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- [At Rubber City Jazz & Blues Fest, A Big Night Of Big Bands](https://johnchacona.com/at-rubber-city-jazz-blues-fest-a-big-night-of-big-bands/) - John Chacona previews Akron’s Rubber City Jazz & Blues Festival, which runs Sept. 10-12, 2026 and spotlights two notable concerts by large ensembles on Sept. 11
- [Adam O'Farrill's ELEPHANT Makes Music You Won't Forget](https://johnchacona.com/adam-ofarrills-elephant-makes-music-you-wont-forget/) - John Chacona previews the concert by Adam O’Farril’s stunning new band Elephant, Wed. Sept. 9 at BOP STOP
- [For Four-Year-Old Hingetown Jazz Festival It's Back To School](https://johnchacona.com/for-four-year-old-hingetown-jazz-festival-its-back-to-school/) - John Chacona previews the fourth edition of the of Hingetown Jazz Festival in Cleveland’s Ohio City neighborhood on Saturday, Sept. 5, 2026
- [Flowers For Dave Morgan](https://johnchacona.com/flowers-for-dave-morgan/) - In the days following the death of Dave Morgan on August 15, the outpouring of love for the man has been overwhelming.
- [A Late August Harvest of Music](https://johnchacona.com/a-late-august-harvest-of-music/) - John Chacona previews concerts by Jon Batiste, Garaj Mahall, Bark Culture, Joshua Redman, Stephen Philip Harvey and Keefe Jackson - Jakob Heinemann Quartet
- [Nate Yingling's Voyage To Lunaryth Lifts Off Friday From BOP STOP](https://johnchacona.com/nate-yinglings-voyage-to-lunaryth-lifts-off-friday-from-bop-stop/) - Cleveland's Nate Yingling Trio will celebrate the release of "Welcome To Lunaryth" Friday at BOP STOP. John Chacona previews the concert at 'let's call this'
- [For Jazz Fans And Players Alike, This Week Belongs To 'The Cats'](https://johnchacona.com/for-jazz-fans-and-players-alike-this-week-belongs-to-the-cats/) - Tradition might call this week the Dog Days of Summer, but for jazz fans around northeast Ohio, it’s time for The Cats.
- [Indestructible Roger Humphries, The Beat Of Pittsburgh Jazz](https://johnchacona.com/indestructible-roger-humphries-the-beat-of-pittsburgh-jazz/) - For his let’s call this blog, John Chacona previews the July 31 concert by Pittsburgh/NEO sextet Indestructible, featuring Steel City drummer Roger Humphries
- [For Howie Smith And Friends, Everything Old Is ‘Nous’ Again](https://johnchacona.com/for-howie-smith-and-friends-everything-old-is-nous-again/) - John Chacona previews the July 24 concert at Cleveland’s BOP STOP by Nous: saxophonist Howie Smith, Theron Brown on piano and bassist Aidan Plank
- [Meet Virginia MacDonald, A Fresh New Voice On Clarinet](https://johnchacona.com/meet-virginia-macdonald-a-fresh-new-voice-on-clarinet/) - John Chacona previews clarinetist Virginia MacDonald leader debut at Cleveland’s BOP STOP for his “let’s call this” blog
- [Moises Borges And Ava Preston Renew A Charming Musical Friendship](https://johnchacona.com/at-bop-stop-moises-borges-and-ava-preston-renew-a-charming-musical-friendship/) - Moises Borges & Ava Preston have a special musical relationship that they will renew Saturday.John Chacona previews the concert at BOP STOP for let's call this.
- [Craft And Art: Christopher Hoffman's 'REX' At The Treelawn](https://johnchacona.com/craft-and-art-christopher-hoffmans-rex-at-the-treelawn/) - The notion of craft was more than a minor detail of the project’s creation. Craft—how it's honed and where it's practiced--might be REX's animating idea.
- [At JazzFest No. 47, Tri-C Tries Something A Little Different](https://johnchacona.com/at-jazzfest-no-47-tri-c-tries-something-a-little-different/) - The Tri-C Jazz Fest, the biggest weekend on the Cleveland jazz calendar, begins June 25, and it feels a little different this year.
- [From The Motherlands To The Otherlands This Trio Is All Ears](https://johnchacona.com/from-the-motherlands-to-the-otherlands-this-trio-is-all-ears/) - For his let's call this newsletter,John Chacona previews the June 18, 2026 concert by the Otherlands Trio presented by New Ghosts at Cleveland's BOP STOP
- [Garrett Folger's Week Of Music 'In Summer's Arms'](https://johnchacona.com/garrett-folgers-week-of-music-in-summers-arms/) - "For a good chunk of my 20s, I've been learning how to write in Third Law. So this is, in some ways, a dedication to the people in that group."
- [Interview with Virginia MacDonald for All About Jazz](https://johnchacona.com/interview-with-virginia-macdonald-for-all-about-jazz/) - John Chacona's interview with jazz clarinetist Virginia MacDonald published at AllAboutJazz.com June 8, 2026
- [One Night In The Midwest: Stein/Smith/Shead Meet The Moment](https://johnchacona.com/one-night-in-the-midwest-stein-smith-shead-meet-the-moment/) - John Chacona previews Stein Smith Shead’s concert at Cleveland’s Waterloo Arts presented by New Ghosts
- [Flowers Around Cleveland (and Akron too)](https://johnchacona.com/flowers-around-cleveland-and-akron-too/) - John Chacona previews three notable concerts in the upcoming weekend that heralds a summer of jazz arrives in northeast Ohio.
- [With "Where We Started" Aidan Plank's Recording Career Is Well On Its Way](https://johnchacona.com/with-where-we-started-aidan-planks-recording-career-is-well-on-its-way/) - John Chacona profiles busy northeast Ohio bassist Aidan Plank and listens to his new release “Where We Started” on Hidden Cinema Records
- [On "Diavola" Singer Gabrielle Cavassa Gets Close To The Fire](https://johnchacona.com/on-diavola-singer-gabrielle-cavassa-gets-close-to-the-fire/) - John Chacona previews singer Gabrielle Cavassa's new album release tour stop at Edwin's on May 7
- [For Bassel Almadani, Planting Roots In NEO Is (Super)natural](https://johnchacona.com/for-bassel-almadani-planting-roots-in-neo-is-supernatural/) - Almadani's music had become beat-forward. His vocals, sweet-toned and lyrical, embraced R&B influences; Curtis Mayfield's Chicago soul comes to mind.
- [Stephan Crump's Music Aims To Be Like Water](https://johnchacona.com/stephan-crumps-music-aims-to-be-like-water/) - For his let's call this blog, John Chacona previews the April 24 concert presentation of Stephan Crump's "Slow Water" at the Cleveland Museum of Art
- [Review: Jamile and Vinicius Gomes: "Endangered Species"](https://johnchacona.com/review-jamile-and-vinicius-gomes-endangered-species/) - Review: Jamile and Vinicius Gomes: "Endangered Species" All About Jazz, 6 April, 2026
- [Get Overjoyed. UA JazzWeek '26 In Akron Is Back](https://johnchacona.com/get-overjoyed-ua-jazzweek-26-in-akron-is-back/) - “What's so beautiful about that music,” Either/Orchestra leader Russ Gershon said, “is it's that it's being seen through another lens by really good musicians who put a lot into it."
- [Ancient Traditions Are The Either/Orchestra's Home Territory](https://johnchacona.com/ancient-traditions-are-the-either-orchestras-home-territory/) - For his let's call this blog, John Chacona previews two free concerts this weekend by Boston’s Either/Orchestra and a pair of Ethiopian vocalists
- [On Record, Bobby Selvaggio's Red Rhinoceros Roars Once More](https://johnchacona.com/on-record-bobby-selvaggios-red-rhinoceros-roars-once-more/) - For his let's call this blog, John Chacona previews the new recording by Bobby Selvaggio's Red Rhinoceros octet and the concert to celebrate its release.
- [It's Three For The Keys At BOP STOP This Week](https://johnchacona.com/its-three-for-the-keys-at-bop-stop-this-week/) - Piano is at the foreground of three concerts at BOP STOP this week. Each features a singular stylist with a personal approach to the instrument.
- [A Sonic Boom Of Music Hits Northeast Ohio This Week](https://johnchacona.com/a-sonic-boom-of-music-hits-northeast-ohio-this-week/) - John Chacona previews five concerts coming to northeast Ohio Stages this week by Linda May Han Oh, Bria Skonberg, Alla Boara, Fareed Haque and Nik Bärtsch
- [Tigran Hamasyan's Manifeste Destiny](https://johnchacona.com/tigran-hamasyans-manifeste-destiny/) - “Basically, I love telling stories,” Tigran Hamasyan told me. “And throughout my discography, there's this aspect that each song tells a story through music.”
- [It's been a long, cold, lonely winter . . .](https://johnchacona.com/its-been-a-long-cold-lonely-winter/) - Cabin fever is breaking for national and touring jazz artists, and they are hitting area stages en masse this week. You can’t go wrong with any of these shows.
- [Civil Disobedience Keeps The Flame Of 1960s Resistance Alive](https://johnchacona.com/civil-disobedience-keeps-the-flame-of-1960s-resistance-alive/) - For his let’s call this blog John Chacona previews the Feb. 13 concert at Cleveland's BOP STOP by New York collective Civil Disobedience
- [Nathan-Paul's Age of Aquarius Dawns At Edwin's](https://johnchacona.com/nathan-pauls-age-of-aquarius-dawns-at-edwins/) - For his let's call this blog covering northeast Ohio’s improvised music scene John Chacona previews Nathan-Paul's birthday concert Jan. 29, 2026 at Edwin's
- [In The Heart of CVNP, Happy Days Is Here For Jazz](https://johnchacona.com/in-the-heart-of-cvnp-happy-days-is-here-for-jazz/) - “We really want to let the region's artists lead here, and we just hope that our room is the best room they play all season.”
- [For Don Was And The Pan-Detroit Ensemble, "Everything's On The Table"](https://johnchacona.com/for-don-was-and-the-pan-detroit-ensemble-everythings-on-the-table/) - This week on the northeast Ohio jazz scene,John Chacona previews the 1/17 concert at Cleveland’s Beachland Ballroom by Don Was and the Pan-Detroit Ensemble
- [It Was 20 Years Ago Today (more or less)](https://johnchacona.com/it-was-20-years-ago-today-more-or-less/) - Get involved in documenting and celebrating improvised music in the Black American tradition in northeast Ohio. It's fulfilling work and it's important.
- [Review: Craig Taborn: "When Kabuya Dances" for All About Jazz](https://johnchacona.com/review-craig-taborn-when-kabuya-dances-for-all-about-jazz/) - Review: Craig Taborn: "When Kabuya Dances" All About Jazz, 14 December, 2025
- [Review: Aretha Tillotson's "Sad Junie (to Highway Jake)" for All About Jazz](https://johnchacona.com/review-aretha-tillotsons-sad-junie-to-highway-jake-for-all-about-jazz/) - Review: Aretha Tillotson's "Sad Junie (to Highway Jake)" All About Jazz, 11 December, 2025
- [Review: Carmen Staaf: "Monk's Mood" for All About Jazz](https://johnchacona.com/review-carmen-staaf-monks-mood-for-all-about-jazz/) - Review: Carmen Staaf: "Monk's Mood" All About Jazz, 26 September, 2025
- [Review: Danny Grissett's "Whisper Not" for All About Jazz](https://johnchacona.com/review-danny-grissetts-whisper-not-for-all-about-jazz/) - Review: Danny Grissett: Whisper Not All About Jazz, 15 July, 2025
- [Review: The Messthetics with James Brandon Lewis at the Beachland Tavern for All About Jazz](https://johnchacona.com/review-the-messthetics-with-james-brandon-lewis-at-the-beachland-tavern-for-all-about-jazz/) - The Messthetics with James Brandon Lewis at the Beachland Tavern All About Jazz, 18 September, 2025
- [Review: Paul Cornish Trio at BOP STOP for All About Jazz](https://johnchacona.com/review-paul-cornish-trio-at-bop-stop-for-all-about-jazz/) - Paul Cornish Trio at BOP STOP All About Jazz, 16 September, 2025
- [Review: Hingetown Jazz Festival 2025 for All About Jazz](https://johnchacona.com/review-hingetown-jazz-festival-2025-for-all-about-jazz/) - Hingetown Jazz Festival 2025, All About Jazz, 4 September, 2025
- [Review: Dominick Farinacci & Friends / Taylor Eigisti & Christian Tamburr Celebrate Chick Corea and Gary Burton at Tri-C JazzFest 2025 for All About Jazz](https://johnchacona.com/review-dominick-farinacci-friends-taylor-eigisti-christian-tamburr-celebrate-chick-corea-and-gary-burton-at-tri-c-jazzfest-2025-for-all-about-jazz/) - Dominick Farinacci & Friends / Taylor Eigisti & Christian Tamburr Celebrate Chick Corea and Gary Burton at Tri-C JazzFest 2025, All About Jazz, 18 July, 2025
- [Review: Dan Weiss Quartet At Bop Stop for All About Jazz](https://johnchacona.com/review-dan-weiss-quartet-at-bop-stop-for-all-about-jazz/) - The Dan Weiss Quartet At Bop Stop, All About Jazz, 22 June, 2025
- [Review: Sun Ra Arkestra at Tri-C JazzFest 2025 for All About Jazz](https://johnchacona.com/review-sun-ra-arkestra-at-tri-c-jazzfest-2025-for-all-about-jazz/) - Sun Ra Arkestra at Tri-C JazzFest 2025, All About Jazz, 13 July, 2025
- [Trumpeter Peter Evans Has One Foot In Several Musical Worlds](https://johnchacona.com/trumpeter-peter-evans-has-one-foot-in-several-musical-worlds/) - This week on the northeast Ohio jazz scene, John Chacona previews the solo trumpet concert at BOP STOP on Dec. 11, 2025 by Peter Evans
- [For Saxophonist Bruno Every Time On Stage Is Show Time](https://johnchacona.com/for-saxophonist-bruno-every-time-on-stage-is-show-time/) - This week on the northeast Ohio jazz scene, John Chacona previews the concert at BOP STOP on Dec. 5, 2025 by a quartet led by Chicago saxophonist Anthony Bruno
- [Horns and Things Is A Cleveland Musical Tradition](https://johnchacona.com/horns-and-things-is-a-cleveland-musical-tradition/) - John Chacona talks with Horns And Things’ founding saxophonist Ken LeeGrand and previews the band’s concert by at Irishtown Bend Taproom
- [At CMA, Guitarist Dan Bruce Makes A Mixtape While You Listen](https://johnchacona.com/at-cma-guitarist-dan-bruce-makes-a-mixtape-while-you-listen/) - John Chacona previews Mixtape CLE: four NE Ohio singer/songwriters in arrangements by guitarist Dan Bruce, played by the region’s most notable jazz musicians.
- [All Is Sound In Ben Tweedt's Tribute To Hermeto Pascoal](https://johnchacona.com/all-is-sound-in-ben-tweedts-tribute-to-hermeto-pascoal/) - Tradition and modernity dance in the music of composer Hermeto Pascoal. John Chacona previews a tribute concert at BOP STOP for his let’s call this blog
- [This Weekend: Soul And Souls by OHM! and Caroline Davis](https://johnchacona.com/this-weekend-soul-and-souls-by-ohm-and-caroline-davis/) - John Chacona previews concerts by NEO trio OHM! and a journey into memory with Caroline Davis' Portals
- [Stephen Philip Harvey Is A Music Meister of the Multiversal](https://johnchacona.com/stephen-philip-harvey-is-a-music-meister-of-the-multiversal/) - John Chacona previews the weekend CD release shows at BOP STOP and BLU Jazz+ for the Stephen Philip Harvey Jazz Orchestra’s Multiversal: Live at BOP STOP
- [Cleveland Jazz Forecast: Southerly Winds and Sultry Melodies](https://johnchacona.com/cleveland-jazz-forecast-southerly-winds-and-sultry-melodies/) - At BOP STOP this week, the temperature turns tropical with a pair of concerts by artists steeped in the traditions of Brazil and Puerto Rico
- [Excuse me, but you're on mute](https://johnchacona.com/excuse-me-but-youre-on-mute/) - Jazz and ethnic music--or post-punk music or ambient music or any of the wonderful stuff that once found a home on WCSB--are not in opposition. Music is not a zero-sum game.
- [Garrett Folger and Aidan Plank Share DUO Lingo On A New CD](https://johnchacona.com/garrett-folger-and-aidan-plank-share-duo-lingo-on-a-new-cd/) - “We come at a lot of things from similar angles and different angles too, but I think there's always something interesting when we get together.”
- [Joe Lovano Returns Home With An Homage On His Mind](https://johnchacona.com/joe-lovano-returns-home-with-an-homage-on-his-mind/) - The saxophonist and composer is establishing an endowed fund to support scholarships for students in the J@MS program and kicking off the effort with a concert, celebration and hang at BOP STOP.
- [Cleveland: This Is The Week Of Jazz You've Been Waiting For](https://johnchacona.com/cleveland-this-is-the-week-of-jazz-youve-been-waiting-for/) - John Chacona previews a mindblowing week of jazz concerts by pianist Omar Sosa, The Messthetics with James Brandon Lewis and Anna Webber's Simple Trio
- [No Exaggerating! A September To Remember Starts This Week](https://johnchacona.com/no-exaggerating-a-september-to-remember-starts-this-week/) - The 10th Rubber City Jazz & Blues Festival in Akron and L.A. pianist Paul Cornish at BOP STOP kick off a rich harvest of jazz in northeast Ohio this week.
- [Such A Good Vibe! The Hingetown Jazz Festival Returns](https://johnchacona.com/such-a-good-vibe-the-hingetown-jazz-festival-returns/) - For his let's call this blog, John Chacona previews the 2025 edition of the free Hingetown Jazz Festival in Cleveland’s Ohio City neighborhood
- [Get Ready, Northeast Ohio Jazz Fans. It's Szn Preview Szn!](https://johnchacona.com/get-ready-northeast-ohio-jazz-fans-its-szn-preview-szn/) - John Chacona previews the 2025-26 seasons of the Cleveland Jazz Orchestra, the Performing Arts Series at the Cleveland Museum of Art and New Ghosts
- [Newcomer Emma Hedrick Is Making A Career On Her Own Terms](https://johnchacona.com/newcomer-emma-hedrick-is-making-a-career-on-her-own-terms/) - Vocalist Emma Hedrick "wanted to say something that only I could say.” John Chacona previews the album release concert at BOP STOP for her debut, “Newcomer”
- [A Big Week In NEO For Little Big Bands (And A Big Big Band)](https://johnchacona.com/a-big-week-in-neo-for-little-big-bands-and-a-big-big-band/) - John Chacona previews two concerts --both tied to upcoming recordings--by octets led by Stephen Philip Harvey and Bobby Selvaggio.
- [Two Bands + Two New Releases = Three Shows in NEO](https://johnchacona.com/two-bands-two-new-releases-three-shows-in-neo/) - John Chacona previews three album release concerts in Cleveland and Akron by the Ben Tweedt Trio and Matthew Alec at his let’s call this newsletter
- [Kevin Robert Martinez's Reclamation Band Is Back On These Roads](https://johnchacona.com/kevin-robert-martinezs-reclamation-band-is-back-on-these-roads/) - “We've all learned over the last few gigs how to corral that in a live setting,” bassist Kevin Robert Martinez said, "and go more places."
- [Nothing But Flowers, Part 2](https://johnchacona.com/nothing-but-flowers-part-2/) - What a weekend of jazz in Northeast Ohio!To make sense of it all and to plan your musical itinerary, here's the second of a two-part guide to the good stuff
- [Nothing But Flowers, Part 1](https://johnchacona.com/nothing-but-flowers-part-1/) - This week there is an efflorescence of concerts in Northeast Ohio that compel your attention. Here's Part 1 of a two-part guide to the good stuff
- [It's Tri-C JazzFest Week And The Sun Still Shines](https://johnchacona.com/its-tri-c-jazzfest-week-and-the-sun-still-shines/) - If you’re a jazz fan living in Northeast Ohio, Tri-C JazzFest is a circle-the date event. And now it’s here.
- [Pittsburgh's Jazz History Flows From Reggie Watkins' Horn](https://johnchacona.com/pittsburghs-jazz-history-flows-from-reggie-watkins-horn/) - Playing jazz in Pittsburgh means being part of a proud legacy. Trombonist Reggie Watkins holds the lineage with a band of young Pittsburghers Friday at BOP STOP
- [Unclassifiable Affections Drive Drummer Dan Weiss' Quartet](https://johnchacona.com/unclassifiable-affections-drive-drummer-dan-weiss-quartet/) - You can make a strong case that Weiss' new quartet with Patricia Brennan (vibes), Peter Evans (trumpet) and guitarist Miles Okazaki is on a different level
- [Friendly Fire: Two Saxophones Lift A Battle Cry Of Respect](https://johnchacona.com/friendly-fire-two-saxophones-lift-a-battle-cry-of-respect/) - The meeting of Nathan-Paul Davis and Johnny Cochran, Jr. is more friendly competition than mano á mano combat. John Chacona previews the pair's pair of concerts
- [Altin Sencalar Unleashes A New Release at BOP STOP](https://johnchacona.com/altin-sencalar-unleashes-a-new-release-at-bop-stop/) - In Altin Sencalar’s hands, the trombone can sing, even croon John Chacona previews his May 24 concert at BOP STOP for let's call this.
- ["Blue-Collar" Joshua Smith Comes Home With A Solid Gold Band](https://johnchacona.com/blue-collar-joshua-smith-comes-home-with-a-solid-gold-band/) - "I'm a service-level jazz musician by trade,” said Joshua Smith. Maybe so, but the music he'll play with a sterling quartet at BOP STOP is at the highest level.
- [Q: When Is A Quintet A Quartet? A: When It's The New Kneebody](https://johnchacona.com/q-when-is-a-quintet-a-quartet-a-when-its-the-new-kneebody/) - Kneebody combines the formal and instrumental command of high-level improvisation delivered at the fever pitch of a punk show.
- [Paul Giallorenzo's Trio Serves A Fusion Menu at BOP STOP](https://johnchacona.com/paul-giallorenzos-trio-serves-a-fusion-menu-at-bop-stop/) - Paul Giallorenzo might have New York roots, but his freewheeling, exploratory piano style is Chicago to the bone. John Chacona previews his Saturday concert.
- [The Abundance Mindset Rings Out At UA JazzWeek 25](https://johnchacona.com/the-abundance-mindset-rings-out-at-ua-jazzweek-25/) - With performances by Joshua Redman and Sean Jones UA JazzWeek 25: Abundance is an illustration--and celebration of--music, community and lineage.
- [Jenny Scheinman’s All Species Parade Marches (and Scurries, and Sometimes Stomps) Into The Treelawn](https://johnchacona.com/jenny-scheinmans-all-species-parade-marches-and-scurries-and-sometimes-stomps-into-the-treelawn/) - John Chacona previews the natural beauty of Jenny Scheinman’s All Species Parade which brings the majesty of California's Lost Coast to The Treelawn Sunday
- [Pull UP! Where To Go & What To Hear In NEO March 27 - Apr. 2](https://johnchacona.com/pull-up-where-to-go-what-to-hear-in-neo-march-27-apr-2/) - Jazz fans, the coming week is absolutely stacked!
- [O-verjoyed! Orrin Evans Blows Out 50 Candles at BOP STOP](https://johnchacona.com/o-verjoyed-orrin-evans-blows-out-50-candles-at-bop-stop/) - Orrin Evans will turn 50 on Friday, and he’s not coasting into middle age. He’s doing what he loves most: making music.
- [Collective Action: A New Player Brings Benny Benack III Back to NEO](https://johnchacona.com/collective-action-a-new-player-brings-benny-benack-iii-back-to-neo/) - John Chacona previews the first tour of the new Midwest Jazz Collective, with Benny Benack III, at his let’s call this blog.
- [Profile: Steve Coleman for PostGenre Media](https://johnchacona.com/profile-steve-coleman-for-postgenre-media/) - A Man of Many Turns, PostGenre Media, 6 March 2025
- [Angelika Niescier's Transatlantic Trio Breathes Fire](https://johnchacona.com/angelika-niesciers-transatlantic-trio-breathes-fire/) - This is a rangy, athletic band that comes right at the listener, with Niescier jabbing and whirling like a saxophonic Bruce Lee.
- [Jim Snidero Returns To Cleveland On A Bird's Feathers](https://johnchacona.com/jim-snidero-returns-to-cleveland-on-a-birds-feathers-2/) - When Saxophonist Jim Snidero rolls into BOP STOP for a Friday, March 7 performance, he’ll bring something new: his first touring trio
- [Is, Not Was: Don Was Motors Into Cleveland Fueled By The Music Of Detroit](https://johnchacona.com/is-not-was-don-was-motors-into-cleveland-fueled-by-the-music-of-detroit/) - "There's something that happens when you play live," bassist Don Was said. "It is the most exhilarating feeling I know, and you just get addicted to it."
- [Review: The Bad Plus at BOP STOP for All About Jazz](https://johnchacona.com/review-the-bad-plus-at-bop-stop-for-all-about-jazz/) - The Bad Plus at BOP STOP, All About Jazz, 6 December, 2024
- [Troy Roberts, A Saxophone Wizard From Oz, Lands at BOP STOP](https://johnchacona.com/troy-roberts-a-saxophone-wizard-from-oz-lands-at-bop-stop/) - “Right now, I think that the improvised music scene is a bit lazy in a way,” saxophonist Chris Pitsiokos said. “There's a lot of music being made that sounds pretty similar to what was happening 50 years ago. Yet we pride ourselves on being innovative.”
- [Review: "Kiss Me Quick" from Holly Cole's "Dark Moon" album for All About Jazz](https://johnchacona.com/review-kiss-me-quick-from-holly-coles-dark-moon-album-for-all-about-jazz/) - John Chacona reviews "Kiss Me Quick" from Holly Cole's "Dark Moon" album for All About Jazz
- [A New, Plus-Sized Bad Plus Lineup Makes Its Cleveland Debut](https://johnchacona.com/a-new-plus-sized-bad-plus-lineup-makes-its-cleveland-debut/) - After a quarter century, the singular approach of The Bad Plus informs every bar of the music. John Chacona previews the venerable band's new lineup at BOP STOP
- [Chris Pitsiokos and Weasel Walter Open the 2025 New Ghosts Season](https://johnchacona.com/chris-pitsiokos-and-weasel-walter-open-the-2025-new-ghosts-season/) - John Chacona previews the concert by saxophonist Chris Pitsiokos and drummer Weasel Walter that opens the 2025 New Ghosts season
- [From Hingetown To The World: It's Live at the BOP STOP](https://johnchacona.com/from-hingetown-to-the-world-its-live-at-the-bop-stop/) - Listeners around the world experience Cleveland’s jazz scene via Live at the BOP STOP. John Chacona profiles the show & creator Daniel Peck at let’s call this.
- [A vintage selection from the cellar](https://johnchacona.com/a-vintage-selection-from-the-cellar/) - A little personal essay/service journalism piece I wrote in 2011 with a surprising romantic twist.
- [My Favorite New Releases of 2024 for All About Jazz](https://johnchacona.com/my-favorite-new-releases-of-2024-for-all-about-jazz/) - John Chacona's Favorite Jazz Albums of 2024, All About Jazz, 6 December, 2024
- [At BOP STOP: Grease and Grace Combine In Pat Bianchi's Organ Trio](https://johnchacona.com/at-bop-stop-grease-and-grace-combine-in-pat-bianchis-organ-trio/) - John Chacona previews Friday’s BOP STOP concert by the Pat Bianchi Organ Trio at his let’s call this blog documenting the NEO jazz scene
- [For Versatile Max Johnson, There's A Play At Every Bass](https://johnchacona.com/for-versatile-max-johnson-theres-a-play-at-every-bass/) - Max Johnson is at home in bluegrass and concert music as he in in jazz. John Chacona previews two weekend shows by the bassist's limber new trio
- [Road To Nowhere: Nashville Duo Concurrence Tell A Somber History In Music](https://johnchacona.com/road-to-nowhere-nashville-duo-concurrence-tell-a-somber-history-in-music/) - At an album release show at BOP STOP, Nashville duo Concurrence present music about how the construction of I-40 destroyed a thriving Black community there.
