by Jeff Maisey | Jun 6, 2023 | Concert Previews, Music, Music News
(Steep Canyon Rangers) By Jim Roberts Mike Ashworth grew up in North Carolina with members of the Steep Canyon Rangers, but he didn’t officially join the band until 2013, the same year they won the Grammy Award for Best Bluegrass Album. In the 10 years since, the band...
by Jeff Maisey | Jun 2, 2023 | Concert Previews, Music, Music News
By Jim Morrison Valerie June recorded her latest set of originals, “The Moon and the Stars: Prescriptions for Dreamers,” before the pandemic. When the lockdown descended, her label delayed its debut. As a performer who quipped that she only...
by Jeff Maisey | May 27, 2023 | Classical, Music, Music News
(TWO-GETHER: Andrey Kasparov and Oksana Lutsyshyn) By Montague Gammon III The Norfolk Chamber Consort closes its 54th Season with a concert titled “The Game of Pairs.” Husband and wife performers, father and son composers, deux French composers, sibling string...
by Jeff Maisey | May 14, 2023 | Music, Music News
By Jeff Maisey This year’s Bayou Bon Vivant Festival featuring Cajun cuisine like crawfish and jambalaya, folk art from souther Louisiana, and live music equal in caliber to the famous New Orleans Jazz Festival will be one to remember. Entertainers such as...
by Jeff Maisey | Apr 29, 2023 | Classical, Concert Previews, Music, Music News
By Jeff Maisey This year, the Virginia Arts Festival will pay homage to Russian composer Sergei Rachmaninoff’s 150th birthday as part of its Chamber Music Series of concerts. Front and center for most of these performances is the phenomenal, often animated pianist...
by Jeff Maisey | Apr 29, 2023 | Concert Previews, Music, Music News
By Jim Morrison For Josh Ritter, the journey to his new album began with a family road trip from Brooklyn to his boyhood hometown in Idaho, where his mother was in the final steep decline of ovarian cancer. It was death in the time of COVID. There was no vaccine. His...
