Chris Thomas News

London Records celebrates 30 years of Marcella Detroit's album Jewel, re-issuing it on sapphire blue vinyl and an expanded 2CD and digital set on June 21.

The Nocturne Theatre, formerly known as The Glendale Centre Theatre, presents 'Madame Scrooge: A Christmas Carol Musical.' This brand-new, Broadway-style musical takes an original twist on Charles Dickens' famous tale and promises to be unlike any other production of A Christmas Carol audiences have ever seen!

The 8th Annual New Orleans Cigar Box Guitar Festival is returning to the New Orleans Jazz Museum. Don't miss this exciting event celebrating the unique sound of cigar box guitars.

With his fall Big Wheels & Back Roads headlining tour set to begin later this month, country hitmaker Russell Dickerson has signed with Range Media Partners’ Music Division. The multi-platinum artist and Tennessee native’s first four singles have reached No. 1 on Billboard’s Country Airplay chart.

The division represents a wide range of talent including Jack Harlow, Saweetie, Justin Tranter, Cordae, Midland, Murda Beatz, Nova Wav, Nicky Romero, D Smoke, PARTYNEXTDOOR, Hailey Whitters, Lauv, MAX, HARV, Sean Douglas, Wondagurl, Rich the Kid, Yola, Eric Bellinger, Tkay Maidza, Pentatonix, Luke Grimes, and more.

The quirky social drama focusing on people being misjudged, overlooked and ignored due to their socioeconomic standing comes alive in a world premiere at Ed’z Sportz Bar this May. Check out photos from the production here!

Sawyer Fredericks releases The Golden Tree EP, his first new album of music since 2020’s Flowers For You. The album includes four new tracks featuring his band, Gannon Ferrell on bass, Jerome Goosman on dobro, and Chris Thomas on drums, as well as Sav Buist and Katie Larson of The Accidentals on strings and backing vocals.

Broadway Star Anthony Rapp will open the Tower Theatre Foundation's Inaugural Stage the Change PNW Conference in Bend, Oregon on Friday, May 20, 2022 with a keynote to conference attendees followed by a concert to attendees as well as members of the general public.

The Tower Theatre Foundation will present the first ever 'Stage the Change' event on the West Coast. High school students from throughout the Pacific Northwest are invited to attend this two-day conference which is developed in partnership with the New York based non-profit Stage the Change. The goal of 'Stage the Change' is to inspire, teach, and help attendees employ the performing arts to find their social voice to become responsible global citizens and catalysts for change.

Drummer Dennis Diken (Smithereens), bassist Arion Salazar (ex-Third Eye Blind), multi-instrumentalist Pat Sansone (Wilco, The Autumn Defense) and  Luther Russell (currently performing as one half of the duo Those Pretty Wrongs alongside ex-Big Star Jody Stephens) form a panel with Rodriguez to discuss Get Back from a musician’s perspective.  

The upcoming performances include three more piano concertos as part of the David M. Hicks Mozart Piano Series, two movies as part of the Symphonic Night at the Movies series, and tributes to Whitney Houston and Judy Garland, and the music of the iconic rock band Queen.

Having a dream is like running with scissors. Harley, a singer-songwriter whose wife is expecting their first child, has decided to hang up his dream before it destroys his family. On the way to pawn his guitar, he stumbles across the bar where his musical hero, Floyd Whitaker, died. Upon entering, he finds an inhospitable bartender and a single surly customer who's strumming the blues on an old guitar. How could he resist an adventure like this?

The event will feature performances by Broadway's Amber Iman, Tony Award winner Gavin Creel, Sasha Allen, Jo Lampert, Obie Award winner Whitney White, Hoofer Award winner Ayodele Casel, and more.

For Range Media, and the Music Division helmed by Managing Partners Matt Graham, Tyler Henry, Jack Minihan, Melissa Ruderman, Chris Thomas and Evan Winiker, as well as Partners Michele Harrison, Greg Johnson and Rachel Douglas, the announcement comes on the heels of major leadership expansions, as well as creative and digital shared services hires.

Douglas has had an unconventional beginning to her music career, starting on Wall Street working as an investment banker at CIBC's Media and Entertainment group in New York after graduating from Washington University in St. Louis.

This will be Sawyer’s first tour supporting his Spring of 2020 release, Flowers For You, as his planned album release tour was canceled due to the pandemic, and will be an album release tour for The Accidentals as they release their long-awaited Vessel album.  

World-renowned Beatles author Kenneth Womack has launched a "shared memories" website called, "Where Were You on December 8th?" to commemorate John Lennon's final year, 1980.

Sawyer Fredericks premieres the video for his single, “Lies You Tell,” with DittyTV today.

The remake of “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre” has found its directors – Ryan and Andy Tohill.

The FSCJ Artist Series will kick off the 19/20 Broadway in Jacksonville season with its 21st Annual Open House at the Times-Union Center at 300 Water Street, Jacksonville, FL 32202. Doors will open to the public at 5 p.m. on Monday, September 9, 2019.