by Jeff Maisey | Apr 15, 2022 | Musical Theater, Stage & Film
(The Dreamettes. Photo by Sam Flint.) By Jerome Langston “I was holding on to this,” says Anthony Stockard, the producing Artistic Director of Norfolk State University Theatre Company, regarding his theatre company’s latest collaboration with Virginia Stage Company,...
by Jeff Maisey | May 5, 2019 | Concert Previews, Music, Music News
By Jim Morrison The list of Bela Fleck’s collaborators is a head-spinning kaleidoscope through modern music. Sam Bush and John Cowan in New Grass Revival, a group that redefined acoustic music. The out-there rhythm section of Roy and Victor Wooten and the...
by Jeff Maisey | May 14, 2018 | Concert Previews, Music, Music News
By Jim Morrison Magda Giannikou, leader of Banda Magda, has synesthesia. When she see letters or words or hears chords of music, she sees colors. “Every letter has a color and every word has a color. Every day of the week,” she says by Skype call from...
by Jeff Maisey | Dec 18, 2017 | Classical, Concert Previews, Music, Music News
By Jeff Maisey The Virginia Arts Festival will present the Vienna Boys Choir’s programmed called “Christmas in Vienna” December 20 at St. Bede Catholic Church in Williamsburg and December 21 at Virginia Beach’s Sandler Center. There are four touring groups...
by Jeff Maisey | Aug 13, 2017 | Concert Previews, Music, Music News
By Ron Wray Cruz and Sam, it felt like we could go on for hours, and we almost did. I had a great talk with these guys who are in great part the centerpiece of the salty-sweet band, The Black Lillies. They’re coming to Jim Morrison’s North Shore Point House Concert...