Jimmy Buffett puts off Burgettstown show until 2021
Count Jimmy Buffett’s concert in Burgettstown this summer among the growing list of events that have fallen victim to the covid-19 pandemic. Buffett’s stop on the Slack Tide Tour is among 13 being moved to 2021, he announced Friday in a Facebook post. The S&T Bank Music Park date, originally...
NY judge tosses R. Kelly’s attempt to dismiss charge he gave herpes to fan
NEW YORK — A Supreme Court ruling that struck down states’ anti-sodomy laws will not spare disgraced R&B star R. Kelly from charges that he knowingly infected a 19-year-old fan with herpes, a Brooklyn Federal Court judge ruled Friday. Judge Ann Donnelly rejected the “I Believe I Can Fly” singer’s...
For King & Country postpones tour, Pittsburgh concert dateVideo
For King & Country has postponed its Burn the Ships North America: The 2020 Encore Tour. The tour included a June 9 date at the Petersen Events Center in Pittsburgh’s Oakland neighborhood. The Christian pop group is fronted by Australian-born brothers Joel and Luke Smallbone. The tour is named after...
The Recording Academy records John Prine song for charityVideo
The Recording Academy has released a new recording of John Prine’s “Angel From Montgomery” with proceeds going to support the MusiCares COVID-19 Relief Fund. Prine died in April at age 73 from complications associated with the coronavirus. A two-time Grammy winner, the Recording Academy announced in December that Prine would...
Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh shares joy with Mister Rogers’ song videoVideo
The Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh asked people to spread joy and kindness with Pittsburgh and the world by singing and playing along to Fred Rogers’ iconic song, “Won’t You Be My Neighbor?”, and then sharing their videos. The response led to to a compilation that the Children’s Museum is sharing...
Joe Grushecky, Houserockers plan 40th-anniversary album reissue
Time flies when you’re rockin’ the house. The 40th anniversary of “Have a Good Time (But Get Out Alive),” the second album from Joe Grushecky and the Iron City Houserockers, is being celebrated with a deluxe, expanded reissue. The reissue will include remastered original tracks and previously unreleased tracks of...
The Weeknd reschedules Pittsburgh show, ‘After Hours’ tour
The Weeknd will have to wait until next year. The Toronto native announced Wednesday that his “After Hours” tour, which included a June 26 stop at PPG Paints Arena, has been rescheduled. The Grammy-winning artist will now head out on tour in summer 2021. see you when it’s safe ?...
Andy Davis Band will livestream charity concert to benefit Westmoreland County Food BankVideo
Country-rock group the Andy Davis Band will perform a livestreamed show Friday night, the proceeds from which will benefit the Westmoreland County Food Bank and two local theaters. “It’s going to be a live show with six different camera angles,” said Davis’ wife Victoria. “We’re following all the guidelines by...
WDVE’s Memorial Day 500 returns again this weekend
A pandemic can’t stop WDVE’s Memorial Day 500. The massive music countdown of the top 500 rock tunes of all time begins at 1 p.m. Friday and ends around 6 p.m. Monday, said John Moschitta, program director for WDVE/WXDX iHeartMedia Pittsburgh. (Update: The countdown began at No. 500 with “Everlong”...
Reba McEntire moves tour, PPG Paints Arena show to 2021
Country music icon Reba McEntire has rescheduled her upcoming arena tour to 2021 because of coronavirus concerns. The tour was scheduled to launch in July. Her July 16 concert at PPG Paints Arena in Pittsburgh has been moved to next year on Aug. 6. Previously purchased tickets will be honored...
Nickelback cancels Pittsburgh area show, summer tour
Another big summer tour has been canceled. Nickelback have announced they will not be heading out on tour this summer, which would have featured a June 30 stop at S&T Bank Music Park in Burgettstown. “We are gutted that we won’t be able to see you all in concert this...
James Taylor postpones tour until 2021, including Pittsburgh show
James Taylor has postponed his 2020 United States tour dates until 2021, including a performance at PPG Paints Arena. Taylor, with His All-Star Band and special guest Jackson Browne, originally were scheduled to play Pittsburgh on June 16. The concert has been moved to June 17, 2021. Fans should hold...
