by Jeff Maisey | Dec 23, 2018 | Music, Music News
Bill Reid and partners will open a new music venue in Virginia Beach By Jeff Maisey Longtime concert promoter Bill Reid will unveil a new live music venue he and his business associates — Russell Weitzner, Sara & Judd Mendelson — call Elevation 27. Reid is a...
by Jeff Maisey | Dec 3, 2018 | Music, Music News
By Jeff Maisey The gift of music can be life-changing and memorable for those moved by sound. With the holiday season approaching I sat down with WHRV-FM’s Paul Shugrue to ask him to share some stories from his teenage years as well as offer some suggestions for...
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 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 | Concert Previews, Music, Music News
By Jerome Langston “We were a Jackson 5 type of family,” says singer Michael Lynche, regarding the impact of Motown music on his childhood growing up in St. Petersburg, Florida, back in the eighties and early nineties. Michael’s entire nuclear family—there were 4...
