by Jeff Maisey | May 3, 2026 | Concert Previews, Music, Music News
By Jeff Maisey When the Virginia Arts Festival presents “Music of Queen — A Rock Symphony” May 15 at Sandler Center for the Performing Arts, much of the stage will be filled with members of the Virginia Symphony Orchestra with a rock band positioned front and center...
by Jeff Maisey | May 3, 2026 | Concert Previews, Featured, Music, Music News
(Steep Canyon Rangers are outstanding in their field. Photo by Jay Strausser.) By Jim Morrison Barrett Smith joined Steep Canyon Rangers in 2017, nearly two decades after the band formed as a group of friends attending the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill....
by Jeff Maisey | Apr 27, 2026 | Classical, Concert Previews, Music, Music News
By Montague Gammon III Hampton Roads’ two most accomplished, most famous and finest (classical) musicians meld their talents April 30 at Norfolk State’s Wilder Performing Arts Center for the Virginia Symphony Orchestra’s “Happy Birthday, Hailstork” concert....
by Jeff Maisey | Apr 23, 2026 | Music, Music News
By Jeff Maisey Up and coming contemporary country music recording artist Alana Springsteen returns to her hometown Saturday, April 25 for a free show on the 24th Street Stage as part of Beachevents’ Oceanfront Concert Series. Springsteen will showcase a lot of new...
by Jeff Maisey | Apr 21, 2026 | Music, Music News
By Jim Roberts When Kayce Laine saw her face on the digital marquee outside Scope Arena in Norfolk, she cried. “Growing up there, I always saw myself as being like a pop star,” she said. “I wanted to be on these stages doing pop music.” She will realize part of that...
by Jeff Maisey | Apr 19, 2026 | Concert Previews, Music, Music News
(The Chameleons play Richmond Music Hall on Monday, April 20. Photo by Helen Millington.) By Jeff Maisey By age 21, in 1983, I had absorbed the music of The Beatles as a kid influenced by teenagers on the dead end street I was raised on. From this impressionable...