Green Day, Fall Out Boy, Weezer postpone Pittsburgh show, Hella Mega tour dates
One of the big U.S. rock tours of the summer will now happen in 2021. Green Day, Fall Out Boy and Weezer were set to head out on the Hella Mega tour this summer, but the bands have postponed the North American dates of the summer trek until next year....
Neon Swing X-perience offers fans free online-only album
Neon Swing X-perience is offering fans a free album-length compilation of never-before-released songs titled “Guess You Had To Be There: Unreleased, Rare, and Live Tracks.” The online-only 15-track album is available exclusively through the Pittsburgh-based band whose music encompasses swing, hot jazz, blues, rockabilly and horn rock rooted in the...
Rosanne Cash wins prestigious MacDowell arts medalVideo
Rosanne Cash’s latest honor is a medal previously awarded to Toni Morrison, Stephen Sondheim and Georgia O’Keeffe, among others. The singer-songwriter is this year’s winner of the Edward MacDowell Medal, presented by the MacDowell artist colony, which announced the prize Sunday. In a statement issued through MacDowell, Cash said she...
Married music teachers use old-school rendition to show they miss studentsVideo
Time away from the classroom isn’t just affecting students. Teachers are feeling the impact as well. Two music teachers, who are a married couple, have found a creative way to cope with withdrawal from their pupils. Joe Wilson is music department chair and marching band moderator at Central Catholic High...
R. Kelly again denied release from federal jail after raising COVID-19 concerns
CHICAGO — A federal judge in New York has once again rejected R. Kelly’s request for release pending trial, stating that his diagnosis of prediabetes is not enough to put him at high risk of contracting COVID-19 behind bars. The embattled singer has been seeing medical professionals in the downtown...
Kenny Chesney postpones Heinz Field concert, 2020 tour
Kenny Chesney’s May 30 concert at Heinz Field will have to wait. The popular country music star officially announced Thursday that his 2020 “Chillaxification Tour” is postponed until next year because of the coronavirus pandemic. “With so many tours needing to move and wanting to make sure we are in...
PSO cancels remaining concerts of 2019-20 season
The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra has canceled the remaining concerts for the 2019-20 season. In a release, PSO cited continued restrictions on public gatherings, evolving government guidance and an effort to “protect its audiences, musicians, employees and community from the spread of covid-19” for the cancellation. “It is painful to need...
U2’s Bono marks 60th birthday with ’60 Songs That Saved My Life’Video
U2 front man Bono celebrated his 60th birthday by releasing a playlist of “60 Songs That Saved My Life.” On the band’s website, Bono calls the songs “(the) ones I couldn’t have lived without … the ones that got me from there to here, zero to 60 … through all...
Pittsburgh-area music, event promoters bide time during covid-19 pandemic
As most southwestern Pennsylvania counties prepare to begin loosening covid-19 restrictions and reopening their economies, event producers suspect it will be a while before they can resume staging events for large groups. “I think that the numbers of infected have to go down and the curve stays flattened and people...
Foo Fighters’ Dave Grohl, like fans, looks forward to return of live musicVideo
David Grohl misses the shows, too. With concerts still on hold across the country amid the coronavirus pandemic, Grohl, of the Foo Fighters (and Nirvana), penned an essay about looking forward to the return of live music. In a piece titled “The Day the Live Concert Returns,” published Monday to...
Jonas Brothers to thank health care workers with SiriusXM sessionVideo
The Jonas Brothers will interact with an audience of frontline health care workers and their families at noon Friday on SiriusXM Hits 1’s Celebrity Session on SiriusXM radio channel 2 and on the SiriusXM app. The brothers will answer questions about their music, including their upcoming single “X,” featuring Karol...
Little Richard, flamboyant rock ‘n’ roll pioneer, dead at 87
NASHVILLE — Little Richard, the self-proclaimed “architect of rock ‘n’ roll” whose piercing wail, pounding piano and towering pompadour irrevocably altered popular music while introducing black R&B to white America, has died Saturday. He was 87. Pastor Bill Minson, a close friend of Little Richard’s, told The Associated Press that...
Taylor Swift ‘Lover’ concert coming to ABC, Hulu, Disney+Video
A concert event is coming soon that should make Swifties happy. Taylor Swift announced Friday that her concert from Paris in September will be shown on ABC. The event, dubbed the “City of Lover Concert,” will make it’s way to TV at 10 p.m. May 17. Excited to announce the...
