2012-02-05 00:04:00
MARY ELLEN WRIGHT
The gradual formation of the five-member New York Gypsy All-Stars was something of a miracle. Cooking up a unique stew of traditional Euro-Turkish Gypsy music, seasoned liberally with jazz and funk, requires a demanding skill set, bandleader Ismail Lumanovski said. "The g......
2012-02-03 11:32:00
correspondent
Red Rose City Chorus, a women's a capella show chorus, will perform Saturday, Feb. 18, at 7 p.m. at the Garden Spot Village Chapel, 433 S. Kinzer Ave., New Holland.
The award-winning 35-member chorus will perform as part of the free Garden Spot Village Saturday Evening Concert Series, whi......
2012-01-29 00:06:00
KELLY SMEDLEY
Larry Kirwan has a bunch of ideas rolling in his head. Question is: What will they become? "With the way I write, I can turn something into a play, novel or song," Kirwan said. "The direction usually suggests itself early on." Kirwan, an Irish ex-patriot and lead sin......
2012-01-22 00:06:00
MICHAEL SCHWARTZ
For a guy with a new studio, new record, new label, new North American tour — and a new baby — Denison Witmer has an unabashed, downright sentimental fondness for the old. On stage, the 35-year-old singer/songwriter still plays a generous helping of songs he wrote when he was 19,......
2011-12-31 19:02:00
KELLY SMEDLEY
David Wilcox speaks as if he were writing music. When asked about his concerts, he described them as "being in the presence of words and patterns distilled to a high concentration of emotional intention." Maybe Wilcox was feeling inspired as he romped through the woods wi......
2011-12-30 11:24:00
Correspondent
Garden Spot Village Concert Series will start the new year with a spiritual jazz program featuring The Four Piece Quartet on Saturday, Jan. 21, at 7 p.m. in the Garden Spot Village Chapel, 433 S. Kinzer Ave., New Holland.
Veteran jazz singer Robin Work will perform with the group. W......
2011-12-18 21:05:00
DAVID O'CONNOR
One speaker stopped in the middle of the birthday party and looked directly at the guest of honor.
"Happy birthday, Molly. May God richly, richly bless you," he said as several hundred people applauded in Elizabethtown College's Leffler Chapel.
The guest of honor wasn't able to ve......
2011-12-15 15:27:00
JACK ROBERTS and ALEJANDRO RIOS
Once again, it's time to rock and roll with Rios and Roberts, the two guys who keep you up to date on the local music scene.
• Just when you thought the elections were over and it was safe to come out of your house, they're right back on you. But this time we know just whom to vote f......
2011-12-13 12:21:00
Rochelle A. Shenk
Manheim Central Middle School will present its annual seventh and eighth grade student Holiday Concert at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Dec. 15 in the middle school auditorium, 261 White Oak Road, Manheim.......
2011-12-11 00:02:00
JOHN JASCOLL
Next weekend, the Lancaster Symphony and Chorus will get us in a musical mood for the holidays with their fifth "Sounds of the Season" concert at the Franklin & Marshall College Barshinger Center for Musical Arts. Now a tradition, it has become a much loved end-of-the-year trea......
2011-12-08 15:20:00
KATHLEEN DAMINGER
It's the season of hope.
So the newly merged congregation of United Methodist city churches -- El Redentor and St. Paul's -- is adding to it.
"A Light of Hope (Una Luz de Esperanza)," happening Saturday night, is a Latin-American Christmas concert that celebrates the Christmas sto......
2011-12-07 15:25:00
LAURA KNOWLES
This weekend will be "Forever Christmas" as the Warwick High School choirs and orchestra present their annual holiday concert. The concert features the high school concert choir, holiday, winter and production companies and the Warwick High School Symphony Orchestra. The holiday concer......
2011-12-06 16:28:00
correspondent
"Songs of the Season" will be performed by the Garden Spot High School Vocal Ensemble at 7 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 17 at Garden Spot Village, 433 S. Kinzer Ave., New Holland.
The free concert open to the public is part of the retirement community's Saturday Evening Concert Series.
......
2011-12-06 11:11:00
Rochelle A. Shenk
Manheim Central High School will hold its annual Holiday Concert at 2:30 p.m. on Sunday, Dec. 11 in the high school auditorium, 400 Adele Ave., Manheim.......
2011-12-01 15:58:00
JACK ROBERTS and ALEJANDRO RIOS
Once again it's time to rock and roll with Rios and Roberts, the two guys who keep you up to date on the local music scene.
• It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas. And sound like it, too.
Word just came in that Music for Everyone and the Community Chorus are once again......
2011-11-29 17:05:00
STAFF
Garden Spot schools will present holiday concerts in December.
The Garden Spot Middle School Holiday Concert is scheduled for Monday, Dec. 12 and features the orchestra, chorus, band and World Beat Percussion Ensemble.
The Garden Spot High School Holiday Concert will be prese......
2011-11-27 00:10:00
KELLY SMEDLEY
Ben Utecht is a true Renaissance man. The former NFL standout turned successful singer is indeed a rare breed. He's been working hard at both professions since fourth grade. "My family was rich with music tradition and athletic ambition," Utecht said by phone. "I experien......
2011-11-27 00:06:00
MARY ELLEN WRIGHT
The first time an adolescent David Benoit watched "A Charlie Brown Christmas" on TV in the late 1960s, he felt both a kinship with the pessimistic Charlie Brown and a thrill at hearing Vince Guaraldi's contemporary jazz score. "I didn't know who [Guaraldi] was," the jazz piani......
2011-11-27 00:02:00
JON FERGUSON
John Doe, the former spouse and current bandmate of Exene Cervanka, says they're ready to resume a long-dormant writing collaboration. The two musicians, who were married for about five years in the 1980s, together wrote almost all of the songs when X, the Los Angeles-based pu......
2011-11-13 00:08:00
STEPHEN KOPFINGER
You know the punch line to the old joke about how to get to Carnegie Hall: "Practice." Well, the Canadian Brass did plenty of that and more. "We're the only music group in history that got to Carnegie Hall playing children's and community concerts," said Chuck Daellenbach......
2011-11-13 00:06:00
MARY ELLEN WRIGHT
Back in Bloomington, 15 years before the popularity of NBC's "The Sing-Off" or The Warblers of TV's "Glee," Walter Chase and his nine college buddies bonded over music, road trips and laughter. None of them ever dreamed what would become of their modest Indiana University a ca......
2011-11-13 00:04:00
JOHN DUFFY
The expansive Sahara is by any measure a harsh and unforgiving place. But to the Tuareg, nomadic herdsmen and traders who have called the area home for two millennia, it is a place to be praised and revered. For 10 years, the group Tinariwen has toured the world with this mess......
2011-11-10 23:31:00
LAURA KNOWLES
No stuffy, subdued classical symphony concert, this. "Carmina Burana" is more like being run over by a locomotive, chased down by vampires and swept away by a tidal wave.
As a matter of fact, the music of this powerful masterpiece written by German composer Carl Orff in 1937 may be one of......
2011-11-10 23:27:00
JIMMY PIANKA
When The Sugarhill Gang's 1979 hit "Rapper's Delight" grooved its way onto the Top 40 charts, hip hop was a nascent genre still confined to urban block parties and lo-fi DJ mixtapes. The single was the first of its kind to break the mainstream barrier, exploding into international markets and ope......
2011-11-10 23:21:00
JON FERGUSON
It's not that Andy Middleton was unhappy living in Brooklyn.
