Music Features

As we approach the final days of February 2022, this amazing month of live music is going out with a big bang. I’ve been tooting our music scene horn pretty hard as we come blasting back from the abyss of past pandemic years with exceptionally diverse and dynamic shows, but this weekend really does take […]

As we go on meandering through the winter of 2022, with COVID maybe on the side of waning (again), the Super Bowl out of the way (with more talk about the halftime show than the game) and a blast of cold weather on the way, allow me to possibly brighten your day with the possibilities […]

Well, now wasn’t that a fun time of snow, shoveling, snow again, shoveling again, cancelled gigs, other gigs that weren’t but probably should have been, and all kinds of delightful experiences we can happily move on from. This weekend looks to be a bit different weatherwise so let’s see what’s out there in the bars […]

The Illinois Symphony Orchestra took to the Sangamon Auditorium stage on Saturday, Jan. 29, for “Incredibly Italian,” its first concert of 2022. The evening’s exciting and energetic program featured works by three notably non-Italian master composers – Mendelssohn, Schumann and Mozart – with the theme instead reflected in the content of Mozart’s “Don Giovanni” and […]

What with the predicted snowstorm this week, who knows what will happen, especially dealing with the aftermath of wintry precipitation. But let’s proceed as if our weekend is balmy and bright with plenty of live music going on, but be prepared for cancellations. Let’s get right to it when Charhm, one of my all-time favorite […]

Here we are and here we go through the last weekend in January for 2022 and we have a bang-up bunch of stuff going on. After this week of chilling temps, do I contemplate using the “cold weather, hot music” cliche to discuss upcoming live music in our fair city? Then again, isn’t music good […]

Here we are in mid-January and it’s starting to feel a lot like winter, but before you know it, those hot summer nights shall return. But in the meantime, let’s see what’s happening this weekend. Thursdays seem to be the one night of the week that could use some help in the live entertainment department, […]

Good grief and good golly, let’s “let the good times roll” as I bring you good tidings of the Springfield-area music scene. And I am saying all that for me more than you, as the coldness of January combined with the continued pandemic woes tends to bring me down. So let’s see if we can’t […]

Welcome one and all to 2022, a current calculation of time based on our concoction called the Gregorian calendar. Throughout the year, several other New Year’s eves and days are acknowledged at various times in other cultures, but here in the good ol’ USA and lots of spots around the globe, last weekend was when […]

Hello there, and happy New Year to you and yours. Here we are about to embark on 2022 and I was just getting used to hanging out with 2021. Strange times indeed, but I got a feeling this upcoming year will bring us closer to the norm than the last. So let’s see what we […]

As the huge holiday happening comes closer, music-related performances continue to escalate. Let’s enjoy it while we can, watching out for the Scrooge-like temptation to go pooh-poohing all the Christmas-connected holiday stuff as just way too much. And if you do succumb, there’s still plenty of live music lacking the trappings of the season for […]