Contemporary Music (genre)

The highly anticipated third annual A Harvest of Hope garden event in Newport Beach returns Friday through Sunday in support of providing sustainability and well-being to local and global communities. Shop from one-of-a-kind home and garden items, attend...

If you doubt the influence of Hawaiian music, consider the following: The YouTube clip of ukulele virtuoso Jake Shimabukuro playing George Harrison’s “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” has nearly 8 million views. Eddie Vedder of Pearl Jam...

Middlecreek COB The Middlecreek Church of the Brethren continues its “Heroes of the Bible” series this Sunday morning. The Rev. John Stoner will bring the message “Daniel – Man of God” based on Daniel 1:8-21. The Rev....

The Bach Festival Society is pleased to bring renowned string quartet Brooklyn Rider to Central Florida for a residency in partnership with A Gift for Music and Orange County Public Schools’ All-County Orchestra program. The residency will include a...

Texican rock and rollers Los Lonely Boys, who had the No. 1 hit “Heaven” in 2004, will play the new ArtsQuest Center’s Musikfest Café on June 20, it was just announced. Tickets, at $45 and $35, will go on sale......

The 4 1/2-hour, nine-act Winter Jam contemporary Christian music show that packed Reading’s Sovereign Center (a sellout crowd of 7,200, with people turned people away) Thursday leaned very heavily on the contemporary. But it worked best when it...

Leif Ove Andsnes, Mark Morris and Jeremy Denk named future music directors for Ojai festival...

Mad Cow Theatre and the Consulate of Mexico in Orlando will offer a free one-night-only performance of the Javier Nandayapa Trio at 7 p.m. May 4 at Mad Cow Theatre. “The Mexican Consulate is thrilled to partner with Mad Cow Theatre, in order to...

Mayfair Festival of the Arts, celebrating its 25th anniversary this Memorial Day weekend, has announced the first headline acts for its five-day run May 26-30 in Allentown’s Cedar Beach. The Movement The headliners lineup for Thursday’s...

Hear Now: A Festival of New Music by Contemporary Los Angeles Composers will offer pieces by a few well-known figures -– provocative British transplant Thomas Adès, longtime USC professor Stephen Hartke, someone named Esa-Pekka Salonen -– as...

The remaining contestants on “American Idol” on Wednesday gave the show its best night of performances so far this season. So why was the show tough to watch? Because it brought back terrible Paul McDonald, who was the first male......

The classical music crowd gets out of town -- or at least out of doors -- to hear music in the summer....