Life certainly was hectic for the jazz saxophonist and his wife, Sheila Cooper, also a saxophonist and a singer.
But the couple made it work, earning a living as musicians by touring in the U.S. and overseas, making reco......
2011-11-06 00:06:00
JON FERGUSON
Not many people would trade the sunny climate of Los Angeles for the nasty winters of Buffalo, N.Y. Robby Takac, however, decided a couple of years ago that it was time to come home after spending more than a decade in LA. "I remember looking to Los Angeles and thinking t......
2011-11-06 17:25:00
STAFF
Garden Spot Village will open its popular 2011-12 Saturday Evening Concert Series on Saturday, Nov. 19, with renowned piani James Correnti.
Correnti, a former pastor at Fleishman Memorial Baptist Church, Philadelphia, is chairman of keyboard studies at Eastern University and affiliate art......
2011-11-03 23:16:00
JON FERGUSON
For singer Michael Fitzpatrick, heartache never felt so good.
A breakup with his girlfriend had left Fitzpatrick — the Fitz in Fitz and the Tantrums, which will perform Tuesday at the Chameleon Club — reeling as he desperately tried to regain his balance.
"I was heartb......
2011-11-03 23:15:00
JON FERGUSON
Guitarist Mike Wanchic started playing with John Mellencamp long before the singer-songwriter ever had a hit.
Wanchic signed on when Mellencamp was still fighting to record under his own name instead of John Cougar, the ridiculous nom de plume assigned him by a former manager.
The......
2011-11-03 23:14:00
KATHLEEN DAMINGER
For the most part, the crowd that will gather at Lancaster Bible College for Friday's Called to Love Tour concert with Downhere, Aaron Shust and Jason Gray probably will be Christian.
After all, they proclaim a message in their music that doesn't generally appeal to the mainstream music m......
2011-10-30 00:06:00
JON FERGUSON
Though the Pixies, against all odds, reunited in 2004 and have been touring ever since, don't expect any new music from the band. Pixies guitarist Joey Santiago said sticking him and his band mates — guitarist/singer/songwriter Black Francis, bassist/singer Kim Deal and ......
2011-10-30 00:04:00
STEPHEN KOPFINGER
He is best known as the creator of a beloved American composition; she is equally beloved by listeners of a popular National Public Radio program. But there's so much more to Jay Ungar and Molly Mason than "Ashokan Farewell" and "A Prairie Home Companion." Jay and Molly, ......
2011-10-28 23:08:00
TROY DIFFENDERFER, 18, Freestyle
Come November, fans of the hardcore music genre will have one more thing to be thankful for when they sit around the Thanksgiving table.
Monster Energy has just announced the lineup for the 2nd annual Monster Energy Outbreak Tour. The tour began Wednesday and will make a stop at The ......
2011-10-27 16:08:00
TOM KNAPP
Tired of trick-or-treating? Not in the mood for another Halloween party where only three people are wearing costumes and the punch has gone flat?
Maybe you should celebrate the scary season cinematically.
There are several movie events this year that are tied to the Halloween them......
2011-10-26 19:47:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT
CONCERT REVIEW
Nashville-based pop star Mat Kearney's Tuesday night show in Lancaster city launched with an unexpected opening act: pure silence.
The slender songwriter and his band strutted onto the Chameleon Club stage just a......
2011-10-23 00:08:00
JON FERGUSON
Shaun Cooper got more than he bargained for when he joined the rock band Taking Back Sunday, which performs tonight at the Chameleon Club. Cooper, a bass player, had modest ambitions for the band and was nowhere near prepared when people actually started paying attention....
2011-10-20 17:04:00
JON FERGUSON
Blues guitarist Kenny Wayne Shepherd doesn't practice much at home anymore.
With three children, ranging in age from seven months to four years, watching his every move, the onetime prodigy just doesn't get much time to sit down with his guitar.
"It's a little harder for me at hom......
2011-10-16 00:08:00
JOHN DUFFY
In their 26-year history, the Jayhawks have only twice caught a glimpse of mainstream success, and both times they scuttled it. This fall, they get a third chance. "We were definitely not with the time," singer Mark Olson recalled on the phone from his home in Joshua Tree, Cal......
2011-10-16 00:06:00
STEPHEN KOPFINGER
Fans of classical music, expect to hear something great at Elizabethtown College. Period. Period, as in period instruments. The kind that can truly bring to life the musical strains of the Baroque era and all its tuneful genius. The English Concert, appearing courtes......
2011-10-16 00:04:00
KELLY SMEDLEY
Last week Corey Harris walked his 6-year-old daughter to school in celebration of International Walk to School Day. The symbolic stroll was also a fitting tribute to Harris, who has walked many international paths throughout his musical career. Harris, who is known worldwide for his diverse ......
2011-10-09 00:06:00
T.W. BURGER
Brandon Heath is on his way. He will bring his "Leaving Eden" tour to the Pullo Center Oct. 13, and the Grammy-nominated contemporary singer-songwriter is on his way career-wise as well, and having the time of his life. Heath has released three studio albums: "Don't Get C......
2011-10-09 00:04:00
JON FERGUSON
The songs on "Divine Providence," the new album by Deer Tick, careen from gently played ballad to bash-on-the-drum rocker, from hedonistic anthems to introspective meditations. The twists and turns listeners navigate as the 12 songs unwind make for an exhilarating sonic ride....
2011-10-06 14:58:00
JANE HOLAHAN
After a dizzying array of concerts in August, you'd think the folks at Music at Gretna would have a chance to take it easy.
Sorry, but there's no rest for the weary.
Sunday, the first concert in the Gretna Music at Elizabethtown College series begins, with the SFJazz Collective at......
2011-10-02 00:10:00
JON FERGUSON
Few musicians aspire to play the jawbone of a donkey. Suz Slezak, a fiddler and singer, was no exception. But that all changed when she met David Wax. Wax and Slezak exchanged telephone numbers shortly after he returned to Boston from an extended stay in Mexico, where he ......
2011-10-02 00:08:00
MARY ELLEN WRIGHT
Mary Chapin Carpenter is a prolific singer-songwriter. But while she's out singing, she's usually not writing. That's what home is for. "I never write, really, when I'm on the road," Carpenter said by phone from her home in central Virginia. "I just need to be home and to feel......
2011-10-02 00:06:00
JOHN DUFFY
One day Corty Byron looked at his calendar and realized it was time to leave Lancaster. As a guitar-slinger, open mic host, bandleader or solo acoustic performer, he had been active in the local scene for more than a decade. "I was doing 20 shows a month: Wednesdays, Thursdays......
2011-10-02 00:01:00
DAINA SAVAGE
Promoting peace through both sounds and silence, the Lancaster Coalition for Peace and Social Justice will host a two-day literary and musical arts event open to the community. Poetry readings, writing workshops and silent vigils mark the weekend event, which aims to heighten awareness of......
2011-09-30 23:06:00
STAFF
Map of satellite parking availabe on October 2 for Fallfest 2011.......
2011-09-25 00:14:00
PAULA HOLZMAN
Rodney Atkins will take the stage Sunday, Oct. 2, at FallFest as the headliner — a man with No. 1 country singles, a platinum album and crowds ready to sing along with his latest hit. But not too long ago, Atkins was just a kid with his guitar, taking the stage at an Eas......
2011-09-25 00:10:00
STEPHEN KOPFINGER
As the biblical hero of Sight & Sound Theatre's "Joseph," Joshua Keefer merely had to fly through the air, speak with God and take on the might of ancient Egypt. In "Chess," Keefer is tackling something almost as daunting. Maybe even more so. "I have to legitimately up my game," ......
