The Charlottesville and University Symphony Orchestra will present “Vive la France,” the latest concert in its Musical Postcards series, at 8 p.m. Saturday at Cabell Hall Auditorium and 3:30 p.m. Sunday at Monticello High School.

Youth Orchestras build reputation for quality, skills for musical future

When Soko decided to cut a CD, Melvin opened his home to the band.

Christian music’s largest annual tour will bring Third Day, Newsboys, NewSong, Tenth Avenue North and Fireflight to the stage. Speaker Tony Nolan also will appear.

Corey Harris is exploring shades of musical meaning through the layers of tones between black and blue.

It’s great to bring your music to cheering arena crowds. But performing in smaller venues, such as church settings, offers Carman a flexibility that bigger places can’t match.

The Westminster Organ Concert Series offers a pair of concerts today at Westminster Presbyterian Church, and the first one will get listeners in the spirit for some Halloween fun.

The Charlottesville Municipal Band is making the final mortgage payment on the Municipal Arts Center — and the musicians want everyone to join in the celebration.

Swift, 19, is the youngest person ever nominated for the Country Music Association’s Entertainer of the Year Award.

Amit Peled started his year with a little bit of soul and plans to wind it up with a celebration.

Oak Ridge quartet reveres past, moves into musical future

The hands on the clock pointed to high noon when the telephone rang.

Metallica shows why heavy metal never backs down

He’s played before the queen of England, scored soundtracks, redefined genres — and Jimi Hendrix even sat in with his band at bar gigs. But while entertainers like Jessica Simpson play to sold-out arena audiences, Richard Thompson is playing small clubs and theaters.

And there’s nothing like walking into the recording studio to make all those qualities vaporize in a heartbeat.

What was easily Charlottesville’s be-there-or-be-square concert of the year

Performing before 55,000 fans at the University of Virginia’s Scott Stadium, U2 delivered a rock show on a scale never before seen in Charlottesville.

U2 brought their massive 360 Degree Tour which includes the band members plus an epic sized stage to Scott Stadium.

Charlottesville Host Lions Club presents variety of acts tonight at the Paramount Theater

Symphony opens new season with Italian music

Symphony takes a pops concert outdoors at UVa’s McIntire Amphitheater

After another long cross-country road stint, the Hackensaw Boys are ready for a weekend of shows back in Virginia.

Once the Ash Lawn Opera Festival has closed for the summer, usually it’s time to start thinking about the national search for the next season’s singers.

... but it’s more fun to catch Temptations at the Paramount

The Charlottesville chapter of the English-Speaking Union will present the British Players in “Music Hall” at 8 p.m. Saturday in Meade Parish Hall at Christ Episcopal Church.

The songwriter responsible for “Cuts Like a Knife,” “Summer of ’69,” “(Everything I Do) I Do It for You,” “Kids Wanna Rock,” “Can’t Stop This Thing We’ve Started” and “Thought I’d Seen Everything” will be bringing his solo acoustic show to town.

The Former Champions are a jam band, and mostly that’s what they do: jam.

Earlier this summer, singer-songwriter Keith Morris started a new concert series at Mono Loco. Every other Saturday night, Morris headlines the outdoor music area of the downtown restaurant with his band the Crooked Numbers and invites one of his favorite local or regional acts to share the bill

Tickets went on sale to Paramount members this morning and will go on sale to the general public at 10 a.m. Tuesday.

And on the third day Jefferson Airplane woke the multitude, and ushered them forth into the final hours of the greatest rock festival of all times — Woodstock.