by Jeff Maisey | Jun 22, 2016 | Concert Previews, Music, Music News
By Jim Newsom Bruce Hornsby’s got a brand new album and there’s not a single note played on piano. Hornsby, who lights up the Virginia Arts Festival with a three-day “Funhouse Fest” in Williamsburg this month, has built a 30-year recording career around his...
by Jeff Maisey | Jun 22, 2016 | Concert Previews, Music, Music News
By Jim Morrison Gill Landry. Roll that around. Pause, ponder. Yes, Gill Landry is a longtime member of Old Crow Medicine Show. But the New Orleans resident also has a jagged solo career, releasing three albums, including his latest meditation, “Gill...
by Jeff Maisey | Jun 21, 2016 | Concert Previews, Music, Music News
By Jeff Maisey If jazz trumpeter Chris Botti and his band seem to be on the road a lot, with seemingly annual stops in Hampton Roads, he is. With the recorded music industry in disarray because of streaming services such as Pandora, popular acts like Botti have...
by Jeff Maisey | May 24, 2016 | Classical, Concert Previews, Music, Music News
By Jeff Maisey By early January, I had been in touch with Virginia Symphony cellist Jacob Fowler about a possible pairing with a local musician for Veer Magazine’s Local Music Awards. I’m a fan of mash-ups, especially when musicians from opposite perspectives get...
by Jeff Maisey | Apr 26, 2016 | Concert Previews, Music
By Jeff Maisey Organizers of the Virginia Arts Festival have toyed with the idea of a Fringe Festival in recent years by programming the likes of edgy cabaret performer Meow Meow and hip ukulele player Jake Shimabukuro, but they hadn’t fully committed to the...
by Jeff Maisey | Apr 26, 2016 | Concert Previews, Music, Music News
By Jeff Maisey As part of the Colley Cantina/Veer Magazine Saturday Night Live local music series, Norfolk-based alt-country band Rodeo Clown will perform Saturday, April 30. In addition to music, great Baja California style food and craft beer, there’ll be...
