Norfolk Waterfront Jazz Festival in Town Point Park with some major players in the popular smooth jazz format. The musical lineup over two evenings...
by Jeff Maisey | May 19, 2022 | Concert Previews, Music, Music News
(Terrance Simien will be a Bayou Bon Vivant highlight) By Jeff Maisey Earlier this year, Zydeco music great Terrance Simien and his band were in Henderson, Nevada for an educational engagement with his Creole4Kidz program that brings the sounds and instruments...
by Jeff Maisey | Sep 24, 2019 | Drink, Wine & Spirits
(Significant investments in new equipment and vineyard expansion at leading wineries such as Early Mountain are helping put Virginia on the map of great wine regions. Photo courtesy of Early Mountain) By Marisa Marsey Have you seen the bumper sticker proclaiming:...
by Jeff Maisey | Sep 18, 2015 | Concert Previews, Music, Music News
By Jerome Langston “The first step―especially for young people with energy and drive and talent, but not money ― the first step to controlling your world is to control your culture. To model and demonstrate the kind of world you demand to live in. To write the...