2011-09-25 00:08:00
JOHN JASCOLL
Next weekend Lancaster Symphony opens its season at the Fulton Opera House with a concert titled "A Scottish Fantasy," an aptly chosen name. It begins with a light series of Scottish dances (1957) by English composer Malcolm Arnold before moving on to the more intense offering......
2011-09-22 15:05:00
JON FERGUSON
Gone are the days when Neil Byrne used to rattle around Ireland in a van, driving from gig to gig with his rock band.
The van is just a distant memory. And so is the rock band.
Byrne, a singer and guitarist, now travels first-class as a member of Celtic Thunder, the touring and re......
2011-09-22 14:32:00
JANE HOLAHAN
They sit majestically in churches throughout Lancaster County, ready to come alive Sunday mornings.
For many people, the glorious organ music is as much a part of worship as the minister's sermon and the reading of Bible passages.
But you don't have to go to a church service to he......
2011-09-18 00:08:00
KELLY SMEDLEY
When Steven Curtis Chapman takes the stage Oct. 6 at Calvary Church, he would prefer the spotlight not shine on him. In fact, if it shines on him too much, he might just walk it over to one of his musical companions. "I love passing the baton," said Chapman, 48, who over the p......
2011-09-15 15:30:00
JANE HOLAHAN
So you'd like to increase your concert-going, but some of the ticket prices are beyond your budget.
Take "American Spirit," the first concert in the 2011-2012 Community Concert series, being held Thursday at 7:30 p.m. at the Performing Arts Center at Lancaster Mennonite High School.
......
2011-09-12 13:01:00
ROCHELLE A. SHENK
The Manheim Central Foundation for Educational Enrichment (MCFEE) has something to celebrate. In addition to marking its 10th anniversary, the organization has distributed more than half a million dollars to support programs that have benefited more than 90 percent of students in the Manheim......
2011-09-11 00:06:00
JON FERGUSON
Rod Argent and his mates got together in 1961 for their first rehearsal as a rock band. They called themselves the Zombies. Three years later, they — along with the Rolling Stones, the Who, the Kinks, the Animals and many others — followed on the heels of the Beatl......
2011-08-31 17:28:00
JANE HOLAHAN
By the time the 2011-2012 academic year is over, more than 160 events will have been held at Millersville University Lancaster at 42 N. Prince St.
Beginning Sept. 2 and continuing through June, the place will be packed with concerts of all kinds, dance performances, cabarets, lectures, th......
2011-08-28 22:33:00
STAFF
The final concert in the 2011 Long's Park Summer Music Series was held as planned Sunday, but in a far different location.
Instead of its usual Long's Park home, the remnants of Hurricane Irene forced the performance to the Millersville University Lancaster building on North Prince Street......
2011-08-28 00:02:00
STEPHEN KOPFINGER
Even if you're not an opera buff, you've probably heard of the Three Tenors. Or the Twelve Tenors. Or the Three Phantoms. Or…Well, you get the idea. These are the guys who strut their singing stuff, making opera accessible to stadium crowds around the world. But at Mount Gretna, it......
2011-08-26 21:56:00
DAVID O'CONNOR
Rodney Atkins is becoming a big name in country music, with a string of No. 1 hits to his credit.
Teen Lauren Alaina, meanwhile, might be even more famous, having made it all the way to second place on last season's "American Idol."
The two are among the artists who will be perfor......
2011-08-25 14:39:00
JON FERGUSON
Jeffery Broussard finds hope in his 11-year-old daughter.
Broussard, a Louisiana native, is on a mission to preserve Creole culture and traditional zydeco music.
Unfortunately, he's disappointed by the young musicians who knock on his door seeking tips on how to play the accordion......
2011-08-25 16:27:00
STAFF
Looking for a relaxing and enjoyable way to bond with your inner musician and give back to our educational community? Celebrate the 10-year anniversary of the Manheim Central Foundation for Educational Enrichment by joining them for a concert Sept. 24 featuring renowned pianists....
2011-08-24 22:27:00
STAFF REPORT
Thursday, 2 p.m. -- This program has been cancelled due to the expected inclement weather.
The pianos of the Keys For The City program have been along Lancaster city streets this summer for anyone to plink a few keys.
Thursday evening, a famous keyboardist is......
2011-08-21 00:06:00
KELLY SMEDLEY
Jeffery Broussard was tired. "What time is it?" he mumbled, speaking by phone from his California hotel. The 44-year-old leader of Jeffery Broussard and the Creole Cowboys has been "all over the map" this summer and will land in Lancaster at the Long's Park Amphitheater on Sun......
2011-08-21 00:04:00
MARY ELLEN WRIGHT
When you head to a Bruce Hornsby concert, you know you can always expect more of the same. The thing is, when it comes to Hornsby, "more of the same" means that, every few years, his music flows off in a different direction — or maybe two or three. He's been jazzy o......
2011-08-19 22:43:00
LARRY ALEXANDER
Every day in his second-floor office at the American Music Theatre, Jim Martin sorts through emails from acts that want to perform onstage.
"I'm always getting submissions from singers, dancers and bands who want to come and play here," Martin said. "And I have to decide, 'What will sell?......
2011-08-18 14:15:00
JON FERGUSON
Kelly Meashey says some of her best moments onstage happen when she stops singing.
"When I get to finish singing and stand there right in the middle of the band and listen to all the solos, I am in heaven," Meashey says during a telephone interview from her Philadelphia home. "I have the ......
2011-08-14 00:18:00
MARY ELLEN WRIGHT
Marie Osmond is a bit behind on her schedule of phone interviews with the media. She apologizes, unleashes a lyrical laugh, and explains: "My kids were playing with my phone, on my apps, and they didn't tell me. And they turned the volume off." Hence, the missed calls to her L......
2011-08-14 00:14:00
MARY ELLEN WRIGHT
There will be silver threads among the gold next weekend on the Old Pool Farm. Some silver-haired singers will be among those taking the stage to celebrate the golden anniversary of the venerable Philadelphia Folk Festival near Schwenksville. The Philadelphia Folksong Soc......
2011-08-12 16:53:00
MIKI SIMONDS, 20, Freestyle
CONCERT REVIEW
Since her first single played loudly throughout the roller rink, I was a Britney Spears fan. Twelve years later, Spears is still topping the charts, and I am still a huge fan.
Her first tour was the first concert......
2011-08-11 20:34:00
AMANDA KENNEDY
It's not your typical B12, calcium or zinc, but Michael Jamanis calls music an essential part of a daily "multivitamin" from which everyone can benefit.
So this is why it is so hard for Jamanis and the other members of Series 42, a group that partners with Music for Everyone and Millersvi......
2011-08-11 00:12:00
JANE HOLAHAN
Internationally renowned pianist Peter Serkin will perform a benefit concert for the Lancaster Conservatory of Music in October.
Tickets are $45 for premium seating and $35 for open seating at Serkin's performance, to be held at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 22 at Lancaster Mennonite School Fine Arts Ce......
2011-08-07 00:10:00
MARY ELLEN WRIGHT
Journey keyboard player and songwriter Jonathan Cain will have lots of things to count as he approaches the stage at Hersheypark Stadium with his longtime band mates. There are the dozens of American concert dates on a tour that has already taken the classic-rock band through ......
