by Jeff Maisey | Jul 16, 2018 | Concert Previews, Music, Music News
By Jim Morrison It feels like The Avett Brothers grew up in front of us here. They’re from nearby North Carolina. They’ve played the area any number of times, notably shows at The Attucks Theatre in 2006 and 2008 that established them as a wild live act...
by Jeff Maisey | Jul 1, 2018 | Concert Previews, Music, Music News
By Jeff Maisey From time to time Jim Morrison collaborates with the Virginia Arts Festival to extend his North Shore Point house concert series beyond the confines of his neighborhood backyard to a slightly larger open space in downtown Norfolk. That’ll be the case...
by Jeff Maisey | Jun 29, 2018 | Concert Previews, Music, Music News
By Jim Morrison What is it about the red dirt of Oklahoma that rises up and infuses one generation after another with the storytelling songwriting gene? Go way back, of course, and you land on Woody Guthrie, son of Okemah, the folkie torrent of words who howls...
by Jeff Maisey | Jun 23, 2018 | Concert Previews, Music, Music News
By Ron Wray Four young men in Southern California of the band Rebelution are resting now, gearing up for their next tour in support of their new album, Free Rein, slated for release on June 15. But, soon they will be headlining at the Untied Home Loans Virginia Beach...
by Jeff Maisey | May 14, 2018 | Concert Previews, Music, Music News
By Jim Morrison Magda Giannikou, leader of Banda Magda, has synesthesia. When she see letters or words or hears chords of music, she sees colors. “Every letter has a color and every word has a color. Every day of the week,” she says by Skype call from...
by Jeff Maisey | Apr 16, 2018 | Concert Previews, Music
By Jeff Maisey Most of us were introduced to the music of The Darkness when the whimsical song “I Believe in a Thing Called Love” garnered airplay and seemed to be heard everywhere. That was 2003, and the group took the world by storm. The quartet from England...