- [Marta Sanchez's Music Is A Partner Dance Of Head And Heart](https://johnchacona.com/marta-sanchezs-music-is-a-partner-dance-of-head-and-heart/) - John Chacona previews pianist Marta Sanchez’s trio concerts at BOP STOP and in Erie for his let's call this blog documenting the NEO scene
- [Review: D.D. Jackson Poetry Project - "I Call" for All About Jazz](https://johnchacona.com/review-d-d-jackson-poetry-project-i-call-for-all-about-jazz/) - Review: "I Call" from "D.D. Jackson Poetry Project" All About Jazz, 15 October, 2024
- [Can't Stop, Won't Stop! The Indispensable BOP STOP Celebrates Ten Years](https://johnchacona.com/cant-stop-wont-stop-the-indispensable-bop-stop-celebrates-ten-years/) - This week BOP STOP, the indespensible heart of Cleveland's jazz scene, celebrates its 10th anniversary by doing what it does better than any local jazz venue.
- [Let's Play Two: John Fedchock Honors J.J. Johnson At Two Concerts This Week](https://johnchacona.com/lets-play-two-john-fedchock-honors-j-j-johnson-at-two-concerts-this-week/) - NEW at let's call thisJohn Chacona previews two NEO dates by John Fedchock honoring J.J. Johnson on the trombone gamechanger's centenary
- [These birds have flown](https://johnchacona.com/these-birds-have-flown/) - Things have been a bit quiet lately here at let's call this. That's because we were in the middle of moving across town to a funky, 130-year-old former farmhouse in Lakewood's Birdtown Historic District. The circumstances that brought us here are a long story that I'll spare you, but suffice to say we have landed
- [Christopher Coles' Latest Project Gleams With Conviction](https://johnchacona.com/christopher-coles-latest-project-gleams-with-conviction/) - When Christopher Coles decides that it’s go time, he goes deep. His newest project, a song cycle on an anime theme played by his new Gleam band, may be his best
- [For Open Sesame, "F" Is For Fiedler--And Fun](https://johnchacona.com/for-open-sesame-f-is-for-fiedler-and-fun/) - Joe Fiedler's Open Sesame plays beloved songs from "Sesame Street" with wry wit and killer jazz chops. John Chacona previews Fridays show for let's call this
- [Pull Up! Where To Go & What To Hear In NEO Sept. 12-18](https://johnchacona.com/pull-up-where-to-go-what-to-hear-in-neo-sept-12-18/) - Pull Up! is your guide to the NEO jazz scene. Every week, John Chacona drops hot takes on the most compelling shows during the week ahead.
- [At 40, Musical Polymath Bryan Kennard Celebrates Kennections](https://johnchacona.com/at-40-musical-polymath-bryan-kennard-celebrates-kennections/) - John Chacona previews Sunday’s debut concert of the Kennard Kennective big band for his let's call this blog documenting the northeast Ohio jazz scene
- [Jazz In The Rubber City Rolls On This Weekend](https://johnchacona.com/jazz-in-the-rubber-city-rolls-on-this-weekend/) - John Chacona previews this weekend’s free Rubber City Jazz & Blues Festival in Akron for his let's call this blog documenting the northeast Ohio jazz scene
- ["Local, Organic" Hingetown Jazz Festival Returns Saturday](https://johnchacona.com/local-organic-hingetown-jazz-festival-returns-saturday/) - John Chacona previews Saturday’s all-day, all-free Hingetown Jazz Festival for his let's call this blog documenting the northeast Ohio jazz scene
- [Review: Bill Charlap Trio - "Someone To Watch Over Me" for All About Jazz](https://johnchacona.com/review-bill-charlap-trio-someone-to-watch-over-me-for-all-about-jazz/) - Review: "Someone To Watch Over Me" from the Bill Charlap Trio's "And Then Again" All About Jazz, 30 August, 2024
- [Monika Herzig's Band Of Sheroes Lands at BOP STOP](https://johnchacona.com/monika-herzigs-band-of-sheroes-lands-at-bop-stop/) - John Chacona previews Friday's BOP STOP concert by Monika Herzig's hard-hitting and lyrical Sheroes band for his let’s call this blog covering jazz in NE Ohio
- [Countdown: Where To Go & What To Hear In NEO Aug. 22 - 28](https://johnchacona.com/countdown-where-to-go-what-to-hear-in-neo-aug-22-28/) - Countdown is your guide to the NEO jazz scene. Every week, John Chacona drops hot takes on the most compelling shows during the week ahead.
- [April In Hingetown: Singer Varner Is A Rising Star](https://johnchacona.com/april-in-hingetown-singer-varner-is-a-rising-star/) - April Varner has come a long way from singing Disney princess songs in her Toledo bathtub. John Chacona previews her Cleveland debut Sunday for let's call this
- [Friday At The Treelawn: A Major TRIAD Sounds](https://johnchacona.com/friday-at-the-treelawn-a-major-triad-sounds/) - John Chacona previews a concert at The Treelawn by TRIAD, the unlikely & enchanting collective of Dominick Farinacci, Christian Tamburr & Michael Ward-Bergeman
- [Countdown: Where To Go & What To Hear In NEO July 25 - Aug. 1](https://johnchacona.com/countdown-where-to-go-what-to-hear-in-neo-july-25-aug-1/) - Previewing concerts by drummer Sofia Goodman, and free shows by the Jack Schantz Jazz Unit with Barbara Rosene and Ernie Krivda & the Fat Tuesday Big Band
- [Review: Ken Peplowski - "All the Things You Are" for All About Jazz](https://johnchacona.com/review-ken-peplowski-all-the-things-you-are-for-all-about-jazz/) - Review: "All the Things You Are" from Ken Peplowski's "Live at Mezzrow" All About Jazz, 17 July, 2024
- [In Baseball or Jazz, Lucas Apostoleris Plays In The Big Leagues](https://johnchacona.com/in-baseball-or-jazz-lucas-apostoleris-plays-in-the-big-leagues/) - At his let's call this blog, John Chacona talks baseball with Lucas Apostoleris and previews the Miami drummer's Cleveland debut concert Sunday at BOP STOP
- [Review: Brian Landrus - "AGRA" for All About Jazz](https://johnchacona.com/review-brian-landrus-agra-for-all-about-jazz/) - Review: "AGRA" from Brian Landrus' "Plays Ellington & Strayhorn" All About Jazz, 14 July, 2024
- [Review: John Escreet - "Departure No. 1" for All About Jazz](https://johnchacona.com/review-john-escreet-departure-no-1-for-all-about-jazz/) - Review: "Departure No. 1" from John Escreet's 'the epicenter of your dreams," All About Jazz, 3 July, 2024
- [Review: Farahser - "Flatland" for All About Jazz](https://johnchacona.com/review-farahser-flatland-for-all-about-jazz/) - Review: "Flatland" from John Kameel Farah and Nick Fraser's "Farahser," All About Jazz, 5 July, 2024
- [Poetry: It's What Composer and Multi-Instrumentalist Aaron Irwin Is (after)](https://johnchacona.com/poetry-its-what-saxophonist-aaron-irwin-is-after/) - Saxophonist Aaron Irwin's new project places music in an eternal conversation with poetry. John Chacona profiles Irwin and previews his trio's Sunday concert.
- [Turning To Gold: Chicago Singer Alyssa Allgood Makes Her Cleveland Debut](https://johnchacona.com/turning-to-gold-chicago-singer-alyssa-allgood-makes-her-cleveland-debut/) - While Alyssa Allgood rejects the superficialities, she is unequivocal about her allegiance to the fundamentals. “I feel like I am very, very much a jazz singer"
- [What I'll Do On My Summer Vacation](https://johnchacona.com/what-ill-do-on-my-summer-vacation/) - Today's usual let's call this feature post is taking a short summer break because bigger things are happening in let's call this land. We're moving.
- [David Janeway Stands On Detroit Piano's Higher Ground](https://johnchacona.com/david-janeway-stands-on-detroit-pianos-higher-ground/) - John Chacona previews the debut Cleveland appearance of Detroit-born New York pianist David Janeway with bassist Robert Hurst and drummer Billy Hart
- [Countdown: Where To Go & What To Hear In NEO May 30 - June 5](https://johnchacona.com/countdown-where-to-go-what-to-hear-in-neo-may-30-june-5/) - By Chacona - Countdown previews NEO concerts this week by Steve Carrington and Dan Bruce's new trio and a free concert with vocalists Evelyn Wright & Mike Cady
- [Countdown: Where To Go & What To Hear In NEO May 23 - 29](https://johnchacona.com/countdown-where-to-go-what-to-hear-in-neo-may-23-29/) - By John Chacona - Countdown previews NEO concerts this week by Mark Russo at BOP STOP, Brain and the Glasses at Akron's Rialto and the Stix Quintet at BOP STOP
- [Countdown: Where To Go & What To Hear In NEO June 6-13](https://johnchacona.com/countdown-where-to-go-what-to-hear-in-neo-june-6-13/) - Countdown is your guide to the NEO jazz scene. Every week, John Chacona drops hot takes on the most compelling shows during the week ahead.
- [Stars Align For Fred Hersch at The Treelawn](https://johnchacona.com/stars-align-for-fred-hersch-at-the-treelawn/) - Fred Hersch, among the most respected pianists in jazz, comes to Cleveland's The Treelawn Friday. John Chacona previews the concert for let's call this.
- [Stephen Philip Harvey Runs On Big Nerd Energy](https://johnchacona.com/stephen-philip-harvey-runs-on-big-nerd-energy/) - Stephen Philip Harvey is a saxophonist, educator, composer, arranger, clinician and label executive. How does he do it?John Chacona profiles SPH for lct
- [Lynne Arriale's Jazz Of The Spirit Comes To BOP STOP](https://johnchacona.com/lynne-arriales-jazz-of-the-spirit-comes-to-bop-stop/) - Pianist Lynne Arriale doesn't play spiritual jazz, but every note is full of heart. John Chacona previews her Saturday concert at Cleveland's BOP STOP
- [Review: Roxana Amed: "A Prayer for All" for About Jazz](https://johnchacona.com/review-roxana-amed-a-prayer-for-all-for-about-jazz/) - Review: "A Prayer" from Roxana Amed's 'Becoming Human,' All About Jazz, 19 May, 2024
- [Countdown: Where To Go & What To Hear In NEO May 16-22](https://johnchacona.com/countdown-where-to-go-what-to-hear-in-neo-may-16-22/) - With Terence Blanchard at Severance Hall and a venerable band's significant CD release and anniversary, it's a Met Gala of a blockbuster week on the NEO scene.
- ['Nine Lives,' Chris Coles' Magnum Opus, Gets New Life](https://johnchacona.com/nine-lives-chris-coles-magnum-opus-gets-new-life/) - After my freelance music gig for a newspaper in Erie, Pennsylvania had vanished in 2020 and I had moved to Cleveland, I resolved to document the local jazz scene, one that was all but ignored by media outlets in northeast Ohio. Good people making interesting music is catnip to a culture reporter, and I found
- [Countdown: Where To Go & What To Hear In NEO May 9-15](https://johnchacona.com/countdown-where-to-go-what-to-hear-in-neo-may-9-15/) - Just look at the variety of offerings below: a big band with vocalist, hard-blowing sextet and a free improv legend. Who says the NEO scene is one-dimensional?
- [Roll Call:  Recent Recordings By NEO Artists](https://johnchacona.com/roll-call-recent-recordings-by-neo-artists/) - NEO artists have lately been as active in the studios as they are on the area's stages and bandstands. Here's a roundup of recent releases
- [Collective Action: The Third Law Collective Records Saturday](https://johnchacona.com/collective-action-the-third-law-collective-records-saturday/) - Cleveland's Third Law Collective makes a debut recording session at BOP STOP wsg Russ Johnson. John Chacona previews the milestone at his let's call this blog.
- [Dan Weiss' Trio Even Odds Is A Sure-Thing Bet](https://johnchacona.com/dan-weiss-trio-even-odds-is-a-sure-thing-bet/) - Even Odds, drummer Dan Weiss, saxophonist Miguel Zenón and pianist Matt Mitchell, make music of technical brilliance, formal innovation & panoptical interests.
- [Countdown: Where To Go & What To Hear In NEO April 30 - May 8](https://johnchacona.com/countdown-where-to-go-what-to-hear-in-neo-april-30-may-8/) - Countdown is your guide to the NEO jazz scene. Every week, we drop hot takes on the most compelling shows during the week ahead.
- [Countdown: Where To Go & What To Hear In NEO April 18-25](https://johnchacona.com/countdown-where-to-go-what-to-hear-in-neo-april-18-25/) - The coming week is high-key loaded with notable jazz events. Touring artists and local luminaries alike await your appreciative ears and enthusiastic applause.
- [Interview with Guitarist Lorne Lofsky for All About Jazz](https://johnchacona.com/interview-with-guitarist-lorne-lofsky-for-all-about-jazz/) - "I think it's time for Canadian musicians and artists of all stripes to spread the news a bit more effectively around the world. We have something to say."
- [Countdown: Where To Go & What To Hear In NEO April 11-17](https://johnchacona.com/countdown-where-to-go-what-to-hear-in-neo-april-11-17/) - April is Jazz Appreciation Month, and there's much to appreciate this week in the area's clubs, concert halls and other venues. Let Countdown be your guide
- [It's One More Time For The Bill Charlap Trio At The Treelawn](https://johnchacona.com/its-one-more-time-for-the-bill-charlap-trio-at-the-treelawn/) - Urbane and deeply swinging, the Bill Charlap Trio brings a New York vibe to Thursday's return to The Treelawn. John Chacona previews the show at let's call this
- [Countdown: Where To Go & What To Hear In NEO April 4-10](https://johnchacona.com/countdown-where-to-go-what-to-hear-in-neo-april-4-10/) - Countdown is your guide to the NEO jazz scene. Every week, we drop hot takes on the most compelling shows during the week ahead.
- [When There Is No Sun: An Eclipse Playlist](https://johnchacona.com/when-there-is-no-sun-an-eclipse-playlist/) - A playlist of jazz and jazz-adjacent music to watch the sun disappear by
- [Review: "Never Let Me Go" from Yotam Silberstein's 'Standards' for All About Jazz](https://johnchacona.com/review-never-let-me-go-from-yotam-silbersteins-standards-for-all-about-jazz/) - Review: "Never Let Me Go" from Yotam Silberstein's 'Standards' All About Jazz, 5 April, 2024
- [Jason Roebke's Music Is 'Transgressive In A Positive Way'](https://johnchacona.com/jason-roebkes-music-is-transgressive-in-a-positive-way/) - Jason Roebke's Chicago quartet will bring a subtly transgressive approach to jazz form and a long-overdue return to Cleveland by Edward Wilkerson, Jr.
- [Review: Hilary Gardner's 'On the Trail With the Lonesome Pines' for All About Jazz](https://johnchacona.com/review-hilary-gardners-on-the-trail-with-the-lonesome-pines-for-all-about-jazz/) - Review: Hilary Gardner: 'On the Trail with The Lonesome Pines' All About Jazz, 29 March, 2024
- [Nik Bärtsch's RONIN Builds Mesmerizing Ritual On A Groove](https://johnchacona.com/nik-bartschs-ronin-builds-mesmerizing-ritual-on-a-groove/) - With his RONIN quartet, Nik Bärtsch unites in harmonious movement the seemingly contradictory elements of transparent texture and kinetic, embodied rhythm.
- [The Canadian Jazz Collective Make A Case for Toronto Jazz at BOP STOP](https://johnchacona.com/the-canadian-jazz-collective-make-a-case-for-toronto-jazz-at-bop-stop/) - Despite the modest name, the Canadian Jazz Collective, a group of Toronto’s best who will play at BOP STOP Friday, could easily be called the Canadian All-Stars
- [Countdown: Where To Go & What To Hear In NEO March 14-20](https://johnchacona.com/countdown-where-to-go-what-to-hear-in-neo-march-14-20/) - Countdown is your guide to the NEO jazz scene. Every week, we drop hot takes on the most compelling shows during the week ahead.
- [Restless Traditionalist Jim Snidero Returns To BOP STOP For A Blackberry Winter Date](https://johnchacona.com/restless-traditionalist-jim-snidero-returns-to-bop-stop-for-a-blackberry-winter-date/) - Jim Snidero has a nearly-Platonic ideal of an alto saxophone sound: full, round, clear and expressive, the kind of tone that's easy to fall in love with--or to.
- [Countdown: Where To Go & What To Hear In NEO, March 7 - 13](https://johnchacona.com/countdown-where-to-go-what-to-hear-in-neo-march-7-13/) - Good news: an early spring efflorescence of musical excellence is on its way, and all in the next seven days. Just look at this lineup!
- [Flutist Alex Hamburger Has Found "A Crew" And An Audience In Cleveland](https://johnchacona.com/flutist-alex-hamburger-has-found-a-crew-and-an-audience-in-cleveland/) - Suddenly the flute is an instrument that’s on everyone’s lips. One of its rising stars, Alex Hamburger returns to BOP STOP Sunday with her Cleveland+D.C. band.
- [Sign O' The Times: Mary Lou Williams' 'Zodiac Suite' Rises In Akron](https://johnchacona.com/sign-o-the-times-mary-lou-williams-zodiac-suite-rises-in-akron/) - "Zodiac Suite," by Mary Lou Williams, is emerging from decades of neglect as recognized as a masterwork. Pianist Theron Brown and The Akron Symphony Orchestra play excerpts at a Saturday concert.
- [From Cheerleader to Bandleader: Jennifer Wharton Plays With Grit and Grace](https://johnchacona.com/from-cheerleader-to-bandleader-jennifer-wharton-plays-with-grit-and-grace/) - Chuck Owen made his international reputation as a composer and arranger of sophisticated big band charts. Now he tries his hand as a lyricist and small-band composer for his ReSurgence septet.
- [Countdown: Where To Go & What To Hear In NEO, Feb. 22-29](https://johnchacona.com/countdown-where-to-go-what-to-hear-in-neo-feb-22-29/) - Countdown is your guide to the NEO jazz scene. Every week, we drop hot takes on the most compelling shows during the week ahead.
- [Violinist Meg Okura and Pianist Kevin Hays Play the Chamber Music of the New Jazz](https://johnchacona.com/violinist-meg-okura-and-pianist-kevin-hays-play-the-chamber-music-of-the-new-jazz/) - Do violinist Meg Okura and pianist Kevin Hays play jazz or chamber music? Tomorrow night at BOP STOP, it'll be both.
- [Countdown: Where To Go & What To Hear In NEO, Jan. 25-31](https://johnchacona.com/countdown-where-to-go-what-to-hear-in-neo-jan-25-31/) - Countdown is your guide to the NEO jazz scene. Every week, we drop hot takes on the most compelling shows during the week ahead.
- [Anthony Taddeo's Jazz all'Italiana Band Alla Boara Sets Sail With A New Record And Tour](https://johnchacona.com/anthony-taddeos-jazz-allitaliana-band-alla-boara-sets-sail-with-a-new-record-and-tour/) - Alla Boara will release their second recording, 'Work and Song,' recorded live, with a concert Wednesday at the Cleveland Museum of Art. John Chacona previews.
- [Moto Perpetuo Drummer Anthony Taddeo's Next Project: Recording Alla Boara Live](https://johnchacona.com/moto-perpetuo-drummer-anthony-taddeos-next-project-recording-alla-boara-live/) - If drummer Anthony Taddeo were a piece of music, he'd be marked Allegro vivace con brio é giocoso. Here's a bit more Italian to represent the bilingual Taddeo: preso dalla testa ai piedi, an idiom for being in constant motion from head to toe. This weekend finds the in-demand sideman, dependable session musician and
- [Countdown: Where To Go & What To Hear In NEO, Dec. 14-21](https://johnchacona.com/countdown-where-to-go-what-to-hear-in-neo-dec-14-21/) - Today's let's call this Countdown previews holiday concerts by Helen Welch, Ava Preston with the Cleveland Jazz Orchestra, Amanda Powell and Barbara Rosene
- [Countdown: Where To Go & What To Hear In NEO, Dec. 7-14](https://johnchacona.com/countdown-where-to-go-what-to-hear-in-neo-dec-7-14/) - Countdown is your guide to the NEO jazz scene. Every week, we drop hot takes on the most compelling shows during the week ahead.
- [Another Gabe Pollack Moment--And You Can Share In It](https://johnchacona.com/another-gabe-pollack-moment-and-you-can-share-in-it/) - Tomorrow evening, Nov. 30 at BOP STOP, I'll have the honor of presenting the Jazz Journalists Association's 2023 Cleveland Jazz Hero Award to Gabe Pollack.
- [Review: Lucas Pino's "Covers" for PostGenre Media](https://johnchacona.com/review-lucas-pinos-covers-for-postgenre-media-2/) - Review: Lucas Pino: 'Covers' PostGenre, 22 November, 2023
- [Review: Ethan Philion's "Gnosis" for All About Jazz](https://johnchacona.com/review-lucas-pinos-covers-for-postgenre-media/) - Review: Ethan Philion's 'Gnosis' All About Jazz, 23 November, 2023
- [Countdown: Where To Go & What To Hear In NEO, Nov. 16-22](https://johnchacona.com/countdown-where-to-go-what-to-hear-in-neo-nov-16-22/) - Countdown is your guide to the NEO jazz scene. Every week, we drop hot takes on the most compelling shows during the week ahead.
- [Countdown: Where To Go & What To Hear In NEO, Nov. 9-15](https://johnchacona.com/countdown-where-to-go-what-to-hear-in-neo-nov-9-15/) - the let's call this Countdown is your guide to the NEO jazz scene. Every week, we drop hot takes on the most compelling shows during the week ahead.
- [Countdown: Where To Go & What To Hear In NEO, Nov. 1-6](https://johnchacona.com/countdown-where-to-go-what-to-hear-in-neo-nov-1-6/) - Now that Halloween is over and it's safe to go out again, a cornucopia of jazz and jazz-adjacent events awaits NEO music fans. Make Countdown your guide.
- [Big Band Composer Chuck Owen ReSurges With A New Septet](https://johnchacona.com/big-band-composer-chuck-owen-resurges-with-a-new-septet/) - Chuck Owen made his international reputation as a composer and arranger of sophisticated big band charts. Now he tries his hand as a lyricist and small-band composer for his ReSurgence septet.
- [Countdown: What To Do, Where To Go & What To Hear, Oct. 26 - Nov. 1](https://johnchacona.com/countdown-what-to-do-where-to-go-what-to-hear-oct-26-nov-1/) - The let's call this Countdown is your Spirit Store of news and information about the most frighteningly good music events this week.
- [Trevor Watts' High-Voltage Duo Comes To Waterloo Monday](https://johnchacona.com/trevor-watts-high-voltage-duo-comes-to-waterloo-monday/) - At 84, British saxophonist makes vital, rhythmically emphatic music. He comes to Cleveland for a New Ghosts concert with Jamie Harris Monday.
- [Countdown: What To Do, Where To Go & Who To Hear, Oct. 19-25](https://johnchacona.com/countdown-what-to-do-where-to-go-who-to-hear-oct-19-25/) - As the weather turns chillier and recreation shifts to indoor locations, the NEO scene is responding with a clambake of compelling offerings this week. Touring artists and local luminaries are throwing down. That's a challenge for those who like to map out their musical itinerary, but what a nice problem to have, right? Supporting live
- [Countdown: What To Do, Where To Go & What To Hear, Oct. 12-18](https://johnchacona.com/countdown-what-to-do-where-to-go-what-to-hear-oct-12-18/) - It’s a week for celebrations with a birthday, an anniversary and a chicken or pasta dinner on the menu for your mid-October listening and dining pleasure
- [Sam Blakeslee Returns To Akron With Charts & 'Flowers'](https://johnchacona.com/sam-blakeslee-returns-to-akron-with-charts-flowers/) - Sam Blakeslee will convene a big band on the stage of BLU Jazz+ this weekend for a homecoming so packed with music that it will take two nights to play it all.
- [Countdown: What To Do, Where To Go & What To Hear, Oct. 5-11](https://johnchacona.com/countdown-what-to-do-where-to-go-what-to-hear-oct-5-11/) - With the outdoor concert and festival season coming to a close, jazz and creative music returns to the small rooms where the music was born. This week's most compelling shows all feature Northeast Ohio musicians, proving that football and clambakes aren't the only autumn traditions to honor around here. Chris Corsano with Dana Jessen, Thu.,
- [Exile on East Boulevard: Arooj Aftab, Shazad Ismaily and Vijay Iyer Bring Magic To CMA](https://johnchacona.com/exile-on-east-boulevard-arooj-aftab-shazad-ismaily-and-vijay-iyer-bring-magic-to-cma/) - At let’s call this, John Chacona previews Wednesday's concert by Love In Exile, a cooperative of Arooj Aftab, Shazad Ismaily and Vijay Iyer.
- [Mat Maneri's Quartet Seeks ". . . joy through sorrow, elation through fatigue"](https://johnchacona.com/mat-maneris-quartet-seeks-joy-through-sorrow-elation-through-fatigue/) - At let’s call this, John Chacona previews Wednesday's concert by violist Mat Maneri's quartet: pianist Lucian Ban, bassist Brandon Lopez, drummer Randy Peterson
- [Kurt Elling and Dan Bruce Turn Up The Musical Voltage This Week](https://johnchacona.com/kurt-elling-and-dan-bruce-turn-up-the-musical-voltage-this-week/) - At let’s call this, John Chacona previews two new bands: singer Kurt Elling's SuperBlue at CMA and guitarist Dan Bruce's OHM! trio at BOP STOP debut Sunday.
- [Countdown: Your Guide To Jazz in NEO, Sept. 20-26](https://johnchacona.com/countdown-your-guide-to-jazz-in-neo-sept-20-26/) - Today's let's call this Countdown previews shows by Veronica Swift, Indy trombonist Andrew Danforth, Tim Mirth's Night Terrors and Cinci pianist Andrew Haug
- [Countdown: Your Guide To Jazz in NEO, Sept. 27-Oct. 4](https://johnchacona.com/countdown-your-guide-to-jazz-in-neo-sept-27-oct-4/) - Collective action is on the calendar for the next week beginning with the monthly concert by the NEO composers mob Third Law Collective, a fusion-y three-way courtesy of guitarist Oz Noy with bassist Jimmy Haslip and force-of-nature drummer Dennis Chambers and concluding next Tuesday with a New Ghosts-sponsored performance (and that's precisely what it will
- [Countdown: Your Planning Guide for Music August 24-31](https://johnchacona.com/countdown-your-planning-guide-for-music-august-24-31/) - At let's call this, John Chacona previews four jazz events in Northeast Ohio that you should put on your calendar this week.
- [Countdown: Your Planning Guide for Music Sept. 7-13](https://johnchacona.com/countdown-your-planning-guide-for-music-sept-7-13/) - At let's call this, John Chacona previews four jazz events in Northeast Ohio that you should put on your calendar this week.
- [No Obstacles For Saxophonist Chris Speed's BOP STOP Debut](https://johnchacona.com/no-obstacles-for-saxophonist-chris-speeds-bop-stop-debut/) - NEW at let's call this: Saxophonist Chris Speed brings open ears and no obstacles to his BOP STOP debut with bassist Chris Tordini and drummer Dave King.
- [Countdown: Your Planning Guide for Music, Sept. 14-20](https://johnchacona.com/countdown-what-to-do-where-to-go-what-to-hear-sept-14-20/) - Today's let's call this Countdown previews concerts by Kathy Kosins, dragonchild x Sunken Cages, Stephen Philip Harvey's big band and Silvia Bolognesi's Young Shouts
- [Culmination: A Massive New Book Honors The Centenary of Sam Rivers](https://johnchacona.com/culmination-a-massive-new-book-honors-the-centenary-of-sam-rivers/) - “The Sam Rivers Sessionography,” is a new book by Rick Lopez that rivals Rivers in its panoptical audacity. John Chacona talks to the author at let's call this.
- [Bounceback: Akron's Rubber City Jazz & Blues Festival Is Back In A Big Way](https://johnchacona.com/bounceback-akrons-rubber-city-jazz-blues-festival-is-back-in-a-big-way/) - NEW at let's call this: Akron's Rubber City Jazz and Blues Festival is back bigger and better than ever. John Chacona previews the fest for let's call this
- [A Free Outdoor Jazz Festival Swings The Doors Open In Hingetown](https://johnchacona.com/a-free-outdoor-jazz-festival-swings-the-doors-open-in-hingetown/) - NEW at let's call this: A free outdoor jazz festival makes its debut in Hingetown. John Chacona previews Saturday's inaugural Hingetown Jazz Festival
- [On 'Introspectiva,' Guitarist Ricardo Morales Vivero Looks Inward and Outward](https://johnchacona.com/on-introspectiva-guitarist-ricardo-morales-vivero-looks-inward-and-outward/) - NEW at let's call this: Ricardo Morales Vivero's new CD looks inward and outward. John Chacona spoke with the Ecuadori-born guitarist and previewed the concert.
