LOS ANGELES — Grammy winner Lil Nas X stayed mostly calm, cool and pretty comedic as he informed fans from a hospital bed on Monday that he had "lost control" of half of his face. The 26-year-old "Old Town Road" and "Industry Baby" singer shared a selfie video on Instagram documenting the stillness of the right side of his face as he attempts to smile. "This is me doing a full smile right ...
ANAHEIM, Calif. — Attending an event of the caliber of the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival can seem overwhelming, especially when it comes to planning your daily outfits, staying hydrated, or finding something yummy to eat. That’s not even taking into account which performances are must-see this year and which ones you’ll have to miss to catch another set. If you’ve never been to the ...
DENVER — Is there a limit to the number of shows Red Rocks Amphitheatre can host in a single year? It doesn’t seem like it. While the world-famous Morrison venue is physically constrained by the calendar, open spots are filling quickly — with more to go. The spring-to-fall concert season started on March 8 with Icelantic’s Winter on the Rocks, but there are still dozens of shows and other ...
At just 13, Jessie Morozov, now 16, performed Mozart’s Violin Concerto No. 3 in G with the Spokane Youth Symphony Orchestra, a piece usually reserved for advanced violinists.
It is a mark of the unique relationship between the people of Spokane and Mateusz Wolski, the concertmaster of their orchestra that, in providing a title to the seventh concert in this season’s Masterworks Series, Music Director James Lowe felt no need to provide a grandiose synthesis of all the pieces on the program, but simply to announce “Mateusz Plays Bruch.” If you take pleasure in seeing someone play who loves music, and is devoted to his instrument, his orchestra and his audience, that is all you need to know.
This weekend’s Masterworks performance by the Spokane Symphony may not have its usual well-established theme, but the repertoire features a true favorite in conductor James Lowe and a famed violin concerto fitting for concertmaster Mateusz Wolski.
Spokane’s own Olivia Vika, frontrunner of Vika & the Velvets, has spent years establishing herself as a key presence within the Lilac City’s music scene. She has a new album on the way this summer, and fans will get their first taste with the lead single, “Carousel of Love,” on Friday.
A young Olivia Tinsley (known professionally as Tinsley) grew up near Everett, spending much of her childhood singing and dancing for her family in imaginative productions. Back then, the only bright lights and cameras came from living room lamps and her mother’s home movies.
Although 2024 is still in the relatively near past, it will confidently go down as one of, if not the best years for music the past decade has had to offer. But with these heights comes the pressure on 2025.
Dawn Robinson, a founding member of the popular ’90s R&B girl group En Vogue, stoked lots of dire “Hollywood True Story”-type headlines recently by revealing that she’s been living out of her “older car” for nearly three years.
Like it or not, we live in a time of anxious uncertainty. It is easy to think of earlier times as being calmer and less unsettled, and to conclude that the art of those times offers a tranquil refuge to readers, viewers and listeners of our unsettled period. If anyone in the audience at Sunday’s performance at the Bing by the Spokane String Quartet of works by Joseph Haydn (1732-1809), Samuel Barber (1897-1957) or, for that matter, by the contemporary Polina Nazaykinskaya (b. 1987) was seeking such a refuge, however, they were bound to be disappointed.
