by Jeff Maisey | Nov 13, 2019 | Concert Previews, Music, Music News
By Jim Morrison Steve Berlin was the Los Lobos member working closely with the team producing “La Bamba” in the 1986. He wasn’t confident about the film’s prospects. The movie had a first-time director and “a bunch of actors nobody...
by Jeff Maisey | Nov 13, 2019 | Concert Previews, Music, Music News
By Jim Morrison Dinosaur Jr. is a band that never quite seems to get the recognition or chart success as pioneers of alternative rock and grunge. But, here they are 35 years down the road, reunited for nearly 15 years after a nasty breakup, and hitting the road...
by Jeff Maisey | Nov 1, 2019 | Concert Previews, Music, Music News
By Jerome Langston “I don’t really play for musicians,” says legendary jazz saxophonist Bobby Watson, midway through our Friday afternoon phone conversation, as he awaits a flight back to his home turf of Kansas City. “I play for [the] people.” Watson has been...
by Jeff Maisey | Oct 28, 2019 | Concert Previews, Music, Music News
By Diane Catanzaro & Chris Jones Don’t tell me this town ain’t got no heart….when I can hear it beat out loud! Hampton’s heart will be beating a Technicolor rhythm when Dead & Company play the Hampton Coliseum on Friday, November 8 and Saturday,...
by Jeff Maisey | Oct 22, 2019 | Classical, Music, Music News
By Jeff Maisey Sandler Center for the Performing Arts is going big on the Baroque music of Johann Sebastian Bach this season, and the next few weeks are certainly a highlight with three unique performances and a collaboration beer to celebrate the occasion. ...
by Jeff Maisey | Oct 22, 2019 | Classical, Music, Music News
(Guest conductor Edwin Outwater) By Montague Gammon III Christmas day visits to Ella Fitzgerald’s house were a family routine for young Edwin Outwater, who will conduct the Virginia Symphony’s Brahms + Pulitzer concerts this month. Having a mother who worked for “The...
