Music

When a 12-year-old Billy Gilman captured the hearts of Americans back in 2000 with hits like “One Voice” and “Oklahoma,” he was the youngest singer to ever have a platinum-selling record, among other first-time accomplishments. He never quite captured that huge success again, but he’s stayed busy in the business and is now back on […]

As we roll merrily along through April, the gigs keep coming and the listings are quite healthy looking with a variety of stuff going on in and around the capital city. Let’s see what mischief in music we can find to get into this week, just for the fun of it. For whatever reason, Friday […]

As we hit mid-April, the bands are busting out all over and the music blooms forth like a magnificent magnolia tree and those darling daffy daffodils. If you can’t find something to your liking this weekend, well I don’t know what to say, other than, wait until next week because there’s probably going to be […]

Here comes some April fun, with famous folks, new venues, regular places, familiar faces and lots more happening this week in the Springfield music scene. Sit back and read up on it, then be sure to get out and take it all in as the weather warms and the action grows. Here’s a heads up […]

Did I miss something, or did the month of March just fly by in a whirlwind of activity? I suppose the feeling is a combination of the approaching spring season, plus a reaction to the lessening of COVID restrictions and, more importantly, the number of COVID cases falling here in our area and around the […]

Come on in folks, and see what’s happening this week. We have a parade and a birthday party, with lots of live music covering Celtic, blues, rock, Latin and other goodies. Shall we? After our annual St. Patrick’s Day parade was postponed over the last two years due to pandemic issues, and again last week […]

Come one, come all, to enjoy the fine fixings we are about to show you in this second full weekend of March 2022. The weather is chilly now, but gets better soon, and with Daylight Savings Time springing forward on Sunday, hang in there, those delightful days of live music in our abundant outdoor music […]

Hello fellow travelers, and welcome to the month of March in 2022. Our first full weekend is chock-full of goodies as we continue to work our way back to our regularly scheduled programming after the nearly two-year pandemic interruption. I’m going to jump out of the daily order to start with Sunday and the Doug […]

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 […]