2009-11-17 00:01:00
DAVID O’CONNOR
CONCERT REVIEWPhil Keaggy was wearing his trademark cap and had just started playing his trademark scorching acoustic guitar when his musical ear noticed something amiss.Randy Stonehill, the enthusiastic fellow father of modern Christian......
2009-11-15 00:10:00
MICHAEL C. UPTON
For New York-based alt-rock band Taking Back Sunday, "New Again" is more than the title of its fourth studio album; it's a running theme. The lineup of musicians for Taking Back Sunday reads like a choose-your-own-adventure......
2009-11-15 00:02:00
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Miranda
Fresh off her appearance at the Country Music Association's annual awards gala, Miranda Lambert, one of the biggest stars in the industry today, will perform at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 21, at Sovereign Performing Arts Center in Reading. Lambert is touring ......
2009-11-14 00:16:00
ELIZABETH PATTON
SYMPHONY REVIEWThe chorus, 130-plus members strong, was the star of Friday night's Lancaster Symphony Orchestra concert at the Fulton Theatre.Or was it Russian pianist Pavel Nersessian, who shone as soloist and member of the ens......
2009-11-08 00:08:00
JAMES BUESCHER
Four choruses, 135 singers, three conductors, one maestro and three of the most beautiful choral works ever written. How does William Wright, chorusmaster of Lancaster Symphony Chorus, pull together so many voices for the symphony's upcoming "Choral Fantasy" weekend? It......
2009-11-08 00:06:00
JOHN DUFFY
Performers of folk music have long understood the importance of writing songs for children. Indeed, it is through the voices of children that many of the greatest folk songs and traditions are kept alive. The father of modern American folk music, Woody Guthrie, penned thousands of songs, hun......
2009-11-01 00:08:00
MICHAEL C. UPTON
Some musicians become synonymous with their instruments: John Coltrane owns the tenor sax; Eddie Van Halen has his Frankenstrat; and it's hard to picture John Popper, lead singer of Blues Traveler, without a harmonica pressed to his lips. Yet Hohner, one of the world's foremost harmo......
2009-11-01 00:06:00
JAMES BUESCHER
South Africa is about twice the size of Texas, but native Petronel Malan found the country to be a small place, musically. Malan started playing piano when she was 4 and within a few years was playing professionally. Word spread quickly through Pretoria, a city of more than 2 million people,......
2009-11-01 00:02:00
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Daughtry
Chris Daughtry, a former "American Idol" castoff done good, has just released his second album, "Leave This Town," and is touring in support of the effort. The grungy alt-rocker and his band will perform at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 5, at the Sove......
2009-10-31 05:01:00
ERIKA GLASS, 15, Freestyle
CONCERT REVIEWThe venue held an air of anticipation and excitement as dozens of adoring fans stood huddled as close to the stage as they could possibly get. The lights were sheer and silky, like a thin layer of fog lingering around the stage, a......
2009-10-29 17:30:00
KATHLEEN DAMINGER
From fiends to friends, wrapping up the scary season If you're one of the increasing number of people inexplicably drawn to things that go bump in the night, you must be in haunt heaven by now. The Halloween season is in full swing and that means Lancaster County is bursting wi......
2009-10-25 00:04:00
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Now, Now Every Children
Now, Now Every Children, part of the increasingly abundant crop of low-sheen MySpace bands making the rounds these days, will perform Friday, Oct. 30, at the Chameleon Club in downtown Lancaster. Cacie Dalager (vocals, guitar) and Brad Ha......
2009-10-18 00:12:00
JOHN DUFFY
It's a safe bet that few players have done more to make the pedal steel an accepted instrument outside the strict confines of mainstream country music than Rusty Young. In his more than 40 years in the music business, he has confidently mixed flash and showmanship with taste and technique. ......
2009-10-18 00:06:00
MICHAEL C. UPTON
On any given day, you can catch Max Cavalera standing in the kitchen of his Phoenix-area home, riffing on a custom ESP guitar and waiting for the coffee to brew. His wife thinks it's odd, but that's generally what the creative process looks like for the Brazilian-born frontman of Soulfly....
2009-10-18 00:02:00
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Worth a drive
Channeling Freddie Mercury, George Michael and occasionally Andy Gibb, pop sensation Mika is on the rise, and his new album, "The Boy Who Knew Too Much," just hit the shelves. The British singer-songwriter is doing 10 shows stateside, and......
2009-10-17 06:42:00
TIM MEKEEL, TOM MURSE and JANE HOLAHAN
The Pennsylvania Academy of Music, which opened its stunning $25 million downtown facility last year, has defaulted on its construction mortgage and two other loans.A lack of recent payments has caused the academy's lender, Union National Community Bank, to seek $11.1 million from the ......
2009-10-17 06:11:00
DAVID O’CONNOR
There was the same Creation Festival logo, the same "A Tribute To Our Creator" sign high above the stage.And just a few days ago, the folks on the tour were treated in Panama City, Fla., to the same summer-like weather you usually have at the Creation Festival … "it w......
2009-10-11 00:10:00
JAMES BUESCHER
For some folks, the blues aren't blue. For folks like Gaye Adegbalola of the rowdy, post-menopausal blues ensemble Saffire, the blues are medicine. "The blues are magical like that, because they get the pain out," Adegbalola said in telephone interview from a hotel room in......
2009-10-11 00:04:00
JON FERGUSON, Special to the Sunday News
The members of Renaissance are playing it safe this time around. When guitarist Michael Dunford and singer Annie Haslam, the band's two stalwarts, decided to get together for a brief tour, they chose to concentrate on the band's heyday during the 1970s. "We just wanted to do t......
2009-10-11 00:02:00
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Heart art
Parrot Cafe Gallery, a project of artists and musicians at Community Mennonite Church of Lancaster, will open its doors Friday, Oct. 16, through Sunday, Oct. 18, over t......
2009-10-10 00:21:00
ELIZABETH PATTON
SYMPHONY REVIEWThe focus of the Lancaster Symphony Orchestra is shifting a bit this year.It is moving away from searching out-of-the-way corners of the musical universe and toward more mainstream repertoire, as conductor Stephen Gunzenha......
2009-10-10 00:01:00
JON FERGUSON
Kate Voegele lives in this weird universe where she portrays a fictional character on a television show who seems a mirror image of herself.Voegele, a singer-songwriter who will perform at 7 tonight at the Chameleon Club in downtown Lancaster, says there are differences between her and Mia......
2009-10-04 00:10:00
HELEN COLWELL ADAMS
When Audio Adrenaline said "Adios" in 2006, fans figured it really was adios for one of Christian rock's top bands. But two of the four bandmates are back on the road, singing a new song. Not as much singing as before, t......
2009-10-04 00:08:00
JAMES BUESCHER
People rarely know just what they want to do with their lives; it's even rarer when they figure it out by age 6. "I was on a cruise to Alaska with my family, and I heard a violinist playing. As soon as I heard the music, I turned to my mom and said, 'That's what I want to do,&#......
2009-10-04 00:02:00
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FallFest '09
They may look like country music's answer to ABBA, but Little Big Town has a sound all its own. The band, which has been nominated Vocal Group of the Year four straight years at the CMA Awards, will headline the daylong Big I-105 Turkey Hill FallFest on ......
