Music

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 […]

As the holidays come closer, we all know how much music is a part of the celebration from Rudolph to Bethlehem, Santa to jingle bells and herald angels to your two front teeth. Songs about the “most wonderful time of the year” are ubiquitous, ever-present and undeniable. So get out there and enjoy it all […]

Yes, you read that right, pilgrim, we are now into the merry month of December for the year twenty and twenty-one. That puts us into the holiday season which, if you go practically anywhere, means a shift in music toward the ubiquitous sound of Christmas-related songs. We have our share of live performances connected to […]

What a lovely sight it is to be at Thanksgiving for 2021. A glance backward at last year’s Now Playing lists mostly activities found only in the digital domain. We can certainly say the times have changed, and that’s something to be thankful for. Since Thanksgiving always falls on a Thursday, and being reasonable and […]