- [Countdown: Your Planning Guide for Music August 17-23](https://johnchacona.com/countdown-your-planning-guide-for-music-august-17-23/) - At let's call this, John Chacona previews four jazz events in Northeast Ohio that you should put on your calendar this week.
- [Bring Back The Time: Jamey Haddad Plays The Music Of Keith Jarrett](https://johnchacona.com/bring-back-the-time-jamey-haddad-plays-the-music-of-keith-jarrett/) - NEW at let's call this: The music of Keith Jarrett was an early influence on percussion master Jamey Haddad. He repays the favor at four weekend concerts
- [Countdown: Gigs, Concerts and Shows To Check Out August 10-16](https://johnchacona.com/countdown-gigs-concerts-and-shows-to-check-out-august-10-16/) - At let's call this, John Chacona previews three jazz and jazz-adjacent events in Northeast Ohio that you should put on your calendar this week.
- [Tim Daisy Returns To Cleveland for the World Premiere of New Ensemble Vox 4](https://johnchacona.com/tim-daisy-returns-to-cleveland-for-the-world-premiere-of-new-ensemble-vox-4/) - NEW at let's call this: Chicago percussionist Tim Daisy returns to Cleveland for the world premiere of his new ensemble Vox 4
- [Review: Jacques Schwarz-Bart's "The Harlem Suite' for All About Jazz](https://johnchacona.com/review-jacques-schwarz-barts-the-harlem-suite-for-all-about-jazz/) - Review: Jacques Schwarz-Bart: 'The Harlem Suite' All About Jazz, 13 July, 2023
- [Trading Fours: Your Guide To The Weekend's Most Interesting Music](https://johnchacona.com/trading-fours-your-guide-to-the-weekends-most-interesting-music/) - At let's call this, John Chacona previews four jazz events in Northeast Ohio that you should put on your calendar this week.
- [Always At Home With Music, Lucas Kadish Returns To NEO With A New Band and Recording](https://johnchacona.com/always-at-home-with-music-lucas-kadish-returns-to-neo-with-a-new-band-and-recording/) - Jazz guitarist Lucas Kadish returns to northeast Ohio Saturday at Cleveland's BOP STOP. John Chacona talks to the Hudson, Ohio native and previews the concert.
- [This Is New: Trading Fours](https://johnchacona.com/this-is-new-trading-fours/) - At let's call this, John Chacona previews four jazz events in Northeast Ohio that you should put on your calendar this week.
- [Imaginative, Interactive and Intensely Committed: Drummer Ari Hoenig's Trio Comes To Bop Stop](https://johnchacona.com/drummer_ari_hoenigs_trio_comes_to_bop_stop/) - Imaginative, Interactive and Intensely Committed: Drummer Ari Hoenig’s Trio Comes To Bop Stop
- [Review: 'Dorothy Ashby: With Strings Attached, 1957-1965' for All About Jazz](https://johnchacona.com/review-dorothy-ashby-with-strings-attached-1957-1965-for-all-about-jazz/) - Review: Dorothy Ashby: With Strings Attached, 1957-1965 All About Jazz, 10 July, 2023
- [From Upton to Hingetown: Todd Marcus's Two-Clarinet Quintet Comes to Bop Stop](https://johnchacona.com/from-upton-to-hingetown-todd-marcuss-two-clarinet-quintet-comes-to-bop-stop/) - John Chacona previews bass clarinet player Todd Marcus' concert at Cleveland's BOP STOP on July 12, 2023 for his let's call this blog at johnchacona.com
- [Review: 'The Nimmons Tribute: Volume 2 - Generational' for All About Jazz](https://johnchacona.com/3765-2/) - Review: The Nimmons Tribute: Volume 2 - Generational All About Jazz, 30 June, 2023
- [Reviews of Three New Piano Trio Releases for All About Jazz](https://johnchacona.com/reviews-of-three-new-piano-trio-releases-for-all-about-jazz/) - Multiple Reviews: '3x3: Jazz Trios Playful and Pensive' All About Jazz, 15 June, 2023
- [Dan Wilson Celebrates 'Things Eternal' With An Intimate Trio Show](https://johnchacona.com/dan-wilsons-celebrates-things-eternal-with-an-intimate-trio-show/) - How much love does Akron guitarist Dan Wilson have for his hometown? His forthcoming release Things Eternal, out Friday, is an all-Akron affair with compositions by Akron composers, featuring Akron and NEO musicians recorded in Akron. When he celebrates the release of that record Friday at Bop Stop, it’ll be Akron-style and family-style, too, with
- [Local Musicians Add Flavor To the Sauce At Tri-C JazzFest](https://johnchacona.com/local-musicians-add-flavor-to-the-sauce-at-tri-c-jazzfest/) - For fans of improvised music in the Black American tradition, the arrival of Tri-C JazzFest to Playhouse Square with a roster of artists including Herbie Hancock, Christian McBride and phenomenal shooting-star vocalist Samara Joy is hands down the biggest week of the year. The touring artists whose shelves are heavy with Grammy Awards and other
- [Javier Red's Imagery Converter Illustrates Life Under The Umbrella](https://johnchacona.com/javier-reds-imagery-converted-illustrates-life-under-the-umbrella/) - Pianist Javier Red was in his mid-40s and had been a working musician for years, both in his native Mexico and in the United States, when he arrived at a musical crossroads. It happened at a workshop in 2015 with saxophonist and composer Steve Coleman at the University of Chicago. “I told Steve that I’ve
- [Vocalist Ellie Martin Cultivates A Verdant Career With A New Recording And Tour](https://johnchacona.com/vocalist-ellie-martin-cultivates-a-verdant-career-with-a-new-recording-and-tour/) - “When I went to undergrad, I kind of did jazz in secret, like on the side,” said Ellie Martin. “I remember a teacher telling me once that jazz was going to ruin your voice. You're not really supposed to do that. A lot of singers did though. You did it on the side and you
- [Solo Or In Ensemble, Brandon Lopez's Bass Is An Uncommon Sound](https://johnchacona.com/solo-or-in-ensemble-brandon-lopezs-bass-is-an-uncommon-sound/) - Despite the increasing numbers of creative improvising musicians who play it, the double bass in a solo context—on record or in performance--remains a comparatively uncommon sound. Yet Brandon Lopez, with a new recording and a showcase at this weekend’s Re:Sound festival presented by the Cleveland Uncommon Sound Project, is the exception that proves the rule.
- [On and On: Old Friend Dave Rempis Returns to Cleveland](https://johnchacona.com/on-and-on-old-friend-dave-rempis-returns-to-cleveland/) - At this point, Dave Rempis, who will appear with drummer Tyler Damon at Saturday gig presented by New Ghosts, is a known quantity in Cleveland. By his own count, the Chicago multi-reedist said, “I must've played there 12 or 15 times. It's often more than once a year. Oh man, the list goes on and
- [Joe Lovano's Hometown Band Offers A Hero's Welcome](https://johnchacona.com/joe-lovanos-hometown-band-offers-a-heros-welcome/) - If there were a Mount Rushmore of Cleveland jazz, maybe on the bluff overlooking the West Flats, who would be on it? Albert Ayler and Tadd Dameron for sure, and maybe Eddie Baccus, too. Joe Lovano is still very much with us, but it’s not too soon to reserve a place for him up there,
- [At Severance, Julian Davis Reid Examines Both Sides of The American Dream](https://johnchacona.com/at-severance-julian-davis-reid-examines-both-sides-of-the-american-dream/) - Like many Black musicians, pianist, bandleader and theologian Julian Davis Reid paid close attention to poet and essayist Amiri Baraka’s 1963 book “Blues People: Negro Music in White America.” Reid was particularly taken with, as he told me, “this idea that Black music is a place where people in this country, Black and otherwise, rest.
- [Review: Petros Klampanis’ ‘Tora Collective’ for All About Jazz,](https://johnchacona.com/review-petros-klampanis-tora-collective-for-all-about-jazz/) - Review: Petros Klampanis’ ‘Tora Collective’ All About Jazz, 15 May, 2023
- [For CUSP's 'Torch Songs,' Where There's  Fire, There's No Smoke](https://johnchacona.com/for-cusps-torch-songs-where-theres-fire-theres-no-smoke/) - In the popular imagination, an evening of torch songs inevitably takes place in a smoky basement club where a singer in a velvet gown purrs songbook standards while perched on a stool as her cigarette smolders in a nearby ashtray. A half-filled rocks glass is not far away. It’s an appealingly nostalgic image, but don’t
- [Review: Avram Fefer’s ‘Juba Lee’ for PostGenre Media](https://johnchacona.com/review-avram-fefers-juba-lee-for-postgenre-media/) - Review: Avram Fefer’s ‘Juba Lee’ PostGenre Media, 1 May, 2023
- [Multiple Reviews for All About Jazz](https://johnchacona.com/multiple-reviews-for-all-about-jazz/) - Multiple reviews: 'A Tasting Menu' AllAboutJazz.com, 2 February, 2023
- [A Master Improvisor Launches A New Tour With A New Band At BOP STOP](https://johnchacona.com/a-master-improvisor-launches-a-new-tour-with-a-new-band-at-bop-stop/) - In all manner of settings, from solo concerts to large group situations, multi-instrumentalist Ken Vandermark has proven his mettle as a fearless and resourceful improvisor. So when two-fifths of his new Edition 55 band were not available to tour, he added a new piece to the remaining players and rechristened the band Edition Redux. But
- [The Music Of John Coltrane Once Saved His Life. Now It's Our Turn](https://johnchacona.com/the-music-of-john-coltrane-once-saved-his-life-now-its-our-turn/) - Keith LaMar has said that listening to John Coltrane’s “A Love Supreme” helped save his life. Yet for all its power and magnificence, Coltrane’s music cannot literally save LaMar’s life, which is scheduled to end Nov. 16 when he is to be executed for murders he says he did not commit. Even if music can’t
- [Play Like Where Your From: The University of Akron's JazzFest Is Back](https://johnchacona.com/play-like-where-your-from-the-university-of-akrons-jazzfest-is-back/) - For a long time, jazz education was an oral tradition. Students learned at the feet of their master or in the adjacent chair in a section of a big band, a lineage that you could witness as well as hear. These days, that formerly oral tradition has largely moved to the university or conservatory classroom
- [Review: Ben Wendel at BOP STOP for All About Jazz](https://johnchacona.com/review-ben-wendel-at-bop-stop-for-all-about-jazz/) - Review: Ben Wendel Group At Bop Stop AllAboutJazz.com, 27 March, 2023
- [A Venerable Free Improv Showcase Finds Its Way Back](https://johnchacona.com/a-venerable-free-improv-showcase-finds-its-way-back/) - After the cultural extinction event of 2020, some lifeforms re-emerged sooner than others. You would expect the ones with the most funding to be among the first to return, though perhaps not at their previous strength. And you might imagine that the more DIY scenes, the ones for which precarity is an ongoing fact, would
- [A Great Week in Cleveland, Part 2: Moor Mother, Lonnie Holley, Lee Bains and Mourning [A] BLKstar](https://johnchacona.com/a-great-week-in-cleveland-part-2-moor-mother-lonnie-holley-lee-bains-and-mourning-a-blkstar/) - Eleven months ago, A.J. Kluth was at New York’s New School at a conference presented by Black Quantum Futurism, the literary and artistic collective created by Philadelphians Rasheedah Phillips and Camae Ayewa, the composer and poet who performs as Moor Mother. “That was my first time meeting Camae and really feeling like the work that
- [A Great Week in Cleveland, Part 1: Ben Wendel and Joel Ross](https://johnchacona.com/a-great-week-in-cleveland-part-1-ben-wendel-and-joel-ross/) - When I moved to Cleveland in late 2019, I was eager to plunge full-time into a jazz scene that looked like New York’s to me. That notion might be laughable to longtime citizens of The Land, but from the jazz desert of Erie, Pennsylvania, that’s how Cleveland looked to me. Consider this ten-day period in
- [Multiple Reviews for All About Jazz](https://johnchacona.com/3540-2/) - Multiple reviews: 'Choose Joy' AllAboutJazz.com, 28 January, 2023
- [Magic In The Air: Marco Benevento Road-Dogs It Back To The Beachland](https://johnchacona.com/magic-in-the-air-marco-benevento-road-dogs-it-back-to-the-beachland/) - Marco Benevento is a workaholic. The playful, keyboardist who gleefully straddles the worlds of jam-band euphoria, jazzy, improvisatory exploration and nerdy gadget geekery might not fit the image of the jittery, Type-A striver but just listen to the man himself. “I’m a very productive person,” he said by phone last month from his home in
- [At Bop Stop, An Accompanist To The Stars Accompanies Himself](https://johnchacona.com/at-bop-stop-an-accompanist-to-the-stars-accompanies-himself/) - Pianist Tamir Hendelman’s gifts as an accompanist have led to recording projects by some of the most iconic soloists of our time: Natalie Cole, Gladys Knight, Sir Paul McCartney and Barbra Streisand among them. Yet his Sunday’s concert at Bop Stop Sunday will present him with the challenge of accompanying a different sort of
- [Cabaret Crooner or Jazz Singer? Dane Vannatter Is A Man of Two Worlds](https://johnchacona.com/dane-vannatter/) - The legendary Patti LaBelle has been on stages large and small since Dwight Eisenhower was in the White House. As a performer, she’s done it all and seen it all, but she couldn’t have expected what happened at her 2015 performance at the Ohio State Fair in 2015. “She called a group of guys [on
- [Saxophonist Ronell Regis Makes Things Happen With 'Grenada To The World'](https://johnchacona.com/saxophonist-ronell-regis-makes-things-happen-with-grenada-to-the-world/) - Granada is a Caribbean nation 100 miles off the coast of Venezuela with a population about that of Dayton’s. If Americans have heard of Grenada at all it’s probably in connection with Ronald Reagan’s Cold War saber-rattling invasion of the island in 1983. That might change Sunday when Cleveland saxophonist Ronell Regis presents a world
- [Looking Backward and Forward At Once, Saxophonist Jim Snidero Returns to Bop Stop](https://johnchacona.com/looking-backward-and-forward-at-once-saxophonist-jim-snidero-returns-to-bop-stop/) - Saxophonist Jim Snidero was born in May, but a January birthdate would have provided an appropriate mythological backstory for his career. Like the two-faced god who gave the month its name, Snidero’s alto saxophone style looks forward and backward simultaneously. Perhaps that is inevitable for the native of the Maryland suburbs who, at 65, has
- [For 49 Years, Kahil El'Zabar's Ethnic Heritage Ensemble Has Played--And Embodied--Black History](https://johnchacona.com/ethnics/) - One of the great consolations of hanging around the music business stage door for a long time comes when people who assume that you know things ask you questions. One of my favorites is: Which band have you seen the most times? I love this question because it gives me a chance to talk about
- [Review: Fred Hersch & esperanza spalding's 'Alive at the Village Vanguard' for All About Jazz](https://johnchacona.com/review-fred-hersch-esperanza-spaldings-alive-at-the-village-vanguard-for-all-about-jazz/) - Review: Fred Hersch & esperanza spalding: 'Alive at the Village Vanguard' AllAboutJazz.com, 25 January, 2023
- [New Composers Collective Lays Down the Law at Bop Stop](https://johnchacona.com/third-law-collective-at-bop-stop/) - What’s the second-most exciting day in a composer’s life? The day of the first performance of a new piece, of course. So, what’s the most exciting day? The day of the second performance. World premieres are exciting, but many compositions are heard once and then disappear. A second performance confers a bit of staying power.
- [Review: Thumbscrew’s "Multicolored Midnight" for PostGenre](https://johnchacona.com/postgenre-thumbscrew-review/) - Review: Thumbscrew’s ‘Multicolored Midnight’ PostGenre, 22 January, 2023
- [Chris Hovan's Trio, Grown in the Midwest, is 100 Percent Organic](https://johnchacona.com/23-01-03-hovan-organic-trio/) - On the day before he spoke with me for this piece, Chris Hovan’s active Facebook account, a worthy follow, by the way, featured a tabletop photo showed a CD jewel box next to a glass of scotch. The caption read, “One of my top 5 Blue Notes, period!” The CD was Grant Green’s Talkin’ About,
- [Blowing In From Chicago: Tim Daisy and Ken Vandermark Friday at Convivium 33](https://johnchacona.com/daisy-vandermark/) - Being a creative musician in Chicago almost demands a willingness to play anything, everywhere with everybody. Percussionist Tim Daisy and saxophonist Ken Vandermark, who will appear at Convivium 33 Friday, Jan. 13, embody that imperative as well as anyone, having collaborated with hundreds of musicians, movement and visual artists on both sides of the Atlantic.
- [Bop Stop Rings In 2023 With Tim Mirth's Night Terrors Band](https://johnchacona.com/tim-mirth-night-terrors/) - Tim Mirth has been experimenting with guitars for a long time. “As a 10-year-old, I found my dad's guitar, this Gretsch Corvette,” he remembered. “I would sneak it out after school, play with it, try to figure it out. One day my dad comes by, and I thought, I’m not going to get to play
- [Review: Jussi Reijonen’s "Three Seconds | Kolme Toista" for PostGenre](https://johnchacona.com/review-jussi-reijonens-three-seconds-kolme-toista-for-postgenre/) - Review: Jussi Reijonen’s ‘Three Seconds | Kolme Toista’ PostGenre, 27 December, 2022
- [Exploring the Unknown: Bassist Aidan Plank Arranges the Music of Carmen Castaldi](https://johnchacona.com/aidan-plank-carmen-castaldi/) - Tribute concerts, for better or worse, are an established marketing hook for jazz presenters and an evergreen source of inspiration for musicians. The honors tend to cluster around past masters, and the bigger the name the batter. Living musicians who can actually appreciate the tribute aren’t often feted and even less often asked to play,
- [Review of the Dan Weiss Trio at BOP STOP for AllAboutJazz.com](https://johnchacona.com/review-of-the-dan-weiss-trio-at-bop-stop-for-allaboutjazz-com/) - Review: Dan Weiss Trio at Bop Stop AllAboutJazz.com, 21 December, 2022
- [Tommy Lehman's Perpetual Search Leads To BLU Jazz+ For An Evening Of 'Uplift.'](https://johnchacona.com/tommy-lehman-uplift-release/) - When he was a student at the Hartt School of Music, trumpeter Tommy Lehman occasionally joined the legendary late-night jam sessions at Small’s jazz club in Manhattan. One night immersed in a solo with his eyes closed he opened his eyes for a moment and found himself face-to-face with the late trumpet player Roy Hargrove,
- [Flutist Hofmann Comes Home for the Holly-Days for Three Concerts with the CJO](https://johnchacona.com/cjo-hofmann/) - It’s pretty common these days to find jazz instrumentalists who were classically trained before beginning to improvise. Not Holly Hofmann. The Painesville-born flutist who will appear this weekend with the Cleveland Jazz Orchestra studied with the legendary Walter Mayhall at Youngstown State University and with former Cleveland Orchestra principal flutist Maurice Sharp at the
- [Dan Weiss' Trio Made One Of The Year's Best Recordings. Hear Them At Bop Stop Sunday](https://johnchacona.com/dan-weiss-at-bop-stop/) - Dan Weiss talks a lot like he plays the drums. When I spoke with him about his Sunday concert at Bop Stop, his answers to my interview questions were short. To the point. Nothing wasted. Next question? Yet forward momentum, essential for any drummer, is just one part of his game. Color, an original voice
- [At 70, Cleveland's Jamey Haddad Keeps The Music On Its Feet](https://johnchacona.com/jamey-haddad-at-bop-stop/) - At 70, you would think drummer and percussionist Jamey Haddad would be ready to slow down. After all, he’s toured the world with artists such as Paul Simon, Sting and Yo-Yo Ma. Yet he’s equally excited to play this weekend’s pair of gigs at Bop Stop with a trio of accomplished Ohioans. To Haddad, only
- [Can Three Shamans From New York Help Conjure A DIY Scene in Erie?](https://johnchacona.com/three-shamans-in-erie/) - This week I'm taking a Thanksgiving break of sorts. Instead of my stated project of documenting the northeast Ohio scene I'll cover something notable that's happening in my old hometown of Erie, Pennsylvania: a concert Saturday evening headlined by New York improvising trio Three Shamans at Erie's Grounded Printshop on a bill that also includes
- [Reunion: Steve Swell and the Frode Gjerstad Trio from Norway Reconvene at Beachland](https://johnchacona.com/steve-swell/) - With its wide dynamic range, speech-like articulation and capacity for playing off-the-scale notes, the saxophone would seem to be the perfect instrument for creative improvised music (some people call it “free jazz” or “avant-garde jazz” or “fire music”). Fine, but anything the saxophone can do, the trombone can do better. So why don’t we hear
- [Evelyn Wright: Telling Stories in Song From A Rich Musical Life](https://johnchacona.com/evelyn-wright-cjo/) - Listening to Evelyn Wright sing, it doesn’t take long to hear a complete immersion in music. Yet while her mastery of the jazz idiom might suggest otherwise, she hasn’t always been a jazz singer. She has however, always been a singer, period. “This is all I’ve ever done,” she said at over coffee at a
- [Review of Jakob Bro and Joe Lovano's "Once Around the Room" for PostGenre](https://johnchacona.com/review-of-jakob-bro-and-joe-lovanos-once-around-the-room-for-postgenre/) - Review: Jakob Bro and Joe Lovano’s ‘Once Around the Room: A Tribute to Paul Motian’ PostGenre, 7 November, 2022
- [How online music instruction has affected local teachers](https://johnchacona.com/how-online-music-instruction-has-affected-local-teachers/) - Some Erie music instructors have embraced the age of remote teaching. Here's why Erie Times, 1 November, 2022
- [Profile of bassist Noah Garabedian for All About Jazz](https://johnchacona.com/profile-of-bassist-noah-garabedian-for-all-about-jazz/) - Noah Garabedian: The Power of Patience AllAboutJazz.com, 1 November, 2022
- [Busy Body, Busier Mind: Sam Blakeslee Returns Home To Celebrate His New CD](https://johnchacona.com/sam-blakeslee-cd-release/) - Though Sam Blakeslee has been increasingly active on the New York scene for five years, a part of him will always be most at home in Ohio. Want proof? Check out the credits on Busy Body, the new CD by his band Wistful Thinking, which will celebrated with a concert and release party at
- [Rabbit, Rabbit! Owen Broder Puts Johnny Hodges Front and Center at BLU Jazz+](https://johnchacona.com/owen-broder-at-blu-jazz/) - Johnny Hodges is widely acknowledged as perhaps the preeminent alto saxophone player in the decades before Charlie Parker's emergence. Yet unlike Parker, whose influence on saxophonists is apparent 68 years after his death, Hodges' style is almost universally celebrated in print and online yet never heard on the bandstand. Until now. Saxophonist Owen Broder is
- [Alla Boara Presents a Bella Figura at Friday's Album Release Celebration](https://johnchacona.com/alla-boara-at-bop-stop/) - Drummer Anthony Taddeo finished his graduate degree from Youngstown State University in 2020, but he won’t hand in his final project until Friday night. True, Le Tre Sorelle, the new CD by his band Alla Boara, wasn’t exactly a class assignment, and as capstone research projects go, this one is more joyous than the average
- [Profile of Albert Glinsky, Author of a Biography of Inventor Robert Moog](https://johnchacona.com/3265-2/) - Changing music: How a Mercyhurst professor became the biographer for a revolutionary inventor Erie Times-News, October 3, 2022
- [Profile of Tennessee Backporch for the Erie Times](https://johnchacona.com/profile-of-tennessee-backporch-for-the-erie-times/) - 42 years later: Erie variety band Tennessee Backporch celebrates anniversary of founding Erie Times-News, July 12, 2022
- [Profile of Musician Walt Slivinski for the Erie Times](https://johnchacona.com/3234-2/) - Erie musician runs studio decades after hanging with Beatles, opening for Sinatra Erie Times-News, October 19, 2022
- [Terence Blanchard and the Turtle Island Quartet Ride A Second Wave To Tri-C On Saturday](https://johnchacona.com/blanchard-turtle-island-at-tri-c/) - To be an improvising musician at the highest level means being ready for anything that might happen. Still, nothing could have prepared violinist David Balakrishnan for the call he received in February 2020. It's just an amazing story,” said Balakrishnan, 68,the founder and first violinist of the Turtle Island Quartet, the rare string quartet expert
- [Review: Rova Saxophone Quartet at Bop Stop for AllAboutJazz.com](https://johnchacona.com/review-rova-saxophone-quartet-at-bop-stop-for-allaboutjazz-com/) - Review: Rova Saxophone Quartet at Bop Stop AllAboutJazz.com, 12 October, 2022
- [Stephan Crump and His Bass Offer a Complete Musical Experience at a New Ghosts Concert](https://johnchacona.com/stephan-crump-at-bop-stop/) - It's practically a cliche in jazz circles: no one wants to listen to a bass solo. Stephan Crump has heard it all before. Yet when he kicks off his set at Bop Stop next Thursday, Oct. 13 at a concert presented by New Ghosts, it will be alone on the Hingetown club's stage with only
- [Hearing the Colors and Seeing the Sounds, Amina Figarova Comes To Bop Stop](https://johnchacona.com/amina-figarova-at-bop-stop/) - For years, Amina Figarova was such a constant presence on the Cleveland scene that you might have assumed that she lived here. So it came as a surprise when the pianist told me that her engagement Oct. 12 at Bop Stop will be her first at the Hingetown club. True, Figarova, who has been
- [ROVA Saxophone Quartet: Keeping It Fresh For 45 Years](https://johnchacona.com/rova/) - On Tuesday, Oct. 4, a quartet that has been one of the world’s most restlessly creative and genre-defying ensembles since its founding in San Francisco in the 1970s will return to Cleveland for the first time in nearly 35 years. No, it’s not the Kronos Quartet, which played here in 2006 and 2013. Tuesday’s New
- [Brooklyn Cooperative Trio Ember Set To Catch Fire At Blu Jazz+](https://johnchacona.com/ember-at-blu-jazz/) - You can’t blame bassist Noah Garabedian for hoping that the engagement Friday at Blu Jazz+ with his cooperative trio Ember will be a little less memorable than his last northeast Ohio visit. “Nobody was there,” Garabedian remembered. It was Nov. 9, 2016, the day after the election. That gig was with a different band in
- [Giant Step: Akron's Rubber City Festival Returns to Live Performance](https://johnchacona.com/rubber-city-festival/) - Right now, the northeast Ohio creative music scene is like the parent of a toddler walking barefoot in the dark trying to cross the room not knowing where the Legos might be. What will the size of audiences be like? What will they be willing to spend when inflation is eating away at buying
- [Grassy Sound Welcomes A Surprise Guest for Deadly Accurate, Irony-Free Lounge Music](https://johnchacona.com/grassy-sound/) - Philadelphian Nick Millevoi is best known for the post-industrial guitar grime of his Desertion Trio. Keyboard player Ron Stabinsky is one-third of the jazz arsonist squad Mostly Other People Do the Killing (MOPDtK), and every punk fan knows Derrick Bostrom as the founding drummer of the Meat Puppets. So it stands to reason that
- [Q&A with violinist/composer Sarah Bernstein for PostGenre](https://johnchacona.com/qa-with-violinist-composer-sarah-bernstein-for-postgenre/) - Veer: A Conversation with Sarah Bernstein PostGenre, 28 August, 2022
- [A Gabe Pollack Moment](https://johnchacona.com/a-gabe-pollack-moment/) - Word reached me late yesterday that Gabe Pollack, longtime director of Bop Stop at the Music Settlement, will be leaving the Hingetown club to become director of performing arts at the Cleveland Museum of Art (you can read CMA's announcement here, the Settlement's here). The first and most important thing to say about this announcement
- [Roll Call, August 19: Kyle Kidd, Russ Lossing, Pablo Moser and Nicolás Ojeda](https://johnchacona.com/roll-call-august-19/) - I get a lot of music for my consideration, more than 430 (!) new releases in 2022. Almost all of them are notable for something, and I'd like to give them their due. So, when I'm not previewing events in northeast Ohio or profiling regional musicians, I'll offer hot takes on recent releases. When I
- [Singer Barbara Knight Brings Jazz On A Summer's Day To Cain Park](https://johnchacona.com/barbara_knight_at_cain_park/) - Barbara Knight doesn’t consider herself a jazz singer, though you wouldn’t know it from the swinging, rhythmically alert performances she’s lavished on northeast Ohio audiences through the years. But hear her out. “I've always called myself a big band singer, rather than a jazz singer,” she said by phone from her home in nearby
- [Pianist Theron Brown Keeps Things Going with a Free Concert at Cleveland's Public Library](https://johnchacona.com/theron_brown_at_cpl/) - If your idea of a library is a place of hushed reverence, by all means stay away from the Downtown Branch of the Cleveland Public Library tomorrow afternoon where silence will be in short supply thanks to pianist Theron Brown and his trio of Jordan McBride on bass and drummer Zaire Darden. Reverence, on the
- [Yo NYO! Carnegie Hall's Young Jazz Orchestra Begins Its First U.S. Tour at Tri-C](https://johnchacona.com/nyo_at_tri-c/) - My friends in the “jazz is dead” camp often pose two rhetorical questions in defense of their position: Who will want to listen? and Who will want to play this music? The answer to the first is unknowable, but the second question will be answered in the most unequivocal way Saturday when NYO Jazz makes
- [2x2: Scott Robinson Descends on Akron for a Pair of Duets](https://johnchacona.com/scott-robinson-descends-at_blu-jazz/) - Scott Robinson, who will appear Thursday and Saturday at Blu JAZZ+ in Akron, is the kind of artist who defies easy categorization—or any categorization at all. Still, if you want to get a handle on the man, the opening 105 seconds of his 2017 recording, Tenormore reveal a lot. It starts with four notes played
- [Review: Steve Cardenas, Ben Allison and Ted Nash’s "Healing Power – The Music of Carla Bley" for PostGenre](https://johnchacona.com/album-review-steve-cardenas-ben-allison-and-ted-nashs-healing-power-the-music-of-carla-bley-for-postgenre/) - Album Review Steve Cardenas, Ben Allison and Ted Nash: Healing Power – The Music of Carla Bley PostGenre, 12 July, 2022
- [Smash! Stephen Philip Harvey and His Band of Superheroes Are Here](https://johnchacona.com/stephen-philip-harvey/) - “I hate that a big band is so . . . big,” saxophonist, composer and arranger Stephen Philip Harvey said with a chuckle. "It's financially a problem, but I just really like big band music.” Harvey likes it so much that he's putting aside the financial, organizational and logistical challenges of touring with a
- [Profile of bassist Calvin "Fuzz" Samuel for the Erie Times](https://johnchacona.com/profile-of-bassist-calvin-fuzz-samuel-for-the-erie-times/) - Have bass, will travel. 'Fuzz' Samuel's path from Antigua to Erie includes worldwide tour stops Erie Times-News, July 5, 2022
- [Profile of composer Stephen Philip Harvey for AllAboutJazz.com](https://johnchacona.com/profile-of-composer-stephen-philip-harvey-for-allaboutjazz-com/) - Profile Stephen Philip Harvey: Big Band Superhero In the Making AllAboutJazz.com, 6 July, 2022
- [Review: bassist Billy Mohler's "Anatomy" for AllAboutJazz.com](https://johnchacona.com/review-bassist-billy-mohlers-anatomy-for-allaboutjazz-com/) - Album Review Billy Mohler: Anatomy AllAboutJazz.com, 2 July, 2022
- [Andy Milne & Unison Offer a Perfect Way To End Cleveland's Perfect Jazz Weekend](https://johnchacona.com/andy-milne-unison-at-bop-stop/) - Everywhere you look, there are signs that the local jazz scene might again look like the one that went on leave in March, 2020. Reading the tea leaves, the return of the Tri-C Jazz Fest to Playhouse Square is huge tell. That tentpole event needs no introduction from me, just a hope that you’ll go
- [New Ghosts presents Boundary-Crossing Quartet Allegories at Bop Stop](https://johnchacona.com/allegories-at-bop-stop/) - “Ultimately, I’m not interested in presenting just jazz,” said Matt Laferty, one of the founders of the music presenting organization New Ghosts told me. “I’m interested in everything that pushes, and you know, this is going to push in ways that I can’t even predict having an awareness of.” Laferty was describing the music that
- [Roll Call, June 19: Dmitri Matheny, Bill Ortiz, Grant Stewart and Melissa Stylianou](https://johnchacona.com/roll-call-june-19-dmitri-matheny-bill-ortiz-grant-stewart-and-melissa-stylianou/) - I get a lot of music for my consideration, already 350 (!) new releases so far this year. Almost all of them are notable for something, and I'd like to give them their due. So, when I'm not previewing live events in Northeast Ohio, I'll offer hot takes on the preceding week's releases. Like these.