2009-09-27 00:02:00
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Worth a drive
Canadian folk rockers Great Lake Swimmers will perform at 9 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 29, at Johnny Brenda's, 1201 N. Frankford Ave., Philadelphia. Led by singer-songwriter Tony Dekker, Great Lake Swimmers was shortlisted for the Polaris Music Prize (Canada's......
2009-09-20 00:06:00
JOHN DUFFY
In 1984, a hard-rock quartet from Whittier, Calif., made up of brothers Michael and Robert Sweet, Oz Fox and Tim Gaines, changed the name of their band from Roxx Regime to Stryper and rewrote all their Van Halen- and Kiss-inspired songs to expres......
2009-09-20 00:04:00
JAMES BUESCHER
Carl "Doc" Severinsen's favorite memory from his "Tonight Show" days is the one he shared with millions of viewers every night: the moment Johnny Carson first stepped in front of the camera. "I loved tha......
2009-09-20 00:02:00
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Worth a drive
Moby, a renowned performer, producer and musical tinkerer, will take the stage at 8 p.m. tonight at the Theatre of the Living Arts in Philadelphia with regular vocal collaborator Kelli Scarr. Together they produce the kind of haunting electronica that appears o......
2009-09-13 00:10:00
MICHAEL C. UPTON
Judging from the tone and ease of his voice, country artist Craig Morgan just might be the genuine American male — a soldier, a farmer, a father. He is, or was, all three, and it's the "family man" label he treasures most....
2009-09-13 00:02:00
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Hair guitar
ZZ Top, fronted by Dusty Hill and Billy F. Gibbons, will perform at 7:30 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 20, at Sovereign Performing Arts Center in Reading. No other American rock band has been making music with its original lineup for as long as these guys have — 40 ye......
2009-09-10 19:33:00
JACK ROBERTS and ALEJANDRO RIOS
Gallery 141 adds sounds to sights with 'The Listening Room' Now 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. Music Friday will get a shot in the arm starting next Friday, Sept. 18, when Gallery 141 will unveil a new music ......
2009-09-10 18:14:00
JANE HOLAHAN
From a singing New York policeman to a Russian dance troupe, this year's Community Concert Series, kicking off on Monday, offers up a wide variety of performers from across the world. And the six-concert series, being held at the Mennonite Fine Arts Center, has always been the best deal ......
2009-09-06 00:10:00
DIANE BITTING
If folks in the audience jingle their keys during a performance by So Percussion at Franklin & Marshall College Saturday night, these performers won't mind. In fact, they'll likely be encouraging it. This Brooklyn-based quartet, known to coax percussive music out of objects bot......
2009-09-06 00:02:00
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The Cos!
One of America's most veteran and beloved comedians takes a double bow Saturday, Sept. 12, when the legendary Bill Cosby plays two shows at American Music Theatre, 2425 Lincoln Highway East. Cosby, who has been going strong since the 1960s, performs at 3 p.m. a......
2009-09-05 07:38:00
SARAH FERGUSON, 14, Freestyle
CONCERT REVIEWJust like Dorothy in "The Wizard of Oz," Taylor Swift knows "there's no place like home."Nineteen-year-old Swift, who grew up in Reading and Wyomissing, seemed to be very excited to perform in her ho......
2009-09-01 00:01:00
DAVID O’CONNOR
They're one of the biggest names in country music, with a string of hits and top-selling albums to their credit.They also have a strong crossover appeal to non-country fans, thanks to covering some rock and pop songs and appearing with rock legends such as John Mellencamp and Fleetwood......
2009-08-31 00:00:00
AD CRABLE
As with most concerts in the Long's Park Summer Music Series, there are a good many people on blankets and lawn chairs out for music on a nice summer night who don't know much about the performer.But, crowded around the amphitheater Sunday night, a pit crew of blues fans was champi......
2009-08-30 00:10:00
JOHN DUFFY
A lot of bands have put out albums that sound as if they were recorded in someone's living room with acoustic guitars, upright pianos, off-kilter harmonies and plenty of background noise. These groups tend to draw comparisons to The Band — a compliment, to be sure. Few bands deserv......
2009-08-30 00:06:00
JAMES BUESCHER
Ask classical guitarist Paul Morton why he loves his chosen instrument, and he'll tell you it's not what the guitar does, but how it does it. "I think it's the world's most diverse instrument. There are steel guitars and electrical guitars, classical gu......
2009-08-30 00:02:00
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Fair Kelly
Pop phenom Kelly Clarkson is hitting the fair circuit this fall with tunes from her new album, "All I Ever Wanted." She'll be at Allentown Fair on Thursday, Sept. 3, and York Fair on Friday, Sept. 11. Her hit "My Life Would Suck Without You"......
2009-08-27 09:19:00
TOM KNAPP
The half-dozen dairy cows in the Elizabethtown Fair show ring Wednesday evening seemed a little fractious.But that didn't stop an eager collection of local celebrities from grabbing those udders with both hands and squeezing out milk like there was no tomorrow.Before it was over......
2009-08-27 07:14:00
JON FERGUSON
Taylor Swift said there's a little bit of Berks County in all of her songs.Swift, the 19-year-old country music sensation who has teenage and pre-teen girls hanging on every lyric, grew up on a Christmas tree farm in Reading before moving to nearby Wyomissing.She attended school......
2009-08-26 08:32:00
TOM KNAPP
Market goats, sheep, swine, beef cattle and rabbits have been shown and ranked so far this week at the Elizabethtown Fair. Today, judges will decide which of these animals is the best of the best.The supreme market champion will be selected during a special round of judging beginning this ......
2009-08-23 00:08:00
JOHN DUFFY
Great jazz groups are fleeting. Combos rarely last more than a couple of years before the players move on. The turnover gives young musicians chances to play with more and better players, learn more tunes and be more flexible on the bandstand. Of course, there are exceptions. The three gr......
2009-08-23 00:02:00
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Sara Evans
Country hitmaker and former "Dancing With the Stars" contestant Sara Evans will take the stage at 7 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 30, at American Music Theatre on Lincoln Highway East. Evans has been lauded by her industry and since 1997 has placed several songs ato......
2009-08-16 00:10:00
JAMES BUESCHER
Being a professional musician is great if you don't mind the travel. Andy Hall, a Dobro player for the Nashville, Tenn.-based contemporary bluegrass outfit the Infamous Stringdusters, tries to find enjoyment on the open highway. "When you're on the road, you have to make the m......
2009-08-15 09:09:00
DAVID O’CONNOR
The old Buick stood out pretty quickly among all the cars, campers and motorcycles in the sprawling parking lots late Friday afternoon at the Ski Roundtop complex … and not just for the purple bandanna on the aerial.There also was the BEEP 4 PURPLE DOOR message, written in glass pai......
2009-08-13 10:19:00
JANE HOLAHAN
Forty years ago Saturday, after a summer filled with iconic events, from the murder of Sharon Tate to Neil Armstrong's first steps on the moon, about 400,000 people turned a weekend-long rock concert into one of the most significant — some would say profound — statements of the 19......
2009-08-11 09:33:00
JANE HOLAHAN
The ninth annual Clare House Jazz Fest will have a different look this year, moving into the brand-new Lancaster Marriott at Penn Square.The fundraiser is Friday, from 6 to 10:30 p.m."We are going to be in the Commonwealth Ballroom, on the second floor of the Marriott," sa......
2009-08-09 11:02:00
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Latin jazz
The Chuchito Valdés Afro-Cuban Ensemble, with its Caribbean-influenced brand of jazz, will perform a free concert at 7:30 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 16, at the Long's Park amphitheater. Valdés and his four-piece band play everything from bebop to the cha-......
