by Jeff Maisey | Jun 16, 2025 | Concert Previews, Music, Music News
By Jim Roberts The Band Perry had a remarkable start in 2010, releasing a self-titled album, selling 5 million copies of their single, “If I Die Young,” and winning three Country Music Association Awards. While the sibling trio went on to win a Grammy Award for Best...
by Jeff Maisey | Jun 2, 2025 | Concert Previews, Music, Music News
By Jerome Langston It is just a few days following his Carnegie Hall debut with twenty-something, jazz superstar vocalist, Samara Joy, that tenor saxophonist, Kendric McCallister, is chatting with me about their upcoming concert here at Norfolk’s Chrysler Hall. One of...
by Jeff Maisey | May 27, 2025 | Concert Previews, Music, Music News
By Jeff Maisey Ace Frehley, best known as the lead guitar welding Spaceman character in the original lineup of glam metal band KISS, will plug in to the Sandler Center for the Performing Arts on June 4 for an electrifying performance of his solo hits like “New York...
by Jeff Maisey | May 27, 2025 | Classical, Concert Previews, Music, Music News
(Renée Fleming returns to Norfolk’s Harrison Opera House for a June 1 performance. Photo by Andrew Ecclesdecca) By Montague Gammon III The most celebrated operatic soprano of our time, probably the most celebrated since the days of Maria Callas, comes back to...
by Jeff Maisey | May 22, 2025 | Concert Previews, Music, Music News
By Jim Morrison Swamp Dogg’s return to the charts he first cracked as Little Jerry Williams from Portsmouth is a zig-zagging journey through musical genres, accidental connections and his attraction as an underground legend. “I’m finding out all...
by Jeff Maisey | May 4, 2025 | Concert Previews, Music, Music News
By Jim Morrison Tracii Guns briefly was part of a marriage of Los Angeles bands named Guns N’ Roses, but he left before fame arrived to found Sunset Strip sleaze metal group L.A. Guns. While he has been in and out of other groups over the last 40 years,...
