Sunday, April 28, 2019
The bigger-than-life vocalist maintains her sanity, in part, by revisiting her earlier life of near-death and drug- and sex-addiction in her one-woman musical, "Crazy Enough"
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 08:01AMSaturday, April 6, 2019
The La Jolla Music Society's new $82 million performing arts center opened Friday, with a star-studded lineup and very big expectations.
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 08:42PMSunday, March 31, 2019
The new performing arts center, also known as The Conrad, caps an ambitious and unprecedented effort to build a permanent home for the La Jolla Music Society and, in the process, reinvent th…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 04:00AMSunday, March 24, 2019
Spring in San Diego means more music in more venues, as the outdoor concert season gets under way. Morgan James Broadway vocal veteran James, 27, shines whether doing original numbers or put…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 08:00AMSpring in San Diego means more music in more venues, as the outdoor concert season gets under way. Broadway vocal veteran James, 27, shines whether doing original numbers or putting her spin…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 08:00AMSunday, March 10, 2019
Hula hoops are not the first thing most fans associate with Gordon Lightfoot, the veteran Canadian singer-songwriter best known for writing and singing such hit songs as “Sundown,” “If…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 10:05AMSunday, February 3, 2019
The stars were out in force to salute Joni Mitchell in music and words at the two sold-out 75th birthday concerts in her honor last November at the Los Angeles Music Music Center. The second…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 12:30PMTuesday, April 3, 2018
Jimi Hendrix, proto-reggae artist? The most famous dead guitar innovator in rock history, Hendrix died at the age of 27 in September 1970. That was shortly after the Jamaican ska and rock-st…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 06:30PMMonday, January 22, 2018
Brad Paisley, Jason Aldean, Lady Antebellum and Dierks Bentley are just some of the artists who will perform at Mattress Firm Amphitheatre as part of the San Diego venue’s annual Country M…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 10:00AMSunday, December 17, 2017
Ozomatli is not the first act to perform for two consecutive nights at the Music Box, the downtown San Diego venue that occupies the former site of Anthology. But this veteran Los Angeles ba…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 09:10AMThursday, November 30, 2017
Jake Clemons has been the saxophonist in Bruce Springsteen’s E Street Band since 2012, when he replaced his deceased uncle, Clarence Clemons. But any assumptions that this 37-year-old sing…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 09:05AMMonday, November 20, 2017
“Summer: The Donna Summer Musical,” which opened Sunday at the La Jolla Playhouse and runs through Dec. 24, is neither the first nor the most recent disco jukebox musical. Those distinct…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 05:30PMThursday, November 16, 2017
Good luck and unexpected windfalls didn’t transform Alex Woodard’s life for the better in 2008. But bad luck and unexpected pitfalls did lead to a positive transformation for this former…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 09:00AMSaturday, August 19, 2017
Jack Tempchin and Glenn Frey had much in common when they struck up a lifelong friendship at a San Diego music club called the Candy Company in the late 1960s. It was a few years before Frey…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 09:30PMFriday, August 4, 2017
Jeffrey Joe Morin spent almost 40 years working as an industrial and technical designer, in addition to having served as the art director for the colorized version of the film classic “Cas…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 09:35PMSaturday, July 29, 2017
Sunday afternoon’s White Box Live Jazz & Dance series concert at Liberty Station will be a multi-generational family affair. Dancers Liv Isaacs Nolet and Emily Miller will perform two piec…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 12:00PMWednesday, July 19, 2017
How diverse is the appeal of “Mystery Science Theater 3000,” the wonderfully skewed cult TV series whose first national tour — “Watch Out for Snakes!” — is coming to San Diego fo…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 02:00PMMonday, June 5, 2017
Even with its doomed hero, there’s not much drama or surprise in “Buddy — The Buddy Holly Story,” which triumphantly opened Sunday night at the Horton Grand Theatre downtown. This mi…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 05:30PMSunday, April 16, 2017
Different worlds converge, rather than collide, in the improbably varied life and music of Lila Downs. Like the Grateful Dead, the fabled San Francisco band she used to follow from city to c…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 09:05AMThursday, April 13, 2017
Success changes everything, and no other annual festival in the world has been as successful as the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival. This year’s edition, which runs Friday through S…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 09:00AMTuesday, April 4, 2017
How can Green Day top itself, after being inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2015, winning five Grammy Awards and watching its acclaimed 2004 album, “American Idiot,” be tra…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 02:00PMMonday, March 6, 2017
What does a multiple-Oscar-winning hit film musical do for a second act? In the case of “La La Land,” the answer is to hit the road for a world tour. “La La Land in Concert: A Live-to-…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 01:00PMSunday, February 26, 2017
Bruno Mars and Jack Johnson are not scheduled to perform as part of the 2017 edition of the annual “Experience Hendrix” tour, which stops Saturday at The Events Center at Harrah's Reso…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 09:00AMThursday, February 16, 2017
Say goodbye, to Sleep Train Amphitheatre — not the venue, the name. Effective immediately, Sleep Train Amphitheatre — San Diego County’s largest outdoor concert venue — will be kno…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 02:00PMSunday, February 5, 2017
The National Rifle Association can rest easy. Lady Gaga’s Super Bowl halftime show performance Sunday did not include the tirade against newly elected President Donald J. Trump and his sup…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 09:45PMFriday, February 3, 2017
Billy Crystal is surely not the only comedy legend who earned his first big laugh as an elementary school student, but he may be the only one who credits his initial success to being clu…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 04:00PMMonday, January 23, 2017
Brad Paisley, Jason Aldean and Luke Bryan are among the top acts that will perform at Sleep Train Amphitheatre in Chula Vista as part of the sprawling venue’s 2017 Country Megaticket conc…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 11:20AMThursday, January 5, 2017
Musicians are rarely at a loss for words. Accordingly, as this new year gets underway, we look back at some of the more memorable quotes from interviews that appeared in the Union-Tribune…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 09:00AMSunday, December 18, 2016
Small may indeed be beautiful, as noted economist E. F. Schumacher once famously declared. But when it comes to CD and vinyl box sets, bigger is clearly better — and far more lucrative. T…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 09:00AMSaturday, December 3, 2016
Leonard Bernstein and a landmark album by The Beatles? There are so many facets to Edo de Waart’s globe-hopping career as one of the most respected orchestral and operatic conductors of th…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 01:30PMSaturday, October 15, 2016
The Sandbox Percussion Quartet, which makes it San Diego debut Wednesday, combines virtuosity with vision, wit and an intriguing array of percussion instruments. It includes drums, marimbas,…
SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune at 04:00PM 
