There are those who felt the 2019 movie version of Cats did unspeakable damage to Andrew Lloyd Webber’s stage musical, which had transformed the West End,...
The late George Harrison loved the ukulele. He loved it so much that he kept dozens of them in his English country home, so when friends...
Heading into the final month of 2021, the arts calendar heats up for a while – and then, by mid-December things cool down as the holiday...
Tampa musician Christie Lenée has been named one of “The Best Acoustic Guitarists in the World Right Now” by the prestigious magazine Guitar World. Lenée was...
Ona Kirei and Alejandro Arenas, collectively known as Orilla, play melodic jazz imbued with pop, folk, funk and, you better believe it, sounds cultivated from their...
There’s a plethora of tribute bands out there (and, more than likely, a band called “Plethora”) and they’re all certainly staffed with solid musicians. But is...
Jazz as a living, breathing art form just doesn’t get its due in St. Petersburg, if you ask David Manson. As the architect of the long-running...
The story of America in 2020 can’t be told without mentioning Covid-19 in the first sentence, in the first (masked) breath. And with regard to the...
The final performances of Always … Patsy Cline at the Straz Center are sold out (the show ends Sunday), but some tickets remain for the final...
Oh, the weather outside is … pretty typical for this time of year. What’s new and exciting is that 2020 is entering its final month; we’ve...
