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...
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...
