by Jeff Maisey | Apr 22, 2023 | Concert Previews, Music, Music News
By Jeff Maisey Thank Frank Zappa for Little Feat. If you search Wikipedia for how Little Feat hit the pavement as a band back in 1969, you’ll read of three wild stories. But which is true? “It was the summer of 1969 and we were in Los Angeles,” said co-founding...
by Jeff Maisey | Feb 21, 2023 | Concert Previews, Music, Music News
By Jerome Langston The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis consists of some of the best arrangers, soloists and ensemble musicians working in jazz music today. Led by Wynton Marsalis, a nine-time Grammy winner and recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for...
by Jeff Maisey | Feb 13, 2023 | Concert Previews, Music, Music News
(Steve Lukather and Joseph Williams. Photo by Alex Solca) BY JEFF MAISEY Multi-Grammy Award winning classic rock band Toto, known for its late ‘70s and early ‘80s hit songs like “Hold the Line,” “Rosanna” and “Africa,” will be stopping in Newport News on February 16...
by Jeff Maisey | Dec 27, 2022 | Concert Previews, Music, Music News
By Jim Morrison By the time Kevn Kinney moved to Atlanta from Milwaukee in 1982 he was an old young man. He’d been working since he was 16, hard labor, jobs most nobody else cared to do. In Georgia that was working as a form carpenter building sewage...
by Jeff Maisey | Sep 21, 2022 | Classical, Concert Previews, Music, Music News
(Violinist Simone Porter) By Montague Gammon III From the impoverished Caribbean by way of New Orleans, to the Highlands of Scotland to the ancient Roman Empire, the Virginia Symphony Orchestra’s 100th Anniversary Season opening “Rhythm and Respighi” concert ranges...
by Jeff Maisey | Sep 21, 2022 | Concert Previews, Music, Music News
(Singer Liz Terrell to perform selections from pop composer Burt Bacharach’s extensive songbook.) By Jerome Langston This year’s Miller Jazz series concludes September 22 at the Sandler Center’s intimate Miller Studio Theatre, with a show titled The Music of Burt...
