Music category, Page 102

Rascal Flatts is hitting the road with a farewell tour, and they’re coming to the Pittsburgh area. The trio of Gary LeVox, Jay DeMarcus and Joe Don Rooney will bring their Farewell: Life is a Highway tour to S&T Bank Music Park, Burgettstown, on June 27. “When we started out...

MIAMI — Rod Stewart has certainly had better New Year’s Eves. There was the one 41 years ago when the British rocker — and current South Florida resident — opened 1979 with one of his signature smashes, “Da Ya Think I’m Sexy?” He was knighted in late 2016 at Buckingham...

Ask and you will receive. The Cleveland Keys – a dueling piano company – takes requests from the audience and then performs the tune. Known for doing weddings, corporate functions and nonprofit events, these musicians also do several other appearances, such as the upcoming Dueling Pianos Night at the Oaks...

MIAMI — Grammy-nominated rapper DaBaby was arrested on a battery charge Thursday night in Miami after arguing with a music promoter over payment for a performance, Miami police said in an arrest warrant. After police arrested the rapper, whose real name is Jonathan Kirk, they found a warrant for his...

Robin Meloy Goldsby While attending Chatham College (now Chatham University), Robin Meloy Goldsby lived in Chatham Village and played the piano at Chatham Center in Downtown Pittsburgh. By the time she was 21, Goldsby longed to escape to a city where, presumably, there were fewer Chathams. “I had already been...

Poison frontman Bret Michaels said the upcoming tour with Mötley Crüe, Def Leppard and Joan Jett will be a high energy party. “I’ve been working on that for years, hoping we could put it together with everybody and it just worked,” Michaels told People magazine on Tuesday. “It will be...

If any more evidence is needed that much of the best music today can be found in the margins beyond Top 40 pop, look no further than this list of stellar albums from 2019 that went largely unnoticed by the vast majority of music fans and media. Hopefully some of...

The enjoyment of music hardly requires a formal setting, although traditional concerts can feel that way. But one of Pittsburgh Opera’s best traditions breaks that mold. It’s called the Brown Bag concert series, because audience members are invited to bring their own lunches to the free midday events. And the...

Music and healing will be the unifying theme when Brooklyn Rider makes its much-anticipated return to Pittsburgh on the first Monday in January. The Brooklyn Rider string quartet will perform “Healing Modes” as part of the Chamber Music Pittsburgh concert series on Jan. 6 in Pittsburgh’s Carnegie Music Hall. Brooklyn...

SAN FRANCISCO — It was a tumultuous year in the opera world, a year in which sexual harassment allegations against superstar Placido Domingo prompted his disappearance from American stages and sparked deep soul-searching. Opera performers are applauding new official efforts to create a workplace free of sexual misconduct, but they...

It’s not broadcasting in an all-news format, but KQV-AM is back on the air in the Pittsburgh area. The station, which had been off the air after an ownership change in 2018, has a storied history as Pittsburgh’s oldest all-news radio station. At 11:10 a.m. Dec. 19, KQV-AM 1410 returned...

Not many things in life are certain except for birth, death, taxes … and my top 10 album list for 2019 will be different from any other best album list you see this year. This makes sense in a year when there was no consensus best album and some excellent...

Music and dance shift back into high gear after the mid-winter break, with many alluring and important performances coming up. The Pittsburgh Symphony, for example, will present 15 weekends of classical music from January to June. Among the many highlights are two full-evening masterpieces by Ludwig van Beethoven – “Fidelio”...

MIAMI — Lil Wayne is free to celebrate Christmas in Miami after federal agents searched his private jet, but the rapper still faces potential charges after agents found at least one handgun and drugs, according to law enforcement sources. The gun also qualified as bling — a gold-plated .45 caliber...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Grammy-nominated rapper DaBaby was detained in North Carolina hours after he gave away toys to children and shortly after his concert. Charlotte-Mecklenburg police issued citations to the rapper, whose real name is Jonathan Kirk, for misdemeanor possession of marijuana and resisting an officer Monday night, news outlets...

Another album and tour over, another Ed Sheeran break from music. The 28-year-old singer-songwriter announced to his fans on Instagram that he’s cutting out for a bit. View this post on Instagram Brb x A post shared by Ed Sheeran (@teddysphotos) on Dec 24, 2019 at 4:00am PST “Hello all....

This year figures to go down as a memorable one for box sets and other special releases. Several landmark albums, including the Beatles’ “Abbey Road,” The Replacements’ “Don’t Tell A Soul” and Prince’s “1999” were re-issued with lots of worthy additional music. Bob Dylan’s vault got raided once again, and...