Music
Study In Contrasts
Musicians find common language in Bach concerto BECCA MARTIN-BROWN bmartin@nwadg.com It only takes hearing their names to know that Zsolt Eder and Miho Oda Sakon are going to be a
Six Minutes, Six Questions With The Steel Woods
JOCELYN MURPHY NWA Democrat-Gazette Southern rockers The Steel Woods stop by George’s Majestic Lounge at 9 p.m. March 7 in support of their new album “Old News,” out in January.
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