2009-08-09 00:10:00
MICHAEL LONG, Entertainment Editor
For the first time in years, Marcy Playground is booked solid. More than a decade removed from the band's initial success — a self-titled debut album yielding the contagious, slacker-pop anthem "Sex and Candy," which ......
2009-08-03 00:42:00
DIANA MARTIN
Long's Park transformed into a slice of the French Quarter on Sunday evening as the Preservation Hall Jazz Band struck up its grand finale with "When the Saints Go Marching In."As the trumpet blared and the trombone screamed, the crowd of 5,000 rose to its feet, singing and c......
2009-08-02 00:16:00
JAMES BUESCHER
Getting a little face time in a Hollywood movie might not be as hard as it seems. Just ask Rob Leonard, who wields the baton for the Baltimore-based Blue Moon Big Band. When movie producers went searching for musicians to share the stage ......
2009-08-02 00:14:00
MARICHELLE ROQUE-LUTZ
It was love at first growl. When Sean Quirk heard the whistling overtones and gravelly undertones produced in Tuvan throat singing, he was hooked for life. "I couldn't remove the CD [my college roommate gave me] from [our] stereo for a month," the manager and interpreter o......
2009-08-02 00:10:00
JOHN DUFFY
When he showed up at Columbia Records on the afternoon of June 14, 1965, guitar case in hand, Al Kooper wasn't contracted to be there. But as a seasoned session player, songwriter and engineer, Kooper was a fixture in the New York music-industry......
2009-08-02 00:04:00
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Creed
Creed frontman Scott Stapp, seen here singing the national anthem at Dodger Stadium, will be bringing his musical buddies to the Star Pavilion at Hersheypark Stadium for a 7:30 p.m. concert Sunday, Aug. 9. With hits including "Higher" and "With Arms Wide......
2009-07-31 10:48:00
DAVID O’CONNOR
It was a sun-splashed autumn Sunday last year filled with country music and a record crowd at the event's new home — Manheim Township's Overlook Park.After such a boffo first year at the park between Lititz and Fruitville pikes, Fallfest will return to Overlook on Sunday, Oct......
2009-07-31 00:30:00
JACK ROBERTS and ALEJANDRO RIOS
Standing (and playing) in the Gap: Cancer Aid concert to benefit 4 families OK, it's time to Rock & Roll with Rios & Roberts, the two guys who do their best to keep you up to date on the local music scene. Good music for a good cause. The ninth annual Cancer Aid concert and be......
2009-07-26 00:08:00
JOHN DUFFY
Earlier this year, central Pennsylvania marked the 30th anniversary of the accident at Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in Dauphin County. This September, the cultural echo of that incident marks three decades as well: the MUSE Concerts for a Non-Nuclear Future at Madison Square Garden in New Y...
2009-07-26 00:06:00
MICHAEL C. UPTON
Guitarist Rickey Medlocke and the rest of Lynyrd Skynyrd aren't boozing till the early hours, trashing hotel rooms or generally misbehaving anymore. Experience has taken over. Yet, after a lifetime of rockin', Medlocke laughs heart......
2009-07-26 00:02:00
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Bird's Eye
Medical illustrator Jennifer McCormick combines radiography with bird imagery in her exhibit "X-Ray Visions," on display through Aug. 15 at Parlor Gallery on Laurel Street. For more information, call 392-1772 or visit ...
2009-07-19 00:08:00
MICHAEL C. UPTON
It hasn't been all glam for hair band guitarist Erik Turner. From 1989 to 1992, Warrant, the band Turner founded in Los Angeles when he was 19, put out two double-platinum albums and charted 10 singles, including the power ballad "Hea......
2009-07-19 00:06:00
JOHN DUFFY
David Hidalgo is many things: a soulful singer, a publicity hermit and a highly underrated guitar player. The things he can do on the neck of a Telecaster simply are beyond description, but you probably won't find him on any of those perennial "greatest players" lists in guitar magazin...
2009-07-19 00:04:00
JAMES BUESCHER
Allen Krantz and other classical guitarists of his generation came to the guitar through the back door — or, as Paul McCartney might put it, through the bathroom window. In the late 1960s, the heyday of rock 'n' roll, Krantz's guitar had a more electric vibe. "Jimi H......
2009-07-19 00:02:00
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'Much Ado'
The People's Shakespeare Project will give free performances of the Bard's romantic comedy "Much Ado About Nothing" Friday, July 24, through Sunday, July 26, on the shores of Millersville University's "Swan Pond" near Wicker......
2009-07-13 00:06:00
DAN RORABAUGH
Feet tapped, hands clapped and people danced away the night Sunday at a feast of traditional Celtic music in Long's Park.Fraser & Haas with Bruce Molsky performed a bevy of Irish and Scottish tunes before a packed lawn at the Long's Park Amphitheater as part of the park's s......
2009-07-12 00:10:00
MICHAEL C. UPTON
Cathie Ryan loves Celtic music. For her, it's a window to the soul. The Irish-American vocalist likes to stay home in County Louth on Ireland's Cooley Peninsula and write music, but the reluctant traveler is making her way statesid......
2009-07-12 00:04:00
JAMES BUESCHER
Lots of folks in the music industry say it doesn't really matter whether you win a Grammy. But Kathy Mattea, a two-time winner, said the little gramophone statuettes do more than recognize hard work. "It puts a tiny voice in your head to ......
2009-07-12 00:02:00
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He's alright
The thick, dark, Just for Men-esque beard he sported in the '80s has thinned to a salt-and-pepper goatee, but he's still the same Kenny Loggins who made it big with such hits as "Footloose," "Danger Zone" and "I'm Alright......
2009-07-06 00:22:00
TOM KNAPP
It isn't sufficient for Shannon Heim to hear the cacophony of cannons firing a salute at the climax of Tchaikovsky's timeless 1812 Overture.Heim, of Lancaster, parked a blanket for her and her kids right by the barrier dividing the crowd from the cannons Sunday evening at Long'......
2009-07-05 00:08:00
JOHN DUFFY
It's quite possible that Peter Murphy didn't think this one through: submitting his version of John Lennon's "Instant Karma" to be used in a Chase Bank television ad. Just ponder that for a second.] One of the great ic......
2009-07-05 00:02:00
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Whiz-bang
The Long's Park Amphitheater Foundation will host its annual Independence Day blowout at 7:30 p.m. tonight at the park. The 257th Army Band will provided rousing patriotic music, including Tchaikovsky's "1812 Overture," accompanied by Charlie Smit......
2009-07-02 10:06:00
KATY HOPKINS
Chances are, if you've driven anywhere in Lancaster County in the past six days, you've passed a major addition to shopping center parking lots.About 30 fireworks tents have sprung up across the county since last Friday, similar in appearance but each fiercely competitive underneat......
2009-06-28 00:12:00
JAMES BUESCHER
When it comes to being a professional musician, there are plenty of challenges, especially when it comes to marriage. And, especially when one of you works a standard 9-to-5 job and the other is constantly touring. "It's hard. But going into this field you kind of have an idea tha......
2009-06-28 00:08:00
MICHAEL C. UPTON
She was named to People.com's best-dressed list after a recent appearance at the 2009 Country Music Television Music Awards. Two months prior, People magazine named her on their "Most Beautiful People" list. In May, she landed at numb......
