Vocal competition to honor longtime educator
The inaugural Peterson Vocal Competition will be Nov. 7 at Central Christian Church, and a winners concert Nov. 8 at the Singletary Center for the Arts.
Critic's picks: Lyle Lovett, 'Natural Forces,' and Robert Earl Keen, 'The Rose Hotel'
By Walter Tunis Contributing Music Writer
The Lone Star alliance of Lyle Lovett and Robert Earl Keen, a friendship that dates to the mid-'70s, is wonderfully reconstituted at the end of the former's fine new album, Natural Forces.
New bar to take Dame's place
By Scott Sloan ssloan@herald-leader.com
A longtime Lexington nightspot that has shuffled between names and operators is undergoing another change.
RC Talk | Writer finally puts face, voice to his songs
By Rich Copley Herald-Leader Culture Columnist
Brenton Brown's music has been played in churches for years, but it's usually performed by other recording artists, including Chris Tomlin, who made Brown's Everlasting God famous.
Young cellist brings a rock vibe
By Rich Copley rcopley@herald-leader.com
Cellist Joshua Roman's curly reddish locks bounce as he plays, dressed in a rumpled, untucked oxford shirt and gray pinstripe trousers whose hems flop over low-top Chucks. Give the man a guitar, and the rock star pose would be complete. In fact, he has been called a "classical rock star."
Finally, Jolie Holland is back
By Walter Tunis Contributing Music Writer
Here's a show we didn't see coming. Well, we did, but we had given it up for lost: Jolie Holland.
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Critic's picks: Rosanne Cash, 'The List,' and Patty Loveless, 'Mountain Soul II'
By Walter Tunis Contributing Music Writer
Born within two years of each other, Rosanne Cash and Patty Loveless represented a country music generation embraced by radio. Since then, Cash explored deeply introspective songwriting that took her light-years away from corporate Nashville, while Pikeville native Loveless designed albums with husband/producer Emory Gordy Jr. that received widespread country acclaim before refocusing on the mountain-inspired roots music of her youth.
Kings of Leon's Southern spin gives its pop appeal
By Walter Tunis Herald-Leader music writer
"We've had a hell of a year," commented Caleb Followill after On Call, a blast of cerebral Southern soul that morphed into brawling post-punk pop, wound down Saturday night at Rupp Arena. "Who'd have thought?"
Review: Kings of Leon bring pop appeal, Southern authenticity to Rupp
By Walter Tunis Contributing Music Critic
“We’ve had a hell of a year,” commented Kings of Leon frontman Caleb Followill after On Call, a blast of cerebral Southern soul that morphed into brawling post-punk pop, wound down Saturday night at Rupp Arena. “Who’d have thought?” Who indeed?
Everything has changed, except Judy Collins
By Walter Tunis Contributing Music Writer
In some ways, the career of folk empress Judy Collins has come full circle.
Review: Lincoln opera shows potential to be great tribute
By Rich Copley rcopley@herald-leader.com
No one in Abraham Lincoln's home state has celebrated the bicentennial of the 16th president's birth as well as the University of Kentucky Opera Theatre.
Kings of Leon gets used to the big time
By Greg Crawford Detroit Free Press
Drop the words mainstream or arena into a conversation with Kings of Leon lead guitarist Matthew Followill, and his dismay is palpable, even via a cranky cell phone halfway across the country.
Ronan Tynan: Irish tenor plays the field
By Rich Copley rcopley@herald-leader.com
Performers aren't often as "straight out of New York" as Ronan Tynan will be this weekend.