2011-08-07 00:04:00
STEPHEN KOPFINGER
There'll be some hot sounds on a warm night in the park next Sunday. That's Long's Park, and the heat will be coming from Hot Club of Detroit, which will rock the trees Aug. 14 with its distinctive brand of "gypsy jazz," influenced by both France and the Motor City. The f......
2011-07-31 00:12:00
BRITTANY HORN
Jennifer LaCivita may not be the biggest basketball fan, but when it comes to boy bands, she'll make some sacrifices. The 27-year-old donned a Boston Celtics jersey Saturday night in hopes that her favorite New Kids on the Block member, Donnie Wahlberg, would wear a similar one during the ba......
2011-07-31 00:06:00
JON FERGUSON
The walls of the house George Ragan grew up in reverberated with the sounds of artists like the Beatles, Neil Young and Bob Dylan. Ragan, at least initially, was not impressed. "When I was a kid," Ragan said during a telephone interview from his Los Angeles home, "I'd go,......
2011-07-31 00:04:00
STEPHEN KOPFINGER
It's not surprising that Amanda Wells picked up a guitar and started writing songs. She grew up surrounded by music, but she didn't take up with the guitar straight out of the gate. "Every girl picks up the flute, but I was terrible at it," said Wells, who will appear at ......
2011-07-24 00:08:00
STEPHEN KOPFINGER
A song is not just a song to Gretchen Parlato. "It has to tell a story," said the 35-year-old singer, who will appear Sept. 3 at Mount Gretna as part of the town's annual Music at Gretna series, which segues from summer into fall into spring 2012 starting next month. The ......
2011-07-24 00:06:00
BRITTANY HORN
Martin Cradick's trip to Africa in 1992 with his wife, Su Hart, began as a vacation and led to a lifestyle change. The Cradicks spent years with the Baka Pygmies — residents of the central African rain forest in Cameroon — while learning about their music and lifes......
2011-07-21 15:14:00
JANE HOLAHAN
The St. Peter's Musical Arts Concert Series has been bringing a wide variety of performers to St. Peter's Evangelical Lutheran Church for 20 years now.
On Saturday, it hosts the Peabody Ragtime Ensemble.
The popular band from Baltimore plays Dixieland and big band in addition to r......
2011-07-17 22:48:00
AARON GRIFFITH
The heat of the day had given way to a beautiful cool night, but the band on stage was ready to ignite the crowd Sunday at Long's Park's seventh musical performance this summer.
Music spanning more than three decades brought back memories for some and exposed others to the best of t......
2011-07-17 00:10:00
MARY ELLEN WRIGHT
John Linnell needs to take the phone downstairs in his Brooklyn home in order to continue an interview. His 12-year-old son, whom Linnell describes as being "addicted to 'The Simpsons,' " has the television turned up a bit loud. Linnell and John Flansburgh, who comprise the qu......
2011-07-17 00:08:00
MICHAEL C. UPTON
To say that singer-songwriter Paul Thorn had a peculiar childhood is a gross understatement. Thorn's latest album, "Pimps and Preachers," explores his unique formative experiences. "The title song is about my upbringing and the influences I had in my life, which in my wor......
2011-07-17 00:06:00
JON FERGUSON
Rob Zombie well remembers a sleepover with a friend when he was in the third grade. The two buddies were watching television when a commercial for the horror film "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" suddenly filled their eyes. "I knew I wasn't going to go see the movie because ......
2011-07-17 00:05:00
STEPHEN KOPFINGER
It's time to raise the roof at St. Peter's Evangelical Lutheran Church. After all, it's a special birthday occasion. The Manheim Township sanctuary has long been a haven for music, both sacred and secular, thanks to its St. Peter's Musical Arts Concert Series. This year m......
2011-07-17 00:04:00
JOHN DUFFY
If you're headed to Long's Park tonight to check out Danny Kortchmar and his band, you'll probably hear songs from the likes of Jackson Browne, Don Henley, the Fabulous Thunderbirds and James Taylor. But unless you're the kind of person who reads the liner notes of records &md......
2011-07-17 00:03:00
T.W. BURGER
Turtles co-founder Howard Kaylan responded trigger-quick to a reporter's comment that he couldn't get the song "Eleanor" out of his head. "That's great," Kaylan said. "Every time that plays in your head, I get 17 cents." The madcap mental sharpness that Kaylan and partner Mark Volman......
2011-07-17 00:02:00
STAFF
Lap app
While the vast majority of smartphone apps people download are games, one health and fitness app available on iTunes remains popular: Nike+ GPS. This runners' app allows the user to plan routes and record pace and distance during runs. It also al......
2011-07-14 22:10:00
BERNARD HARRIS
"I heard it from a friend, who ... heard it from a friend, who ... heard it from another ... ."
REO Speedwagon is NOT coming to town. The promoter for the Aug. 26 concert at the Lancaster County Convention Center announced Thursday that the event has been canc......
2011-07-10 22:56:00
NICOLE HERMAN
Waka-waka-waka-waka-waka.
The intriguing sound — a mix between Pac-Man and Fozzie Bear — had people moving their heads to the beat Sunday night at Long's Park.
The source was the unmistakable talent of Oz Noy on his guitar. The bass, powered by Will Lee, follo......
2011-07-10 00:12:00
JON FERGUSON
Your perception of Kid Rock likely depends on what you've read. The tabloids tend to focus on his brief, tumultuous marriage to Pamela Anderson, his brushes with the law and his love of a good party and Jim Beam whiskey. Dig a little deeper, however, and you can find stor......
2011-07-10 00:10:00
MARY ELLEN WRIGHT
For more than three decades, "Weird Al" Yankovic has taken a serious approach to the silly business of novelty songs. And, especially lately, it's paying off in a big way. Yankovic's just-released album "Alpocalypse" is hovering in the top 10 of the Billboard charts, a higher ......
2011-07-10 00:04:00
CATHY MOLITORIS
Although his Tait Towers provides staging and scenery around the world for rock's biggest stars, James "Winky" Fairorth downplays his job. "This isn't rocket science," he likes to say. But now, thanks to a tiny but complicated mission his company recently completed with N......
2011-07-10 00:02:00
STAFF
Restraint
Kraft has released its new Macaroni & Cheese Veggie Pasta, which boasts a half-serving of cauliflower per cup. Just remember that the calorie count hasn't changed. There's still about 260 calories in that same cup of mac and cheese. So goin......
2011-07-08 16:03:00
JON FERGUSON
CONCERT REVIEW
When Keith Urban decided to call his latest trek across America the "Get Closer Tour," he wasn't kidding.
During his two-hour show Thursday night at Hershey's Giant Center, the Australian star moved his mic stand......
2011-07-03 00:12:00
STEPHEN KOPFINGER
The American Heritage Dictionary defines "prestissimo" as "in as fast a tempo as possible." And that's an appropriate name for what's coming here July 10-23, when classical music rules during a festival delightfully known as "Prestissimo!" The event, showcasing musical ta......
2011-07-03 00:10:00
MARY ELLEN WRIGHT
Jazz-guitar virtuoso Oz Noy's music is heavily flavored with rock, blues, funk and pop. But don't call his sound "jazz fusion" — at least not when he's listening. "I don't like the word 'fusion,' just because it's got a really bad connotation," Noy said recently by phone......
2011-07-03 00:06:00
MICHAEL C. UPTON
Casual radio listeners might think Def Leppard is as prominent today as it was 30 years ago. The hard-rocking Brits who stormed onto the American metal scene of the '80s and turned out out top-selling albums and many top-40 hits are not going away quietly. "It's because the '9......