2009-06-28 00:02:00
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First Friday
First Friday literally blooms July 3 as downtown Lancaster once again opens the doors of its many art galleries. Among the works on display is "Water Lily," by the late acclaimed local artist David Brumbach; it may be seen at Lancaster Galleries, 34 N.......
2009-06-27 00:01:00
STEPHANIE WEAVER
Brief drizzle Friday afternoon served as the perfect remedy to the day's humid weather, creating a comfortable atmosphere for the city's 11th Celebrate Lancaster! festival.The party started with food vendors opening along North Queen Street at 11:30 a.m., selling hot dogs, french f......
2009-06-25 00:53:00
STEPHANIE WEAVER
Celebrate Lancaster is back for its 11th year, returning to Binns Park on Friday with the Lancaster Symphony Orchestra to kick off the Independence Day holiday week.The celebration, sponsored by the Mayor's Office of Special Events and Fulton Bank, begins at 11:30 a.m. with numerous fo......
2009-06-23 01:16:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT
A 21-year-old concertgoer stuffed into the luggage compartment of a commercial bus in New Jersey was discovered in Lancaster County as the vehicle traveled through West Hempfield Township, police said.The bus driver found the man onboard about 2 a.m. Sunday in West Hempfield after a journe......
2009-06-22 00:03:00
MICHAEL YODER
With fingers blazing across the keys of his accordion, Stanley "Buckwheat" Dural Jr. made a call for people to rise to their feet and feel the rhythm all the way from the heart and soul of Creole country.Thousands of people turned out to see the quintessential zydeco band —......
2009-06-21 00:10:00
MICHAEL C. UPTON
There's no real formula for the creation of a Celtic/pop/rock/world music band … from Canada. "It's primarily Celtic rock, but we mix it up with a bunch of different world grooves," Enter the Haggis guitarist Trev......
2009-06-21 00:04:00
JAMES BUESCHER
He's a fixture of the Grand Ole Opry, and his songs inspired, among others, Elvis Presley. Yes, Stonewall Jackson has been around a long time — more than half a century, in fact. He continues to tour today, not because ......
2009-06-21 00:02:00
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Heads up
Chris Torchia, co-founder of the Heads Up urban artists mentoring program, demonstrates some of the moves that will be on display Friday, June 26, as part of the Celebrate Lancaster! event in Binns Park downtown. The free public celebration begins at 11:30 a.m., wit......
2009-06-20 00:01:00
JANE HOLAHAN
When Sonya Mann-McFarlane was 9, she visited her aunt and uncle in Harlem, where a cultural festival was being held in a park across the street from their home.She heard drumming and was curious."I kept moving in the direction of the drums, pushing myself through the crowd, not......
2009-06-19 11:30:00
DAVID O’CONNOR
For fans who have been going there for years, the beautiful hills and trees are like "home ... it's so peaceful and quiet," as an event founder said. Peaceful and quiet .. at least until the bands plug in, strap on their 12-string lyres — uh, guitars — and crank up. The Creatio......
2009-06-19 01:22:00
ELIZABETH PATTON
REVIEW: ConcertThe music of the violin was the focus Thursday evening at the Pennsylvania Academy of Music.Arnold Steinhardt, violinist and founding member of the Guarneri String Quartet, joined PAM faculty members for a program of chamb......
2009-06-19 01:11:00
MICHAEL YODER
A predisposition for performing classical music seems almost ingrained in the people of Hungary.From famous composers such as Franz Liszt and Béla Bartók to Zoltán Kodály, generations of Hungarians have fused their world-renowned folk tunes with classical compos......
2009-06-19 00:42:00
MADELYN PENNINO
More than 50 YWCA summer campers broadened their musical tastes Thursday by listening to the Next Generation Festival at Millersville University.Next Generation Festival is a musical ensemble led by professional musician Awadagin Pratt, the group's pianist and creative director.......
2009-06-15 00:03:00
TOM KNAPP
There was a single hit on the drum, and then a trio of trombones — gleaming in the evening sun — blasted into action.A hard-driving rock band by any standard, Bonerama sets itself apart from the norm with its muscular brass front line. The band filled Long's Park with its s......
2009-06-14 00:10:00
MICHAEL LONG, Entertainment Editor
It's hard to find a picture of Stanley "Buckwheat" Dural without an accordion strapped to his chest. The instrument — the soul of Dural's beloved zydeco music — has been his constant companion for some 30 years, and his back is certainly stronger for it. Even as h......
2009-06-14 00:06:00
MARICHELLE ROQUE-LUTZ
For only the second time in the 57-year history of OperaLancaster, young, aspiring singers will open this year's Lemonade Concert series. But unlike last year, when Millersville University voice teacher Jean Bradel presented her studen......
2009-06-14 00:02:00
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Luke Bryan
Reinholds Fire Company, as part of its annual series of country music concerts, will host breakout artist Luke Bryan, whose 2007 release, "I'll Stay Me," stood among the year's top country albums. Tickets for the 7:30 p.m. concert cost $15. Child......
2009-06-13 00:01:00
STAFF REPORT
In celebration of June weddings and the 200th birthday of Felix Mendelssohn, composer of the "Wedding March," the Pennsylvania Academy of Music will host an indoor garden concert and party Sunday as part of its "Vivace!" international music festival.The Academy's gl......
2009-06-11 00:57:00
PATRICK BURNS
A consultant hired just last week to help the Pennsylvania Academy of Music through economic hard times and the man who hired her are no longer associated with the city school.Gone are consultant Sylvia Strobel and Paul W. Ware, the chairman of the academy's board of directors, PAM off......
2009-06-09 00:57:00
LORI VAN INGEN
For the first time since Pennsylvania's statewide Senior Idol contest began four years ago, all three finalists were women.One of them was Manheim resident Michele Hendricks Weiss, but ultimately it was Donna Mark, a 56-year-old woman from Etters, York County, who took the top prize Mo......
2009-06-07 00:12:00
JAMES BUESCHER
Brian Norcross, artistic director of the Allegro chamber orchestra, doesn't shrink from a challenge. Consider Prokofiev's Symphony No. 1, commonly known as the "Classical Symphony." Allegro features the techn......
2009-06-07 00:08:00
MICHAEL C. UPTON
Bristol is hardly a rock 'n' roll mecca, yet the borough of about 10,000 people on the southeast border of Bucks County is world famous, immortalized in song. In late spring 1961, a group of green Philadelphia musicians barely out of high school wrote the catchy tune that put Bris......
2009-06-07 00:05:00
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Christopher Wright performs at "The Day," a Christian music festival held Saturday at New Holland Community Park. In addition to the music, there were activities for children in the Kids Zone. That's where Emma Gruber, 5, of East Earl got her face painted. ......
2009-06-07 00:04:00
JAMES BUESCHER
Pennsylvania Academy of Music's Vivace! summer music festival pairs distinguished classical artists with some of the finest young musicians from Europe, Asia and North America. The professional luminaries attending this year's two-w......
2009-06-07 00:02:00
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Bonerama
Bonerama, a trombone-led band specializing in vintage New Orleans funk, will perform Sunday, June 14, at Long's Park on Harrisburg Pike. Offbeat Magazine has described the band's sound as "fat," "wet" and "sometimes downright lusty.&......
