Jazz pianist Ariel Pocock next up in Hillman Performing Arts SeriesVideo
The Hillman Performing Arts Series at Shady Side Academy in Fox Chapel will continue its 2019-2020 season with a performance of easy-listening music by jazz pianist, vocalist and composer Ariel Pocock. The Durham, N.C.-based musician and song stylist will offer an intimate evening of acoustic piano and guitar showcasing her...
B.E. Taylor Christmas concert series to end with this year’s showsVideo
A Western Pennsylvania Christmas tradition will come to an end this year, with the final series of B.E. Taylor Christmas concerts. Taylor’s son, B.C. Taylor, has announced that five “Feel the Love: Celebrating a B.E. Taylor Christmas” concerts will bring an end to the annual tradition started in 1995 by...
BMI honors Dwight Yoakam, top country songwritersVideo
Country music singer, songwriter and actor Dwight Yoakam was honored by performing rights organization BMI for his trailblazing and highly unique style of California country rock. The organization gave the Grammy-winner the President’s Award on Tuesday, as well as honored many of country’s top songwriters and artists, during a ceremony...
Harry Styles will play PPG Paints Arena on 2020 world tourVideo
Harry Styles has announced a 2020 world tour, “Love On Tour,” in support of his upcoming album, “Fine Line.” The tour includes a July 14 date at PPG Paints Arena in Pittsburgh. Joining Styles in the U.S. and Canada is singer/songwriter Jenny Lewis. American Express card holders can purchase tickets...
Reba to play Pittsburgh in 2020
Reba McEntire is touring in 2020 and the Steel City is on the schedule. On Tuesday, an arena tour was announced for next year, with a Pittsburgh stop planned on March 26 at PPG Paints Arena. View this post on Instagram I'm so excited to get back out on the...
Black Crowes will play Western Pa. on 30-year anniversary tourVideo
The Black Crowes will mark the 30-year anniversary of their quintuple-platinum debut album, “Shake Your Money Maker,” with a world tour. Tour dates include an Aug. 1 stop at KeyBank Pavilion in Burgettstown. Tickets are on sale now at ticketmaster.com. The tour will mark the first time brothers and group...
The Bone Forum opens winter jazz series at The Westmoreland
Kevin McManus and The Bone Forum will open the Winter Jazz Concert Series on Nov. 13 at The Westmoreland Museum of American Art. The Pittsburgh-based jazz trombone ensemble will play from 7-9 p.m. that evening at the Greensburg museum, 221 N. Main St. “On the second Wednesday of the every...
Going to Tool in Pittsburgh tonight? Don’t use your phone
Tool plays tonight at PPG Paints Arena, but don’t try to remember the show digitally. The arena tweeted a statement saying that anyone attempting to take photos during the show would be ejected. TOOL TONIGHT.. KNOW BEFORE YOU GO:•Tonight's Show has a strict NO CAMERA policy including cellphones. •Poster Tubes...
Adam Lambert joins Pittsburgh’s Light Up Night this holiday seasonVideo
National recording artist and recent Queen frontman Adam Lambert leads the entertainment at this year’s Comcast Light Up Night in Pittsburgh. Lambert will perform during the event at the Main Stage on Fort Duquesne Boulevard. The Nox Boys and Joe Grushecky & The Houserockers will open the show. “Pittsburgh, I...
Saint Vincent concert to feature performance on rare violin
Attendees at the Nov. 9 installment of the Saint Vincent College Concert Series will have the rare experience of hearing music played on a 1709 violin made by the noted Tononi family of Bologna, Italy. The concert, featuring violinist Benjamin Baker and pianist Daniel Lebhardt, will begin at 7 p.m....
Pittsburgh Opera journeys to the ‘magical realism’ of the Amazon
Popularity is the rarest of accomplishments for contemporary opera, but Mexican composer Daniel Catán achieved it when he wrote “Florencia en el Amazonas.” It has been performed successfully around the world, and has elicited enthusiastic praise from performers, audiences and even critics since its premiere in 1996 at Houston Grand...
Korean Air merges safety talk with music video starring SuperM, BoAVideo
An airline’s new safety video might end up being a musical smash hit. Korean Air partnered with K-pop stars SuperM and BoA to produce a sleek music video to be featured on flights starting Monday, reports Billboard. The video combines SuperM’s song “Let’s Go Everywhere” with futuristic air travel visuals...
