by Jeff Maisey | Dec 2, 2018 | Concert Previews, Music, Music News
By Jim Morrison Jim Heath remembers two shows that hooked him on rockabilly. The first was about 1982 in Dallas when The Blasters blew through town hot off the release of their debut on Slash Records, an album with classics like “Marie, Marie,”...
by Jeff Maisey | Nov 28, 2018 | Concert Previews, Music, Music News
By Montague Gammon III The ten Grammy winning Manhattan Transfer, perhaps the only important musical group born in a New York taxicab, brings its multi genre, four-part harmonies to The American Theatre in the Phoebus section of Hampton Dec 1 and 2 with their...
by Jeff Maisey | Nov 28, 2018 | Dance, Stage & Film
By Michael Curry The Richmond Ballet accompanied by The Virginia Symphony brings its highly acclaimed production of The Nutcracker to Chrysler Hall for the sixth consecutive year, December 7 – 9. The Nutcracker is to ballet what Handel’s...
by Jeff Maisey | Nov 20, 2018 | Classical, Music, Music News
By Montague Gammon III From icy climes of dancing flakes and rime, to Roman Bethlehem and Golgotha, the Virginia Symphony closes out 2018 with a pair of concerts that feature some of classical music’s best loved Holiday and winter themed compositions. VSO Music...
by Jeff Maisey | Nov 20, 2018 | News, News & Views
By Jeff Maisey As part of the Lee & Bernard Jaffe Family Jewish Book Festival, Sally Kohn, a progressive former Fox and current CNN commentator, will speak on November 29 at the Simon JCC. Kohn, who has a new book titled The Opposite of Hate: A Field Guide to...
