Music
Three Minutes, Three Questions: Ordinary Elephant, Nick Nace, Ali Holder & Megan Palmer House of Songs musicians
LARA JO HIGHTOWER lhightower@nwadg.com The House of Songs Bentonville — the music collective started in Austin that seeks to link songwriters from all over the world — hosted seven songwriters
Four Minutes, Four Questions: Victor & Penny
BECCA MARTIN-BROWN bmartin@nwadg.com Victor and Penny are neither characters nor alter-egos for Jeff Freling and Erin McGrane. Rather, Victor & Penny is the name of the band the two formed
Three Minutes, Three Questions APO Maestro Steven Byess
BECCA MARTIN-BROWN bmartin@nwadg.com Love comes in all shapes and sizes, flavors and fantasies — and all of them come together every year for Valentine’s Day. According to its music director,
Love Is Love
‘Falsettos’ challenges definitions of love, family JOCELYN MURPHY jmurphy@nwadg.com It’s a tale as old as time: Boy meets girl, boy marries girl, boy divorces girl when he realizes he is
A Date With Destiny
Pianist reconnects with Steinway of his choosing BECCA MARTIN-BROWN bmartin@nwadg.com It’s not exactly a blind date. Andrew Tyson has met this particular temptress before, but their relationship was brief. Now,
Silence Is Golden
Chaplin’s classic ‘City Lights’ brings orchestra centerstage BECCA MARTIN-BROWN bmartin@nwadg.com John Jeter loves old movies — truly old movies, like those made in the 1930s, ’40s and ’50s. In fact, he calls
The Gypsy Genre
Jazz players swing into WAC JOCELYN MURPHY jmurphy@nwadg.com “We love playing for dancing because jazz started as party music. A lot of people don’t know this — they think you
Bernice & Bryan Hembree
Musicians, promoters, Roots Festival founders Q. Five years ago, what effect did you want to have on the arts in Northwest Arkansas? Bryan: We wanted to shine a light on Fayetteville and
Music To Our Ears
Region tunes in on what musicians want JOCELYN MURPHY jmurphy@nwadg.com As a region grows and develops, it stands that the culture and artistic infrastructure tend to grow and develop along
Classical Music Everywhere
SoNA assistant conductor says it ‘unites us all’ BECCA MARTIN-BROWN bmartin@nwadg.com Sarah Pearson, new this year as assistant conductor for the Symphony of Northwest Arkansas, sees orchestral music as the
