by veermagmain | Dec 16, 2023 | Music, Music News
By Jeff Maisey Local blues legend Bobby Black Hat Walters shows no signs of slowing down. If anything, 2023 was one of his most prolific. In addition to two sold-out concert events at Ferguson Center for the Arts, the singer/songwriter/harmonica player will squeeze...
by veermagmain | Nov 30, 2023 | Classical, Music, Music News
By Jeff Maisey Since the late 1960s, The King’s Singers — hailing from King’s College, Cambridge in England — have made Christmastime special by performing ancient carols from the Renaissance period and then later incorporating a diverse array of modern holiday season...
by veermagmain | Nov 30, 2023 | Concert Previews, Music, Music News
By Jim Morrison When Jimbo Mathus decided to relaunch Squirrel Nut Zippers in 2016 to celebrate the 20th anniversary of their breakthrough, “Hot,” he moved forward, not back, sending out the call among his New Orleans friends to build a new band playing...
by veermagmain | Nov 30, 2023 | Classical, Music, Music News
(The members of Virginia Chorale. Photo by Steve Budman) By Jeff Maisey If choral music has a high season, surely it’s the holidays. Over the past thousand years, the most ancient of all music forms — vocal — has been composed for religious ceremonies as well as...
by veermagmain | Nov 24, 2023 | Concert Previews, Music, Music News
(Vocalist Amanda Batcher coming home to sing with the Tidewater Winds) By Jim Roberts John Brewington got his Christmas wish back in August—when Amanda Batcher agreed to sing at the Tidewater Winds’ upcoming holiday concert. Brewington is the musical director for the...
by veermagmain | Nov 24, 2023 | Classical, Music
By Montague Gammon III The Ulysses Quartet’s December 4 concert brings to Chrysler Museum’s intimate Kaufmann Theater a deliberately eclectic mix of chamber pieces from as long ago as the 1790s and as recently as 2017. It begins with the “lively… full of sprit and...
