Music

The Dip may be wrapping up yet another round of national touring, but the Washington-born and -based band is returning to the Northwest and Spokane for a homecoming of sorts. This is especially true for drummer Jarred Katz.

Award-winning singer-songwriter Jason Isbell and his band the 400 Unit are playing the First Interstate Center for the Arts.

The past weekend saw the Spokane Symphony and Music Director James Lowe return to the Martin Woldson Theater at the Fox for the ninth and final pair of concerts of the 2024-25 season – the 79th consecutive year in the Masterworks series. Though not billed as a “gala concert,” it certainly would have qualified. The featured soloist was not only an internationally celebrated, but also a local celebrity: Zuill Bailey, who 10 years ago took the reins of the Northwest Bach Festival and transformed it into NW Bachfest – one of the country’s most admired chamber music festivals.

It’s all about atmosphere for the Osprey Restaurant and Bar as they put on their first organized concert series.

The Spokane Symphony will be rounding out their season with Grammy Award-winning guest cellist Zuill Bailey and a final Masterworks performance of the year, “Tales of Hemingway,” this weekend.

Country artist Whitey Morgan will be stripping down his outlaw sound for a solo acoustic show at the District Bar.

It’s been more than a year since “Beautiful Things” singer Benson Boone skyrocketed up the charts with his breakout hit — one of the biggest songs of 2024 — and his star only continues to rise.

Louis Armstrong? Or Parliament-Funkadelic, Earth, Wind & Fire and proto-rap group the Last Poets?

ATLANTA — André 3000 floats to the tune of his own key. Quite literally. A week after Outkast was announced as Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductees, the Atlanta rapper, flutist and now pianist has yet to address the honor publicly. Instead, on Monday night, he dropped new music — moments before appearing on the Met Gala red carpet. “7 Piano Sketches,” his surprise EP, is seven tracks of solo ...

The Spokane Symphony is looking to make their 80th season a historic one, reaching new heights while fully embracing the longstanding culture and community of the city.

Emotion filled the auditorium at Eastern Washington University as soprano Jaqueline Itzel Medina Green rehearsed “El Pastor,” a soulful Mexican ballad from the 1960s, in preparation for this weekend’s Cinco de Mayo celebration.

The Spokane Symphony will be celebrating May 4, also known as Star Wars Day, by bringing the beloved music of the original trilogy’s finale to life.

Critically acclaimed singer-songwriter KT Tunstall is heading to Spokane this weekend as she celebrates 20 years of her debut album.

After missing the cut in its first two nominations, Soundgarden is going into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame as part of a 2025 class that includes hip-hop innovators Outkast, Cyndi Lauper, the White Stripes, ‘70s rockers Bad Company, Joe Cocker and Chubby Checker.

With Music Director James Lowe as their guide, audiences at Spokane Sympony masterworks concerts have been led through every psychological state one can imagine: anxiety, exultation, rage, delight, fear, depression and triumph. The vehicles for reaching these varied destinations have been, for the most part (Mozart is an exception to this, as to all other generalizations), pieces of music composed after 1800; that is to say, works of the Romantic period and later. This season’s eighth masterworks concert Saturday and Sunday at the Martin Woldson Theater at the Fox was devoted to a single work – Joseph Haydn’s oratorio “The Creation” (1797) – and presented us with something remarkably, and wonderfully, different.

 In early 2024, Sammy Hagar and Michael Anthony surveyed how to keep Van Halen current. Hagar felt “an epiphany” and said to Anthony, “It’s up to us.”

Brennen Leigh was the first to play the Hamilton Studio Listening Room last year, and now the old-school country artist is back as a part of the troubadour trio, Wonder Women of Country.

Magenta Wave will be crossing the state to bring rock to the Chameleon, alongside a few local mainstays.

Nirvana tribute band Nevermind will bring a taste of the iconic Washington band to Spokane.