Daily Press - Sound Check (Sam McDonald)

Summer concert sales soft

Fri, 11 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0400

M idsummer typically brings a bonanza of big concerts to Hampton Road's largest venues.

Norfolk native and music legend returns to play

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0400

T oday, Norfolk native Gene Barge speaks like a calm, gentle grandfather.

Hampton teen rapper shows off his new, grown-up sound

Fri, 16 May 2008 00:00:00 -0400

L il' Old C isn't so lil' anymore.

Odds are good that Van Halen will rock out

Fri, 2 May 2008 00:00:00 -0400

H ere's the million dollar question for Diamond Dave and his, ahem, pals in Van Halen : Will you actually rock Charlottesville tonight or are you jerking everybody around again?

Festival features local faves

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0400

Songcraft takes center stage Sunday afternoon as the first-ever Sea Level Singer-Songwriter Festival comes to the Granby Theater in Norfolk.

There's been good news and bad news in music

Sun, 30 Jan 2005 00:00:00 -0500

Winter - especially the post-holiday period - is a relatively quiet time for the music world. Hot new CD releases are few, major concert tours are fewer. For the most part, it's time to recharge those batteries - or recover from the Christmas bacchanal. There were heartening and disturbing events swirling around just underneath the season's blanket of ice and snow, however. Here's a look at a few of both. It's bleak enough these days, so let's start with the sunny stuff.