2009-06-04 11:53:00
JANE HOLAHAN
When the Open Art Award Show opens at the Lancaster Museum of Art, we all know what time it is. Time for the 46th annual Lancaster Summer Arts Festival and a wide variety of concerts, art shows, films and celebrations, which will be taking place over the next five weeks throughout the city....
2009-06-04 00:58:00
STEPHANIE WEAVER
It's time for the annual Country Gourmet Gala and Music Festival, but this year the fundraiser is packing more punch.Now in its fifth year, the festival, sponsored by Historical Society of Salisbury Township, will feature several new food vendors while offering entertainment for all ag......
2009-05-29 01:56:00
MADELYN PENNINO
There's a quality about Tracy Lawrence that makes him unlike other country music stars.It's not the way he croons about lost loves or faded childhood memories, it's how he delivers his songs — with a sense of innocence.On Thursday, Lawrence performed a last-minute ......
2009-05-28 13:43:00
RAY GRUNNERT
Kegel's Seafood Restaurant, 551 W. King St., Lancaster, continues its 6 to 9 p.m. evening jazz trio series this Sunday with an appearance by the Jen Lobo Trio, featuring vocalist Lobo, Mark Huber, piano and Keith Mohler, bass. Lobo, a Lansdale native, and her husband moved to Lancaster last......
2009-05-28 11:20:00
DAN RORABAUGH
Returning for its 46th year, the Lancaster Summer Arts Festival will see a change in one of its most popular series. The Jazz Series, which takes place in Steinman Park, 20 W. King St., starts next week and will run through the end of July, three weeks longer than last year. Festival presi......
2009-05-26 00:01:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT
REVIEW: ConcertThe "Mexican Cell Phone Wave," as invented by Coldplay frontman Chris Martin on Sunday night at Hersheypark Stadium, might have been a flop.But as to the British quartet's quest for big-venue rock domination,......
2009-05-24 00:10:00
JAMES BUESCHER
It was one of the most tragic events in the history of rock 'n' roll: the untimely, simultaneous deaths of Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. "Big Bopper" Richardson in a charter-plane crash Feb. 3, 1959, near Clear Lake, Iowa. Holly and Co. were traveling between gigs on th......
2009-05-24 00:04:00
MICHAEL C. UPTON
The success of Lancaster bands over the past few years has taken a lot of people by surprise. Few have blown up as quickly and unassumingly as the Right Coast. The self-described "pop-radio guy group" came together in May 2008 and already has been heard on MTV's "The Hills.&q......
2009-05-23 01:47:00
ELIZABETH PATTON
REVIEW: SymphonyScheherezade's stories and a spellbinding soloist kept the audience fascinated at the Lancaster Symphony Orchestra's concert Friday night at the Fulton Opera House, a triumphant conclusion to the 2008-09 season.Sa......
2009-05-22 10:12:00
KATY HOPKINS
The forecast for Memorial Day weekend? Changeable. And that could throw a wrinkle into plans for weekend activities, from parades and services honoring veterans to backyard picnics and the opening of area swimming pools for the summer season. While the weather has been "perfect" ......
2009-05-19 11:56:00
DAVID O'CONNOR
REVIEWIt was their first stop in Lancaster, after all, so the two guys and two girls on stage wanted to make that all-important good first impression. "OK, how's this? ... Hello, LANC-uh-ster," Little Big Town singer Karen Fairchild said, nailing it like......
2009-05-17 00:11:00
Melissa Julius
TODAY
Concert, Heritage Chorale of Lancaster, Adorers of the Blood of Christ, 3950 Columbia Ave., Columbia, 4 p.m.; offering. Call 336-2758.
Concert, Harmony Ministries, Mount Joy Church of God, 30 E. Main St., 7 p.m.; offering. Call 65......
2009-05-17 00:02:00
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A total circus
Ringmaster Chuck Wagner and clown eccentric Tom Dougherty compete for control of a magical top hat in the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey show "Over the Top." The storied circus pulls into Hershey's Giant Center on Wednesday, May 20, for a......
2009-05-16 02:11:00
PATRICK BURNS
REVIEW: ConcertIn launching 1975's "Born to Run" tour, Bruce Springsteen joked to an audience in Hammersmith, England: "This is the first time I was ever here before."It was quintessential Springsteen, whose whimsical prose — espec......
2009-05-15 12:31:00
JON FERGUSON
The members of Little Big Town believe harmony is the tie that binds. All four of them sing beautifully, but it is the sound they make when they weave their voices together that makes the country band special. And what makes them especially distinctive is the blend of two male voices and two fe......
2009-05-15 12:01:00
JON FERGUSON
Nils Lofgren made his debut with Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band right here in Lancaster. Before embarking on 1984's "Born in the USA" tour, Springsteen and his band rehearsed in Lititz at the Clair Brothers facility. Before wrapping things up and heading out on the road,......
2009-05-12 01:03:00
BRIAN WALLACE
Organizers of the Lancaster Pride festival are planning few changes to the 2009 event in light of its successful launch last year in Buchanan Park.The festival will be held at the same venue, on the same June weekend and at the same time as the 2008 event, which was billed as the first-eve......
2009-05-10 00:12:00
JAMES BUESCHER
There's a pair of Grammy-winning artists, a Bob Dylan collaborator, a Bruce Springsteen collaborator and a healthy contingent of ambassadors for bluegrass and New Orleans-style jazz and funk. The talent is top-shelf, and the venue is little old Lancaster. The 2009 Long's Park Summe......
2009-05-10 00:10:00
JON DUFFY
When Bruce Springsteen brings the E Street Band to Hersheypark Stadium this week, he'll have a small army of support personnel and musicians in tow, and about $1 million worth of lights carried by an armada of trucks. But at the......
2009-05-10 00:02:00
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Worth a drive
The current iteration of the experimental-indie-rock sensation Animal Collective, from left, Geologist (Brian Weitz), Panda Bear (Noah Lennox) and Avey Tare (David Portner), will perform at 8 p.m. Tuesday, May 12, at the Electric Factory in Philadelphia. It'......
2009-05-07 19:46:00
JON FERGUSON
Greg Koons wrote many of the songs on his forthcoming album inside one of the garages at a U-Haul self-storage facility in Mechanicsburg.Koons, who outfitted the space with a 16-track recorder to help him work out vocal and instrumental parts, says he liked the low-rent studio because he c......
2009-05-07 18:54:00
LARRY ALEXANDER
Bruce Hornsby's musical repertoire is as broad as his imagination."Since it's just me, I can go anywhere I want," the singer/songwriter said in a phone interview from his home in Williamsburg, Va. "I'm interested in lots of music, so I look to find a way to make ......
2009-05-07 18:47:00
JACK ROBERTS and ALEJANDRO RIOS
OK, here's what's happening on the local music scene.• Music For Everyone (www.musicforeveryone.net) is at it again.The nonprofit kicked off last weekend's First Friday by awarding $26,0......
2009-05-07 10:38:00
KATHLEEN DAMINGER
The six-member "organic" rock band, Ripe, celebrates its growth at Bube's Brewery this weekend, when the mixed bag of musicians returns to host their second CD release party, less than a year and a half after releasing their first one. The CD, "Red Fox Reunion," was born......
2009-05-03 00:14:00
Melissa Julius
TODAY
Concert, Marilyn White, organ, Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd, 750 Greenfield Road, 4 p.m.; offering. Call 394-3443.
Concert, Mennonite Children's Choir of Lancaster, Mount Joy Mennonite Church, 320 Musser Road, 6 p.m.; ......
