Acoustic (genre)

Fresh back from seeing Huntington Beach's own Avenged Sevenfold and Brandon Saller play in the area last week, I was more than ready to dedicate a column to more local music news. Yes, this place is called Surf City, but let us not forget that this is...

A selection of Virginia and international wines are the draw at the second annual Chesapeake Virginia Wine Festival from noon to 6 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 29, at the Chesapeake City Park on Greenbrier Parkway. Area restaurants will be on hand to offer...

Drummer Jason Bonham, son of the late Led Zeppelin legend John Bonham, filled in for his dad with the three remaining Zeppelin members (at 2007 reunion tribute for Ahmet Ertegun). He’s also done session work and live gigs for other serious players,...

Folk music is an increasingly elastic genre. Punk rockers, indie kids and jazz heads all have been making acoustic music that could fall under that category. Richmond's A Good Natured Riot is one of the bands that's been stretching the style. Fronted...

Amy Winehouse, who was found dead Saturday at her home in London, left behind a small body of celebrated work and immeasurable unfulfilled promise. She was 27. Authorities were investigating the cause of the British singer’s death. But, sadly, it...

Local guitarist Kirby Snively performs a family concert at 12:15 p.m. on Wednesday, August 3, in Petoskey's Pennsylvania Park. The concert is part of the Charlotte Ross Lee Concerts in the Park summer series in Petoskey. Snively's style is a mix of...

Chris Cornell isn't bringing a reunited Soundgarden to Connecticut, but he is bringing some of their songs. They'll be played solo and acoustic, but they'll be Soundgarden songs nonetheless, and Cornell's unmistakable, overpowering voice can still do them...

Brandon Heath’s music could be successful in any genre: It’s dramatic, intelligent and interesting. A little bit U2, a lot like Mat Kearney and Augustana – a mix of rock and alt-country and Americana -- it conveys as much with......

The Lehigh Valley Acoustic Performers Contest is back. The eighth annual contest will kick off at 8 p.m. Tuesday, and continue the next four weeks at Mezza Luna Bar & Grill, 1193 Airport Road, Allentown. Musicians sign up at 7......

If you're an acoustic performer and you think you're the best in the Lehigh Valley, here's your chance to prove it. The third annual Lehigh Valley Music Awards Acoustic competition will be held at 6:30 p.m. Nov.5 at Listen Live!......

A singer-songwriter/guitarist was a repeat winner at the Lehigh Valley Music Awards acoustic music awards Saturday, but won for a different category. Peter Scapegrace, a former member of the Bethlehem band The Unpronouncable, won for Best Acoustic...

The eighth annual Lehigh Valley Acoustic Performers Contest, the start of which was postponed last week because co-host and producer Ricky Bell was ill, will kick off tonight. Ricky Bell, 2004 winner and now host The show, at Mezza Luna......