- [Caili O'Doherty Returns to Bop Stop with a New Band and a New Record](https://johnchacona.com/caili-odoherty-at-bop-stop/) - In the Irish language, céilí, pronounced KAY-lee, broadly means “dance.” That’s an apt description of the effervescent pianistic style of Caili O'Doherty, who will bring a quartet to the Bop Stop on Sunday to support "Quarantine Dream," her new recording released last Friday. According to O’Doherty, the name is no accident. “My parents had the
- [The More Things Change . . . Dan Polletta Returns to 90.3 FM](https://johnchacona.com/dan-polletta-returns-to-90-3-fm/) - “Jazz Is Dead” is the perennial Hydra of music criticism. Every time that the abundant evidence to the contrary decapitates that claim, two more spring up: “The jazz record business is dead” or “jazz radio is dead.” Nostalgia for a half-remembered Golden Age may be the price of admission into any fan club, especially one
- [Review: Jacob Garchik's "Assembly" for AllAboutJazz.com](https://johnchacona.com/review-jacob-garchiks-assembly-for-allaboutjazz-com/) - Album Review Jacob Garchik: Assembly AllAboutJazz.com, 7 June, 2022
- [June Busts Out In Cleveland with a Cuban Piano Powerhouse and an All-Star Band](https://johnchacona.com/hilario_duran_and_andy_james/) - Friday: Hilario Durán Trio at Bop Stop GENTLE READERS, Here's a note from the Bop Stop: "DUE TO HEALTH AND SAFETY PROTOCOLS AND AN ABUNDANCE OF CAUTION, TONIGHT'S SHOW WITH HILARIO DURAN HAS BEEN CANCELED. WE ARE WORKING TO RESCHEDULE THIS DATE FOR THE FALL. ALL TICKET PURCHASERS WILL BE NOTIFIED ABOUT REFUNDS." If a
- [Can We Talk? Gerald Clayton Comes to Bop Stop for Two Conversations on Improvisation](https://johnchacona.com/gerald-clayton-conversations/) - For generations, the jazz business has spent a lot of time and money looking for ways to grow the genre’s dedicated but comparatively small audience. Pianist Gerald Clayton has some advice for them: Ain’t nothing to it but to do it. “That applies to how to approach playing the music, learning how to play
- [Jazz Weekend: May 20-21](https://johnchacona.com/jazz-weekend-may-20-21/) - Friday: Jonathan Barber and Vision Ahead at Bop Stop One of the most talked about releases of 2021 was put out by Philadelphia-born drummer Johnathan Blake, son of jazz violinist John Blake. But Blake isn't the only drummer named Jonathan with the initial B. and a new release. The other drummer is Jonathan Barber will
- [Profile of "Black Lives: From Generation to Generation" for AllAboutJazz.com](https://johnchacona.com/profile-of-black-lives-from-generation-to-generation-for-allaboutjazz-com/) - From Generation to Generation, A New Collection Transcends Borders and Barriers AllAboutJazz.com, 25 May, 2022
- [Preview: Erie Times Preview of a World Premiere by the Erie Philharmonic](https://johnchacona.com/preview-erie-times-preview-of-a-world-premiere-by-the-erie-philharmonic/) - Actor Harry Lennix joins composer Timothy Adams for world premiere of Harriet Tubman-inspired music with Erie Philharmonic Erie Times-News, May 10, 2022
- [Born In A Log Cabin: AlbaTrio Celebrates the Release Of Their Debut CD](https://johnchacona.com/albatrio-cd-release/) - If you pick up a copy of AlbaTrio's eponymously titled new recording at Sunday’s release party at Bop Stop—and you should—you’ll hear an impressive showcase for trumpeter Tommy Lehman, bassist Tim Lekan and percussionist Anthony Taddeo. But listen closely and you might sense the presence of an uncredited fourth voice: the spacious yet intimate ambience
- [Dan Bruce's :beta collective Minds The Mystics with a Free CD Release Concert](https://johnchacona.com/dan-bruces-beta-collective/) - In Eastern philosophical systems, time isn't linear as we think of it in the West. It's an endlessly looping circle. Musicians can appreciate this concept better than most of us, on and off the bandstand. Consider guitarist Dan Bruce, who will celebrate the release of Time to Mind the Mystics, the new recording by his
- [Ellington Is Forever](https://johnchacona.com/ellington-is-forever/) - This is the most valuable object I own, an autographed photo of the Duke Ellington Orchestra given by Ellington to my father after one of the three engagements my dad presented in Erie, Pennsylvania between 1931 and 1933. I can't tell you how much it means to me that my dad knew Ellington, and
- [Guest Review: Ballister and Vandermark/Wooley/Lytton at Bop Stop](https://johnchacona.com/guest-review-ballister-and-vandermark-wooley-lytton-at-bop-stop/) - If you're reading this page, it's fair to assume that for you, creative music is life. It certainly is for me, yet sometimes life intervenes. That happened last week when a veterinary emergency demanded what little energy I had after a mad dash to the April 15 tax finish line. I was whupped, and not
- [Ghost Notes: Boston's 13-Piece Makanda Project Lifts A Significant Composer from Obscurity](https://johnchacona.com/makanda-project-at-bop-stop/) - Among the many souvenirs of his half century as a music producer, manager, writer and activist, Marty Khan also has a collection of sculptures carved in ebony by the Makonde people of Tanzania, among them, one that resembled both Rodin's "The Thinker" and his longtime friend and client Makanda Ken McIntyre. One bright and sunny
- [Vibraphonist Chris Dingman Brings His Journey of Healing to Cleveland's Bop Stop](https://johnchacona.com/chris-dingman-at-bop-stop/) - Listening to music has increasingly become a solitary, disembodied experience, these days. Yet an opposite if so far unequal reaction is rising: a new interest in music that serves a social purpose. In the dim past, all music was social. It was used for celebration and worship, to lull children to sleep and to blunt
- [Roll Call: April 8, 2022](https://johnchacona.com/roll-call-april-8-2022/) - I get a lot of music for my consideration, already more than 220 new releases so far this year. Almost all of them are notable for something, and I'd like to give them their due. So, when I'm not previewing live events in Northeast Ohio, I'll offer hot takes on recent releases. Like these. The
- [Saxophonist Diego Rivera Makes Up for Lost Time Saturday at Bop Stop](https://johnchacona.com/saxophonist-diego-rivera-makes-up-for-lost-time-saturday-at-bop-stop/) - Saxophonist Diego Rivera's 2020 gig at Cleveland's Bop Stop is one that he'll never forget, but not for the usual reasons. The Michigan saxophonist's engagement at the Hingetown club was the first event to have been canceled as the darkness of the COVID pandemic descended on a terrified world. "We actually canceled the morning
- [Profile of Nashville vocalist Chelcie Jette for the Erie Times](https://johnchacona.com/chelcie-jette-profile/) - Erie native Chelcie Gette chases music dream in Nashville, set to release EP this summer Erie Times-News, April 5, 2022
- ["Perpetual" Motion: The Venerable Organ Trio of Larry Goldings, Peter Bernstein and Bill Stewart Come to Tri-C](https://johnchacona.com/goldings-bernstein-stewart-at-tri-c/) - On the surface, Perpetual Pendulum, the new release by the trio of organist Larry Goldings, guitarist Peter Bernstein and drummer Bill Stewart who will appear Sunday at Tri-C follows the comfortingly familiar path established by generations of organ trios. But spend some time with this recording and a world of subtleties reveals itself. Start with
- [Dafmark Goes "Under the Great Ice Sheet" for Its Spring Performance](https://johnchacona.com/dafmark-under-the-great-ice-sheet/) - It might be tempting fate to create a piece called “Under the Great Ice Sheet” to be performed in Erie’s maddeningly capricious late-winter climate. But fate and its consequences are among the themes of Dafmark Dance Theater’s spring season presentation April 1 and 2 at the company’s State Street studio. The title is drawn from
- [A Man A Plan: Michael Formanek Brings A Palindromic Trio To Bop Stop](https://johnchacona.com/michael-formanek-drome-trio-at-bop-stop/) - When you think of the tradition of getting together to play music on the back porch, you probably imagine a bunch of guys with guitars and fiddles and maybe a washtub bass deep in a backwoods hollow. But when the back porch is in suburban North Jersey, things look a little different. So when Chet
- [Re-Birth: The Iconic Cleveland Improvising Trio Returns to the Happy Dog](https://johnchacona.com/birth-returns-to-the-happy-dog/) - If you were born any time after 1975, you couldn't avoid Jefferson Starship's spectacularly dreadful "We Built This City on Rock 'n' Roll." Even if that lyrical flex were true, it pales before the real-life exploits of the band Birth, who built the stage at one of the city's great rock landmarks, literally. Next Saturday,
- [Dafmark Dance Theater's "And If Not Now, When"](https://johnchacona.com/1378/) - Erie's Dafmark Dance presents 'And If Not Now, When?' Erie Times-News ShowCase, 6 April, 2017
- [Preview: Tri-C Cleveland JazzFest](https://johnchacona.com/preview-tri-c-cleveland-jazzfest/) - Preview: Tri-C JazzFest 2022 AllAboutJazz.com, March 21, 2022
- [Review:  Jazz Gallery All-Stars at Tri-C](https://johnchacona.com/jazz-gallery-all-stars-at-tri-c/) - Review: Jazz Gallery All-Stars at Tri-C AllAboutJazz.com, March 21, 2022
- [For Their Tuesday Bop Stop Show, Céline Iris and Eddie Henderson Prove That You Gotta Have Hart](https://johnchacona.com/celine-iris-and-eddie-henderson/) - "It's not what you know, it's who you know" the familiar saying goes. True enough, but sometimes it's not who you know, but who they that matters. Take rising vocalist Céline Iris who asked an all-time trumpet great, Dr. Eddie Henderson, to join her on the bandstand for a show Tuesday night at the Bop
- [Trefoil, An All-Star Team of Ambrose Akinmusire, Gerald Cleaver & Kris Davis, Come To Bop Stop](https://johnchacona.com/akinmusire-cleaver-davis-at-bop-stop/) - When the final buzzer sounded at the NBA All-Star Game on February 20, it was the end of All-Star weekend in Cleveland but it was the opening bell for an all-star month of jazz. First came the March 3 appearance at Tri-C of the Jazz Gallery All-Stars (previewed here), a band that in every way
- [Profiling my search for a new corner bar (really!)](https://johnchacona.com/profiling-my-search-for-a-new-corner-bar-really/) - Retire, move, marry, refresh Lake Erie LifeStyle Magazine, March, 2020
- [Roll Call: March 8, 2022](https://johnchacona.com/roll-call-march-8-2022/) - I get a lot of music for my consideration, already more than 160 new releases in 2022. Almost all of them are notable for something, and I'd like to give them their due. So, when I'm not previewing live events in Northeast Ohio, I'll offer hot takes on recent releases. Like these. Anniversaries and theme
- [Roll Call: September 3, 2021](https://johnchacona.com/roll-call-september-3-2021/) - I get a lot of new music for my consideration, 407 releases so far this year. Almost all of them are notable for something, and I'd like to give them their due. So, every week, more or less, I'll offer hot takes on the releases of the preceding seven days. The week of August 28
- [The Jazz Gallery All-Stars Finally Land in Cleveland for a March 6 Concert](https://johnchacona.com/jazz-gallery-all-stars-in-cleveland/) - Back in the 1980s, listings of events in The New Yorker's Goings On About Town section were introduced with this charmingly worded caveat: Musicians and night-club proprietors live complicated lives that are subject to last-minute change; it is therefore always advisable to call ahead. For presenters and musicians who ply their trades during winter on
- [Mostly Other People Do the Killing Finds the Laughter in "Disasters" At Bop Stop](https://johnchacona.com/mopdtk-at-bop-stop/) - If you can't figure out why the song titles at tomorrow night's Bop Stop concert by Mostly Other People Do the Killing might provoke laughter among some audience members, don't worry. They're just Pennsylvanians who are in on the joke. Those titles, like those of almost all of bassist Moppa Elliot's compositions, are simply
- [Roll Call: February 14, 2022](https://johnchacona.com/roll-call-february-14-2022/) - I get a lot of music for my consideration, already more than 130 new releases in 2022. Almost all of them are notable for something, and I'd like to give them their due. So, when I'm not previewing live events in Northeast Ohio, I'll offer hot takes on recent releases. Lately, a lot of them
- [Review of Irreversible Entanglements' "Open the Gates" for PostGenre](https://johnchacona.com/review-of-open-the-gates/) - Review: Irreversible Entanglements' 'Open the Gates' PostGenre
- [Tech/TV personality Katie Linendoll hits charts, credits Erie roots for success](https://johnchacona.com/tech-tv-personality-katie-linendoll-hits-charts-credits-erie-roots-for-success/) - Tech/TV personality Katie Linendoll hits country music charts, credits Erie roots for success Erie Times-News, February 9, 2022
- [Chicago's Ethnic Heritage Ensemble Returns To Erie With the Spirit](https://johnchacona.com/ethnic-heritage-ensemble-returns-to-erie/) - Lately there's been a revival of interest in so-called spiritual jazz, a meditative offshoot of the 1960's avant-garde that was advanced by figures such as the late harpist and organist Alice Coltrane and Pharaoh Sanders, a tenor saxophonist very much with us whose "Promises," a collaboration with British electronic musician Floating Points, topped many
- [Check Out Jazz at the Library with Céline Iris and Dan Bruce](https://johnchacona.com/jazz-at-the-library-with-celine-iris-and-dan-bruce/) - A good measure of the health of a scene is the different kinds of venues that present the music. You expect to find jazz at outdoor festivals, college music departments, concert halls and, of course, in jazz clubs. And yes, all music scenes have taken hits over the last 23 months, but the appearance of
- [Review: Boris Kozlov's "First Things First" in AllAboutJazz.com](https://johnchacona.com/review-boris-kozlovs-first-things-first-in-allaboutjazz-com/) - Review: Boris Kozlov's 'First Things First’ AllAboutJazz.com
- [Soul Message Band Returns to Cleveland With Timeless Organ Trio Grooves](https://johnchacona.com/soul-message-band-returns-to-cleveland/) - Even if I hadn't moved to Cleveland in 2019 I am probably a bit too young to have visited the many jazz venues that once thrived in the city's so-called second downtown on Euclid Avenue. On any Saturday night 60 years ago, the district would have been alive with working-class revelers going out to a
- [Branford Marsalis brings his love of jazz, touring quartet to Erie](https://johnchacona.com/branford-marsalis-brings-his-love-of-jazz-touring-quartet-to-erie/) - Saxophone virtuoso Branford Marsalis brings his love of jazz, touring quartet to Erie Erie Times-News, January 26, 2022
- [Chris Hovan's Quartet Brings Generations Together at Bop Stop Gig](https://johnchacona.com/chris-hovans-generations-quartet/) - Jazz has so many dialectics, you'd think it was invented by Socrates or Hegel. Inside/outside, written/improvised, traditional/avant-garde: all are ways of arriving at the truth about jazz. As a journalist as well as a player, Cleveland's Chris Hovan is surely familiar with these admittedly reductive categories and more--like this one: young/old. It's implied in the
- [Roll Call: January 14, 2022](https://johnchacona.com/roll-call-january-14-2022/) - I get a lot of music for my consideration, already more than 80 new releases in 2022. Almost all of them are notable for something, and I'd like to give them their due. So, when I'm not previewing live events in Northeast Ohio (like now when there aren't too many of those), I'll offer hot
- [Chestnuts Roasting When They Open Fire: A Togishi Seasonal Spectacular Returns](https://johnchacona.com/a-togishi-seasonal-spectacular-returns/) - In Japan the togishi is the skilled craftsman who polishes and sharpens the nihonto, the deadly sword used by samurai warriors to cut their enemies to pieces. In Cleveland, Togishi is a trio of saxophonist Dan Wenninger, Mike Sopko on guitar and electronics, and Joe Tomino on drums and electronics whose improvised music cuts to
- [Erie Philharmonic principal cellist breaks barriers](https://johnchacona.com/erie-philharmonic-principal-cellist-breaks-barriers/) - Erie Philharmonic principal cellist breaks barriers, brings classical music 'to the people' Erie Times-News, September 21, 2021
- [Roll Call: January 7, 2022](https://johnchacona.com/roll-call-january-7-2022/) - It's been a minute since I've done one of these, choosing to concentrate instead on previewing live music events in Northeast Ohio. With few of those on the horizon, and needing to get into a posting groove, here's a look at some interesting new releases that dropped in the past week. Note: my review of
- [Review of William Parker's "Migration of Silence" for PostGenre](https://johnchacona.com/migration-of-silence-review/) - Review: William Parker’s ‘Migration of Silence into and Out of the Tone World [Volumes 1-10]’ PostGenre
- [Joy To the World: Vocalist Samara Joy Returns to Cleveland This Week](https://johnchacona.com/joy-to-the-world-samara-joy-returns/) - EDITOR'S NOTE: LET'S TRY THIS AGAIN. When my laptop was sent for emergency repairs last week, I lost access to my editorial calendar for this blog. For some reason, I assumed Samara Joy's engagement at Bop Stop was December 10, and I rushed a post to preview the gig, never thinking that I could check
- [Looking Back On 50 Years of Gannon University's MBA Program](https://johnchacona.com/looking-back-on-50-years-of-gannon-universitys-mba-program/) - Celebrate the Milestones: Master of Business Administration Program 50th Anniversary Gannon Magazine, Fall, 2021
- [Noah Haidu Returns to Bop Stop with a New Trio and a New CD](https://johnchacona.com/noah-haidu-returns-to-bop-stop-with-a-new-trio-and-a-new-cd/) - To the jazz fans of northeast Ohio, pianist Noah Haidu's September 28, 2020 appearance at Bop Stop was as important for its symbolism as for its musical interest. The concert, which premiered his "Doctone" CD, was the first in six months at the Hingetown club by touring national musicians. The message was, emphatically, music is
- [Profile of the Presque Isle Jazz Orchestra for the Erie Times-News](https://johnchacona.com/profile-of-the-presque-isle-jazz-orchestra-for-the-erie-times-news/) - Hear that swing? Big-band era plays on through Erie's Presque Isle Jazz Orchestra Erie Times-News, 18 November, 2021
- [Rob Garcia 4 in Erie and Cleveland](https://johnchacona.com/rob-garcia-4-in-erie-and-cleveland/) - Drummer Rob Garcia might be the only man alive to have played with both Chicago creative music legend Joseph Jarman and Woody Allen. For the record, he's also appeared with Wynton Marsalis, Joe Lovano, Dave Liebman and Diana Krall. If that suggests a wide musical curiosity and technical mastery, Garcia has all of those attributes
- [Aaron Parks Returns to the road with a tour beginning at Cleveland's Bop Stop](https://johnchacona.com/previewing-aaron-parks-at-clevelands-bop-stop/) - Aaron Parks had no problem filling the last 19 months of time once occupied by touring, recording and doing musician things. "We got a puppy in February 2020. And then we found out that we were pregnant in March 2020. And then everything shut down like 10 days after we found that out," Parks said
- [Chris Coles "Nine Lives Project" Offers Grace Through Music, Dance and Visuals](https://johnchacona.com/chris-coles-nine-lives-project-offers-grace-through-music-dance-and-visuals/) - When Akron saxophonist and educator Chris Coles composed his "Nine Lives Project" as a response to the 2015 murders by a white supremacist of nine black parishioners at Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, S.C., anger was not on his mind. Even after the tumultuous events of 2020, "Nine Lives"chooses light over heat. "The thing that
- [Joey De Francesco, Guitarist Shubh Saran and Maria Schneider Headline a Busy Week for NEO Jazz Stans](https://johnchacona.com/joey-de-francesco-guitarist-shubh-saran-and-maria-schneider-headline-a-busy-week-for-neo-jazz-stans/) - On any given day on any of the jazz fanboy groups on social media (and it's overwhelmingly boys) you're likely to run into images like this one. They're usually accompanied by a complaint that moans, essentially, "Why can't things be like that again?" To which I might answer: have you looked at what's happening in
- [Reviewing the 2021 Tri-C JazzFest Cleveland for AllAboutJazz.com](https://johnchacona.com/2370-2/) - Review: 2021 Tri-C JazzFest Cleveland AllAboutJazz.com, 21 September, 2021
- [Previewing Dixon's Violin at Dafmark Dance Theater](https://johnchacona.com/previewing-dixons-violin-at-dafmark-dance-theater/) - Dixon Hammond is a seeker. The violinist will appear in concert at Dafmark Dance Theater on October 1 as Dixon's Violin. Hammond, 51, plays what he calls "visionary violin," but though Dixon's Violin is just Hammond and his five-string electric violin, the music is multilayered and textural thanks to an array of pedals, electronic looping
- [Roll Call: 27 August, 2021, part 2](https://johnchacona.com/roll-call-27-august-2021-part-2/) - I get a lot of music for my consideration, 398 releases so far this year. Almost all of them are notable for something, and I'd like to give them their due. So, every week, more or less, I'll offer hot takes on the releases of the preceding seven days. Last week was so busy--15 new
- [Roll Call: 27 August, 2021, part 1](https://johnchacona.com/roll-call-27-august-2021-part-1/) - I get a lot of music for my consideration, nearly 400 so far this year. Almost all of them are notable for something, and I'd like to give them their due. So, every week, more or less, I'll offer hot takes on the releases of the preceding seven days. This week was exceptionally busy with
- [Roll Call: 20 August, 2021](https://johnchacona.com/roll-call-20-august-2021/) - I get a lot of music for my consideration, more than 350 new releases in 2021. Almost all of them are notable for something, and I'd like to give them their due. So, every week, more or less, I'll offer hot takes on the releases of the preceding seven days. Pittsburgh-born bassist Leon Lee
- [Profile: Blues guitarist Jeff Fetterman for the Erie Times](https://johnchacona.com/profile-blues-guitarist-jeff-fetterman-for-the-erie-times/) - 'I just like how it makes me feel.' Blues guitarist Jeff Fetterman embraces life on stage, Erie Times, 23 June, 2021
- [Review: Ben Goldberg's "Everything Happens To Be."](https://johnchacona.com/review-ben-goldbergs-everything-happens-to-be/) - Ben Goldberg's new recording, "Everything Happens To Be." with Mary Halvorson, Michael Formanek and Tomas Fujiwara is full of ancient wisdom and sly humor. John Chacona's review is on AllAboutJazz.com.