2009-04-29 00:36:00
BRIAN WALLACE
Thanks to "lots of people contributing a little bit" of money, hundreds of children will get their hands on saxophones, trumpets, congas, djembes, violins and glockenspiels in the coming months.What kind of music they make with the instruments will be up to them and their teacher......
2009-04-26 00:10:00
Melissa Julius
TODAY
Concert, Symphonic Band, Leffler Chapel, Elizabethtown College, 3 p.m.; free. Call 361-1212.
Concert, Mennonite Children's Choir of Lancaster, Hershey Mennonite......
2009-04-26 00:02:00
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Documentary
Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Frederick Marx, who produced "Hoop Dreams," will screen his latest film, "17 Paths to Enlightenment," at 4 p.m. Sunday, May 3, at Franklin & Marshall College's Roschel Performing Arts Center. The film ......
2009-04-23 10:10:00
JOAN KERN
One of the most popular country western bands of the early 1950s is reuniting and performing in concert here this weekend. The 101 Ranch Boys — a six-member band that performed locally at festivals and at the Grand Ole Opry, and which recorded for Columbia Records — is performing Su......
2009-04-19 00:14:00
MICHAEL LONG, Entertainment Editor
Rufus Wainwright was decompressing on a rainy afternoon in New York. He had just gotten back from Berlin, where he attended the Easter Sunday premiere of "Sonette," an interpretation of 24 Shakespearean sonnets by avant-......
2009-04-19 00:10:00
JOHN DUFFY
For a couple of guys with first-level geek credentials, Jim Eno and Britt Daniel of Spoon make surprisingly cool music. Drummer Eno used to make his living as an electrical engineer. Singer-songwriter and guitarist Daniel worked as an a......
2009-04-19 00:06:00
JAMES BUESCHER
Many consider it Mozart's masterpiece: the Requiem Mass in D minor. "This is one of the greatest pieces of choral music out there, and something I've always wanted to conduct," said Robert Upton, artistic director of the Wheatland Chorale. "It has such inventiveness ......
2009-04-19 00:02:00
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Bass line
Wayman Tisdale went from guarding the baseline as a center and power forward for 12 years in the NBA to playing the bass line as a purveyor of smooth jazz. Tisdale will perform at 8 p.m. Friday, April 24, at the Whitaker Center's Sunoco Performance Theatre in H......
2009-04-18 01:39:00
LORI VAN INGEN
Even before the first LAUNCH Music Conference closes Sunday, organizers are planning for the event to become a permanent fixture in Lancaster."We're taking registrations for LAUNCH 2010 already," organizer Jeremy Weiss said. "We've also been working with Downtown Inv......
2009-04-18 00:50:00
DAVID O'CONNOR
It sure wasn't an auto company executive's $22 million salary. In the early years of Lancaster Bible College in the 1930s, during the Depression, the college president's salary was what people put in a collection box. Some weeks, it was just two or three bucks, so that's wh......
2009-04-08 00:16:00
JON FERGUSON
Playing the comparison game with Lotus, a rock band formed on the campus of Indiana's Goshen College, can be a losing proposition.Some like to call the quintet a jam band but they sound nothing like Phish or Dave Matthews Band. The band dabbles in electronica but can't be lumped wi......
2009-04-07 11:14:00
DAVID O’CONNOR
The sour national economy has claimed another victim, at least for this year. Organizers of the annual early-summer free Christian music festival in Quarryville known as "Witness Fest" have been forced to postpone it this year due to economic conditions. Despite a tentative festival date o......
2009-04-05 00:08:00
STEPHEN KOPFINGER
Talk about a wakeup call. On Christmas morning, 1870, an overjoyed Richard Wagner awakened his sleeping wife, Cosima, by assembling musicians on the steps of their villa on Lake Lucerne. There, they lulled Cosima into the new day — her birthday — with the debut of something the g......
2009-04-05 00:02:00
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Worth a drive
Amy Ray and Emily Saliers, the Indigo Girls, have just embarked on a U.S. tour in support of their latest album, the independently released "Poseidon and the Bitter Bug," which hit stores last week. The closest their tour comes to Lancaster is the Tow......
2009-04-04 01:49:00
ELIZABETH PATTON
REVIEW: SymphonyThe strings were the stars in the Lancaster Symphony Orchestra's concert Friday evening at Fulton Opera House, and the cello was the star of the strings in an excellent performance of Victor Herbert's Concerto No. 2 in E......
2009-04-03 00:01:00
LARRY ALEXANDER
Resting on past glories is not what REO Speedwagon is all about. Unlike other bands of the 1960s and '70s that are still active, Speedwagon continues to crank out new music and hone its craft."We could make a good living just going around and playing songs from our past, and part ......
2009-03-29 00:10:00
JAMES BUESCHER
It's perhaps the most famous Christmas morning in the history of classical music. "It was Christmas, 1870, and Richard Wagner wanted to surprise his wife. So, early in the morning, he invited a group of musicians into his house, had them quietly tune their instruments in the kitchen be......
2009-03-26 12:20:00
LAURA KNOWLES
It was a bit ironic that the audience of the American Idols in Concert at the American Music Theatre was missing its favorite TV show Wednesday night. But the crowd didn't seem to mind. It turns out that President Obama's televised address on Tuesday had postponed "American Id......
2009-03-26 05:00:00
New Era Staff
Ad Lib Cafe 51 N. Market St., Lancaster
www.adlibcafepa.com
7 p.m. Friday, March 27: Lampeter-Strasburg High School bands The Rodans, Radio Flyer, Oil, The State and The Klondike Kings 7 p.m. Saturday,......
2009-03-22 00:12:00
JOHN DUFFY
Success for Gomez came very quickly. Some would argue, jealously, that no group deserves a platinum-selling album, a coveted Mercury Prize and the designation of Next Big Thing without a fair amount of dues paying. But it might not have worked any other way for Gomez. The quintet had ba......
2009-03-22 00:10:00
RAY GRUNNERT
Celebrated chanteuse Tierney Sutton and jazz master McCoy Tyner headline the 19th Berks County Jazz Fest, which kicks off at 7 p.m. Friday, March 27, with a performance by Sutton at Gerald Veasley's Jazz Base in the Reading Crowne Hotel. Sutton, an intriguing mix of beauty, brains and vocal......
2009-03-19 04:58:00
New Era Staff
Ad Lib Cafe 51 N. Market St., Lancaster
www.adlibcafepa.com
6:30 p.m. Friday: Music for Everyone benefit; open mic 6 p.m. Saturday: Cartoon Guild art jam; open mic 5 p.m. Sunday: Arise this Day ......
2009-03-15 00:12:00
MICHAEL LONG, Entertainment Editor
Most fields of endeavor have their priests and prophets. The priests defend the establishment. They are the Old School, the pedagogues, the strict adherents to tradition and dogma. The prophets tread a freer, less linear path. They are radicals, pushers of envelopes, deviators from the ......
2009-03-15 00:02:00
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Disney live
"Playhouse Disney Live!" featuring favorite characters from the Disney Channel's popular Playhouse Disney program block for preschoolers, comes to Reading Eagle Theater on Sunday, March 22, with shows at 1:30 and 4:30 p.m. Mickey, Minnie, Pooh, Tigg......
2009-03-12 04:57:00
New Era Staff
Ad Lib Cafe 51 N. Market St., Lancaster
www.adlibcafepa.com
7 p.m. Friday: Live music 8 p.m. Saturday: Open mic 6:30 p.m. Friday, March 20: Music for Everyone benefit; open mic 6 p.m. Saturday, ......
