For the weekend of March 1-2, Zuill Bailey arranged a family gathering. It was held at Barrister Winery and was called Northwest BachFest – an odd name for a family gathering, some might say, but, speaking to the audience on Sunday, Bailey made it clear he thought of everyone there as family and considered them “the best audience in the country.” When Bailey says something about an audience, one would do well to listen, for he has played to hundreds of them all over the world and does not hand out his estimates lightly.
The audience at Saturday’s concert of the Spokane Symphony – No. 6 in their Masterworks Concerts series – had no reason to expect anything more than another one of many pleasant evenings of familiar music at the Martin Woldson Theater at the Fox, but they were in for a surprise.
In his online biography, Styx frontman James Young raved about the thrill of grinding guitar strings in front 40,000 screaming concertgoers and has made it his personal goal to continue touring with Styx until “they scrape me off the stage.”
Two Grammy-nominated country artists will perform at the Cancer Care Northwest Foundation’s Healing Harmonies benefit concert Friday night, but the cause is truly taking center stage.
Paul Simon’s retirement from touring is officially over. Seven years after completing his farewell tour, the legendary singer-songwriter and Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee announced Tuesday morning that he will embark on an extensive North American tour.
SAN DIEGO — Is the the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame ready to make “out with the old and in with the new” its new credo? Not quite, since 83-year-old “Let’s Twist” singer Chubby Checker was on Tuesday nominated for induction for the first time, along with the late Joe Cocker and the long-dormant English band Bad Company, whose senior surviving members range in age from 75 to 80.
The large, active crowd flowing into the Fox Theater on Sunday afternoon might well have been taken for a group of football fans waiting for the Super Bowl game to start.