- [Interview:  Jacques Schwarz-Bart's Afro-Caribbean Odyssey](https://johnchacona.com/interview-jacques-schwarz-barts-afro-caribbean-odyssey/) - Jacques Schwarz-Bart's Afro-Caribbean Odyssey AllAboutJazz.com, 10 June, 2021
- [Profiling Gannon University graduates working in health care](https://johnchacona.com/gannon-magazine-forging-pathways-for-global-health/) - Forging Pathways for Global Health Gannon University Magazine, June, 2021
- [Review: Roni Ben-Hur's "Stories"](https://johnchacona.com/review-roni-ben-hurs-stories/) - Roni Ben-Hur: Stories AllAboutJazz.com, 6 June, 2021
- [Back to the Gardens](https://johnchacona.com/back-to-the-gardens/) - Waldameer's Storied Ballroom Rainbow Gardens Hosted Renowned Musicians, Erie Times, 14 May, 2021
- [Edward Kennedy Ellington, April 29, 1899-May 24, 1974](https://johnchacona.com/2164-2/) - This is the most valuable object I own, a photo of the Duke Ellington Orchestra given by Ellington to my father after one of the three engagements my dad presented in Erie, PA between 1931 and 1933. I can't tell you how much it means to me that my dad knew Ellington, and that I
- [Review: Miguel Zenón: Law Years: The Music of Ornette Coleman](https://johnchacona.com/review-miguel-zenon-law-years-the-music-of-ornette-coleman/) - Miguel Zenón: Law Years: The Music of Ornette Coleman AllAboutJazz.com, 23 March, 2021
- [Roll Call: February 27, 2021](https://johnchacona.com/roll-call-february-27-2021/) - I get a lot of music for my consideration, more than 460 new releases in 2020. Almost all of them are notable for something, and I'd like to give them their due. So, every week, more or less, I'll offer hot takes on the releases of the preceding seven days. Publicity for guitarist/composer/sound designer Colin
- [Roll Call: February 19, 2021](https://johnchacona.com/roll-call-february-19-2021/) - I get a lot of music for my consideration, more than 460 new releases in 2020. Almost all of them are notable for something, and I'd like to give them their due. So, every week, more or less, I'll offer hot takes on the releases of the preceding seven days. If you've been wondering how
- [Roll Call: February 12, 2021](https://johnchacona.com/roll-call-february-12-2021/) - I get a lot of music for my consideration, more than 460 new releases in 2020. Almost all of them are notable for something, and I'd like to give them their due. So, every week, more or less, I'll offer hot takes on the releases of the preceding seven days. International surveys have identified Danes
- [How My Foodie Obsession Came To A (Temporary) End](https://johnchacona.com/2062/) - End of bad food romance looking good for healthy relationship, Lake Erie LifeStyle Magazine, February 2021
- [Review: Dayna Stephens: Right Now! Live At The Village Vanguard in All About Jazz](https://johnchacona.com/2106/) - Review: Dayna Stephens: Right Now! Live At The Village Vanguard AllAboutJazz.com, 12 February, 2021
- [Roll Call: February 5, 2021](https://johnchacona.com/roll-call-february-5-2021/) - I get a lot of music for my consideration, more than 460 new releases in 2020. Almost all of them are notable for something, and I'd like to give them their due. So, every week, more or less, I'll offer hot takes on the releases of the preceding seven days. It's been a minute
- [Reviewing newly issued archival recordings by Dave Brubeck and Bill Evans](https://johnchacona.com/reviewing-newly-issued-archival-recordings-by-dave-brubeck-and-bill-evans/) - Review: Dave Brubeck’s ‘Time OutTakes’ and Bill Evans ‘Live at Ronnie Scott’s,' PostGenre, 27 January, 2021
- [Gannon Magazine: Coming Together for Social Change](https://johnchacona.com/gannon-magazine-coming-together-for-social-change/) - In response to the events of 2020, and to the changing culture all around us, Gannon University students, faculty and administrators are coming together to forge a new understanding of the issues of social and racial justice. This profile is a look at the effort to date.
- [Roll Call: December 25, 2020](https://johnchacona.com/roll-call-december-25-2020/) - I get a lot of music for my consideration, more than 460 new releases so far this year. Almost all of them are notable for something, and I'd like to give them their due. So every week, I'll offer hot takes on the releases of the preceding seven days. Understandably, this week wasn't a
- [Roll Call: December 18, 2020](https://johnchacona.com/roll-call-december-18-2020/) - I get a lot of music for my consideration, more than 450 new releases so far this year. Almost all of them are notable for something, and I'd like to give them their due. So every week, I'll offer hot takes on the releases of the preceding seven days. it's a great writing exercise,
- [Roll Call: December 11, 2020](https://johnchacona.com/roll-call-december-11-2020/) - I get a lot of music for my consideration, more than 450 new releases so far this year. Almost all of them are notable for something, and I'd like to give them their due. So every week, I'll offer hot takes on the releases of the preceding seven days. it's a great writing exercise,
- [Roll Call: December 4, 2020](https://johnchacona.com/roll-call-december-4-2020/) - I get a lot of music for my consideration, more than 450 new releases so far this year. Almost all of them are notable for something, and I'd like to give them their due. So every week, I'll offer hot takes on the releases of the preceding seven days. it's a great writing exercise, and
- [Roll Call: September 11, 2020](https://johnchacona.com/roll-call-september-11-2020/) - I get a lot of music for my consideration, more than 360 new releases so far this year. Almost all of them are notable for something, and I'd like to give them their due. So every week, I'll do quick hits on the releases of the preceding seven days. it's a great writing exercise, and
- [Roll Call: November 30, 2020](https://johnchacona.com/roll-call-november-30-2020/) - I get a lot of music for my consideration, more than 450 new releases so far this year. Almost all of them are notable for something, and I'd like to give them their due. So every week, I'll do quick hits on the releases of the preceding seven days. it's a great writing exercise, and
- [Moving On and Moving Up](https://johnchacona.com/moving-on-and-moving-up/) - For about 35 years I prowled various dark corners of the advertising/PR/marketing world, a place that's governed by deadlines. To maintain my sanity, and to feel that I might contribute something to the world, I started writing cultural journalism as a newspaper freelancer. Both of those paths have come to an end (though I'm keeping
- [Previewing the Noah Haidu Trio at Bop Stop, Sept, 28](https://johnchacona.com/previewing-the-noah-haidu-trio-at-bop-stop-sept-28/) - Maybe pianist Noah Haidu's new Sunnyside Records CD, "Doctone," which he will premiere at Cleveland's Bop Stop on September 28, is not a tribute record at all.
- [Roll Call Extra: Big Band Edition, Sept. 4, 2020](https://johnchacona.com/roll-call-extra-big-band-edition-sept-4-2020/) - I get a lot of music for my consideration, more than 345 new releases so far this year. Almost all of them are notable for something, and I'd like to give them their due. So every week, I'll do quick hits on the releases of the preceding seven days. it's a great writing exercise, and
- [Roll Call: September 4, 2020](https://johnchacona.com/roll-call-september-4-2020/) - I get a lot of music for my consideration, more than 345 new releases so far this year. Almost all of them are notable for something, and I'd like to give them their due. So every week, I'll do quick hits on the releases of the preceding seven days. it's a great writing exercise, and
- [Roll Call: Big Band Edition, Sept. 3, 2020](https://johnchacona.com/roll-call-big-band-edition-sept-3-2020/) - I get a lot of music for my consideration, more than 325 new releases so far this year. Almost all of them are notable for something, and I'd like to give them their due. So every week, I'll do quick hits on the releases of the preceding seven days. it's a great writing exercise, and
- [Roll Call: August 28, 2020](https://johnchacona.com/1887/) - I get a lot of music for my consideration, more than 325 new releases so far this year. Almost all of them are notable for something, and I'd like to give them their due. So every week, I'll do quick hits on the releases of the preceding seven days. it's a great writing exercise, and
- [Roll Call Extra: August 20, 2020](https://johnchacona.com/roll-call-extra-august-20-2020/) - We've reached the point of the summer that would normally be peak jazz festival season. And while there's no replacing the alchemy of sun, live music and effortless companionship that makes this the sweetest time of year for many jazz fans, the last couple of weeks have brought an armful of unusually compelling new releases
- [Roll Call:  August 14, 2020](https://johnchacona.com/roll-call-august-14-2020/) - Yeah, it's been a minute. Procrastination is the work-spouse of every writer and I'm inordinately friendly with mine, but that's not what happened here. Frankly, the events of late May were so momentous that writing about music seemed not just a luxury, but almost an insult. It was a time that called for witness
- [The Cleveland jazz scene on lockdown](https://johnchacona.com/the-cleveland-jazz-scene-on-lockdown/) - JazzOnLockdown: Cleveland, Cautious Optimism in an Underdog Town Jazz Journalists Association News, 6 May, 2020
- [Roll Call - April 10, 2020](https://johnchacona.com/roll-call-april-10-2020/) - I get a lot of music for my consideration, more than 150 new releases so far in 2020. Almost all of them are notable for something, and I'd like to give them their due. I have a lot of time on my hands as my biggest gig, previewing events for a local newspaper, has evaporated.
- [CD review: Amina Figarova: Persistence](https://johnchacona.com/cd-review-amina-figarova-persistence/) - For 20 years, pianist Amina Figarova led a series of bracing and accomplished instrumental quintets and sextets. Those were largely acoustic groups that featured undersung horn players such as tenor saxophonist Marc Momaas and flutist Bart Platteau, who is Figarova's husband. On her latest CD, Persistence (AmFi Records),
- [CD review: Andy Milne and Unison: The reMission](https://johnchacona.com/cd-review-andy-milne-and-unison-the-remission/) - Last December, a million years ago, my wife and I went to Cleveland's Bop Stop to hear vocalist LaTanya Hall, who was touring to support her new CD (I reviewed concert and CD here and here respectively). As wonderful as her performance was, it was hard not to be mesmerized by the A-list trio assembled
- [CD review: Art Hirahara: Balance Point](https://johnchacona.com/cd-review-art-hirahara-balance-point/) - I've got to stop being surprised by Art Hirahara. Every other year since 2014, Posi-Tone Records has released a delightful CD by the Bay Area-born pianist. This year's "Balance Point" is the best yet. Like a younger Kenny Barron, Hirahara is a pianist of freshness and clarity, a sparkling improvisor and a sensitive accompanist who
- [Roll Call: April 24, 2020](https://johnchacona.com/roll-call-april-24-2020/) - I get a lot of music for my consideration, more than 174 new releases so far this year. Almost all of them are notable for something, and I'd like to give them their due. So every week, I'll do quick hits on the releases of the preceding seven days. it's a great writing exercise, and
- [Roll Call, April 22, 2020](https://johnchacona.com/roll-call-april-22-2020/) - I get a lot of music for my consideration, more than 160 new releases so far this year. Almost all of them are notable for something, and I'd like to give them their due. So every week, I'll do quick hits on the releases of the preceding seven days. it's a great writing exercise, and
- [Roll Call, April 21, 2020](https://johnchacona.com/roll-call-april-21-2020/) - I get a lot of music for my consideration, more than 160 new releases so far this year. Almost all of them are notable for something, and I'd like to give them their due. So every week, I'll do quick hits on the releases of the preceding seven days. It's fun and it's a great
- [Previewing Dramashop's livestream of ‘Silent Sky’](https://johnchacona.com/previewing-dramashops-livestream-of-silent-sky/) - Erie’s Dramashop to livestream production of ‘Silent Sky’, Erie Times-News ShowCase, 2 April, 2020
- [Profiling Brandon Fox Worship's "Angel, Keep Going"](https://johnchacona.com/profiling-brandon-fox-worships-angel-keep-going/) - Erie-area teacher pens song to boost ‘struggling’ health care friend, Erie Times-News ShowCase, 31 March, 2020
- [Buy more music!](https://johnchacona.com/buy-more-music/) - The news is almost too dire to contemplate. Clubs and bars closing. Venues shuttering. The nation's largest performing arts organization, New York's Metropolitan Opera, is laying-off its union workers. On the jazz side of things where almost everyone is a freelancer without the protection of a contract, things are even more dire. Could the news
- [Previewing the 2021-22 Broadway in Erie season and the Warner Theatre renovation project](https://johnchacona.com/previewing-the-2021-22-broadway-in-erie-season-and-the-warner-theatre-renovation-project/) - Broadway in Erie to return bigger, better for 2021-22 season, Erie Times-News ShowCase, 19 March, 2020
- [CD Review: Mara Rosenbloom presents Flyways: Murmuration](https://johnchacona.com/cd-review-mara-rosenbloom-presents-flyways-murmuration/) - One of the most extraordinary musical events of the last year was the appearance in Erie last September of pianist Mara Rosenbloom's Flyways with the vocalist Anaïs Maviel and Sean Conly substituting for Rashaan Carter on bass. This concert stood out both for risk taken by JazzErie,
- [CD Review: Jason Palmer: The Concert: 12 Musings for Isabella](https://johnchacona.com/cd-review-jason-palmer-the-concert-12-musings-for-isabella/) - Thirty years ago today, as Boston's raucous St. Patrick's Day celebrations approached last call, two men wearing police uniforms entered the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and made off with 13 works by Rembrandt, Degas, Vermeer and others. With a value exceeding $500 million, the daring theft is
- [Comedian Harrison Greenbaum at Jr.'s Last Laugh](https://johnchacona.com/comedian-harrison-greenbaum-at-jr-s-last-laugh/) - at oneCompare compare iPhone 11 Pro Max deals for free https://www.onecompare.com Powered by Embed YouTube Video ‘Hardest working’ comedian set for Erie shows, Erie Times-News ShowCase, 12 March, 2020
- [Baritone Mario Diaz-Moresco and pianist Spencer Myer at the Rocky River Chamber Music Society](https://johnchacona.com/baritone-mario-diaz-moresco-and-pianist-spencer-myer-at-the-rocky-river-chamber-music-society/) - Social distancing wasn't a thing in 19th century Vienna when Beethoven wrote "An die ferne Geliebte," but one suspects that the COVID-19 epidemic may spawn a new cycle of laments for distant or inaccessible lovers. Baritone Mario Diaz-Moresco and pianist Spencer Myer opened Monday night's Rocky River Chamber Music Society recital at West Shore Unitarian
- [Erie Philharmonic's World Premiere of Vivian Fung's Trumpet Concerto](https://johnchacona.com/erie-philharmonics-world-premiere-of-vivian-fungs-trumpet-concerto/) - Erie Philharmonic makes history with Vivian Fung’s Trumpet Concerto, Erie Times-News ShowCase, 5 March, 2020
- [Arts and Drafts Spring 2020](https://johnchacona.com/arts-and-drafts-spring-2020/) - Erie's Arts & Drafts a banquet for the eyes and ears, Erie Times-News ShowCase, 27 February, 2020
- [Black History Month concert and awards ceremony at Blasco Library](https://johnchacona.com/black-history-month-concert-and-awards-ceremony-at-blasco-library/) - Black History Month concert celebrates Erie musicians, Erie Times-News ShowCase, 27 February, 2020
- [Champions of Magic at the Warner Theatre](https://johnchacona.com/1673/) - Champions of Magic out to amaze in Erie, Erie Times-News ShowCase, 20 February, 2020
- ["The Buddy Holly Story" at the Warner Theatre](https://johnchacona.com/the-buddy-holly-story-at-the-warner-theatre/) - Buddy Holly's music raves on in Erie, Erie Times-News ShowCase, 20 February, 2020
- [Toby Foyeh and Orchestra Africa at Penn State-Behrend](https://johnchacona.com/toby-foyeh-and-orchestra-africa-at-penn-state-behrend/) - Toby Foyeh to tune in cultural connection at Behrend, Erie Times-News ShowCase, 13 February, 2020
- [Ethnic Heritage Ensemble at Artlore Studio](https://johnchacona.com/ethnic-heritage-ensemble-at-artlore-studio/) - The Ethnic Heritage Ensemble travels the world, but feels at home in Erie., Erie Times-News ShowCase, 6 February, 2020
- [Donnie Iris and the Cruisers' Erie connection](https://johnchacona.com/donnie-iris-and-the-cruisers-erie-connection/) - The Cruisers at 40: Erie natives help fuel Donnie Iris career, Erie Times-News ShowCase, 30 January, 2020
- ["A Bronx Tale" at the Warner Theatre](https://johnchacona.com/a-bronx-tale-at-the-warner-theatre/) - ‘A Bronx Tale’ musical at Erie’s Warner explores coming of age, Erie Times-News ShowCase, 30 January, 2020
- [Woodcarver Kenneth Bownes](https://johnchacona.com/woodcarver-kenneth-bownes/) - Carver engineers a hobby out of wood Lake Erie LifeStyle Magazine, February, 2020
- [The Erie Philharmonic's "West Side Story" concert](https://johnchacona.com/the-erie-philharmonics-west-side-story-concert/) - Aiming for the 'Sky', Erie Times-News ShowCase, 16 January, 2020
- [We Banjo 3 at Mercyhurst University](https://johnchacona.com/1650/) - Irish band brings acoustic happiness to Mercyhurst Erie Times-News ShowCase, 9 January, 2020
- [Reviewing CDs by Aaron Novik, Ted Quinlan, Eric St. Laurent and Mal Waldron](https://johnchacona.com/reviewing-cds-by-aaron-novik-ted-quinlan-eric-st-laurent-and-mal-waldron/) - I get an avalanche of records for review, almost 400 of them last year alone. Some were great, a small handful were not worth listening to, but still someone took the trouble to send me physical product or downloads. To repay the senders' faith in me and to ensure that their efforts will not have
- [Mandy Patinkin at the Warner Theatre](https://johnchacona.com/mandy-patinkin-at-the-warner-theatre/) - Patinkin to bring the lyrics alive in Erie concert Erie Times-News ShowCase, 2 January, 2020
- [Things to do in Erie during the Festive Season](https://johnchacona.com/things-to-do-in-erie-during-the-festive-season/) - No holiday hum-drum due to Erie’s family-friendly activities Erie Times-News ShowCase, 26 December, 2019
- [Reviewing La Tanya Hall and the Unison Trio at Bop Stop, 12-20-2019](https://johnchacona.com/reviewing-la-tanya-hall-and-the-unison-trio-at-bop-stop-12-20-2019/) - There's a moment in every great jazz set where everything falls together, magically, like a platonic ideal of a Tetris game, and the music becomes effortlessly self-generating. That moment came at the midpoint of "Pensativa," during the first set by vocalist La Tanya Hall and the Unison Trio last night at Cleveland's Bop Stop. It's
- [Things to do in the tri-state region 12/26-31](https://johnchacona.com/things-to-do-in-the-tri-state-region-12-26-31/) - Erie region road trip connects with holiday fun Erie Times-News ShowCase, 19 December, 2019
- [La Tanya Hall at Bop Stop, December 20](https://johnchacona.com/la-tanya-hall-at-bop-stop-december-20/) - Every week, it seems, I get a new CD by female jazz singer, presumably aspiring to a big career. Putting aside the absurdity of that notion, the formula remains the same: collect a few standards, hire some big-name sidemen, spend a lot of a cover photo and hope for the best. Depressingly, most of these
- [Peter Mayer's Stars + Promises Tour at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church](https://johnchacona.com/peter-mayers-stars-promises-tour-at-our-lady-of-mount-carmel-church/) - Peter Mayer's star promises to shine in Erie again Erie Times-News ShowCase, 19 December, 2019
- [Young Artists Debut Orchestra's "Bach, Bartok...Beyond!"](https://johnchacona.com/young-artists-debut-orchestras-bach-bartok-beyond/) - Erie's Young Artists present holiday concert Erie Times-News ShowCase, 12 December, 2019
- [Erie Philharmonic Pops' 'Come Home for the Holidays'](https://johnchacona.com/erie-philharmonic-pops-come-home-for-the-holidays-3/) - Erie Phil rings in the season with 'Come Home for the Holidays' Erie Times-News ShowCase, 5 December, 2019
- [Tuba Christmas at Penn State-Behrend](https://johnchacona.com/tuba-christmas-at-penn-state-behrend/) - Tubas to toot in the holidays at Erie concert Erie Times-News ShowCase, 5 December, 2019
- [Bassist Edgar Meyer with the Erie Philharmonic](https://johnchacona.com/bassist-edgar-meyer-with-the-erie-philharmonic/) - Bass virtuoso to lead Erie Philharmonic on journey through genres Erie Times-News ShowCase, 14 November, 2019
- [Gino Vannelli at Erie Insurance Arena](https://johnchacona.com/gino-vannelli-at-erie-insurance-arena/) - Headed for Erie concert, Gino Vannelli just doesn’t want to stop Erie Times-News ShowCase, 14 November, 2019
- [Spoon River Symposium at Blasco Memorial Library](https://johnchacona.com/spoon-river-symposium-at-blasco-memorial-library/) - Cash brings life experience, legacy to Erie concert Erie Times-News ShowCase, 7 November, 2019
- [Roseanne Cash at the Mercyhurst Institute for Arts & Culture Live Series](https://johnchacona.com/roseanne-cash-at-the-mercyhurst-institute-for-arts-culture-live-series/) - Cash brings life experience, legacy to Erie concert Erie Times-News ShowCase, 7 November, 2019
- [Reviewing the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra concert of July 13, 2016](https://johnchacona.com/reviewing-the-chautauqua-symphony-orchestra-concert-of-july-13-2016/) - Teddy Abrams, Edgar Meyer Deliver Sweeping, Stirring performance with Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra Chautauquan Daily, 15 July, 2016
- [Rufus Wainwright at the Mary D’Angelo Performing Arts Center](https://johnchacona.com/rufus-wainwright-at-the-mary-dangelo-performing-arts-center/) - here Google Powered by Embed YouTube Video Singer/songwriter Wainwright brings vast range to Erie Erie Times-News , 31 October, 2019
- [A profile of winemaker Kara Maraden](https://johnchacona.com/a-profile-of-winemaker-kara-maraden/) - Erie native makes time for wine Lake Erie LifeStyle Magazine, November, 2019
- [Choosing a financial planner](https://johnchacona.com/1571/) - What is a certified financial planner, and why do you need one Lake Erie LifeStyle Magazine, October, 2019
- [Previewing the Erie premiere of "Spine Chiller"](https://johnchacona.com/1573/) - here Google Powered by Embed YouTube Video Locally produced ‘Spine Chiller’ set to scare at Erie Movie House Erie Times-News , 24 October, 2019
- [Previewing the Erie Philharmonic Pops' "Respect: A Tribute to Aretha Franklin"](https://johnchacona.com/previewing-the-erie-philharmonic-pops-respect-a-tribute-to-aretha-franklin/) - Preview: Erie Phil shows r-e-s-p-e-c-t for 'voice of a century' at the Warner Theatre Erie Times-News ShowCase, 17 October, 2019
- [CORDIS at Penn State-Behrend](https://johnchacona.com/cordis-at-penn-state-behrend/) - CORDIS features unique instruments, experimental sounds at Behrend Erie Times-News ShowCase, 10 October, 2019
- [The Dream Unfinished's Representation as Resistance](https://johnchacona.com/the-dream-unfinisheds-representation-as-resistance/) - The Dream Unfinished's Erie show combines classical music and social conscience Erie Times-News ShowCase, 10 October, 2019
- [Profiling Erie's Artlore Studio](https://johnchacona.com/1558/) - Erie's Artlore Studio offers a distinctive mix of visual arts, eclectic music Erie Times-News ShowCase, 10 October, 2019
- [Tony Kellogg's TK365 Project](https://johnchacona.com/tony-kelloggs-tk365-project/) - TK365: Episode 3??6??5???? Song: Don’t Give Up On Love Posted by Tony Kellogg, Musician on Tuesday, October 8, 2019 Erie-area musician’s yearlong new-song challenge hits final note Erie Times-News , 9 October, 2019
- [Previewing the Erie Philharmonic's season-opening Symphonic Series concert](https://johnchacona.com/previewing-the-erie-philharmonics-season-opening-symphonic-series-concert/) - Erie Philharmonic's 'Shostakovich 5' a triumphant start to the season Erie Times-News ShowCase, 3 October, 2019
- [Mara Rosenbloom's Flyways at Mercyhurst University](https://johnchacona.com/mara-rosenblooms-flyways-at-mercyhurst-university/) - For years I've been jealous of accounts by new York music fans of buzzing from one venue to another, taking in multiple noteworthy performances in the same evening. It's a little harder to do in flyover country, but not impossible, as Sunday proved. First up was an afternoon performance by pianist Mara Rosenbloom's Flyways in
- [Amigo the Devil at Erie Insurance Arena](https://johnchacona.com/amigo-the-devil-at-erie-insurance-arena/) - Preview: Amigo the Devil to play Erie Insurance Arena Erie Times-News ShowCase, 19 September, 2019
- [CD review: Surefire Sweat](https://johnchacona.com/1529/) - "It's the humidity," pianist David Torkanowsky told Larry Blumenfeld in an article in Chamber Music Magazine to explain a factor that contributes to the singular sound of New Orleans music. Toronto, too, is a waterfront town, though less perilously so than the Crescent City, and it can get plenty
- [JazzErie presents Mara Rosenbloom's Flyways](https://johnchacona.com/jazzerie-presents-mara-rosenblooms-flyways/) - Flyways landing at Erie's Mercyhurst University Erie Times-News ShowCase, 12 September, 2019
- [Kristin Chenoweth at Mercyhurst University](https://johnchacona.com/1523/) - Rare versatility takes stage as Kristin Chenoweth plays Mercyhurst Erie Times-News ShowCase, 12 September, 2019
