There was no doubt about it in this youngster’s mind. From the time he was 10 years old, Dave Pahanish knew he was going to be a songwriter. Music came easily to him and filled him with such joy that his head…
Legendary critic Whitney balliet once labeled jazz “the sound of surprise,” and no one exemplifies that more than the great sonny rollins. As a composer and soloist, he has dazzled, delighted, and stunned musicians and fans with inventive passages, unusual phrases, and quick shifts…
Though he didn’t invent the three-finger picking technique on the banjo, Earl Scruggs’ brilliant, imaginative solos and playing elevated the standard of excellence on the instrument. The songs of Scruggs and his partner guitarist Lester Flatt triggered a wave of…
Actors Bridge Announces Sideshow Fringe: Music City’s Cool Performing Arts Festival
Sideshow Fringe is a Nashville-based four-day performing arts extravaganza connecting adventurous artists with adventurous audiences and showcasing Nashville’s diverse talent. The four-day festival runs in the Belmont/Hillsboro…
Prepping for what could be the music year’s most quintessentially “Nashville” collaboration, genre-melding indie pop singer-songwriter K.S. Rhoads was talking to the Nashville Symphony Orchestra’s principal librarian, Wilson Ochoa. “I’ve got a song called “Hiyayayaya,” with a hip-hop beat,…
The National Folk Festival, one of the longest-running celebrations of the arts, is coming to Nashville for a three-year tenure in September of 2011. Husband and wife team Garry West and Alison Brown, founders of Compass Records, fought hard for…
Meet Matt Logan and Jake Speck, artistic director and managing director of Studio Tenn, whose mission statement seeks to “use a rich combination of talent from Nashville and Broadway to bring classic works of drama and musical theatre to life…
Sunday nights can be slow in Sylvan Park. But behind Charlotte Avenue’s dark storefronts, across N. 49th Street from Betty’s Grill, a light shines over the entryway into the Global Education Center. Step inside and you’re in a spacious,…
by Lizza Connor Bowen
At a historic house in downtown Franklin, Tennessee, Nashville Arts Magazine recently had the chance to catch up with breakout folk duo The Civil Wars. With nineteenth-century wallpaper peeling from the walls and antique chandeliers casting…
Ballet, despite its origins as the dance of royalty and not of the masses, is an art form that speaks to everyone. It is pure story-telling theatre but without words. Ballet is quite simply what feelings look like. It…