2009-03-09 00:06:00
Alejandro Rios
Hotel Brunswick will be the hub of central Pennsylvania's music scene beginning April 16 when LAUNCH Music Conference kicks off four days of instructional seminars and live entertainment at several downtown venues.Organizers Jeremy Weiss and Rick Gadd said LAUNCH (Logical Advice & ......
2009-03-08 00:06:00
JAMES BUESCHER
There are the usual suspects: Bach with his Brandenburg Concerto No. 3, Dvorak and his "New World" Symphony, Rachmaninoff rhapsodizing on a theme from Paganini, as well as obligatory appearances from Bach and Mozart. But not all of the names on Lancaster Symphony Orchestra's 2009-......
2009-03-08 00:02:00
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Dar Williams
Pop-folkie Dar Williams will join fellow singer-songwriter Jeffrey Gaines in concert at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, March 12, at the Whitaker Center's Sunoco Performance Theater in Harrisburg. Williams is touring in support of her 2008 release, "Promised Land,&......
2009-03-07 01:02:00
JOAN KERN
Indigo Girls singer Emily Saliers, and her father, Don E. Saliers, will highlight faith and music events this month at Lancaster Theological Seminary, 555 W. James St. Don E. Saliers, retired William R. Cannon Distinguished Professor of Theology and Worship at Emory University in Atlanta, will ......
2009-03-05 07:10:00
CATHY MOLITORIS
For Trevor Hawkins, MySpace has opened a whole new world. Hawkins, a concert promoter at Laserdome, uses the Web site to find the coolest up-and-coming bands, then books those acts to perform at the laser-tag venue, as part of a concert event called "Press Play." The concerts are held......
2009-02-28 00:15:00
MARICHELLE ROQUE-LUTZ
REVIEW: OperaOperaLancaster's 58th year started Thursday evening with triumphant performances of two tragic hourlong operas: Gian Carlo Menotti's "The Medium," a dark, psychological thriller set in a stifling room; and Pietro ......
2009-02-28 00:09:00
DAVID O’CONNOR
REVIEW: ConcertThis time, they didn't come onto the stage on motorcycles.Nor did they arrive via friendly Martian spacecraft, as they did on one tour, and they left the spacesuits from that tour at home.But what newsboys (they......
2009-02-26 07:03:00
New Era Staff
Ad Lib Cafe 51 N. Market St., Lancaster
www.adlibcafepa.com
6 p.m. Friday: This or the Apocalypse, Century, Carousel Kings, Vanessa Falls and Your Nightmare Awaits, $8 in advance, $10 at the door; 12 a.m.: All......
2009-02-26 07:02:00
DEB MARTIN / Ephrata High
My first reaction to the first few seconds of the opening jam of Late of the Pier's album, "Fantasy Black Channel," was "Oh, this has a nice beat. This should be a good one." But by the fourth song, I just had one question: Where did these people come up with this stuff?......
2009-02-22 00:08:00
JAMES BUESCHER
Looking back over his 30-year career, singer Eddie Money is realistic: The great adventure, he said, was a mixed bag. "The truth is, being a rock star almost killed me," Money said in a telephone interview from a pizza parlor in Plainedge, N.Y. "I mean, I got to play Madison Square Garden......
2009-02-22 00:04:00
JOHN JASCOLL
Lancaster Symphony Orchestra was in fine form Friday night at Fulton Opera House with a program focusing on the strings. The woodwinds and brass took the night off, while the percussion joined us for just one item on the program. Not to worry. As tongue-in-cheek violinist John Herr assured us i......
2009-02-21 02:12:00
ELIZABETH PATTON
REVIEW: SymphonyWhen you're in love, what instruments do you cue? (Hint: It's not the bassoon.) That's right, the strings. The Lancaster Symphony Orchestra is putting the violins, the violas, the cellos and the double basses in the ......
2009-02-19 07:04:00
New Era Staff
Building Character 342 N. Queen St., warehouse C, Lancaster; www.buildingcharacter.biz
8 p.m. Friday: The Main Street Mystics 8 p.m. Friday, Feb. 27: Emily Long and friends 7:30 p.m. Saturday,......
2009-02-19 07:03:00
ERIC DOWLING / Hempfield
The Bird and the Bee, based in Los Angeles, is made up of only two members, but the sound they produce rivals that of full bands. Inara George sings lead vocals, and Greg Kurstin "does everything else" — and he really does. The Bird and the Bee have been together since Apri......
2009-02-15 00:14:00
JAMES BUESCHER
Ask singer and AC/DC megafan Tony Charles about his favorite album from the Australian heavy-metal pioneers and he'll sidestep the question: Choosing just one album, he says, is impossible. "People don't realize ... when you're......
2009-02-15 00:04:00
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Drumline
Drumline Live, a highly stylized marching band extravaganza in the tradition of America's historically black colleges and universities, is coming to York's Strand Theatre at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 25. The heart of this high-energy spectacle is, of course,......
2009-02-11 11:36:00
JANE HOLAHAN
Like many classical musicians, Igor Yuzefovich, the concertmaster of the Lancaster Symphony Orchestra, performs with a small chamber group when he's not involved with symphonic music. It allows him to perform a different repertoire, to put his own stamp on the music in a way he rarely can w......
2009-02-08 00:02:00
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Jazz man
The Pennsylvania Academy of Music in downtown Lancaster continues its jazz series with a performance by the David Leonhardt Trio at 8 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 14. Leonhardt, a skilled pianist and composer, has been performing professionally for nearly four decades. For m......
2009-01-27 10:30:00
STAFF
Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band are returning to Hersheypark Stadium on Friday, May 15. Tickets go on sale Monday at noon and are available at the Giant box office, HersheyEntertainment.com and charge by phone, 534-3911. ......
2009-01-25 00:04:00
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Jail Bard
Curt Tofteland, founder of Shakespeare Behind Bars, which mounts prison productions of the Bard's classic plays, will deliver a free public lecture at 11 a.m. Wednesday, Jan. 28, in Leffler Chapel and Performance Center on the campus of Elizabethtown College. H......
2009-01-23 01:04:00
JON FERGUSON
REVIEW: ConcertSteve Winwood sent a crowd at the American Music Theatre hurtling across the decades Thursday night, alighting on the touchstones of a career that now spans five decades.Winwood, whose musical DNA informs entire genres of ......
2009-01-22 10:33:00
JANE HOLAHAN
When classes are over for the day at Linden Hall School for Girls, most of the girls who live there have time to themselves. Not Xiaopei Xu (pronounced Shapay Shu). Most days, after the English literature, the physics and the math classes and all the studying that comes with them, Xu, 17, spend......
2009-01-18 00:14:00
JOHN DUFFY
To the radio-listening public, Steve Winwood is best remembered as that guy who had a string of sleek pop hits in the mid-1980s: "Back in the High Life Again," "Roll With It," "Valerie," "Higher Love."......
2009-01-18 00:06:00
HELEN COLWELL ADAMS
Don't expect to see a performance if you go to see Chris Tomlin and Israel Houghton on Thursday in Hershey. In fact, don't expect to passively "see a show" at all. "We don't come to entertain," Tomlin......