- [Previewing the Erie Playhouse's 2019-20 season](https://johnchacona.com/1520/) - New Erie Playhouse season heavy on mystery, mischief and mayhem Erie Times-News ShowCase, 12 September, 2019
- [Arts & Drafts Festival at the Brewerie at Union Station](https://johnchacona.com/arts-drafts-festival-at-the-brewerie-at-union-station/) - Erie’s Arts & Drafts Festival boasts 3 days of eclectic local arts, music Erie Times-News ShowCase, 5 September, 2019
- [Michael Austin at Erie Insurance Arena](https://johnchacona.com/michael-austin-at-erie-insurance-arena/) - Unlikely star opens for Ted Nugent at Erie Insurance Arena Erie Times-News ShowCase, 22 August, 2019
- [Homecoming](https://johnchacona.com/homecoming/) - In the 1930s it was Coleman Hawkins. In the 40s, Lester Young. Sonny Rollins was the colossus of the 50's, while the influence of John Coltrane, the heavyweight champion of the 1960s, was a bright light that burns to this day. The most recent heavyweight champion of the tenor saxophone might be David Murray, and
- [Narek Hakhnazaryan with the Erie Philharmonic Orchestra](https://johnchacona.com/narek-hakhnazaryan-with-the-erie-philharmonic-orchestra/) - Erie Phil’s ‘Zarathustra Speaks’ comes to the War Erie Times-News ShowCase, 2 November, 2017
- [Brubeck Brothers Quartet with the Erie Philharmonic Pops Orchestra](https://johnchacona.com/brubeck-brothers-quartet-with-the-erie-philharmonic-pops-orchestra/) - Brubeck Brothers Quartet joins Erie Phil for 'All That Jazz' Erie Times-News ShowCase, 26 October, 2017
- [Gabriel Alegría Afro-Peruvian Sextet at Erie Art Museum](https://johnchacona.com/gabriel-alegria-afro-peruvian-sextet-at-erie-art-museum/) - Gabriel Alegría brings ‘Diablo en Brooklyn’ to Erie Erie Times-News ShowCase, 26 October, 2017
- [Tony Vacca World Rhythms at Penn State-Behrend](https://johnchacona.com/tony-vacca-world-rhythms-at-penn-state-behrend/) - Tony Vacca brings world beats to Behrend this Thursday Erie Times-News ShowCase, 19 October, 2017
- [Nobuntu at Penn State-Behrend](https://johnchacona.com/1468/) - Zimbabwean a cappella group Nobuntu performs at Behrend Erie Times-News ShowCase, 19 October, 2017
- [Elliott Yamin at Allegheny College](https://johnchacona.com/elliott-yamin-at-allegheny-college/) - ‘American Idol’s’ Elliott Yamin performs at Allegheny Erie Times-News ShowCase, 19 October, 2017
- [Michael Brown, Nick Canellakis and Elena Urioste with the Erie Philharmonic Orchestra](https://johnchacona.com/michael-brown-nick-canellakis-and-elena-urioste-with-the-erie-philharmonic-orchestra/) - Preview: Erie Phil’s ‘Beethoven Triple’ features three rising Erie Times-News ShowCase, 5 October, 2017
- [Lisa Vroman with the Erie Philharmonic Pops Orchestra](https://johnchacona.com/lisa-vroman-with-the-erie-philharmonic-pops-orchestra/) - Broadway star kicks off Erie Phil’s season Saturday Erie Times-News ShowCase, 21 September, 2017
- [Reviewing FOTO BOOTH at 319W2 Project Space](https://johnchacona.com/reviewing-foto-booth-at-319w2-project-space/) - Review: ‘Foto Booth’ puts artist selfies on display in Erie Erie Times-News ShowCase, 28 September, 2017
- [Bat House at PACA](https://johnchacona.com/bat-house-at-paca/) - Bat House brings experimental sounds to Erie’s PACA Erie Times-News ShowCase, 14 September, 2017
- [Previewing the Fall Arts & Drafts Festival](https://johnchacona.com/previewing-the-fall-arts-drafts-festival/) - Arts & Drafts Fest adds new, unusual music to lineup Erie Times-News ShowCase, 7 September, 2017
- [Eh440 at Penn State-Behrend](https://johnchacona.com/eh440-at-penn-state-behrend/) - Eh440 rocks an a cappella edge Friday at Behrend Erie Times-News ShowCase, 7 September, 2017
- [Tom Rainey Trio at PACA](https://johnchacona.com/1445/) - Tom Rainey Trio brings freewheeling jazz to PACA Erie Times-News ShowCase, 31 August, 2017
- [Matt Bennett Band at CelebrateErie](https://johnchacona.com/matt-bennett-band-at-celebrateerie/) - Matt Bennett Band rocks the blues at CelebrateErie Erie Times-News ShowCase, 17 August, 2017
- [JazzErie's "Jazz at the Philharmonic" tribute](https://johnchacona.com/jazzeries-jazz-at-the-philharmonic-tribute/) - Erie’s ‘Jazz at the Philharmonic’ tribute plays Friday Erie Times-News ShowCase, 3 August, 2017
- [Lake Erie Fanfare](https://johnchacona.com/lake-erie-fanfare-3/) - 34th Lake Erie Fanfare sounds off on Monday Erie Times-News ShowCase, 3 August, 2017
- [Chick Corea, Béla Fleck at the Chautauqua Amphitheater](https://johnchacona.com/chick-corea-bela-fleck-at-the-chautauqua-amphitheater/) - Chick Corea, Béla Fleck together at Chautauqua Erie Times-News ShowCase, 10 August, 2017
- [Reviewing "All-Star Break"](https://johnchacona.com/reviewing-all-star-break/) - Review: ‘All-Star Break’ a home run full of pun fun Erie Times-News ShowCase, 27 July, 2017
- [Reviewing the career of Wilda Sundberg](https://johnchacona.com/reviewing-the-career-of-wilda-sundberg/) - Erie artist Wilda Sundberg featured Friday at Bayfront Gallery Erie Times-News ShowCase, 27 July, 2017
- [Grind, the Alice In Chains tribute band at Sherlocks](https://johnchacona.com/grind-the-alice-in-chains-tribute-band-at-sherlocks/) - Get back to grunge with Grind on Saturday Erie Times-News ShowCase, 20 July, 2017
- [Previewing the Earthquakers summer engagements](https://johnchacona.com/previewing-the-earthquakers-summer-engagements/) - The Earthquakers get ready to rock Erie this week Erie Times-News ShowCase, 28 June, 2017
- [Love, Lies and Liquor Cabaret at Scotty's Cigar and Martini Lounge](https://johnchacona.com/love-lies-and-liquor-cabaret-at-scottys-cigar-and-martini-lounge/) - Erie artists bring back Love, Lies and Liquor on Friday Erie Times-News ShowCase, 22 June, 2017
- [Night Circus at Oasis](https://johnchacona.com/night-circus-at-oasis/) - Dance the night away with Erie’s new Night Circus Erie Times-News ShowCase, 22 June, 2017
- [JazzErie's Jazz & Blues Walk](https://johnchacona.com/1407/) - Hit the streets for Saturday’s Jazz & Blues Walk Erie Times-News ShowCase, 15 June, 2017
- [Thumbscrew at PACA](https://johnchacona.com/thumbscrew-at-paca/) - Thumbscrew works its way to PACA Tuesday Erie Times-News ShowCase, 15 June, 2017
- [Sugar Still at Lavery Brewing](https://johnchacona.com/sugar-still-at-lavery-brewing/) - Sugar Still’s brewery tour brings sweet tunes to Lavery Erie Times-News ShowCase, 15 June, 2017
- [Lindsey Horner at Artlore Studio](https://johnchacona.com/lindsey-horner-at-artlore-studio/) - Bassist Lindsey Horner hits Erie’s Artlore on Friday Erie Times-News ShowCase, 8 June, 2017
- [Tamburitzans at Mercyhurst Preparatory School](https://johnchacona.com/1380/) - Pittsburgh’s Tamburitzans come back to Erie this Saturday Erie Times-News ShowCase, 20 April, 2017
- [Erie Philharmonic Season Finale Concert](https://johnchacona.com/1376/) - Erie Phil wraps up season with Saturday’s ‘Organ’ concert Erie Times-News ShowCase, 6 April, 2017
- [Meadville’s Cootie Harris Jazz Jam](https://johnchacona.com/meadvilles-cootie-harris-jazz-jam/) - Meadville’s Cootie Harris Jazz Jam plays again this Sunday Erie Times-News ShowCase, 1 June, 2017
- [Kate Buczek Memorial Concert](https://johnchacona.com/kate-buczek-memorial-concert-3/) - A little bluegrass in store for Sunday’s Kate Buczek concert Erie Times-News ShowCase, 1 June, 2017
- [Nomads/Fall Risk/Wave Trails on the ElectroFlux Experimental Music Series](https://johnchacona.com/nomadsfall-riskwave-trails-on-the-electroflux-experimental-music-series/) - NYC’s Nomads wanders over to Bobby’s Place on Thursday Erie Times-News ShowCase, 25 May, 2017
- [Imminent Sonic Destruction at Sherlock's](https://johnchacona.com/imminent-sonic-destruction-at-sherlocks/) - Work-in-prog Imminent Sonic Destruction hits Sherlock's Erie Times-News ShowCase, 25 May, 2017
- [Youth, Teen Talent Showcase](https://johnchacona.com/youth-teen-talent-showcase/) - Youth, Teen Talent Showcase takes place Saturday at Blasco Erie Times-News ShowCase, 18 May, 2017
- [Vox at the Baldwin-Reynolds House](https://johnchacona.com/vox-at-the-baldwin-reynolds-house/) - Operatic boy band Vox performs Wednesday in Meadville Erie Times-News ShowCase, 11 May, 2017
- [’68 at Basement Transmissions](https://johnchacona.com/68-at-basement-transmissions/) - ’68 on the road to Erie’s Basement Transmissions Erie Times-News ShowCase, 4 May, 2017
- [Matthew Broussard at Jr.'s Last Laugh](https://johnchacona.com/matthew-broussard-at-jr-s-last-laugh/) - Creative, left-brained Matthew Broussard comes to Jr.’s Erie Times-News ShowCase, 27 April, 2017
- [Mercyhurst University Literary Festival](https://johnchacona.com/mercyhurst-university-literary-festival-kicks-off-thursday-with-bob-dylan-tribute/) - Mercyhurst Lit Fest kicks off Thursday with Bob Dylan tribute Erie Times-News ShowCase, 16 March, 2017
- [Jenny Oaks Baker with the Erie Philharmonic Pops](https://johnchacona.com/jenny-oaks-baker-with-the-erie-philharmonic-pops/) - Music sings at Erie Phil's 'Disney Favorites' concert Erie Times-News ShowCase, 31 March, 2017
- [Ferncliff](https://johnchacona.com/ferncliff/) - Ferncliff beach enclave came to life through tough times Lake Erie LifeStyle, April 2017
- [Diva Jazz Orchestra at Edinboro University](https://johnchacona.com/diva-jazz-orchestra-at-edinboro-university/) - Diva Jazz Orchestra brings female-powered sound to Edinboro Erie Times-News ShowCase, 23 March, 2017
- [Pauly Shore at Jr.’s Last Laugh](https://johnchacona.com/pauly-shore-at-jr-s-last-laugh/) - Pauly Shore headlines sold-out weekend at Jr.’s Erie Times-News ShowCase, 23 March, 2017
- [Profiling vocalist Solitare Miles](https://johnchacona.com/profiling-vocalist-solitare-miles/) - Former Erie vocalist Solitare Miles makes moves in western swing Erie Times-News ShowCase, 16 March, 2017
- [McCarthy Family Band at Penn State-Behrend](https://johnchacona.com/mccarthy-family-band-at-penn-state-behrend/) - McCarthy Family brings Irish music to Behrend Friday Erie Times-News ShowCase, 16 March, 2017
- [Billy Gardell at Jr.’s Last Laugh](https://johnchacona.com/billy-gardell-at-jr-s-last-laugh/) - Former ‘Mike & Molly’ star Billy Gardell headlines at Jr.’s Erie Times-News ShowCase, 16 March, 2017
- [Trio Nova Mundi at Penn State-Behrend](https://johnchacona.com/trio-nova-mundi-at-penn-state-behrend/) - Trio Nova Mundi performs Monday at Behrend Erie Times-News ShowCase, 16 March, 2017
- [Emanuel Ax with the Erie Philharmonic](https://johnchacona.com/emanuel-ax-with-the-erie-philharmonic/) - Renowned pianist Emanuel Ax plans memorable Erie visit Erie Times-News ShowCase, 9 March, 2017
- [Daniel Meyer A Candidate for Music Director Job in Portland](https://johnchacona.com/daniel-meyer-a-candidate-for-music-director-job-in-portland/) - Sought-after Daniel Meyer likely to stay on with Erie Phil Erie Times-News ShowCase, 9 March, 2017
- [Alexander String Quartet at Allegheny College](https://johnchacona.com/alexander-string-quartet-at-allegheny-college-2/) - Alexander String Quartet returns to Meadville’s Allegheny Erie Times-News ShowCase, 9 March, 2017
- [Tom Wilson at Jr.’s Last Laugh](https://johnchacona.com/tom-wilson-at-jr-s-last-laugh/) - ‘Back to the Future’ star Tom Wilson headlines at Jr.’s Erie Times-News ShowCase, 1 March, 2017
- [Caladh Nua at Mercyhurst University](https://johnchacona.com/caladh-nua-at-mercyhurst-university/) - Caladh Nua brings modern Irish music to Mercyhurst Erie Times-News ShowCase, 1 March, 2017
- [Cory Henry at Mercyhurst University](https://johnchacona.com/cory-henry-at-mercyhurst-university/) - Congregate Thursday at Mercyhurst for Cory Henry Erie Times-News ShowCase, 23 February, 2017
- [American Spiritual Ensemble at Mercyhurst University](https://johnchacona.com/american-spiritual-ensemble-at-mercyhurst-university/) - American Spiritual Ensemble performs Saturday at Mercyhurst Erie Times-News ShowCase, 16 February, 2017
- [Ethnic Heritage Ensemble at Erie Art Museum](https://johnchacona.com/ethnic-heritage-ensemble-at-erie-art-museum/) - Ethnic Heritage Ensemble heats up Erie with Monday concert Erie Times-News ShowCase, 16 February, 2017
- [Jim Florentine at Jr.'s Last Laugh](https://johnchacona.com/jim-florentine-at-jr-s-last-laugh/) - Music lovin' Jim Florentine heads to Jr.'s Last Laugh Erie Times-News ShowCase, 16 February, 2017
- [Olga Vocal Ensemble at Penn State-Behrend](https://johnchacona.com/olga-vocal-ensemble-at-penn-state-behrend/) - Olga brings humor, unusual a cappella to Behrend on Tuesday Erie Times-News ShowCase, 9 February, 2017
- [Matthew Ryals at electroFLUX Experimental Music Series](https://johnchacona.com/matthew-ryals-at-electroflux-experimental-music-series/) - Electroflux welcomes new, familiar, experimental on Saturday Erie Times-News ShowCase, 9 February, 2017
- [Teresa Walters at Edinboro University](https://johnchacona.com/teresa-walters-at-edinboro-university/) - Renowned pianist Teresa Walters arrives in Edinboro Thursday Erie Times-News ShowCase, 9 February, 2017
- [Harlem Globetrotters at  Erie Insurance Arena](https://johnchacona.com/harlem-globetrotters-at-erie-insurance-arena/) - Harlem Globetrotters bring slam-dunk fun to Erie on Tuesday Erie Times-News ShowCase, 26 January, 2017
- [DuoANIME at Penn State Behrend](https://johnchacona.com/duoanime-at-penn-state-behrend/) - Duo Anime brings the beat to Behrend on Friday Erie Times-News ShowCase, 26 January, 2017
- [Tower Brass Quintet at Edinboro University](https://johnchacona.com/tower-brass-quintet-at-edinboro-university/) - Longtime Tower Brass Quintet performs Thursday at Edinboro Erie Times-News ShowCase, 26 January, 2017
- [Soyeon Kate Lee with the Erie Philharmonic Orchestra](https://johnchacona.com/soyeon-kate-lee-with-the-erie-philharmonic-orchestra/) - Soyeon Kate Lee joins the Erie Phil for Saturday's 'Sibelius' Erie Times-News ShowCase, 19 January, 2017
- [Adam Holquist's "Ghost Ship Love Letters" project](https://johnchacona.com/adam-holquists-ghost-ship-love-letters-project/) - Erie artists, more contribute to 'Ghost Ship Love Letters' Erie Times-News ShowCase, 19 January, 2017
- [New Year's Eve at Jr.'s Last Laugh](https://johnchacona.com/1274/) - Comedy, dancing await at Jr.'s New Year's Eve Extravaganza Erie Times-News ShowCase, 29 December, 2016
- [Dan Cummins at Jr.'s Last Laugh](https://johnchacona.com/dan-cummins-at-jr-s-last-laugh/) - Comedian Dan Cummins brings Idaho edge to Jr.'s Last Laugh Erie Times-News ShowCase, 19 January, 2017
- [Top ten jazz CDs of 2016](https://johnchacona.com/top-ten-jazz-cds-of-2016/) - Find solace, beauty in these 10 best jazz albums of 2016 Erie Times-News ShowCase, 29 December, 2016
- [Mermaid Theatre of Nova Scotia at Mercyhurst University](https://johnchacona.com/mermaid-theatre-of-nova-scotia-at-mercyhurst-university/) - Mermaid Theatre's popular puppets return to Mercyhurst Saturday Erie Times-News ShowCase, 15 December, 2016
- [Apollo's Fire presents Handel's "Messiah" at Mercyhurst University](https://johnchacona.com/apollos-fire-presents-handels-messiah-at-mercyhurst-university/) - Apollo's Fire brings 'Messiah' to Mercyhurst on Thursday Erie Times-News ShowCase, 15 December, 2016
- [William Parker at PACA](https://johnchacona.com/william-parker-at-paca-2/) - Jazz musician William Parker returns to PACA with solo show Erie Times-News ShowCase, 8 December, 2016
- [Mosh for Tots at Basement Transmissions](https://johnchacona.com/mosh-for-tots-at-basement-transmissions/) - Erie's Mosh for Tots brings on the noise for toys this Saturday Erie Times-News ShowCase, 8 December, 2016
- [Joe Zimmerman at Jr.'s Last Laugh](https://johnchacona.com/joe-zimmerman-at-jr-s-last-laugh/) - Comic Joe Zimmerman brings his slow but steady humor to Jr.'s Erie Times-News ShowCase, 8 December, 2016
- [Reviewing "This Wonderful Life" at PACA](https://johnchacona.com/reviewing-this-wonderful-life-at-paca/) - PACA's 'This Wonderful Life' is a one-man wonder Erie Times-News ShowCase, 1 December, 2016
- [Joe Robinson at PACA](https://johnchacona.com/joe-robinson-at-paca/) - Australian guitarist Joe Robinson returns to PACA Sunday Erie Times-News ShowCase, 1 December, 2016
- [Erie Philharmonic Pops' "Come Home for the Holidays"](https://johnchacona.com/erie-philharmonic-pops-come-home-for-the-holidays-2/) - Erie Phil celebrates the season in 'Come Home for the Holidays' Erie Times-News ShowCase, 1 December, 2016
- [A Billie Holiday tribute at Artlore and Millcreek Movie House](https://johnchacona.com/a-billie-holiday-tribute-at-artlore-and-millcreek-movie-house/) - Millcreek event honors jazz icon Billie Holiday Friday Erie Times-News ShowCase, 17 November, 2016
- [Tom Arnold at Jr.'s Last Laugh](https://johnchacona.com/tom-arnold-at-jr-s-last-laugh/) - Tom Arnold ready for stand-up weekend at Jr.'s Erie Times-News ShowCase, 10 November, 2016
- [Demarre McGill with the Erie Philharmonic Orchestra](https://johnchacona.com/demarre-mcgill-with-the-erie-philharmonic-orchestra/) - Erie Phil brings 'Classical Rivalries' to light on Saturday Erie Times-News ShowCase, 10 November, 2016
- [Adam Ray at Jr.'s Last Laugh](https://johnchacona.com/adam-ray-at-jr-s-last-laugh/) - Comic Adam Ray comes to Jr.'s Last Laugh this weekend Erie Times-News ShowCase, 3 November, 2016
- [Subsoil at the Kings Rook](https://johnchacona.com/subsoil-at-the-kings-rook/) - Subsoil brings big hip-hop band sound to the Kings Rook Erie Times-News ShowCase, 3 November, 2016
- [Frank Singer at Anchor In](https://johnchacona.com/frank-singer-at-anchor-in/) - Frank Singer, more kick off Anchor In's new live music season Erie Times-News ShowCase, 3 November, 2016
- [Turtle Island Quartet at Edinboro University](https://johnchacona.com/turtle-island-quartet-at-edinboro-university/) - Turtle Island Quartet brings 'A Love Supreme' to Edinboro Erie Times-News ShowCase, 27 October, 2016
- [Erie Philharmonic Pops plays the music of Danny Elfman](https://johnchacona.com/erie-philharmonic-pops-plays-the-music-of-danny-elfman/) - Erie Phil performs tribute to Danny Elfman on Saturday Erie Times-News ShowCase, 27 October, 2016
- [Seraph Brass at Penn State-Behrend](https://johnchacona.com/seraph-brass-at-penn-state-behrend/) - All-female Seraph Brass performs Monday at Behrend Erie Times-News ShowCase, 24 October, 2016
- [Ghoultide Scarolfest at Luther Memorial Church](https://johnchacona.com/ghoultide-scarolfest-at-luther-memorial-church/) - Have a merry Ghoultide with special Sunday concert in Erie Erie Times-News ShowCase, 20 October, 2016
- [Rani Arbo and daisy mayhem at Mercyhurst University](https://johnchacona.com/rani-arbo-and-daisy-mayhem-at-mercyhurst-university/) - Join the joy with Rani Arbo at Mercyhurst Erie Times-News ShowCase, 13 October, 2016
- [Josh Wolf at Jr.'s Last Laugh](https://johnchacona.com/josh-wolf-at-jr-s-last-laugh/) - Comic Josh Wolf returns to standup Erie Times-News ShowCase, 13 October, 2016
- [Ken Johnston with the Erie Philharmonic Orchestra](https://johnchacona.com/ken-johnston-with-the-erie-philharmonic-orchestra/) - Ken Johnston, Erie Phil start symphonic season on Saturday Erie Times-News ShowCase, 13 October, 2016
- [Caravan of Thieves at Penn State-Behrend](https://johnchacona.com/caravan-of-thieves-at-penn-state-behrend/) - Caravan of Thieves rolls in Wednesday for Behrend show Erie Times-News ShowCase, 13 October, 2016
- [Dancing Wheels at Mercyhurst University](https://johnchacona.com/dancing-wheels-at-mercyhurst-university/) - Dancing Wheels brings 'Labyrinth: A Tribute' to Mercyhurst Erie Times-News ShowCase, 6 October, 2016
- [Monroe Martin, Robert Kelly at Jr.'s Last Laugh](https://johnchacona.com/monroe-martin-robert-kelly-at-jr-s-last-laugh/) - Monroe Martin, Robert Kelly at Jr.'s Last Laugh this weekend Erie Times-News ShowCase, 6 October, 2016
- [Aritmia at Penn State-Behrend](https://johnchacona.com/aritmia-at-penn-state-behrend/) - Aritmia duo opens Behrend music series on Monday Erie Times-News ShowCase, 26 September, 2016
- [Previewing the MIAC 2016-17 season](https://johnchacona.com/previewing-the-miac-2016-17-season/) - Sneak peek at MIAC's upcoming 2016-17 season Erie Times-News ShowCase, 15 September, 2016
- [Erie Pops play Sting, The Police](https://johnchacona.com/erie-pops-play-sting-the-police/) - Erie Phil opens season with tribute to Sting, The Police Erie Times-News ShowCase, 22 September, 2016
- [Lake Erie Fanfare](https://johnchacona.com/lake-erie-fanfare-2/) - March over to the 33rd Lake Erie Fanfare on Monday Erie Times-News ShowCase, 28 July, 2016
- [Cosmic Jibaros at Penn State-Behrend](https://johnchacona.com/cosmic-jibaros-at-penn-state-behrend/) - Cosmic Jibaros opens Wednesday concert series at Behrend Erie Times-News ShowCase, 15 September, 2016
- [Joe Gransden and Joan Ellison at Bemus Bay Pops](https://johnchacona.com/joe-gransden-and-joan-ellison-at-bemus-bay-pops/) - Bemus Bay Pops gets ready for Saturday salute to Sinatra Erie Times-News ShowCase, 1 September, 2016
- [Previewing CelebrateErie](https://johnchacona.com/previewing-celebrateerie/) - CelebrateErie serves up something for every appetite Erie Times-News ShowCase, 18 August, 2016
- [Erie Philharmonic Wind Quintet at the Erie Art Museum](https://johnchacona.com/erie-philharmonic-wind-quintet-at-the-erie-art-museum/) - Erie Phil's wind quintet performs at Mid-Day Break Wednesday Erie Times-News ShowCase, 18 August, 2016
- [Picks & Hammers at Goodell Gardens](https://johnchacona.com/picks-hammers-at-goodell-gardens/) - Picks & Hammers brings traditional folk to Goodell on Friday Erie Times-News ShowCase, 11 August, 2016
- [Victor Garcia at Romolo Chocolates](https://johnchacona.com/victor-garcia-at-romolo-chocolates/) - Trumpeter Victor Garcia returns Saturday to Romolo's Erie Times-News ShowCase, 28 July, 2016
- [Don Braden and Vanessa Rubin at Romolo Chocolates](https://johnchacona.com/don-braden-and-vanessa-rubin-at-romolo-chocolates/) - Don Braden, Vanessa Rubin make bright combo at Romolo's Erie Times-News ShowCase, 21 July, 2016
- [Lindsey Stirling at the Warner Theatre](https://johnchacona.com/lindsey-stirling-at-the-warner-theatre/) - Electric violinist Lindsey Stirling takes Warner stage Tuesday Erie Times-News ShowCase, 21 July, 2016
- [Jim Gaffigan at Jr.'s Last Laugh](https://johnchacona.com/jim-gaffigan-at-jr-s-last-laugh/) - Jim Gaffigan returns to Erie stage on Wednesday Erie Times-News ShowCase, 14 July, 2016
- [Pat Martino at Romolo Chocolates](https://johnchacona.com/pat-martino-at-romolo-chocolates/) - Gifted guitarist Pat Martino performs Saturday at Romolo's Erie Times-News ShowCase, 7 July, 2016
- [Sicilian Jazz Project at Romolo Chocolates](https://johnchacona.com/sicilian-jazz-project-at-romolo-chocolates/) - Sicilian Jazz Project to play Erie's Romolo Erie Times-News ShowCase, 30 June, 2016
- [Previewing the Chautauqua Institution's 2016 season](https://johnchacona.com/1165/) - Chautauqua Institution's 2016 season blends old, new Erie Times-News ShowCase, 23 June, 2016
- [Erie Renaissance Singers Friendship Concert](https://johnchacona.com/erie-renaissance-singers-friendship-concert/) - Erie Renaissance Singers, Vocal Art Ensemble join for Saturday concert Erie Times-News ShowCase, 23 June, 2016
- [Previewing the Bemus Bay Pops season](https://johnchacona.com/1156/) - Erie's Groove starts up Bemus Bay Pops season Saturday Erie Times-News ShowCase, 23 June, 2016
- [Big Mean Sound Machine at the Presque Isle Sunset Music Series](https://johnchacona.com/big-mean-sound-machine-at-the-presque-isle-sunset-music-series/) - Series brings Big Mean Sound Machine to Presque Isle Erie Times-News ShowCase, 16 June, 2016
- [JazzErie Jazz & Blues Walk](https://johnchacona.com/jazzerie-jazz-blues-walk/) - Don't miss 7 gigs during Erie's 2016 Jazz & Blues Walk Erie Times-News ShowCase, 16 June, 2016
- [Driftwood at the Sunset Music Series](https://johnchacona.com/driftwood-at-the-sunset-music-series/) - Driftwood makes its way to Wednesday's Sunset Music Series Erie Times-News ShowCase, 2 June, 2016
- [Erie Chamber Orchestra's "Jazz -- From Paris to Hollywood"](https://johnchacona.com/erie-chamber-orchestras-jazz-from-paris-to-hollywood/) - Soloist Sal Andolina joins Erie Chamber Orchestra for 'Jazz' Erie Times-News ShowCase, 2 June, 2016
- [The Kate Buczek Memorial Concert](https://johnchacona.com/the-kate-buczek-memorial-concert/) - U-Tones, Colony Trio play memorial jazz concert Sunday Erie Times-News ShowCase, 2 June, 2016
- [The Erie Playhouse and Erie Philharmonic's "My Fair Lady"](https://johnchacona.com/the-erie-playhouse-and-erie-philharmonics-my-fair-lady/) - Have a loverly time at Saturday's 'My Fair Lady' Erie Times-News ShowCase, 19 May, 2016
- [Gregory Harrington with the Young Artist Debut Orchestra](https://johnchacona.com/gregory-harrington-with-the-young-artist-debut-orchestra/) - Violin virtuoso joins Erie's Young Artist Debut Orchestra Sunday Erie Times-News ShowCase, 12 May, 2016
- ["Angel of Reckoning" premiere at Basement Transmissions](https://johnchacona.com/angel-of-reckoning-premiere-at-basement-transmissions/) - Erie filmmaker debuts 'Angel of Reckoning' Saturday Erie Times-News ShowCase, 5 May, 2016
- [Robin Trower at the Warner Theatre](https://johnchacona.com/robin-trower-at-the-warner-theatre/) - Guitarist Robin Trower brings classic sound to Warner on Friday Erie Times-News ShowCase, 28 April, 2016
- [Erie Philharmonic plays Brahms, Berlioz and Beethoven](https://johnchacona.com/erie-philharmonic-plays-brahms-berlioz-and-beethoven/) - Erie Phil wraps up season with Beethoven, more on Saturday Erie Times-News ShowCase, 28 April, 2016
- [Allison Miller's Boom Tic Boom at Mercyhurst University](https://johnchacona.com/allison-millers-boom-tic-boom-at-mercyhurst-university/) - Allison Miller brings the beat tonight at Mercyhurst Erie Times-News ShowCase, 28 April, 2016
