Chuck Berry News

The New York Guitar Festival and Arts Brookfield will present “Memphis Minnie: In Search of the Hoodoo Lady,” a free, outdoor concert celebrating the life and music of influential blues guitarist Memphis Minnie. The Saturday, June 1st, 7pm event will be held at Brookfield Place's Waterfront Plaza in lower Manhattan. 

The New York Guitar Festival and Arts Brookfield will present "Memphis Minnie: In Search of the Hoodoo Lady," a free, outdoor concert celebrating the life and music of influential blues guitarist Memphis Minnie. The Saturday, June 1st, 7pm event will be held at Brookfield Place's Waterfront Plaza in lower Manhattan.

Three-time GRAMMY nominee Brady Rymer, renowned for his 'instrumentally diverse, harmony-rich rock tracks' (Washington Post) and joyful songs that 'go right through the ears and into the heart' (SiriusXM), will release a new album on May 17th.

Minnesota songsmith Erik Koskinen premiered the rustic new single 'Darlin'' today via GLIDE ahead of its release this Friday. The track is featured on Koskinen's new albumBurning The Deal set to arrive June 28 via Real Phonic Records/Tone Tree Music. Produced by Koskinen andBernie Larsen (Melissa Etheridge, Jackson Browne) and recorded by Jason Mariani (Mumford & Sons, Kenny Loggins), the album has a moody, shadowy vibe and the songs carry familiar musical touchstones: the drifting-cowboy loneliness of Hank Williams; the understated melancholy of J.J. Cale. They're populated by people we recognize, in circumstances we might share (or feel fortunate we don't). 

Bruce Springsteen made his first on stage appearance of 2019 recently at New York's Tribeca Grill for a benefit supporting the Kristen Ann Carr Fund.

Next week, FEINSTEIN'S/54 BELOW, Broadway's Supper Club & Private Event Destination, presents some of the brightest stars from Broadway, cabaret, jazz, and beyond. To purchase tickets or for more information, visit www.54Below.com/Feinsteins or call (646) 476-3551.

BMI (Broadcast Music, Inc.) is pleased to celebrate an evening of exceptional songwriting at its 67th Annual BMI Pop Awards.  In an event 22 years in the making,Sting, already a BMI Icon, will be honored for his enduring hit single “Every Breath You Take,” which has become the Most Performed Song in BMI's catalog of over 14 million musical works.  The award ceremony will also celebrate multi-platinum GRAMMY Award-winning band Imagine Dragons with the BMI President's Award, and Martin Bandier, legendary music publishing executive, will be named a BMI Icon, the first time a music publisher has been given this honor. The private event will be hosted by BMI President and CEO Mike O'Neill and Vice President Worldwide Creative Barbara Cane and will take place on Tuesday, May 14th at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills, CA. 

Greater Boston Stage Company celebrates its 20th Anniversary Season with two World Premieres, an adaptation of a beloved holiday classic, a hit Broadway musical, and a musical collaboration with Front Porch Arts Collective.

The innovative and progressive Jon Stickely Trio crafts genre-defying acoustic music that is intelligent, joyful and unconventional. The Asheville, NC-based group is now teaming with Organic Records and will begin recording new music in the Spring of 2019 at the label's studios in Arden, NC.

Grammy Award-winner ("Lowdown") Boz Scaggs returns to Sarasota with his Out Of The Blues Tour, celebrating his new album. "Music has been a constant companion and I'm feeling more free with it than ever," Scaggs comments. "I feel like I've found my voice through all these years, and I've gotten closer to where I want to be with my approach." Enjoy old favorites and new songs on Thursday, April 18, 2019 at 8 p.m. - live at the Van Wezel!

The McCallum Theatre welcomes the return of the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain on Sunday, March 31, at 7:00pm. Since selling out the McCallum in 2016, audiences have eagerly awaited their return.With a repertoire ranging from Lady Gaga to "The Ride of the Valkyries," The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain tackles an ambitious range of music-on just four strings. This group of genre-benders performs covers (with vocals!) of pop, jazz, country, and classics from film, along with anything else they think is ripe for the picking. Formed in 1985, the group has become something of a national institution in the UK.

SONTALK, the latest project from singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Joseph LeMay, makes its album debut with today's release of Stay Wild [Sony Music Masterworks].  Available everywhere now, the twelve-track collection follows the personal trials, tribulations and triumphs of LeMay, culminating in an openly honest dialogue between himself and listeners. Stay Wild hints at the vastly expansive sonic and emotional terrain of SONTALK, whose conversation has just begun.   

For the first time SilverSounds Northwest presents two matinees for their upcoming What's in a Name Spring concert. At 2 pm on Saturday and Sunday April 6 and 7, 2019, this mixed chorus of retired seniors will rock the Highline Performing Arts Center in Burien. Known for their cleverly themed performances that often include narration, acting, fun costumes and dance; this concert will feature such hits as ABBA's Fernando, Jim Croce's Bad Bad Leroy Brown, Chuck Berry's Johnny B. Goode and Wake up Little Susie by the Everly Brothers.

The Felice Brothers just released 'Poor Blind Birds' from the forthcoming album Undress that will be released May 3 via Yep Roc Records. Consequence of Sound said, 'On the latest single, 'Poor Blind Birds' the band indeed find a way to create a beautiful, melancholic abstract of the socio-political millieu.' 

It was all about the love that Paul Anka has for sharing his music with audiences and the love those audiences have for him at The Kravis Center last night.

The McCallum Theatre presents Neil Berg's Fifty Years of Rock and Roll for three performances - Tuesday, March 5, at 8:00pm, and Wednesday, March 6, at 2:00pm and 8:00pm.  With a cast consisting of both stars from Broadway's greatest rock musicals, as well as incredible Rock and Roll singers, Neil Berg shares the often-unknown stories from the fifty-year history of the music that changed the world forever. From the progenitors of Rock and Roll in the 1940s, through the glory years of the '50s, '60s, and '70s, up until MTV in the early '80s,

Fox Concerts is proud to announce GARY CLARK JR. will play the Fabulous Fox Theatre on Monday, August 12 at 8 p.m.

STAY WILD, the debut album from SONTALK, is set for release MARCH 15 from Sony Music Masterworks. Available now for preorder, the twelve-track collection follows the personal trials, tribulations and triumphs of JOSEPH LEMAY, the singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist behind SONTALK. Included with today's preorder is 'I AM A MOUNTAIN,' a multilayered, enveloping ballad detailing the before-and-after of a tumultuous relationship. Sonically, 'I Am A Mountain' serves as the dynamic apex of Stay Wild, featuring a loping pace and persistent, driving beat that swells and crescendos to mimic the emotional rise and fall of a failing relationship - listen here.