by Jeff Maisey | May 18, 2024 | Concert Previews, Music, Music News
By Montague Gammon III A Grammy winning singer-songwriter from New England, a finger pickin’ multi-instrument virtuoso from Northern Virginia, and a sibling-led bluegrass band from the tiny musical hotbed of Floyd, in Appalachian Virginia, walk into the Virginia Arts...
by Jeff Maisey | May 2, 2024 | Concert Previews, Music, Music News
By Jim Morrison Brandy Clark’s first Grammy win this year began with a Grammy loss two years ago. She was nominated — for the 9th and 10th times — for Song of the Year for “A Beautiful Noise” sung by Brandi Carlile and Alicia Keys and for...
by Jeff Maisey | Apr 21, 2024 | Classical, Music, Music News
(Composer Gregory Spears) By Jeff Maisey Virginia Chorale will conclude its 40th season with the world premiere of “The Neighboring Village,” a vocal composition it commissioned from Virginia Beach native Gregory Spears. The new song is the highlight on a program...
by Jeff Maisey | Apr 21, 2024 | Classical, Concert Previews, Music, Music News
(Conductor Thomas Wilkins) By Montague Gammon III Take your seat, for a concert of joyousness. The Virginia Symphony’s Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto concert in late April showers the Ferguson Center, Chrysler Hall and the Sandler Center with “Pure joy,” to quote an...
by Jeff Maisey | Apr 21, 2024 | Classical, Concert Previews, Music, Music News
(Classical guitarist Miloš Karadaglić will join Les Violons du Roy on stage.) By Montague Gammon III Hampton Roads snagged first dibs on a new, century spanning program of truly golden oldies, thanks to the Virginia Arts Festival. The celebrated French Canadian...
by veermagmain | Mar 16, 2024 | Music, Music News
(Poet Tim Seibles and jazz bassist/composer Chris Brydge. Photo by Jennifer Fish.) By Tom Robotham Most of us, I suspect, were introduced to poetry through the written word, and there’s certainly nothing wrong with that. And yet, when we read poems in silence—in the...