- [Claire Daly performs at Anchor In](https://johnchacona.com/claire-daly-performs-at-anchor-in/) - Saxophonist Claire Daly performs at Anchor In this weekend Erie Times-News ShowCase, 28 April, 2016
- [Erie Chamber Orchestra's "On Display"](https://johnchacona.com/erie-chamber-orchestras-on-display/) - Composer, singers, soloists star in Erie Chamber Orchestra's 'On Display' Erie Times-News ShowCase, 21 April, 2016
- [JazzErie presents Bruce Johnstone with strings](https://johnchacona.com/jazzerie-presents-bruce-johnstone-with-strings/) - Saxophonist Johnstone lets strings sing at Blasco on Sunday Erie Times-News ShowCase, 14 April, 2016
- [National Water Dance](https://johnchacona.com/national-water-dance/) - Erie takes part in National Water Dance event Saturday Erie Times-News ShowCase, 14 April, 2016
- [10 String Symphony at the Unitarian Universalist Church](https://johnchacona.com/10-string-symphony-at-the-unitarian-universalist-church/) - 10 String Symphony returns to Erie for free Sunday concert Erie Times-News ShowCase, 7 April, 2016
- [Matuto at Mercyhurst University](https://johnchacona.com/matuto-at-mercyhurst-university/) - Matuto brings accordion-driven music to Mercyhurst Erie Times-News ShowCase, 7 April, 2016
- [Erie Chamber Orchestra's Joe Luckey Recital Series with Deven Shah](https://johnchacona.com/erie-chamber-orchestras-joe-luckey-recital-series-with-deven-shah/) - ECO series wraps up series with young guests on Monday Erie Times-News ShowCase, 7 April, 2016
- [Dorrance Dance at Mercyhurst University](https://johnchacona.com/dorrance-dance-at-mercyhurst-university/) - Dorrance Dance taps its way to Mercyhurst on Wednesday Erie Times-News ShowCase, 24 March, 2016
- [Start Making Sense at Kings Rook Club](https://johnchacona.com/start-making-sense-at-kings-rook-club/) - Talking Heads tribute headlines at Kings Rook on Friday Erie Times-News ShowCase, 17 March, 2016
- [Cathie Ryan with the Erie Philharmonic](https://johnchacona.com/cathie-ryan-with-the-erie-philharmonic/) - Cathie Ryan brings Irish flair to Saturday's Erie Phil concert Erie Times-News ShowCase, 17 March, 2016
- [Rani Arbo & Daisy Mayhem at Edinboro University](https://johnchacona.com/rani-arbo-daisy-mayhem-at-edinboro-university/) - Rani Arbo & Daisy Mayhem makes tour stop in Edinboro Erie Times-News ShowCase, 10 March, 2016
- [Erie Chamber Orchestra's "Madama Butterfly"](https://johnchacona.com/erie-chamber-orchestras-madama-butterfly/) - Erie Chamber Orchestra presents 'Madama Butterfly' on Saturday Erie Times-News ShowCase, 10 March, 2016
- [Avi Avital at Mercyhurst University](https://johnchacona.com/avi-avital-at-mercyhurst-university/) - Musician Avi Avital makes mandolin sing at Mercyhurst Erie Times-News ShowCase, 9 March, 2016
- [Previewing the final season of "Mr. Selfridge"](https://johnchacona.com/previewing-the-final-season-of-mr-selfridge/) - Mr. Selfridge Erie LifeStyle magazine, February, 2015
- [Wellington International Ukulele Orchestra at Mercyhurst University](https://johnchacona.com/wellington-international-ukulele-orchestra-at-mercyhurst-university/) - Ukulele Orchestra set to rock the Mercyhurst stage on Friday Erie Times-News ShowCase, 3 March, 2016
- [Erie Philharmonic Orchestra with Tanya Bannister](https://johnchacona.com/erie-philharmonic-orchestra-with-tanya-bannister/) - Erie Phil brings sparkle, magic to 'An Evening in Paris' Erie Times-News ShowCase, 3 March, 2016
- [Whitney Peyton at Basement Transmissions](https://johnchacona.com/whitney-peyton-at-basement-transmissions/) - Philly-area rapper brings beats to Erie's Basement Transmissions Erie Times-News ShowCase, 25 February, 2016
- [U.S. Navy Concert Band at Millcreek Intermediate High School](https://johnchacona.com/u-s-navy-concert-band-at-millcreek-intermediate-high-school/) - U.S. Navy Concert Band weighs anchor in Erie on Monday Erie Times-News ShowCase, 25 February, 2016
- [Tom Cotter at Jr.'s Last Laugh](https://johnchacona.com/tom-cotter-at-jr-s-last-laugh/) - Comedian Tom Cotter comes to Jr.'s Last Laugh tonight Erie Times-News ShowCase, 18 February, 2016
- [Ethnic Heritage Ensemble at the Erie Art Museum](https://johnchacona.com/ethnic-heritage-ensemble-at-the-erie-art-museum-7/) - Ethnic Heritage Ensemble returns to Erie Art Museum on Monday Erie Times-News ShowCase, 11 February, 2016
- [Mermaid Puppet Theatre of Nova Scotia at Mercyhurst University](https://johnchacona.com/mermaid-puppet-theatre-of-nova-scotia-at-mercyhurst-university/) - Eric Carle-inspired puppet show appears at Mercyhurst on Saturday Erie Times-News ShowCase, 11 February, 2016
- [Nicolas Altstaedt, and Alexander Lonquich at Penn-State Behrend](https://johnchacona.com/nicolas-altstaedt-and-alexander-lonquich-at-penn-state-behrend/) - Versatile musicians Altstaedt, Lonquich perform at Behrend Erie Times-News ShowCase, 18 February, 2016
- [Erie Chamber Orchestra's Deep River](https://johnchacona.com/erie-chamber-orchestras-deep-river/) - ECO's 'Deep River' celebrates distinctly American music Erie Times-News ShowCase, 11 February, 2016
- [Fireworks Ensemble at the Erie Art Museum](https://johnchacona.com/fireworks-ensemble-at-the-erie-art-museum/) - Fireworks Ensemble performs tonight at the Erie Art Museum Erie Times-News ShowCase, 11 February, 2016
- [Erie Philharmonic Pops Crazy Gershwin](https://johnchacona.com/erie-philharmonic-pops-crazy-gershwin/) - Inna Faliks takes on classic during Erie Phil's 'Crazy Gershwin' Erie Times-News ShowCase, 4 February, 2016
- [The Erie Chamber orchestra presents the music of Harry T. Burleigh](https://johnchacona.com/the-erie-chamber-orchestra-presents-the-music-of-harry-t-burleigh/) - Monday concert celebrates the spirit, spirituals of Erie composer Erie Times-News ShowCase, 4 February, 2016
- [Misunderstood at Sherlock's](https://johnchacona.com/misunderstood-at-sherlocks/) - Misunderstood headlines at Sherlock's on Friday Erie Times-News ShowCase, 28 January, 2016
- [Sirius Quartet at Penn State-Behrend](https://johnchacona.com/sirius-quartet-at-penn-state-behrend/) - Sirius Quartet rocks classical instruments at Behrend Erie Times-News ShowCase, 21 January, 2016
- [Matty B's 30th Birthday Bash](https://johnchacona.com/matty-bs-30th-birthday-bash/) - Matty B celebrates 30th birthday with Kings Rook bash on Friday Erie Times-News ShowCase, 21 January, 2016
- [Erie Philharmonic with Bella Hristova,](https://johnchacona.com/erie-philharmonic-with-bella-hristova/) - Violinist Bella Hristova, Erie Phil perform concert Saturday Erie Times-News ShowCase, 21 January, 2016
- [Erie Chamber Orchestra with trumpeter James Thompson](https://johnchacona.com/erie-chamber-orchestra-with-trumpeter-james-thompson/) - Trumpeter James Thompson joins Erie Chamber Orchestra on Saturday Erie Times-News ShowCase, 14 January, 2016
- [Erie Chamber Orchestra searches for new music director](https://johnchacona.com/erie-chamber-orchestra-searches-for-new-music-director/) - Erie Chamber Orchestra searches for new music director Erie Times-News ShowCase, 14 January, 2016
- [JazzErie tribute to Basil Ronzitti](https://johnchacona.com/jazzerie-tribute-to-basil-ronzitti/) - JazzErie tribute to Basil Ronzitti plays Saturday Erie Times-News ShowCase, 14 January, 2016
- [Hinder at Sherlock's](https://johnchacona.com/hinder-at-sherlocks/) - Hinder recovers from bus accident, heads to Sherlock's Erie Times-News ShowCase, 14 January, 2016
- [Previewing the 2016 Second Season](https://johnchacona.com/1035/) - Must-see 2016 cultural events around the Erie region Erie Times-News ShowCase, 31 December, 2015
- [Previewing the final season of PBS's "Downton Abbey"](https://johnchacona.com/previewing-the-final-season-of-pbss-downton-abbey/) - How will 'Downton' end? Erie LifeStyle magazine, January, 2015
- [Musical Highlights of 2015](https://johnchacona.com/musical-highlights-of-2015/) - Erie region 2015 musical highlights Erie Times-News ShowCase, 23 December, 2015
- [Erie Chamber Orchestra Holiday Concert](https://johnchacona.com/1018/) - 'Grinch Medley' highlights ECO holiday show Erie Times-News ShowCase, 10 December, 2015
- [The Erie Philharmonic Pops' "Come Home for the Holidays"](https://johnchacona.com/the-erie-philharmonic-pops-come-home-for-the-holidays/) - Erie Phil presents 'Come Home for the Holidays' Erie Times-News ShowCase, 3 December, 2015
- [Previewing PBS's "Mercy Street"](https://johnchacona.com/previewing-pbss-mercy-street/) - Visit "Mercy Street" Erie LifeStyle magazine, December, 2015
- [Vienna Boys Choir at Mercyhurst University](https://johnchacona.com/vienna-boys-choir-at-mercyhurst-university/) - Vienna Boys Choir performs at Mercyhurst Erie Times-News ShowCase, 26 November, 2015
- [Creators of "Invisible Thread" at Mercyhurst University](https://johnchacona.com/creators-of-invisible-thread-at-mercyhurst-university/) - Creators of Broadway-bound musical visit Mercyhurst Erie Times-News ShowCase, 4 September, 2015
- [Tomás Kubínek at Mercyhurst University](https://johnchacona.com/tomas-kubinek-at-mercyhurst-university/) - Comic master Kubinek plays Mercyhurst Erie Times-News ShowCase, 27 September, 2015
- [Previewing "2015 PBS Arts Fall Festival"](https://johnchacona.com/previewing-2015-pbs-arts-fall-festival/) - WQLN: Arts anthology Erie LifeStyle magazine, October, 2015
- [Vertigo Dance Company at Mercyhurst University](https://johnchacona.com/vertigo-dance-company-at-mercyhurst-university/) - Vertigo Dance Company performs at Mercyhurst Erie Times-News ShowCase, 8 October, 2015
- [Dancing Wheels at Edinboro University](https://johnchacona.com/dancing-wheels-at-edinboro-university/) - Dancing Wheels performs in Edinboro Erie Times-News ShowCase, 29 October, 2015
- [Vaughan Williams' "Songs of Travel" at Edinboro University](https://johnchacona.com/vaughan-williams-songs-of-travel-at-edinboro-university/) - Edinboro recital features 'Songs of Travel’ Erie Times-News ShowCase, 26 November, 2015
- [Elizabeth LaPrelle, Jeff Brown & Still Lonesome at the Erie Art Museum](https://johnchacona.com/elizabeth-laprelle-jeff-brown-still-lonesome-at-the-erie-art-museum/) - Virginia mountain music at Erie Art Museum Erie Times-News ShowCase, 19 November, 2015
- [Sinkane at Mercyhurst University](https://johnchacona.com/sinkane-at-mercyhurst-university/) - Sinkane brings unbelievable beats to Mercyhurst Erie Times-News ShowCase, 12 November, 2015
- [Emily Righter at Mercyhurst University](https://johnchacona.com/emily-righter-at-mercyhurst-university/) - Opera singer Emily Righter performs at Mercyhurst Monday Erie Times-News ShowCase, 12 November, 2015
- [Kyozin Yueni Dekai and GOAT at the Electroflux Experimental Music Series](https://johnchacona.com/kyozin-yueni-dekai-and-goat-at-the-the-electroflux-experimental-music-series/) - Japanese noise-rock bands play Erie Ale Works Erie Times-News ShowCase, 1 October, 2015
- [Human Flux, Glimpse 2 at the Electroflux Experimental Music Series](https://johnchacona.com/human-flux-glimpse-2-at-the-electroflux-experimental-music-series/) - Human Flux, Glimpse 2 rock Electroflux Experimental show Erie Times-News ShowCase, 5 November, 2015
- [Erie Philharmonic Orchestra's "Romance of Schumann"](https://johnchacona.com/erie-philharmonic-orchestras-romance-of-schumann/) - Phil presents 'Romance of Schumann' Saturday Erie Times-News ShowCase, 5 November, 2015
- [Classical Jam at Penn State-Behrend’s Music at Noon series](https://johnchacona.com/classical-jam-at-penn-state-behrends-music-at-noon-series/) - Classical Jam assembles on Wednesday at Behrend Erie Times-News ShowCase, 5 November, 2015
- [Erie Chamber Orchestra plays "Psycho"](https://johnchacona.com/erie-chamber-orchestra-plays-psycho/) - ECO plays 'Psycho' score while film screens at Warner Erie Times-News ShowCase, 29 October, 2015
- [Bollywood Masala Orchestra and Dancers of India at Mercyhurst University](https://johnchacona.com/bollywood-masala-orchestra-and-dancers-of-india-at-mercyhurst-university/) - Welcome to Bollywood Erie Times-News ShowCase, 22 October, 2015
- [Erie Philharmonic Pops plays music by Queen and Journey](https://johnchacona.com/erie-philharmonic-pops-plays-music-by-queen-and-journey/) - Pops plays music by Queen, Journey Erie Times-News ShowCase, 22 October, 2015
- [Nels Cline and Julian Lage at Mercyhurst University](https://johnchacona.com/nels-cline-and-julian-lage-at-mercyhurst-university/) - Guitar masters—including Wilco's Nels Cline—team up Erie Times-News ShowCase, 22 October, 2015
- [Erie Chamber Orchestra members play music by film composers](https://johnchacona.com/erie-chamber-orchestra-members-play-music-by-film-composers/) - ECO members salute golden Hollywood Erie Times-News ShowCase, 22 October, 2015
- [Karen Akers at the 1891 Fredonia Opera House](https://johnchacona.com/karen-akers-at-the-1891-fredonia-opera-house/) - Karen Akers performs Friday in Fredonia, N.Y. Erie Times-News ShowCase, 8 October, 2015
- [Jose Ramos Santana at Mercyhurst University](https://johnchacona.com/jose-ramos-santana-at-mercyhurst-university/) - Primo pianist plays Monday at Mercyhurst Erie Times-News ShowCase, 8 October, 2015
- [Zuill Bailey with the Erie Philharmonic Orchestra](https://johnchacona.com/zuill-bailey-with-the-erie-philharmonic-orchestra/) - Prominent guest cellist joins Phil Saturday Erie Times-News ShowCase, 1 October, 2015
- [Brasil Guitar Duo at Penn State-Behrend’s Music at Noon series](https://johnchacona.com/brasil-guitar-duo-at-penn-state-behrends-music-at-noon-series/) - Brasil Guitar Duo visits Behrend Erie Times-News ShowCase, 1 October, 2015
- [Arlo Guthrie at the Erie Civic Center](https://johnchacona.com/arlo-guthrie-at-the-erie-civic-center/) - Arlo Guthrie coming into Erie next week Erie Times-News ShowCase, 24 September, 2015
- [Leif Vollebekk at the Erie Art Museum](https://johnchacona.com/leif-vollebekk-at-the-erie-art-museum/) - Canadian folkie Leif Vollebekk plays Tuesday Erie Times-News ShowCase, 24 September, 2015
- [Erie Philharmonic Pops plays scores from Spielberg films](https://johnchacona.com/erie-philharmonic-pops-plays-scores-from-spielberg-films/) - Pops opens season with Spielberg Scores Erie Times-News ShowCase, 24 September, 2015
- [Roman Mekinulov with the Erie Chamber Orchestra](https://johnchacona.com/roman-mekinulov-with-the-erie-chamber-orchestra/) - ECO's pumped-up season starts Saturday Erie Times-News ShowCase, 17 September, 2015
- [Cordis At Penn State-Behrend's Music at Noon series](https://johnchacona.com/cordis-at-penn-state-behrends-music-at-noon-series/) - Cordis opens Behrend's Music at Noon series Erie Times-News ShowCase, 17 September, 2015
- [Violinist David Kim in recital](https://johnchacona.com/violinist-david-kim-in-recital/) - David Kim performs with Erie Chamber Orchestra (sic) Erie Times-News ShowCase, 10 September, 2015
- [Moutin Factory Quintet at the Erie Art Museum](https://johnchacona.com/moutin-factory-quintet-at-the-erie-art-museum/) - Moutin Factory Quintet plays Monday Erie Times-News ShowCase, 27 August, 2015
- [Previewing PBS's "Lion Mystery"](https://johnchacona.com/previewing-pbss-lion-mystery/) - "Lion Mystery" airs on WQLN starting Sept. 22 Lake Erie LifeStyle, September, 2015
- [Bemus Bay Pops Closing Weekend Shows](https://johnchacona.com/bemus-bay-pops-closing-weekend-shows/) - Bemus Bay Pops closes with shows, fireworks Erie Times-News ShowCase, 4 September, 2015
- [Bat House at the Electroflux Experimental Music Series](https://johnchacona.com/bat-house-at-the-electroflux-experimental-music-series/) - Boston's Bat House flies in Monday Erie Times-News ShowCase, 27 August, 2015
- [Erie Chamber Orchestra Wind Quintet at Final Fridays](https://johnchacona.com/erie-chamber-orchestra-wind-quintet-at-final-fridays/) - Erie Chamber wind players perform Friday Erie Times-News ShowCase, 27 August, 2015
- [Tony Monaco and Pete Mills at the Romolo Summer Jazz Series](https://johnchacona.com/tony-monaco-and-pete-mills-at-the-romolo-summer-jazz-series/) - Monaco, Mills close out Romolo series Erie Times-News ShowCase, 13 August, 2015
- [Mozart's "Abduction from the Seraglio" at Mercyhurst University](https://johnchacona.com/mozarts-abduction-from-the-seraglio-at-mercyhurst-university/) - Mozart's 'Abduction from the Seraglio' at Mercyhurst Erie Times-News ShowCase, 13 August, 2015
- [ECO Percussion Group at the Final Fridays Series](https://johnchacona.com/eco-percussion-group-at-the-final-fridays-series/) - ECO Percussion Group plays Friday Erie Times-News ShowCase, 30 July, 2015
- [Hendrik Meurkens Quartet at Romolo Summer Jazz Series](https://johnchacona.com/hendrik-meurkens-quartet-at-romolo-summer-jazz-series/) - Meurkens' Quartet brings Brazilian heat to Romolo concert Erie Times-News ShowCase, 16 July, 2015
- [Previewing PBS's "Big Blue Live"](https://johnchacona.com/previewing-pbss-big-blue-live/) - 'Big Blue Live' showcases Monterey Bay Aquarium Lake Erie LifeStyle Magazine, August, 2015
- [Eric Alexander and Greg Hatza at Romolo Summer Jazz Series](https://johnchacona.com/894/) - Quartet brings cool club blues sound to Romolo's on Saturday Erie Times-News ShowCase, 9 July, 2015
- [BS! Brass Band at the Erie Art Museum Blues & Jazz Festival](https://johnchacona.com/bs-brass-band-at-the-erie-art-museum-blues-jazz-festival/) - Aggressive No BS! Brass Band plays Sunday in Erie Erie Times-News ShowCase, 30 July, 2015
- [Dwayne Dopsie at 8 Great Tuesdays](https://johnchacona.com/dwayne-dopsie-at-8-great-tuesdays/) - Dopsie brings Cajun spice to Erie's 8 Great Tuesdays Erie Times-News ShowCase, 23 July, 2015
- [Con Brio! at Romolo Summer Jazz Series](https://johnchacona.com/con-brio-at-romolo-summer-jazz-series/) - Con Brio! brings contemporary jazz to Romolo Chocolates Erie Times-News ShowCase, 23 July, 2015
- [CALJE at Romolo Summer Jazz Series](https://johnchacona.com/calje-at/) - Latin jazz adds spice to Romolo's on Saturday Erie Times-News ShowCase, 6 August, 2015
- [Daithi Sproule at the Kate Buczek Memorial Concert](https://johnchacona.com/daithi-sproule-at-the-kate-buczek-memorial-concert/) - Altan's Daithi­ Sproule performs Sunday in Erie Erie Times-News ShowCase, 4 June, 2015
- [Pink Martini at the Chautauqua Institution](https://johnchacona.com/pink-martini-at-the-chautauqua-institution/) - Pink Martini serves up charm, eclectic jazz in Chautauqua Erie Times-News ShowCase, 16 July, 2015
- [Erie Chamber Orchestra's concluding concert](https://johnchacona.com/erie-chamber-orchestras-concluding-concert/) - Pulitzer winner to cap strong ECO season Erie Times-News ShowCase, 4 June, 2015
- [Edinboro University Chamber Players "Tubas and Horns Everywhere"](https://johnchacona.com/878/) - Blasco Library hosts Tuba and Horns Everywhere on Monday Erie Times-News ShowCase, 28 May, 2015
- [Jake's Blues and Joscho Stephan at Sprague Brewery](https://johnchacona.com/jakes-blues-and-joscho-stephan-at-sprague-brewerie/) - Gypsy-jazz guitar great to play at Sprague Erie Times-News ShowCase, 11 June, 2015
- [Previewing PBS's "Operation Wild"](https://johnchacona.com/previewing-pbss-operation-wild/) - 'Operation Wild' airs on WQLN Lake Erie LifeStyle Magazine, July, 2015
- [Previewing PBS's "Last Days of Vietnam"](https://johnchacona.com/previewing-pbss-last-days-of-vietnam/) - 'Last Days of Vietnam' Lake Erie LifeStyle Magazine, April, 2015
- [Previewing PBS's "The Homefront"](https://johnchacona.com/previewing-pbss-the-homefront/) - 'The Homefront' Lake Erie LifeStyle Magazine, May, 2015
- [Previewing PBS's "Poldark"](https://johnchacona.com/previewing-pbss-poldark/) - 'Poldark' preview -- from riches to rags Lake Erie LifeStyle Magazine, June, 2015
- [Craft Brewing in Erie County](https://johnchacona.com/craft-brewing-in-erie-county/) - Microbrews: Craft Brewing in Erie County ERIE Magazine, June, 2015
- [Tributes to Eagles, John Mellencamp at Bemus Bay Pops](https://johnchacona.com/tributes-to-eagles-john-mellencamp-in-bemus/) - Tributes to Eagles, Mellencamp in Bemus Point, N.Y. Erie Times-News ShowCase, 2 July, 2015
- [William Parker at PACA](https://johnchacona.com/william-parker-at-paca/) - Jazz pro William Parker performs at PACA Wednesday Erie Times-News ShowCase, 21 May, 2015
- [Erie Chamber Orchestra's "The Burden of Genius"](https://johnchacona.com/erie-chamber-orchestras-the-burden-of-genius/) - ECO explores complicated composers on Friday Erie Times-News ShowCase, 16 April, 2015
- [Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra Season-Opening Concert](https://johnchacona.com/chautauqua-symphony-orchestra-season-opening-concert/) - Milanov era begins for Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra Erie Times-News ShowCase, 2 July, 2015
- [Evolution at Bemus Bay Pops](https://johnchacona.com/evolution-at-bemus-bay-pops/) - Clapton tribute plays Erie Times-News ShowCase, 25 June, 2015
- [Richie Cole at Romolo Summer Jazz Series](https://johnchacona.com/richie-cole-at-romolo-summer-jazz-series/) - 'Mad' sax player Richie Cole at Romolo Erie Times-News ShowCase, 25 June, 2015
- [Cocomama at Romolo Summer Jazz Series](https://johnchacona.com/cocomama-at-romolo-summer-jazz-series-2/) - Cocomama opens Romolo series on Saturday Erie Times-News ShowCase, 18 June, 2015
- [Previewing JazzErie's Jazz & Blues Walk](https://johnchacona.com/previewing-jazzeries-jazz-blues-walk/) - Jazz & Blues Walk arrives a month early Erie Times-News ShowCase, 11 June, 2015
- [Mercyhurst University Student Recitals](https://johnchacona.com/mercyhurst-university-student-recitals/) - 3 concerts by Mercyhurst University students Erie Times-News ShowCase, 30 April, 2015
- [Young Artists Debut Orchestra Mother's Day concert](https://johnchacona.com/young-artists-debut-orchestra-mothers-day-concert/) - YADO plays Mother's Day concert Erie Times-News ShowCase, 7 May, 2015
- [Guru at Bobby's Place](https://johnchacona.com/guru-at-bobbys-place/) - New Erie band Guru grooves out Friday at Bobby's Place Erie Times-News ShowCase, 21 May, 2015
- [Madama Butterfly at Mercyhurst University](https://johnchacona.com/madama-butterfly-at-mercyhurst-university/) - 'Madama Butterfly' takes the stage this weekend at Mercyhurst Erie Times-News ShowCase, 16 April, 2015
- [Peter and Lou Berryman at the Erie Art Museum](https://johnchacona.com/peter-and-lou-berryman-at-the-erie-art-museum/) - Noted folk duo pulls into Erie Art Museum on Friday Erie Times-News ShowCase, 16 April, 2015
- [Shen and Bones Dance Festival](https://johnchacona.com/shen-and-bones-dance-festival/) - Shen and Bones dives into butoh this weekend Erie Times-News ShowCase, 26 March, 2015
- [Erie Philharmonic Pops Tribute to Michael Jackson](https://johnchacona.com/erie-philharmonic-pops-tribute-to-michael-jackson/) - Pops concert features best of Michael Jackson Erie Times-News ShowCase, 26 March, 2015
- [Project Trio at Mercyhurst University](https://johnchacona.com/project-trio-at-mercyhurst-university/) - Playful Project Trio performs Saturday at Mercyhurst Erie Times-News ShowCase, 26 March, 2015
- [Edinboro Chamber Players play Bach](https://johnchacona.com/edinboro-chamber-players-play-bach/) - Edinboro Chamber Players salute Bach family Erie Times-News ShowCase, 19 March, 2015
- [Mercyhurst University Choirs Spring Concert](https://johnchacona.com/mercyhurst-university-choirs-spring-concert/) - Choir season starts Sunday at Mercyhurst Erie Times-News ShowCase, 26 March, 2015
- [Erie Chamber Orchestra's "The Magic Flute"](https://johnchacona.com/erie-chamber-orchestras-the-magic-flute/) - ECO stages 'The Magic Flute' on Friday Erie Times-News ShowCase, 12 March, 2015
- [Previewing Season Five of PBS's "Downton Abbey"](https://johnchacona.com/previewing-season-five-of-pbss-downton-abbey/) - What the butler knows about 'Downton' Lake Erie LifeStyle Magazine, January, 2015
- [Di Wu and Adrian Daurov at Mercyhurst University](https://johnchacona.com/di-wu-and-adrian-daurov-at-mercyhurst-university/) - Classical couple to make beautiful music on Monday at Mercyhurst Erie Times-News ShowCase, 12 March, 2015
- [Lake Erie Ballet's Global Gala](https://johnchacona.com/lake-erie-ballets-global-gala/) - Lake Erie Ballet's bold moves Erie Times-News ShowCase, 5 March, 2015
- [Joyce Yang with the Erie Philharmonic Orchestra](https://johnchacona.com/joyce-yang-with-the-erie-philharmonic-orchestra/) - Pianist Joyce Yang joins Erie Phil on Saturday Erie Times-News ShowCase, 5 March, 2015
- [Alec Chien's Farewell Concerts at Allegheny College](https://johnchacona.com/alec-chiens-farewell-concerts-at-allegheny-college/) - Alec Chien plays farewell concerts at Allegheny Erie Times-News ShowCase, 5 March, 2015
- [Previewing the PBS program "Cancer, The Emperor of All Maladies"](https://johnchacona.com/previewing-the-pbs-program-cancer-the-emperor-of-all-maladies/) - Cancer, The Emperor of All Maladies Lake Erie LifeStyle Magazine, February, 2015
- [ETHEL at Edinboro University](https://johnchacona.com/ethel-at-edinboro-university/) - Ethel gives chamber music modern kick in Edinboro Erie Times-News ShowCase, 26 February, 2015
- [Martha Graham Dance Company at Mercyhurst University](https://johnchacona.com/martha-graham-dance-company-at-mercyhurst-university/) - Martha Graham Dance Company visits Erie next week and Graham Legacy Only Grows Erie Times-News ShowCase, 26 February, 2015
- [Ethnic Heritage Ensemble at the Erie Art Museum](https://johnchacona.com/ethnic-heritage-ensemble-at-the-erie-art-museum-6/) - Ethnic Heritage Ensemble returns next week Erie Times-News ShowCase, 19 February, 2015
- [Dave Wilson at Edinboro University](https://johnchacona.com/dave-wilson-at-edinboro-university/) - Jazz saxophonist Dave Wilson plays in Edinboro Erie Times-News ShowCase, 26 February, 2015