2011-07-03 00:02:00
STAFF
Plain words
Lancaster County resident Ira Wagler first left his Amish home in Iowa at 17, only to return and leave four more times before reconciling his restless spirit with his fear of eternal damnation. He recalls his struggle in a new memoir, "Growin......
2011-06-30 15:03:00
Staff
First Friday Variety ... Friday
With a glowing weather forecast and plenty of free, fun stuff going on, you can bet the streets of downtown Lancaster will be packed for First Friday from 5 to 9 p.m. What will those crowds be seeing?
nA new gallery opens at 15 W. King St. Gallery o......
2011-06-29 16:26:00
Staff
Two annual summer concert series are underway at Ephrata's Thomas Grater Community Park.
Ephrata Concert Band, conducted by Lincoln Fogelsanger, performed its first Sunday evening "Concert in the Park" June 19. Weekly shows continue through Aug. 7 at Grater Park, off of Cocalico Street....
2011-06-26 22:54:00
DAVID O'CONNOR
A visitor from Nashville was looking out at all the people in Long's Park on Sunday night and he had to say something.
"Look at this place! It's incredible in here!" exclaimed a smiling Jamie Johnson, a singer for the award-winning bluegrass band known as the Grascals.
"And it," m......
2011-06-26 00:02:00
STAFF
Good lard!
Potato chips — and Lancaster County has some of the best — make you fat faster than other snack foods. So says a new Harvard University study. Those in the study who added an ounce of potato chips (about 15 chips) to their daily di......
2011-06-23 16:11:00
Staff
Celtic Fling ... Friday-Sunday
Ah! You hear that, me boy? That'll be the sound of bagpipes warming up at the Pennsylvania Renaissance Fair for the Celtic Fling and Highland Games. Nowhere else can you find such a savage celebration of Celtic culture and fine Irish spirit. Starting at 5 p.......
2011-06-20 14:03:00
Rochelle A. Shenk
Everence Celebrates. . . . Bands with a Mission, a benefit concert, will be held 6:30 – 9 p.m. on Saturday, June 25 at Manheim Brethren in Christ Church, 54 N. Penryn Rd., Manheim.
Hosted by Everence Financial, the concert supports local charitable organizations and church min......
2011-06-19 00:14:00
STEPHEN KOPFINGER
When Tony Bennett once crooned, "I know I'd go from rags to riches," he was singing about how love — not money — would make him feel like a king. By that measure, the celebrated master of song is a rich man indeed. Fans of all ages will be able to experience t......
2011-06-19 00:12:00
MARY ELLEN WRIGHT
Singer-songwriter Dana Alexandra has the social-media promotion covered. She has a website, a YouTube channel and MySpace, Facebook and Twitter pages. What she doesn't have is Internet access — not since she moved into a new house in York a couple of months ago. This tec......
2011-06-19 00:10:00
MARY ELLEN WRIGHT
Teresa James and Terry Wilson found the beating heart of their music, and each other, deep in the heart of Texas. They've been making music together, personally and professionally, for nearly 30 years and have seven CDs, two grown children and a marriage approaching the silver......
2011-06-19 00:02:00
STAFF
Mr. Mom
According to 2010 statistics from the U.S. Census Bureau, there are about 25 million married fathers in America with children younger than 18, and of those, about 154,000 are stay-at-home dads. These men, who stay at home primarily so their spous......
2011-06-16 09:43:00
Rochelle A. Shenk
New Light, a traveling music ministry team from Messiah College, will present a free program on Saturday, June 18, at 7:30 p.m. at the Manheim Pool pavilion, 504 Adele Ave., Manheim. Be sure to bring lawn chairs and b......
2011-06-12 22:52:00
AARON GRIFFITH
Music rich in Scottish heritage and culture echoed throughout Long's Park's amphitheater Sunday evening, as an enchanting performance from Tannahill Weavers captured the night.
Droves of Lancaster County residents gathered to enjoy the second performance of the Long's Park summer music se......
2011-06-12 00:12:00
STEPHEN KOPFINGER
In a way, the music of the Tannahill Weavers is as familiar as family. The sound of the Scottish band is rooted in home. Phil Smillie, a vocalist for the Celtic band, recalls listening to Scottish traditional dance bands and going dancing with his family as a child. ......
2011-06-12 00:10:00
MICHAEL C. UPTON
Early in his life, country music singer James Otto realized he had to get out of his hometown to pursue a career in music. Growing up in the state of Washington, Otto played music throughout his childhood and into his teen years, but the Pacific Northwest was not the home of his type of music.......
2011-06-12 00:02:00
STAFF
Golden boy
Is there anything this kid doesn't do? Pop sensation Justin Bieber, 17, proved Wednesday that his appeal extends well beyond the world of Top 40 music, taking home a Country Music Television Award for his collaborative video with Rascal Flatts......
2011-06-10 17:48:00
TROY DIFFENDERFER, 17, Freestyle
The Chameleon Club in Lancaster will be host to the Annapolis-based rockers Jimmie's Chicken Shack Saturday night.
The quartet will be one of many groups to bring its talents to North Water Street club.
Coming out of the post-grunge era of the '90s, Jimi Robert Davies, better know......
2011-06-09 16:03:00
JANE HOLAHAN
You might think bands from Scotland always featured the Highland bagpipe in their lineup.
What is more Scottish than the sound of bagpipes?
Well, traditionally, Highland bagpipes were a solo instrument. They did not perform along with the fiddles, flutes, penny whistles and guitar......
2011-06-08 22:30:00
NICOLE HERMAN
To hear the sound of a lone violin reverberating against the walls of a concert hall elicits a feeling no other instrument can bring.
For Ephrata-born Dara Burkholder Morales, the music of violins is the soundtrack of her life. A professional violinist, Morales has traveled around the wor......
2011-06-05 00:08:00
JOHN DUFFY
Time was when Levon Helm feared unwanted visitors to his home in New York's Catskill Mountains — enough to keep a shotgun loaded with rock salt nearby. These days, the drummer and singer of compelling country-rock standards such as "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down" and "T......
2011-06-05 00:02:00
STAFF
Spirited app
Looking for a refreshing adult beverage to serve poolside? There's an app for that. The new Martha Stewart Cocktails App, available through the iPad App Store or at itunes.com, offers a series ......
2011-05-30 22:37:00
JANE HOLAHAN
The 48th annual Lancaster Summer Arts Festival kicks off Friday with a noontime concert featuring the Blind Willies in Steinman Park. Events continue through the first week of July.
But this year's arts festival will be leaner than usual.
"Due to financial restraints, we've had to......
2011-05-29 00:14:00
MARY ELLEN WRIGHT
Ronnie Earl has lived the blues, and he's played the blues to great acclaim for more than 35 years. But the brand of blues the guitar virtuoso shares with audiences these days is informed by spirituality, sobriety, a happy marriage and a band of musical brothers called the Bro......
2011-05-29 00:12:00
T.W. BURGER
The thing about playing the jazz banjo is it takes awhile for people to realize that you're not kidding, Bela Fleck said in a recent interview. "When I was in high school I got two reactions from people. One was the flapping of the arms and screaming, 'Yee-haw!'; the other was......
2011-05-29 00:02:00
STAFF
Fast food?
Health-conscious fast-food eaters take heart. Now that berries are in season, Wendy's has introduced its Berry Almond Chicken Salad containing strawberries and blueberries. So while the bacon cheeseburgers won't look any less appealing, at least con......
