by Jeff Maisey | Apr 26, 2022 | Classical, Music, Music News
(Cellist Sterling Elliott is from Newport News) By Montague Gammon III Hampton Roads natives who have gone on to excellence in some of the greatest musical venues of the world bring the achievements of two and a half centuries of musical innovators, rendered by the...
by Jeff Maisey | Apr 26, 2022 | Concert Previews, Music, Music News
By Jim Morrison Diana Krall may be a marquee jazz singer today, but she grew up as a piano player, listening to her father’s collection of 78s, never imagining more. “Oscar Peterson, Monty Alexander, and Bill Evans were the really important artists for me as a...
by Jeff Maisey | Apr 18, 2022 | Concert Previews, Music, Music News
By Jim Morrison Jack White recently released one album, “Fear of the Dawn,” with another, “Entering Heaven Alive,” arriving July 22. He’s also rehearsing about 100 songs for his Supply Chain Issues Tour that stops in Portsmouth on April...
by Jeff Maisey | Apr 17, 2022 | Concert Previews, Music, Music News
(Three Dog Night’s current lineup continue to perform to sold-out crowds) By Jeff Maisey If you can remember the days of handheld AM transistor radios chances are you know the music of Three Dog Night. From 1969 to 1974, no other recording artist achieved more top 10...
by Jeff Maisey | Apr 15, 2022 | Concert Previews, Music, Music News
(James McMurtry is back on the road in support of “The Horses and the Hounds.” Photo by Mary Keating Bruton.) By Jim Morrison It’s the details that make James McMurtry’s songs compelling character studies. That and the melodies, of course. There are the...
by Jeff Maisey | Apr 5, 2022 | Concert Previews, Music, Music News
By Jim Morrison It was nine years since Bright Eyes, the trio featuring frontman Conor Oberst, had released an album when “Down In the Weeds Where The World Once Was” hit the streets in 2020. You’re forgiven if Oberst came across as something of a...
