by Jeff Maisey | Apr 30, 2019 | Art, Current Exhibits, Music, Music News
By Ron Wray An evening that will grab your soul is coming to Portsmouth at 7 p.m., May 2 with an iconic performance of the legendary Blues Maker Blues Review at Roger Brown’s Restaurant and Sports Bar on downtown High Street. It is a production of Virginia Arts...
by Jeff Maisey | Apr 18, 2019 | Concert Previews, Music, Music News
By Jim Morrison Joan Osborne’s “Songs of Bob Dylan” album grew out of a need to fill a demand. The Cafe Carlyle, the storied Upper East Side Manhattan jazz club, asked her to sit in for a two-week residency in 2016. American Songbook standards, a...
by Jeff Maisey | Apr 16, 2019 | Classical, Music, Music News
By Jeff Maisey Maestro JoAnn Falletta will be concluding her final full season this spring with the Virginia Symphony Orchestra, capping off a year filled with accolades and memorable performances. In February, she won her third Grammy Award for a recording with the...
by Jeff Maisey | Apr 9, 2019 | Music, Music News, Musical Theater
By Michael Curry Three of Broadway’s — and American Musical Theatre’s — most adored and enduring stars are coming to Coastal Virginia. Look up American Musical Theatre or Great American Song Book and you will be sure to find the names Rob Fisher, Michael...
by Jeff Maisey | Apr 4, 2019 | Concert Previews, Music, Music News
By Jeff Maisey Storm Large is best known for her appearances as a contestant on “Rock Star: Supernova,” the second season of the reality television show. Following her elimination as a finalist in 2006, Storm released three studio albums — “Ladylike Side One” (2007),...
by Jeff Maisey | Mar 29, 2019 | CD Reviews, Music, Music News
Kinetic Element “The Face of Life” (Melodic Revolution Records) In my early teenaged years, I used to slouch down into my bean bag chair with headphones strapped onto my cranium. With only the dim blue glow of the stereo amplifier serving as light in my otherwise...