2011-05-26 15:55:00
Staff
SoBe Style ... Saturday
There will be some stand-up, some salsa and some South Beach style Saturday at the First Multicultural Comedy Show & Concert, being held at the Marriott at Penn Square on Saturday evening. The doors open at 8 and the show begins at 9. The evening will include c......
2011-05-25 10:03:00
CINDY HUMMEL
Current Pequea Valley ninth-graders will be required to take an online course before they graduate. The PV school board voted May 12 to add the new graduation requirement for the class of 2014. Erik Orndorff, the district's director of curriculum and instruction, said the course will be......
2011-05-22 00:08:00
MARY ELLEN WRIGHT
After 30 years, these ladies have still got the beat. With the re-release last week of their seminal debut album, "Beauty and the Beat," the Go-Go's are preparing to beat a path to the Hershey Theatre. They'll kick off their three-month Ladies Gone Wild tour there May 29....
2011-05-22 00:02:00
STAFF
Ciao, Oprah
A quarter-century of broadcasting excellence will come to an end this week when "The Oprah Winfrey Show" airs its last episode. The final taping of the talk show that made Oprah one of the most powerful women in the world will air at 4 p.m. W......
2011-05-21 00:01:00
ELIZABETH PATTON
SYMPHONY REVIEW
As storm clouds cleared above the city Friday evening, a second storm gathered on the stage of the Fulton Opera House as the Lancaster Symphony Orchestra closed out its subscription series with a shattering performance ......
2011-05-19 20:07:00
NICOLE HERMAN
A concert fundraiser for Diane Grabowski, who is battling an aggressive type of cancer, will be held Sunday.
The Cancer Kickin' Concert will be held at the Magnuson Hotel at 2250 Lincoln Highway East. The concert, brimming with local talent, will begin at 3 p.m. and continue until 7......
2011-05-15 00:08:00
STEPHEN KOPFINGER
On her website, Keiko Matsui lists herself as "a citizen of the world." Any fan of the Japanese-born pianist knows that. Listen to her albums and you might hear influences from some of the deeper recesses of Africa. Or touches of American jazz. Or Latin sizzle. Or, in kee......
2011-05-15 00:06:00
JOHN JASCOLL
Can you imagine the thrill of being inspired by one of the great classical composers to create a modern musical masterpiece of your own? That's what 39-year-old Christopher Theofanidis experienced when he was commissioned by the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra in New York to write "Muse,......
2011-05-15 00:02:00
STAFF
Gaga in a.m.
The biggest name in pop music today, Lady Gaga, will kick off the "Good Morning America" summer concert series Friday, May 27. The ABC morning show, which airs from 7-9 a.m., will host several high-profile performers during its string of liv......
2011-05-08 00:11:00
T.W. BURGER
Steve Forbert's brush with superstardom came in the late 1970s with his hit song "Romeo's Tune." It was a case of the right thing at the wrong time, as the reign of great singer-songwriters like Carole King, James Taylor and Forbert himself was fading away, to be replaced by the po......
2011-05-08 00:06:00
JON FERGUSON
Jaret Reddick likes to play games, so it's no surprise he jumped at the chance to mix it up with a bunch of other songwriters. Reddick, who writes most of the tunes for Bowling for Soup, the fun-loving power-pop band from Texas, got involved in a game organized by Bob Schneide......
2011-05-08 00:02:00
STAFF
She's cookin'
That is, indeed, rocker Sheryl Crow wearing a sombrero and promoting her new cookbook on "The Wendy Williams Show." Opting out of the obvious "Eating Crow," the Grammy-winning singer-songwriter has instead titled her cookbook "If It Makes Y......
2011-05-05 21:10:00
JON FERGUSON
Of all the combinations made possible by moving around the members of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, Graham Nash says his favorite is the duo he forms with David Crosby.
While Stephen Stills and Neil Young are off getting ready for the return of Buffalo Springfield, Crosby & Nash a......
2011-05-05 21:04:00
KATHLEEN DAMINGER
How about a Sooper Dooper Looper-topped Salute to the Eagles?
Maybe some Billy Ocean after a ride on the Tidal Force?
Or perhaps you'd like to take the kids to see Miranda Cosgrove on the way to Sandcastle Cove.
Hersheypark opens for the season this weekend, and along with......
2011-05-05 20:33:00
JANE HOLAHAN
Normally, when you go to hear a group of high school students performing classical music, you expect to hear a few bad notes, squeaks and missed cues amid the glorious music.
And maybe a few kids who don't really want to be there.
Well, the 42 musicians who make up Allegretto are ......
2011-05-01 00:12:00
JON FERGUSON
For a time in the 1960s, Peter Asher had the coolest bosses in the world: John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr. He worked as the director of artist and repertoire for Apple Records, the record company started by the Beatles in 1968. Asher — a......
2011-05-01 00:02:00
STAFF
Long live King James
In addition to its contributions to idiomic English, the King James Version of the Bible has inspired scholars and poets alike for nearly four centuries. Folk singer Pete Seeger lifted almost the entirety of "Turn, Turn, Turn" from the book, which ......
2011-04-28 22:44:00
JON FERGUSON
Anger comes naturally to Julien Jorgensen, the rhythm guitarist for hard-rock band Rev Theory.
Jorgensen and his band mates didn't have to look far for inspiration for "Justice," an angry, aggressive album released in February that is dominated by riff-heavy rockers.
"It is an ang......
2011-04-24 00:08:00
T.W. BURGER
Fans of country music — the way it used to be before it took on some of the stripes of rock 'n' roll — are going to feel right at home at American Music Theatre next weekend. Familiar names from what some would call country music's golden years will perform two sho......
2011-04-24 00:02:00
STAFF
Mathis
High on the list of national auditory treasures is the sound of Johnny Mathis backed by an orchestra singing "Chances Are," sliding from note to note with the reverb cranked all the way up. The legendary crooner will perform at 7:30 p.m. Thursday,......
2011-04-17 00:06:00
MICHAEL C. UPTON
Despite his band's entrance into a period of "reformation," Jesse Ryan Porter, drummer for the Lancaster-based Sketties, has found an easy life of music, matrimony and employment in Pennsylvania. Originally from Colorado (his wife is from central Pennsylvania), Porter met up w......
2011-04-17 00:02:00
STAFF
Jessie J
When "Who You Are," the debut album of British pop star Jessie J, hit stores Wednesday, critics yawned but fans bought in. The album was the No. 4 seller on iTunes the day after its release, powered by the hit single "Price Tag." But it was a wa......
2011-04-15 23:48:00
ELIZABETH PATTON
SYMPHONY REVIEW
The Fulton Opera House was filled with drama Friday night — perhaps fitting for a stage that most recently saw a run of "Sweeney Todd."
The Demon Barber might have been pleased by the main work on the prog......
2011-04-15 17:38:00
TROY DIFFENDERFER, 17, Freestyle
CONCERT REVIEW
"Everything happened so fast, you know?" said a grinning and wide-eyed Soren Hansen. "We are go-getters, so we haven't really stopped to think about how far we've come."
Hansen is one-third of the Denmark-based r......
2011-04-14 15:36:00
TOM KNAPP
There will probably be dancing in the aisles when the Grateful Dead performs next week at Penn Cinema.
Oh sure, the band won't really be there. But the experience will be pretty intense when Jerry Garcia and the rest of the band flash into life on the 40-foot screen for a one-time musical......
2011-04-10 00:08:00
JOHN JASCOLL
How do you get someone to fall in love with you when the person's clearly not interested? It's been a challenge through the ages. French composer Hector Berlioz (1803-1869) came up with an ingenious plan when he became infatuated with the Irish actress Harriet Smithson after s......