Metallica donates $100,000 to California fire relief
LOS ANGELES — Metallica is also feeling the devastating heat. The heavy metal band announced on Twitter that it will donate $100,000 through its nonprofit All Within My Hands to help with wildfire relief efforts across California. “Sadly, for the third year in a row, communities we have called home...
Leslie Odom Jr. performs at The Pittsburgh Promise GalaVideo
Joshua Devine, Abigail Lutton, Vanessa Thompson and Michael Warren might never have gone to college if it weren’t for The Pittsburgh Promise. Warren, a Pittsburgh CAPA graduate, received a bachelor of science in music education and a master of education administration K-12 from Duquesne University. He is currently pursuing a...
Journey and The Pretenders coming to KeyBank Pavilion
Journey and The Pretenders have announced a 60-plus date 2020 North American tour, kicking off May 15 and including a July 11 date at KeyBank Pavilion near Burgettstown. Tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. Nov. 8 at livenation.com. For those who have American Express, they can buy tickets for...
Ringo Starr and His All-Starr Band coming to PPG Paints ArenaVideo
Ringo Starr and His All-Starr Band will play PPG Paints Arena in Pittsburgh on June 20, as part of a new North American tour. Tickets go on sale at 11 a.m. Nov. 15 at ppgpaintsarena.com. The current band lineup features Steve Lukather (Toto), Colin Hay (Men at Work), Gregg Rolie...
Bret Michaels on recovering from health scares, why he won’t talk Trump
Bret Michaels boasts an unabashedly eclectic taste in music, which the multi-platinum rock star credits with getting him through life’s ups and downs and all the messy emotions in between. When Michaels works out, he’ll blast AC/DC. If the Poison front man and singer-songwriter is feeling reflective, he’ll throw on...
My Chemical Romance, Rage Against The Machine announce reunion shows
Something must be in the air, because on back to back days, two huge bands have announced reunion shows. My Chemical Romance announced Thursday, more than seven years since their last show, the band would play a show Dec. 20 in Los Angeles. Like Phantoms Forever... Tickets on Sale Friday...
Young WSO musicians offer free fall concert
The Westmoreland Symphony Orchestra’s youth orchestra program will present a fall concert at the Seton Hill Performing Arts Center, 100 Harrison Ave., Greensburg. Orchestra director Morrie Brand will direct the 3 p.m. Nov. 17 concert, which is free and open to the public. The WYSO Philharmonia, comprised of mostly middle...
Murrysville Cantata Choir to present 2nd annual ‘Patriotic Thanksgiving’ concert
The Murrysville Cantata Choir will present “A Patriotic Thanksgiving” concert Nov. 10 in First Presbyterian Church, Murrysville, and will also perform the concert a week later in Heinz Chapel in Pittsburgh’s Oakland neighborhood. “We were very pleased by the warm reception that last year’s concert received and we look forward...
Need a Halloween soundtrack? These songs check all spooky boxesVideo
Halloween night in Western Pa. may be a wash out - rain and strong gusts are in the forecast - so if you’re staying in or hosting trick-or-treaters at your place, here are some spooky songs to party along too. Things start heavy on the song list but verve towards...
Bound to be a good time when Bret Michaels takes the Palace stage
After years in the studio and on the road as Poison’s lead singer, and later venturing into reality television and country music, Bret Michaels remains a rocker. The Butler native returns to his Western Pa. roots on Nov. 1 with an 8 p.m. concert at The Palace Theatre in Greensburg....
Wilco brings ‘Ode to Joy’ to Heinz HallVideo
Wilco is back. This may not be breaking news in the world of auto-tuned wonders littering the pop charts. It is, however, a pretty big deal for fans of a band that started out a quarter of a century ago in the alt-country corner of the room, before evolving into...
Kanye West takes James Corden to 30,000 feet for ‘Carpool Karaoke’Video
Never one to do something traditional, Kanye West’s edition of “Carpool Karaoke” with James Corden is … uh … sky high. The rapper/acceptance-speech interruptor was the latest guest in the hit series with the “Late Late Show” host. But it’s not in a car, it’s 30,000 feet in the air,...
Taylor Swift can’t shake off copyright suit over her 2014 hitVideo
Taylor Swift won’t escape so easily after all from allegations that her 2014 hit “Shake It Off” illegally copied the lyrics of “Playas Gon’ Play.” The U.S. Court of Appeals in San Francisco on Monday overturned a judge’s ruling throwing out the copyright infringement lawsuit by the two songwriters of...