2009-01-17 01:24:00
ELIZABETH PATTON
REVIEW: SymphonyLancaster Symphony Orchestra looked east — all the way to Russia, with stops in Hungary and Poland — with a trio of powerful performances Friday evening.Conductor Stephen Gunzenhauser led the musicians in a fi......
2009-01-11 00:08:00
MICHAEL LONG, Entertainment Editor
There are a couple of ways to approach jazz: from the left, through R&B; and from the right, through classical music. Kudos to the Pennsylvania Academy of Music for approaching the genre at all and celebrating (as some of the academy's young, classically trained charges no doubt do) the......
2009-01-11 00:04:00
JAMES BUESCHER
In the early part of the 20th century, Western orchestral music went completely off the rails, some musicians contend, as American composers began embracing more avant-garde musical forms. Meanwhile, behind the Iron Curtain, composers such as Russia's Igor Stravinsky and Hungary's Zolt&......
2009-01-11 00:02:00
STAFF
A cut above
Merritt David Janes stars as the Demon Barber of Fleet Street in the national tour of John Doyle's Broadway revival of "Sweeney Todd," which opens at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 13, at Hershey Theatre and runs through Sunday, Jan. 18. This sleek little ......
2009-01-08 09:05:00
KENDAL GAPINSKI / Cocalico
It's hard to believe that a band can manage having a MTV reality show, two albums and a song featured on the popular video game "Rock Band" — especially when the band is made up of members who are only 14 years old. It's also hard to believe that as high-school freshmen,......
2009-01-08 09:04:00
New Era Staff
Chameleon Club 223 N. Water St., Lancaster;
www.chameleonclub.net
6:30 p.m. Saturday: Anberlin, with Madina Lake, Between the Trees and more; $14 in advance, $16 day of show; all ages 7 p.m. Friday, Ja......
2009-01-04 00:10:00
JAMES BUESCHER
They met the way a lot of bandmates seem to meet — by accident. "It was about two years ago at the open-mic night at the Appalachian Brewing Co. in Harrisburg, and we just started chatting backstage," said Sarah King, one of the two singer-songwriters that comprise ...
2009-01-04 00:04:00
STAFF
Blue dudes
Iconic performance artists the Blue Man Group will take the stage at 8 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 10, at the Sovereign Center in Reading. The show is part of the group's How to Be a Megastar Tour, which explores what it means to have a perfect rock-concert experience......
2008-12-21 00:04:00
JOHN DUFFY
On a rainy night in December of 2005, Lancaster roots-rock band Slimfit played its final show at the Chameleon. This week, they play there again. It seems this was one breakup that didn't stick. In a roundabout way of celebrating the third anniversary of their final show the group shares th......
2008-12-21 00:02:00
STAFF
Zep Tribute
Get The Led Out are musicians who are "passionate about their love of the music of Led Zeppelin," according to the group's Web site. "This is not an impersonator act but rather a group of musicians who were fans first, striving to do justice to......
2008-12-19 00:04:00
JON FERGUSON
When Leigh Nash and Matt Slocum decided to reform Sixpence None the Richer after four years apart, they chose to celebrate by recording a Christmas album.It seems an odd choice, but Nash said it helped ease both of them back into the collaborative process.She said it also helped the......
2008-12-18 07:05:00
McCLATCHY-TRIBUNE
Fans had been eagerly awaiting the release of "Season of Poison," the sophomore album by Grammy Award-nominated band Shiny Toy Guns. Listeners fell in love with the electronic sounds of the band's debut, "We Are Pilots," and many hoped to hear the same signature use of s......
2008-12-18 07:04:00
New Era Staff
Chameleon Club 223 N. Water St., Lancaster;
www.chameleonclub.net
6 p.m. today: Red; $10 in advance, $12 day of show; all ages 9 p.m. Friday: Stairway to Heaven (Led Zeppelin tribute); $8 in advance......
2008-12-14 00:02:00
STAFF
Festivities
Maestro Stephen Gunzenhauser, festively adorned in this photo illustration, will lead Lancaster Symphony Orchestra and Chorus in their Sounds of the Season concerts Thursday, Dec. 18, through Sunday, Dec. 21, at Franklin & Marshall College's Barshinger Ce......
2008-12-12 00:37:00
TOM KNAPP
It was April when Stephen Gunzenhauser began considering the elements that would go into his Christmas show.Gunzenhauser, maestro of the Lancaster Symphony Orchestra, wanted to continue the tradition that started last year with the first "Sounds of the Season" performance.......
2008-12-11 11:51:00
JANE HOLAHAN
Before becoming a member of Quartetto Gelato, Peter De Sotto played the violin in the Toronto Symphony. And, he was a strolling Gypsy violinist at a restaurant, just like his father, who is still performing at age 84. Don't assume the two jobs didn't fit together nicely when De ......
2008-12-11 07:04:00
ERIC DOWLING / Hempfield
Hiram Ring was raised in a third-world country, where he learned to appreciate the little things in life. His parents are Christian missionaries who travel around the world, helping countries that are in need. Hiram lives and performs in the Lancaster and York area, and he started a record comp......
2008-12-11 07:03:00
New Era Staff
Chameleon Club 223 N. Water St., Lancaster;
www.chameleonclub.net
7 p.m. day: Gavin DeGraw, with The Veronicas, Lesley Roy and Jack Dillman; $17; 18 to enter 9 p.m. Friday: Toys in the Attic (Aerosmith......
2008-12-07 00:04:00
JAMES BUESCHER
He was born in Venice in the late 1600s, and even though he studied to become a priest, his struggle with asthmatic bronchitis forced him to take a job not in a church, but in an orphanage, where he began writing compositions for abandoned children. "The amazing thing about Antonio Vivaldi......
2008-12-07 00:02:00
STAFF
Community 'Carol'
Theater of the Seventh Sister, in recognition of tough economic times and in the giving spirit of the Christmas season, has billed the entire run of its production of Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" as "pay what you will.&quo......
2008-12-04 07:44:00
CATHY MOLITORIS
When Trevor Wall went to CI Records, asking for an internship, he had no idea he'd soon be asking some of his favorite bands about their tour injuries or guilty pleasures. Wall, a self-professed music lover, approached CI Records owner Jeremy Weiss about an internship in the store earlier t......
2008-12-02 01:13:00
LARRY ALEXANDER
Whether it's the star-studded schedule of celebrity concerts or the lavish home-grown productions, American Music Theatre promises to pursue a more aggressive lineup in 2009.In recent years the theater's celebrity concerts have numbered about 55 a year, while AMT also produces thre......
2008-12-01 16:01:00
JON FERGUSON
David Byrne doesn't break out The Big Suit, but his current tour is sure to thrill fans of the Talking Heads, one of rock music's seminal bands.Byrne decided to celebrate his recent album with Brian Eno, "Everything That Happens Will Happen Today," by touring behind the s......
2008-11-30 00:02:00
STAFF
Puppetmaster
Comedian and ventriloquist Jeff Dunham will unpack his suitcase full of lively personalities at Hershey's Giant Center at 8 p.m. Friday, Dec. 5. Dunham's cast of puppets includes Walter, the elderly, outspoken curmudgeon; Peanut, a frenzied, purple imp r......
2008-11-28 00:04:00
LARRY ALEXANDER
Already the most poverty-ridden Indian reservation in the United States, Pine Ridge, in South Dakota, didn't need a paralyzing blizzard.But that's what residents got about two weeks ago, leaving many without adequate clothes, food supplies or electricity — assuming they were ......