2011-04-10 00:06:00
MICHAEL C. UPTON
To folks who aren't country, Trace Adkins is probably best known as a contestant on Donald Trump's reality show, "The Celebrity Apprentice." It was there the country-music superstar faced off against TV interviewer and tabloid editor Piers Morgan. On "The Celebrity Apprentice,......
2011-04-10 00:02:00
STAFF
Lucky strike
As the packaging of his latest album, "No Poet," suggests, Lancaster singer-songwriter Adam Taylor is no doubt hoping for a lucky strike with his second EP. This gritty, witty 20-year-old talent, kid brother of Live founding member Chad Taylor, ha......
2011-04-03 00:12:00
T.W. BURGER
Grammy-winning alto sax jazz musician Kenny Garrett said he doesn't think about how long he has been playing music. "I stopped counting at age 11," he said. "I always knew I wanted to play music, and I've had a great journey. I've been blessed to be able to play with Miles Davis, the Ellingt......
2011-04-03 00:06:00
JOHN DUFFY
In the world of Scot McFadyen's suburban youth, the sound of Rush was ubiquitous. Its logo was stenciled on his brother's bedroom door. "I can remember being 5 or 6 years old and hearing their music in my house," recalls the 43-year-old filmmaker. "They're such an important pa......
2011-04-03 00:04:00
STEPHEN KOPFINGER
Rejoice, fans of Béla Bartók. One of the nation's most acclaimed string quartets is bringing the music of your man to Elizabethtown College not once but six times over two nights. Translation: six quartets of the famed Hungarian-born composer, presented at 7......
2011-04-03 00:02:00
STAFF
Bakin' Buddy
America's favorite baker Buddy Valastro will appear at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, April 9, at Sovereign Performing Arts Center, Reading. TLC's "Cake Boss" star will share stories behind his hit TV show and demonstrate the techniques that have made ......
2011-03-31 23:31:00
DAVID O’CONNOR
Mark Schultz has a live album called "A Night of Stories & Songs," and that described the show the versatile Christian contemporary singer/songwriter gave here Thursday night. And the crowd of some 550 people at Manor Church had a good idea of what to expect from the singer of such em......
2011-03-31 15:48:00
Staff
Her-story ... Friday, Saturday
The ladies of history will be highlighted at two area "Herr" historic sites opening for the season this weekend. At the 1719 Hans Herr House in Willow Street, the 2011 season opens Friday and will feature an exhibit of Pennsylvania German-decorated hand towe......
2011-03-27 00:06:00
MICHAEL C. UPTON
For years, bluegrass frontman Del McCoury was said to hail from Bakersville, N.C. That's understandable. York, Pa., isn't exactly synonymous with bluegrass music. "I guess it's time to set that straight," McCoury said from his current home in Tennessee. "You can't believe......
2011-03-27 00:02:00
STAFF
Road scholar
Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi, the 4-foot-9- inch celebrity giant spawned from the MTV reality series "Jersey Shore," will take the stage at Penn State-York's Pullo Center at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 29. Her visit will consist of a 40-minute question-an......
2011-03-24 23:08:00
JON FERGUSON
John Darnielle started as a writer who decided to set his poems to music.
Now he's a songwriter who finds his poetry inadequate.
As he made the transition from the written word to the sound of a song, Darnielle, leader of the Mountain Goats, discovered what he really loves is perf......
2011-03-20 00:07:00
SARAH ANNE HUGHES
The first thing you notice when speaking to legendary singer Al Jarreau is his infectious laugh. Whether he's talking about his 40-year career or the fact that the clock function on his VCR is still blinking, the seven-time Grammy winner speaks with a chuckle. "I am blessed an......
2011-03-20 00:02:00
STAFF
Stevent
Friends of Steve Murray, who was critically injured when his vintage clothing store, Zap and Co., burned down in January, have organized a fundraising "Stevent" to assist with his medical care. The evening of food, drink and entertainment will be......
2011-03-13 00:02:00
STAFF
FREE!
Maybe there's no such thing as a free lunch, but there is such a thing as a free Italian ice. Rita's Italian Ice will continue its 19-year tradition of celebrating the first day of spring by giving each of its customers one free, 10-ounce cup of It......
2011-03-06 00:10:00
SARAH ANNE HUGHES
Indie rocker Pete Yorn doesn't seem too affected by his 10-plus years in the music business. In fact, he still seems amazed by his job. "It's funny to me what we do," Yorn said in a telephone interview from Indianapolis. "In this modern world, we get up and play instruments. S......
2011-03-05 00:01:00
ELIZABETH PATTON
SYMPHONY REVIEW
Opposites found common ground at Friday's Lancaster Symphony Orchestra concert at the Fulton Opera House. Simplicity met complexity, ancient met modern and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart met Antonio Salieri — and wiped h......
2011-03-01 19:29:00
STAFF REPORT
Hair-metal singer and reality television star Bret Michaels will perform the first celebrity concert in Lancaster County Convention Center.
The lead singer of the band Poison will appear in the downtown Lancaster center's Freedom Hall at 8:30 p.m. April 20. Doors for the show will op......
2011-02-27 00:10:00
STEPHEN KOPFINGER
It's unfair, but the term "chamber music" evokes an antiquated, fussy image. That's not the case with Imani Winds. Antiquated and fussy they certainly are not. The acclaimed New York-based quintet — flutist/composer Valerie Coleman, oboist Toyin Spellman-Diaz, clarinetist Mariam A......
2011-02-27 00:08:00
T.W. BURGER
Last spring, Regina Carter decided to meld her opulent, jazzy violin with traditional African folk tunes. The challenge was to take the traditional music and infuse it with a lively contemporary feel. To her long-standing rhythm section, Carter added an accordion and a kora &m......
2011-02-20 00:16:00
TERRY BURGER
Jason Castro's life could be a blueprint for the American Dream. Born in Texas to Colombian parents, Castro, 23, is a first-generation American. "I come from a large family," Castro said in a recent telephone interview. "We came to this country to make something of oursel......
2011-02-20 00:02:00
STAFF
Bright idea
They're coming. In the next few months, the new consumer labels for light bulbs will begin to appear. Designed by the Federal Trade Commission, they look a lot like the nutrition facts that appear on food. The labels will spell out for consum......
2011-02-17 16:19:00
JANE HOLAHAN
Don Kinnier and Judy Townsend have been going to the dogs ever since they met and adopted Bella about three years ago.
The poodle mix, who was rescued by a UPS driver on a road when it was just a puppy, is a natural on stage and will be joining the couple when they perform at the chapel a......
2011-02-13 00:08:00
MICHAEL C. UPTON
The seven guys who make up the Hackensaw Boys seem a bit young to be putting out old-time music from the 1920s and '30s. It's not as if the music were ingrained in them from a young age. They all grew up on punk and rock 'n' roll. But when the band came together in the late 19......
2011-02-13 00:02:00
STAFF
Heart health
Chocolate might be the most popular choice for a Valentine's Day treat, but if you're looking for a snack to show you're body that you really love it, pistachios might be worth a try. According to Paramount Farms, California's largest pistac......
2011-02-06 00:06:00
TERESA BONO
The phenomenal success and multiple tragedies in the life of 1950s and '60s singing icon Connie Francis have been well-documented. The somewhat sordid particulars — her rape in a Long Island hotel room, the murder of her aunt, the mob-style hit on her brother, her miscar......
