by Jeff Maisey | Apr 19, 2016 | Concert Previews, Music
By Jim Newsom John McCutcheon has a hit with his latest recording, Joe Hill’s Last Will. “I did a Kickstarter campaign,” he told me recently, “because I knew I was mounting the least commercial album of my career. None of these songs are less than a hundred...
by Jeff Maisey | Apr 13, 2016 | Classical, Concert Previews, Music, Music News
By Montague Gammon III The Venice Baroque Orchestra will bring the still-fresh Italian and German music of three and four centuries ago to Norfolk this year, mixing familiar composers such as Bach, Vivaldi and Handel with the lesser known Geminani, Corelli and...
by Jeff Maisey | Mar 30, 2016 | Concert Previews, Music, Music News
By Jeff Maisey There’s a lot of talk lately about preventing brain-drain in Hampton Roads. When talented people leave the region because creative opportunity exists elsewhere it’s a disappointing reality. Recently, fiddle player extraordinaire Charlie Austin...
by Jeff Maisey | Mar 24, 2016 | Concert Previews, Music
By Jim Morrison The last time John Fullbright was in Norfolk, five years ago, he played a private house concert in a garage for about 80 people. To say his career has taken off since then would be like saying Bob Dylan has written some pretty good songs. In...
by Jeff Maisey | Mar 23, 2016 | Concert Previews, Music
By Jim Morrison Cage the Elephant was born and shaped in a Bowling Green, Kentucky, writing songs, and getting into trouble. That’s about all there was to do, playTidball’s, the city’s longstanding club while underage. There’s a photo on a...
by Jeff Maisey | Mar 10, 2016 | Concert Previews, Music, Music News
By Jeff Maisey EDITOR’S NOTE: Due to an injury, The Chieftains concert has been cancelled. The Virginia Arts Festival has helped make Norfolk front-and-center during a week-long celebration of St. Patrick’s Day by scheduling the legendary traditional...
