by Jeff Maisey | Dec 7, 2017 | Concert Previews, Concert Reviews, Music, Music News
By Jim Morrison When Jae Sinnett first was asked if he’d be interested in playing a Christmas show, he said sure. A day later, he thought, “What did I get myself into?” He realized that if the straightforward jazz quartet from his latest disc,...
by Jeff Maisey | Nov 27, 2017 | Concert Previews, Music, Music News
By Jim Roberts Halfway through a 20-minute phone interview—about eight of them spent talking about politics—Nellie McKay stopped herself and asked: “How much of the human body is water? Is it 70 percent? … Well, even more of a percentage of our show is music....
by Jeff Maisey | Nov 22, 2017 | Concert Previews, Music, Music News
By Jerome Langston It is quite fitting to find my friend, the multi-hyphenate himself―K’bana Blaq – preparing for his debut at VA Fashion Week, as a designer, during our scheduled time to talk about his big headlining concert at The NorVa. The man wears so many...
by Jeff Maisey | Sep 26, 2017 | Concert Previews, Music, Music News
By Jim Morrison Ani DiFranco turns 47 a week before her Sept. 30 show at The NorVa. She has a couple of kids, ages four and 10. They’ve radically changed her work life, though not in the ways you’d expect. She’s working on a memoir, chipping away at telling her...
by Jeff Maisey | Aug 31, 2017 | Concert Previews, Music, Music News
By Jeff Maisey For 3 Doors Down singer Brad Arnold, it had been five years between studio albums “Time of My Life” (2011) and “Us and the Night” (2016). With a couple of new band members, the recording of “Us and the Night” was a way to reinvent 3 Doors Down and...
by Jeff Maisey | Aug 16, 2017 | Concert Previews, Music, Music News
By Jim Morrison Ian Randall Thornton likes to let the songs flow naturally, following whatever is inspiring him at the moment. But he also doesn’t want his albums to just be a collection of unrelated songs. So when he started working on the tunes that would...
