After placing touring on a shelf to dedicate time to her novel, folk singer Laura Gibson is exploring whether live music is still there for her, while turning a critical eye to so-called failure.
As stormtroopers, Chewbacca and Darth Vader entertained the crowd in the lobby of the Fox Theater half an hour past starting time for the Spokane Symphony’s “Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back” show Saturday evening, Music Director James Lowe was backstage opening the score of the movie for the first time.
Lynn Ellsworth, a renowned guitar-maker whose work was purchased and played by some of the biggest rock -and -roll musicians of the last several decades, died April 27. He was 81.
After placing touring on a shelf to dedicate time to her novel, folk singer Laura Gibson is exploring whether live music is still there for her, while turning a critical eye to so-called failure.
The Spokane Symphony is taking on the musical score of John Williams’ “Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back” on Saturday – May 4, of course – and Sunday.
Next season’s Spokane Symphony calendar includes classics like “Rhapsody in Blue,” Joseph Haydn’s “Creation,” Beethoven classics and new ventures, like a TikTok-famous conductor, a 2024 Grammy-award winning song and artificial intelligence experimentation.
People may know Scotty McCreery from winning the 10th season of “American Idol” in 2011 at age 17. Soon after beating out his reality TV competitors, his debut album “Clear as Day” went to the very top of the Billboard charts to begin an illustrious career. McCreery also made history as the youngest male artist of any genre and first country artist to debut at No. 1 on the Billboard Top 200.
Nancy Wilson, at age 70, can still perform her signature kick move while sporting her guitar. “I can do that and more!” she told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution on a Zoom call from her home in Sonoma, California, on the eve of the 2024 Heart tour. “I can’t not dance and move.”
On Friday, April 26, Texas country star Cody Johnson will return to the Arena with his own brand of authentic country music and a couple of star-studded openers.
Iconic rock band Stone Temple Pilots are coming to Spokane on Friday to headline the annual Heart Strings fundraiser for the MultiCare Inland Northwest Foundation, injecting a bit of rock and roll into the effort to raise money for behavioral health programs.
In celebration of Imagine Dragons’ new album out June 28, the pop rock band announced Monday that its largest North American tour yet would make a stop Sept. 28 at the Gorge Amphitheatre.
For a little more than a minute on Saturday night, the only sound that could be heard in the Martin Woldson Theater at the Fox was the pure, silvery tone of a single violin. The hundreds of people in the audience must have been breathing, but if they were, they were very quiet about it, lest they intrude on the hypnotic beauty emanating from the stage. The violinist was Glenn Dicterow, and the music was the beginning of Leonard Bernstein’s “Serenade after Plato’s ‘Symposium’ ” (1954), the second piece in the eighth concert in this season’s Masterworks series by the Spokane Symphony.
If you’re old enough to remember DJ’s Sound City, you might recall the first 45 record you purchased, those iconic yellow spindle inserts or perhaps just an obscure one-hit wonder, such as “Popcorn,” by Hot Butter or “Playground in My Mind,” by Clint Holmes.
The Bing Crosby Theater is one of Spokane’s most legendary buildings, so it seems fitting that a musical great like Al Stewart will take to the historic stage on Thursday, April 25.