2011-02-06 00:02:00
STAFF
'Angry Birds'
The "Angry Birds" game is everywhere. What began as a smart-phone app has taken on a life of its own. In addition to spinning off a board game, the creators of the addictive app have teamed up with 20th Century Fox to use the game to promot......
2011-01-30 00:02:00
STAFF
Fillet of 'hog
Weather-predicting woodchucks across the county are gearing up for Wednesday, Feb. 2, Groundhog Day. If you don't like the forecast handed down by your local whistle pig, you need not take it sitting down. The Cooperative Extension of Nort......
2011-01-27 21:02:00
BERNARD HARRIS
REO Speedwagon is coming to town.
The platinum-selling rock band will be the first big musical act to perform in the Lancaster County Convention Center on August 26.
The five-member band, originally from Champaign, Ill., was formed in 1967 and had a series of hits in the late 1970......
2011-01-27 20:57:00
BERNARD HARRIS
"I heard it from a friend, who … heard it from a friend, who … heard it from another … "
That REO Speedwagon is coming to town.
On Aug. 26, the platinum-selling rock band will be the first big musical act to perform in the Lancaster County Convention Center....
2011-01-27 14:38:00
JACK ROBERTS and ALEJANDRO RIOS
Once again it's time to rock and roll with Rios and Roberts, the two guys who keep you up to date on the local music scene.
• It may be cold outside, but the local music scene is heating up. And that's good news.
• Good news for schools and other organizations looking fo......
2011-01-23 00:12:00
HELEN COLWELL ADAMS
Last year was a terrible, horrible, no-good, very bad year for the concert business. Ticket sales for the top tours were reported down by 15 percent over 2009 levels. Promoters spoke darkly about canceled shows, poor attendance and fire-sale ticketing. Don't tell that to Micha......
2011-01-23 00:06:00
JOHN DUFFY
A welcome trend in the late 1990s saw R&B singers rejecting the mechanical sounds of the previous decade and returning to the warm, soulful grooves of an earlier time. Maxwell, Jill Scott, India.Arie and Macy Gray all made records, and occasionally had hits, with a decidedly re......
2011-01-23 00:04:00
STEPHEN KOPFINGER
A survey of the music of Iris DeMent shows measured variety: There's traditional gospel, country, folk and some political themes. But her body of work — four albums over 12 years — remains strongly tied together. In a telephone interview from her home in southeaste......
2011-01-16 00:12:00
MICHAEL C. UPTON
Village Nightclub on North Christian Street in downtown Lancaster has been pumping out music for 58 years. In its heyday, the club hosted such high-profile acts as Bruce Springsteen, Cheap Trick and Cyndi Lauper. With an appearance by Sony recording artists Fuel in September and a recent sho......
2011-01-16 00:10:00
STEPHEN KOPFINGER
It's comforting to talk to Caroline Herring the day after an overnight snowstorm. Her soothing Southern accent and the soft voice with which she plies her trade as a singer-songwriter provides a nice backdrop to a wintry Northeastern landscape as she chats pleasantly on the ph......
2011-01-16 00:08:00
MICHAEL C. UPTON
Bryan Adams shares one essential quality with music legends like Willie Nelson and Keith Richards: longevity. Adams, who's been putting out records for 30 years, says he never tires of playing the songs he's performed thousands of times. His biggest hit, "Summer of '69," remai......
2011-01-16 00:06:00
JOHN JASCOLL
Russian-born pianist Yuliya Gorenman took us by storm two years ago when she performed Grieg's Piano Concerto with the Lancaster Symphony. She's back at the Fulton Opera House this weekend and has swept us off our feet again, this time with Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 4 in ......
2011-01-16 00:02:00
STAFF
Party girl
Joanie Leeds knows how to party — with the kids, that is. Leeds won the 2010 Parents' Picks award for the best party entertainer in New York. Leeds and her band the Night Lights will bring the party to Longwood Gardens in Kennett Square ......
2011-01-15 00:01:00
ELIZABETH PATTON
SYMPHONY REVIEW
Ludwig van Beethoven is not usually seen as a painter of musical landscapes, but there was something deeply natural about the performance of soloist Yuliya Gorenman and the Lancaster Symphony Orchestra in his Piano Conc......
2011-01-09 00:08:00
JON FERGUSON
Lancaster gets a shout-out from Fishtank Ensemble in the liner notes for the California band's most recent album, "Woman in Sin." Ursula Knudson, who sings and plays musical saw, among other instruments, said the band's performance here last January was the highlight of its to......
2011-01-09 00:02:00
STAFF
Farm Show
Some folks go for the food; some go to check out the butter sculpture; others just like to moo at the cows. Whatever your reason for going, the 2011 Pennsylvania Farm Show has something for everyone. Events continue through Saturday, Jan. 15. F......
2011-01-02 00:02:00
STAFF
Long live B.B.
In terms of sheer stick-to-itiveness, B.B. King could give Joe Paterno a run for his money. At 85, King is old enough to remember prohibition, and he said five years ago that he would retire. So much for that. The living legend will bring ......
2010-12-26 00:08:00
MICHAEL C. UPTON
Lzzy, the hard-rocking frontwoman for Halestorm, had no real control over her assumed moniker. It just sort of happened. Born Elizabeth Hale, Lzzy now lives the life of a typographical error. "It came from a fan when I was 16 or 17, and we were just kind of getting the ba......
2010-12-19 00:12:00
STEPHEN KOPFINGER
Eliza Doolittle and company will stroll down that "Street Where You Live" in a whole new fashion on New Year's Eve, when maestro Stephen Gunzenhauser and Lancaster Symphony Orchestra usher in 2011 with a lavish concert version of Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe's beloved "My Fa......
2010-12-19 00:10:00
JOHN JASCOLL
There is something for everyone in Lancaster Symphony Orchestra and Chorus' fourth annual "Sounds of the Season" concert, which opened Friday at Franklin & Marshall College's Barshinger Center. Conductor William Wright once again brought us an eclectic gathering of classical and moder......
2010-12-19 00:08:00
MICHAEL C. UPTON
Mac Miller's fun is infectious. The 18-year-old rapper from Pittsburgh is known to have a smile on his face and laughter in his voice. Songs such as "Senior Skip Day," "Nikes on My Feet" and "Kool Aid & Frozen Pizza" conjure up a sort of juvenile frivolity, but his mo......
2010-12-12 00:14:00
JON FERGUSON
Guitarist Joe Garvey says Hinder's reputation as a party band is fully deserved. "I always say," Garvey said during a telephone interview, "whatever you hear, times it by 10 and that's basically what happened. I'm not going to lie." Garvey, however, said the Oklahoma-base......
2010-12-12 00:12:00
MICHAEL C. UPTON
In 1986, four guys from Brown University got together and started an a cappella group that landed them on the streets of New York City singing for quarters. Sometimes they admit the coins were thrown at them instead of dropped in the tip jar. Then the Public Broadcasting Service no......
2010-12-12 00:10:00
STEPHEN KOPFINGER
They're called Anonymous 4. But to those who love their work, they are anything but anonymous. In fact, one could say their music has been known by a lot of people over the centuries. The sound of the group, which appears at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 18, at Elizabethtown C......
2010-12-10 17:21:00
LAURA DINOVIS, 17, Freestyle Staff
I have always felt that a first concert was an experience that was ranked a little below getting your first car. I recently went to Michael Bublé's concert and it was an amazing time. Happily for me, this concert was an enjoyable experience that I will never regret. Bef......
