by Jeff Maisey | Jan 25, 2023 | Music, Music News
By Jeff Maisey After 40 years, the hearts of fans who love legendary country/gospel crossover group The Oak Ridge Boys are still on fire for “Elvira,” the song that in 1981 became a platinum-seller and elevated the harmonic vocal group to superstardom. “It...
by Jeff Maisey | Jan 18, 2023 | Music, Music News
By Montague Gammon III Virginia Symphony hosts one of the world’s greatest electric bass players, Newport News native, Denbigh High grad and former Busch Gardens teen instrumentalist, quintuple Grammy-winning Victor Wooten, to conclude a three piece program with his...
by Jeff Maisey | Jan 18, 2023 | Music, Music News
Matt Wallace performs, records, and composes as Crash Mosaic. By Jeff Maisey During a conversation with Liz Terrell, program director at Zeiders American Dream Theater in Virginia Beach, I suggested a showcase of local, independent ambient music composers. To...
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 | Nov 28, 2022 | Music, Music News
By Nate Sacks Australian Psych-rockers King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard had yet another prolific year in terms of official album releases. The band previously released 5 albums in 2017, and now 5 years later they repeated the madness. There’s plenty of smaller...
by Jeff Maisey | Nov 15, 2022 | Music, Music News
By Jeff Maisey Smooth jazz saxophonist Dave Koz has made a successful seasonal career hitting the road for the past 25 years in the month leading up to Christmas Eve with his critically acclaimed Dave Koz & Friends Christmas Tour. When the Silver...