- [Erie Chamber Orchestra's Multimedia Eroica](https://johnchacona.com/erie-chamber-orchestras-multimedia-eroica/) - ECO shows why 'Eroica' matters with multimedia concert Erie Times-News ShowCase, 19 February, 2015
- [Alexander Ghindin  at St. Luke's Episcopal Church, Jamestown, Gleb Ivanov at the Struthers Library Theatre](https://johnchacona.com/alexander-ghindin-at-st-lukes-episcopal-church-jamestown-gleb-ivanov-at-the-struthers-library-theatre/) - The Empire Strikes Back Erie Times-News ShowCase, 18 March, 2010
- [Erie Philharmonic Pops "Heroes and Villains"](https://johnchacona.com/erie-philharmonic-pops-heroes-and-villains/) - Erie Philharmonic Pops takes on heroes and villains on Saturday Erie Times-News ShowCase, 5 February, 2015
- [JazzErie's "Exploring the Border"](https://johnchacona.com/jazzeries-exploring-the-border/) - Jazz, poetry commingle on Saturday at Erie Art Museum Erie Times-News ShowCase, 5 February, 2015
- [Celebrating the anniversary of the Neighborhood Art House](https://johnchacona.com/celebrating-the-anniversary-of-the-neighborhood-art-house/) - Artfully yours for 20 years Lake Erie LifeStyle Magazine, January, 2015
- [Harry Lennix and Adé Williams with the Erie Chamber Orchestra](https://johnchacona.com/harry-lennix-and-ade-williams-with-the-erie-chamber-orchestra/) - 'Blacklist' star appears with Erie Chamber Orchestra Erie Times-News ShowCase, 12 February, 2015
- [Baltimore Consort, Soul Sounds at Penn State Erie](https://johnchacona.com/baltimore-consort-soul-sounds-at-penn-state-erie/) - Baltimore Consort, Soul Sounds at Behrend Erie Times-News ShowCase, 12 February, 2015
- [Bach Vespers at Luther Memorial Church](https://johnchacona.com/bach-vespers-at-luther-memorial-church/) - Bach Cantatas roll Sunday at Luther Memorial Erie Times-News ShowCase, 12 February, 2015
- [Intergalactic Nemesis at Mercyhurst University](https://johnchacona.com/intergalactic-nemesis-at-mercyhurst-university/) - Stop the sludge monsters at Mercyhurst Erie Times-News ShowCase, 29 January, 2015
- [Simone Dinnerstein with the Erie Philharmonic Orchestra](https://johnchacona.com/simone-dinnerstein-with-the-erie-philharmonic-orchestra/) - Dinnerstein performs with the Erie Phil on Saturday Erie Times-News ShowCase, 22 January, 2015
- [A new artistic director at Lake Erie Ballet](https://johnchacona.com/a-new-artistic-director-at-lake-erie-ballet/) - Lake Erie Ballet's new artistic director aims to grow company Erie Times-News ShowCase, 22 January, 2015
- [Brian Henke at the Erie Art Museum](https://johnchacona.com/brian-henke-at-the-erie-art-museum/) - Acoustic guitarist brings unique, pastoral sound to Erie Art Museum Erie Times-News ShowCase, 22 January, 2015
- [Harlem Quartet at Penn-StateBehrend](https://johnchacona.com/harlem-quartet-at-penn-statebehrend/) - Quartet plays jazz, classical music at Behrend Erie Times-News ShowCase, 15 January, 2015
- [Erie Chamber Orchestra's Martin Luther King Jr. Day concert](https://johnchacona.com/erie-chamber-orchestras-martin-luther-king-jr-day-concert/) - 'Ellis Island' highlights ECO'S annual King tribute Friday Erie Times-News ShowCase, 15 January, 2015
- [Diavolo at Mercyhurst University](https://johnchacona.com/diavolo-at-mercyhurst-university/) - LA-based dance group performs Tuesday at Mercyhurst Erie Times-News ShowCase, 8 January, 2015
- [Jazz and concert music events to look forward to in 2015](https://johnchacona.com/jazz-and-concert-music-events-to-look-forward-to-in-2015/) - Concerts, performances to get jazzed about in 2015 Erie Times-News ShowCase, 1 January, 2015
- [Best Jazz CDs of 2014](https://johnchacona.com/best-jazz-cds-of-2014/) - 10 unforgettable 2014 jazz albums Erie Times-News ShowCase, 1 January, 2015
- [Revisiting notable jazz and concert music events of 2015](https://johnchacona.com/revisiting-notable-jazz-and-concert-music-events-of-2015/) - Erie-area jazz [and concert music] jams that made an impression in 2014 Erie Times-News ShowCase, 25 December, 2014
- [Recommending (more or less) five holiday CDs](https://johnchacona.com/recommending-more-or-less-five-holiday-cds/) - 5 new holiday CD releases run the gamut Erie Times-News ShowCase, 18 December, 2014
- [Erie Chamber Orchestra Christmas concert](https://johnchacona.com/erie-chamber-orchestra-christmas-concert/) - Erie Chamber Orchestra presents 'Christmas Classics' Erie Times-News ShowCase, 11 December, 2014
- [Moya Brennan at Mercyhurst University](https://johnchacona.com/moya-brennan-at-mercyhurst-university/) - Former Clannad singer performs holiday show on Friday Erie Times-News ShowCase, 11 December, 2014
- [Samite at Mercyhurst University](https://johnchacona.com/samite-at-mercyhurst-university/) - Ugandan-born musician Samite plays Friday Erie Times-News ShowCase, 9 October, 2014
- [Erie Chamber Orchestra plays Zamecnik](https://johnchacona.com/erie-chamber-orchestra-plays-zamecnik/) - ECO plays Monday, releases CD celebrating silent-film composer Erie Times-News ShowCase, 9 October, 2014
- [Erie Philharmonic with violinist Elena Urioste](https://johnchacona.com/erie-philharmonic-with-violinist-elena-urioste/) - Erie Phil opens season with Elgar, Beethoven, more Erie Times-News ShowCase, 9 October, 2014
- [Erie Chamber Orchestra plays Chaplin's 'City Lights'](https://johnchacona.com/erie-chamber-orchestra-plays-chaplins-city-lights/) - ECO plays score at Chaplin's 'City Lights' screening Erie Times-News ShowCase, 16 October, 2014
- [McDonas/Holquist/Lopez at PACA](https://johnchacona.com/mcdonasholquistlopez-at-paca/) - California pianist plays experimental music series at PACA Erie Times-News ShowCase, 9 October, 2014
- [The Heliotropes at WQLN](https://johnchacona.com/the-heliotropes-at-wqln/) - Heliotropes lend familiar sound during WQLN's Friday concert Erie Times-News ShowCase, 17 July, 2014
- [Erie Philharmonic Pops' "Come Home for the Holidays"](https://johnchacona.com/erie-philharmonic-pops-come-home-for-the-holidays/) - Pops' Come Home for the Holidays adds matinee Erie Times-News ShowCase, 4 Deceember, 2014
- [Kelly's Cellar reunites for a benefit concert](https://johnchacona.com/kellys-cellar-reunites-for-a-benefit-concert/) - Erie band plays first gig since 1970 for ballet benefit Erie Times-News ShowCase, 4 Deceember, 2014
- [Frank Singer at Anchor In](https://johnchacona.com/frank-singer-at-anchorin/) - Jazz musician Frank Singer plays 2 weekend shows at the Anchor In Erie Times-News ShowCase, 27 November, 2014
- [Reviewing recent releases by jazz artists who have played in Erie](https://johnchacona.com/reviewing-recent-releases-by-jazz-artists-who-have-played-in-erie/) - Give the gift of jazz, blues with 7 great albums Erie Times-News ShowCase, 27 November, 2014
- [Previewing PBS' "Sacred Journeys"](https://johnchacona.com/previewing-pbs-sacred-journeys/) - On the Road Again Lake Erie LifeStyle Magazine, 28 November, 2014
- [Previewing PBS's "Navy Seals -- Their Untold Story"](https://johnchacona.com/previewing-pbss-navy-seals-their-untold-story/) - 'Navy Seals -- Their Untold Story' Lake Erie LifeStyle Magazine, 27 October, 2014
- [Step Afrika! at Edinboro University](https://johnchacona.com/step-afrika-at-edinboro-university/) - In Step Erie Times-News , 25 March, 2011
- [Erie Day School Benefit Show](https://johnchacona.com/erie-day-school-benefit-show/) - Artists, musicians put on 2-day fest to benefit Erie Day School Erie Times-News ShowCase, 20 November, 2014
- [Ben Sollee at Mercyhurst University](https://johnchacona.com/ben-sollee-at-mercyhurst-university/) - Rising star cellist Ben Sollee plays Thursday at Mercyhurst Erie Times-News ShowCase, 20 November, 2014
- [Erie Philharmonic plays Stock, Higdon and Tchaikovsky](https://johnchacona.com/erie-philharmonic-plays-stock-higdon-and-tchaikovsky/) - Concerto to keep percussionist busy at Erie Phil concert Erie Times-News ShowCase, 13 November, 2014
- [Ball in the House at Edinboro University](https://johnchacona.com/ball-in-the-house-at-edinboro-university/) - Vocal group Ball in the House performs today in Edinboro Erie Times-News ShowCase, 13 November, 2014
- [She-e Wu with the Erie Chamber Orchestra](https://johnchacona.com/she-e-wu-with-the-erie-chamber-orchestra/) - ECO presents contemporary works on Friday Erie Times-News ShowCase, 6 November, 2014
- [Roy Book Binder at the Erie Art Museum](https://johnchacona.com/roy-book-binder-at-the-erie-art-museum/) - Roy Book Binder brings acoustic blues to Erie Art Museum Erie Times-News ShowCase, 23 October, 2014
- [Luther Memorial Church Reformation Day concert](https://johnchacona.com/luther-memorial-church-reformation-day-concert/) - Luther Memorial features Bach Cantata Vespers concert on Sunday Erie Times-News ShowCase, 23 October, 2014
- [East of the River at Penn State-Behrend's Logan Series](https://johnchacona.com/east-of-the-river-at-penn-state-behrends-logan-series/) - East of the River brings haunting music to Behrend on Monday Erie Times-News ShowCase, 2 October, 2014
- [JazzErie presents Sonny Fortune at Erie Art Museum](https://johnchacona.com/jazzerie-presents-sonny-fortune-at-erie-art-museum/) - Former Miles Davis saxophonist plays in Erie on Saturday Erie Times-News ShowCase, 6 November, 2014
- [Sonic Escape at Penn State-Behrend](https://johnchacona.com/sonic-escape-at-penn-state-behrend/) - Sonic Escape Erie Times-News ShowCase, 6 November, 2014
- [Erie Philharmonic Pops "Wicked Divas"](https://johnchacona.com/erie-philharmonic-pops-wicked-divas/) - Former 'Wicked' stars team up with Erie Phil on Saturday Erie Times-News ShowCase, 23 October, 2014
- [SoMar Dance Works, Allen Zurcher Quartet Collaborate](https://johnchacona.com/somar-dance-works-allen-zurcher-quartet-collaborate/) - Jazz band, SoMar collaborate on dance improv Erie Times-News ShowCase, 16 October, 2014
- [Anaïs Mitchell on the MIAC series at the Erie Art Museum on the ](https://johnchacona.com/anais-mitchell-on-the-miac-series-at-the-erie-art-museum-on-the/) - Rising singer Anais Mitchell performs Tuesday Erie Times-News ShowCase, 25 September, 2014
- [Matthew Shipp and Michael Bisio at PACA](https://johnchacona.com/matthew-shipp-and-michael-bisio-at-paca/) - Jazz musician Matthew Shipp plays tonight at PACA Erie Times-News ShowCase, 18 September, 2014
- [Roberto Diaz opens the Erie Chamber Orchestra season](https://johnchacona.com/roberto-diaz-opens-the-erie-chamber-orchestra-season/) - Guest violist Robert (sic) Diaz joins ECO on Friday Erie Times-News ShowCase, 18 September, 2014
- [Maureen Conlon-Gutierrez inaugurates the Joe Luckey Recital Series](https://johnchacona.com/maureen-conlon-gutierrez-inaugurates-the-joe-luckey-recital-series/) - ECO opens new season with new concertmaster Erie Times-News ShowCase, 11 September, 2014
- [Classical Mystery Tour opens the Erie Philharmonic Pops season](https://johnchacona.com/classical-mystery-tour-opens-the-erie-philharmonic-pops-season/) - Pops season opens with Classical Mystery Tour Erie Times-News ShowCase, 11 September, 2014
- [The Cavani Quartet at The Logan Series:  Music at Noon](https://johnchacona.com/the-cavani-quartet-at-the-logan-series-music-at-noon/) - Piece for late Behrend employee debuts Tuesday Erie Times-News ShowCase, 11 September, 2014
- [Erie's Border Patrol and Coast Guard stations](https://johnchacona.com/eries-border-patrol-and-coast-guard-stations/) - Bordertown ERIE Magazine, August September, 2014
- [Reviewing the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra concert of 19 July, 2014](https://johnchacona.com/reviewing-the-chautauqua-symphony-orchestra-concert-of-19-july-2014/) - Minczuk, CSO deliver affecting interpretation of Shostakovich Chautauquan Daily, 21 July, 2014
- [Reviewing the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra concert of 10 July, 2014](https://johnchacona.com/reviewing-the-chautauqua-symphony-orchestra-concert-of-10-july-2014/) - Review: Milanov delivers shrewd performance from the podium Chautauquan Daily, 13 July, 2014
- [Reviewing the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra concert of 16 August, 2014](https://johnchacona.com/reviewing-the-chautauqua-symphony-orchestra-concert-of-16-august-2014/) - Review: Boico seeks harmonic adventure, CSO overcomes rocky first half Chautauquan Daily, 17 August, 2014
- [The Armitan Hand at Arts & Drafts Fest ](https://johnchacona.com/the-armitan-hand-at/) - Armitan Hand performs at Arts & Drafts Fest on Friday Erie Times-News ShowCase, 4 September, 2014
- [Matthew Su at First United Methodist Church's TNT Series](https://johnchacona.com/matthew-su-at-first-united-methodist-churchs-tnt-series/) - Young violinist opens TNT music series Erie Times-News ShowCase, 4 September, 2014
- [Bemus Bay Pops Labor Day weekend shows](https://johnchacona.com/bemus-bay-pops-labor-day-weekend-shows/) - Bemus Bay Pops closes summer season with 4 shows Erie Times-News ShowCase, 28 August, 2014
- [SoMar and Friends at Dafmark Dance Theater](https://johnchacona.com/somar-and-friends-at-dafmark-dance-theater/) - SoMar reaches out to friends for dance show Erie Times-News ShowCase, 21 August, 2014
- [Margo Rey at Bemus Bay Pops](https://johnchacona.com/margo-rey-at-bemus-bay-pops/) - Margo Rey performs at Bemus Point, N.Y. Erie Times-News ShowCase, 14 August, 2014
- [Postmodern Jukebox at Bemus Bay Pops](https://johnchacona.com/postmodern-jukebox-at-bemus-bay-pops/) - New songs, old styles: Postmodern Jukebox at Bemus Bay Pops Erie Times-News ShowCase, 7 August, 2014
- [Hendrik Meurkens at Romolo's](https://johnchacona.com/hendrik-meurkens-at-romolos/) - Brazilian artist closes Romolo's music series on Saturday Erie Times-News ShowCase, 7 August, 2014
- [Jane Bunnett and Maqueque at Erie Art Museum Blues and Jazz Festival](https://johnchacona.com/jane-bunnett-and-maqueque-at-erie-art-museum-blues-and-jazz-festival/) - Jane Bunnett spreads the joy at Erie's Blue & Jazz Fest Erie Times-News ShowCase, 31 July, 2014
- [Oneida at the Beer Mug](https://johnchacona.com/oneida-at-the-beer-mug/) - Oneida to close U.S. tour on Saturday in Erie Erie Times-News ShowCase, 31 July, 2014
- [Three Pianos at Bemus Bay Pops](https://johnchacona.com/three-pianos-at-bemus-bay-pops/) - '3 Pianos' plays Sunday during Bemus Bay Pops Erie Times-News ShowCase, 24 July, 2014
- [Lake Erie Fanfare](https://johnchacona.com/lake-erie-fanfare/) - March to the beat of Tuesday's Lake Erie Fanfare Erie Times-News ShowCase, 24 July, 2014
- [Cocomama at Romolo's](https://johnchacona.com/cocomama-at-romolos/) - Get ready to feel the beat of Cocomama on Saturday Erie Times-News ShowCase, 24 July, 2014
- [JazzErie Jazz and Blues Walk](https://johnchacona.com/jazzerie-jazz-and-blues-walk/) - Jazz & Blues Walk rolls Saturday Erie Times-News ShowCase, 10 July, 2014
- [Rob Paparazzo Band at Romolo's](https://johnchacona.com/rob-paparazzo-band-at-romolos/) - Top session, touring musicians jam at Romolo Erie Times-News ShowCase, 10 July, 2014
- [Louis Prima, Jr. at Bemus Bay Pops](https://johnchacona.com/louis-prima-jr-at-bemus-bay-pops/) - Like his old man, Louis Prima Jr. swings Erie Times-News ShowCase, 10 July, 2014
- [Experimental Music at PACA](https://johnchacona.com/experimental-music-at-paca/) - PACA hosts experimental music show Saturday Erie Times-News ShowCase, 10 July, 2014
- [Ana Popovic at 8 Great Tuesdays](https://johnchacona.com/ana-popovic-at-8-great-tueesdays/) - Blue Belgrade and recommended recordings Erie Times-News ShowCase, 12 July, 2007
- [Bill O'Connell and the Latin Jazz All-Stars at Romolo Chocolates](https://johnchacona.com/bill-oconnell-and-the-latin-jazz-all-stars-at-romolo-chocolates/) - Latin jazz star plays Saturday at Romolo's Erie Times-News ShowCase, 3 July, 2014
- [Muriel Anderson at Erie Art Museum](https://johnchacona.com/muriel-anderson-at-erie-art-museum/) - Fingerpicking guitar ace plays Saturday Erie Times-News ShowCase, 3 July, 2014
- [Vincent Ingala at the Bemus Bay Pops](https://johnchacona.com/vincent-ingala-at-the-bemus-bay-pops/) - Ingala brings smooth jazz to Bemus Point Erie Times-News ShowCase, 3 July, 2014
- [Tony Monaco at Romolo Chocolates Summer Music Series](https://johnchacona.com/tony-monaco-at-romolo-chocolates-summer-music-series/) - Monaco brings B-3 heat to Romolo Chocolates Erie Times-News ShowCase, 26 June, 2014
- [Previewing the Bemus Bay Pops season](https://johnchacona.com/previewing-the-bemus-bay-pops-season-3/) - Floating stage opens for summer concerts Erie Times-News ShowCase, 26 June, 2014
- [Concert Band of Northwest Pennsylvania at Edinboro University](https://johnchacona.com/concert-band-of-northwest-pennsylvania-at-edinboro-university-2/) - Edinboro's concert band returns next week Erie Times-News ShowCase, 12 June, 2014
- [Bach and Beyond Festival at the 1891 Fredonia Opera House](https://johnchacona.com/bach-and-beyond-festival-at-the-1891-fredonia-opera-house/) - Bach and Beyond Festival starts Friday Erie Times-News ShowCase, 12 June, 2014
- [Sari Gruber with the Erie Chamber Orchestra](https://johnchacona.com/sari-gruber-with-the-erie-chamber-orchestra/) - ECO closes season with Mahler's Fourth Erie Times-News ShowCase, 5 June, 2014
- ["Torch" a benefit cabaret for SafeNet](https://johnchacona.com/torch-a-benefit-cabaret-for-safenet/) - Jazz vocalists team up for 'Torch' this weekend Erie Times-News ShowCase, 29 May, 2014
- [Erie Opera Theatre world premiere of "The Selfish Giant"](https://johnchacona.com/erie-opera-theatre-world-premiere-of-the-selfish-giant/) - Erie Opera Theatre debuts 'Selfish Giant' Erie Times-News ShowCase, 1 May, 2014
- [Nick Millevoi and Eric Carbonara at Basement Transmissions](https://johnchacona.com/nick-millevoi-and-eric-carbonara-at-basement-transmissions/) - Experimental music Thursday at Basement Transmissions Erie Times-News ShowCase, 23 April, 2014
- [Erie Junior Philharmonic 60th anniversary concert](https://johnchacona.com/erie-junior-philharmonic-60th-anniversary-concert/) - Erie Junior Philharmonic celebrates 60 years Erie Times-News ShowCase, 23 April, 2014
- [Anna Meyer and Shirley Yoo in recital at Mercyhurst University](https://johnchacona.com/anna-meyer-and-shirley-yoo-in-recital-at-mercyhurst-university/) - Classical musical friends reunite Thursday at Mercyhurst Erie Times-News ShowCase, 10 April, 2014
- [Moscow Festival Ballet "Swan Lake" at Mercyhurst University](https://johnchacona.com/moscow-festival-ballet-swan-lake-at-mercyhurst-university/) - Moscow ballet presents 'Swan Lake' at Mercyhurst Erie Times-News ShowCase, 10 April, 2014
- [Erie Chamber Orchestra plays Mozetich, Pärt and Shostakovich](https://johnchacona.com/erie-chamber-orchestra-plays-mozetich-part-and-shostakovich/) - ECO concert to feature haunting string works Erie Times-News ShowCase, 24 April, 2014
- [Profiling WQLN-FM's Brian Hannah](https://johnchacona.com/profiling-wqln-fms-brian-hannah/) - Brian Hannah slides into WQLN-FM's first chair Lake Erie LifeStyle Magazine, June, 2014
- [Profiling Local Apps Developers](https://johnchacona.com/profiling-local-apps-developers/) - Handheld Revolution ERIE Magazine, February-March, 2014
- [Profiling local businesses and their community service](https://johnchacona.com/profiling-local-businesses-and-their-community-service/) - A Sense of Place ERIE Magazine, April-May, 2014
- [Sailing Families](https://johnchacona.com/sailing-families/) - A son of a son of sailor Lake Erie LifeStyle Magazine, April, 2014
- [Erie Philharmonic POPS "A Tribute to Motown"](https://johnchacona.com/erie-philharmonic-pops-a-tribute-to-motown/) - Pops shines spotlight on Motown on Saturday Erie Times-News ShowCase, 1 May, 2014
- [Man Forever at Basement Transmissions](https://johnchacona.com/767/) - Art-rock percussion master returns to Erie Erie Times-News ShowCase, 22 May, 2014
- [Kate Buczek Memorial Concert](https://johnchacona.com/kate-buczek-memorial-concert-2/) - Kate Buczek Memorial Concert on Sunday Erie Times-News ShowCase, 22 May, 2014
- [Young Artists Debut Orchestra Spring Concert](https://johnchacona.com/young-artists-debut-orchestra-spring-concert/) - Challenging concert by Young Artists Debut Orchestra Erie Times-News ShowCase, 1 May, 2014
- [Erie Philharmonic "Carmina Burana"](https://johnchacona.com/erie-philharmonic-carmina-burana/) - Erie Phil presents 'Carmina Burana' on Saturday Erie Times-News ShowCase, 3 April, 2014
- [Dafmark Dance Theater's "Poetic Symphony in 2, 5 and 6"](https://johnchacona.com/dafmark-dance-theaters-poetic-symphony-in-2-5-and-6/) - Dafmark Dance Theater blends Mahler, art, poetry Erie Times-News ShowCase, 3 April, 2014
- [Concert Band of Northwest Pennsylvania at Edinboro University](https://johnchacona.com/concert-band-of-northwest-pennsylvania-at-edinboro-university/) - Concert band plays Sunday concert in Edinboro Erie Times-News ShowCase, 3 April, 2014
- [Ahn Trio at Mercyhurst University](https://johnchacona.com/ahn-trio-at-mercyhurst-university/) - Ahn Trio performs today at Mercyhurst University Erie Times-News ShowCase, 3 April, 2014
- [Third Coast Percussion at Penn State-Erie](https://johnchacona.com/third-coast-percussion-at-penn-state-erie/) - Third Coast Percussion plays Wednesday at Behrend Erie Times-News ShowCase, 20 March, 2014
- [Previewing Ken Burns' "The Address"](https://johnchacona.com/previewing-ken-burns-the-address/) - Ken Burns: "The Address" Lake Erie LifeStyle Magazine, March, 2013
- [Erie Philharmonic Orchestra's "Pixar in Concert"](https://johnchacona.com/erie-philharmonic-orchestras-pixar-in-concert/) - Pixar in Concert features tunes from 'toons Erie Times-News ShowCase, 20 March, 2014
- [Mercyhurst University presents Snarky Puppy](https://johnchacona.com/mercyhurst-university-presents-snarky-puppy/) - Grammy-winning Snarky Puppy plays Thursday Erie Times-News ShowCase, 20 March, 2014
- [Erie Chamber Orchestra concert presentation of "The Music Man"](https://johnchacona.com/erie-chamber-orchestra-concert-presentation-of-the-music-man/) - The Music-Man plays Friday at Cathedral Prep auditorium Erie Times-News ShowCase, 13 March, 2014
- [Noah Bendix-Balgley with the Erie Philharmonic Orchestra](https://johnchacona.com/noah-bendix-balgley-with-the-erie-philharmonic-orchestra/) - Acclaimed violinist joins Erie Philharmonic on Saturday Erie Times-News ShowCase, 6 March, 2014
- [JazzErie presents the Amina Figarova Sextet](https://johnchacona.com/jazzerie-presents-the-amina-figarova-sextet/) - Jazz pianist Amina Figarova performs Saturday Erie Times-News ShowCase, 6 March, 2014
- [Joel Harrison Septet at Penn State Behrend](https://johnchacona.com/joel-harrison-septet-at-penn-state-behrend/) - Roots, jazz intersect Erie Times-News ShowCase, 20 February, 2014
- [The Erie Chamber Orchestra with Rachel Barton Pine and Adé Williams](https://johnchacona.com/the-erie-chamber-orchestra-with-rachel-barton-pine-and-ade-williams/) - Student, teacher join forces at Erie Chamber Orchestra concert Erie Times-News ShowCase, 20 February, 2014
- [Monk's Brew Trio at the BrewErie](https://johnchacona.com/monks-brew-trio-at-the-brewerie/) - Original jazz on tap with the Monk's Brew at Brewerie Erie Times-News ShowCase, 13 February, 2014
- [Tabla for Two at Mercyhurst University](https://johnchacona.com/tabla-for-two-at-mercyhurst-university-2/) - Set the Tabla for Two on Monday at Mercyhurst Erie Times-News ShowCase, 6 February, 2014
- [Erie Chamber Orchestra's Martin Luther King concert](https://johnchacona.com/erie-chamber-orchestras-martin-luther-king-concert/) - ECO'S King tribute concert set for Friday Erie Times-News ShowCase, 16 January, 2014
- [The Erie Philharmonic Orchestra with Gabriela Montero](https://johnchacona.com/the-erie-philharmonic-orchestra-with-gabriela-montero/) - M is for masterpieces Erie Times-News ShowCase, 23 January, 2014
- [Half Moon Consort's "Trophies" and recital](https://johnchacona.com/half-moon-consorts-trophies-and-recital/) - 2 Erie shows celebrate music of Moondog Erie Times-News ShowCase, 6 February, 2014
- [JazzErie presents Joshua Breakstone at PACA](https://johnchacona.com/jazzerie-presents-joshua-breakstone-at-paca/) - Jazz guitarist Joshua Breakstone plays PACA Saturday Erie Times-News ShowCase, 6 February, 2014
- [DuoJalal at Penn State Erie](https://johnchacona.com/tabla-for-two-at-mercyhurst-university/) - Poetry as music Erie Times-News ShowCase, 23 January, 2014
- [Second Season Preview](https://johnchacona.com/741/) - Great music events are around the corner in 2014 Erie Times-News ShowCase, 2 January, 2014
- [Erie Chamber Orchestra's annual Sing Along concert ](https://johnchacona.com/erie-chamber-orchestras-annual-sing-along-concert/) - Erie Chamber's annual Sing Along concert Thursday at St. Peter Erie Times-News ShowCase, 19 December, 2013
- [Tim Warfield's "A Jazzy Christmas" at Mercyhurst University](https://johnchacona.com/tim-warfields-ajazzy-christmas-at-mercyhurst-university/) - Intimate, jazzy Christmas show at Mercyhurst University Erie Times-News ShowCase, 12 December, 2013
- [My Favorite Jazz CDs of 2013](https://johnchacona.com/john-chaconas-top-jazz-cds-of-2013/) - John Chacona's Top Jazz CDs of 2013 Erie Times-News ShowCase, 26 December, 2013
- [Favorite Performances of 2013](https://johnchacona.com/favorite-performances-of-2013/) - Chacona's 2013 Sweet Spots Erie Times-News ShowCase, 26 December, 2013
- [Erie Philharmonic Chorus' "Messiah"](https://johnchacona.com/erie-philharmonic-chorus-messiah/) - 'Messiah' to ring out at St. Peter Cathedral Erie Times-News ShowCase, 12 December, 2013
- [Erie Philharmonic Pops Holiday Concert](https://johnchacona.com/erie-philharmonic-pops-holiday-concert-2/) - Erie Philharmonic Pops concert sold out, but fans can 'hunt' for tickets Erie Times-News ShowCase, 5 December, 2013
- [Raya Brass Band at PACA](https://johnchacona.com/raya-brass-band-at-paca/) - Frenetic NYC band brings Balkan wedding music to PACA Erie Times-News ShowCase, 21 November, 2013
- [Dinosaur fossil exhibit at TREC](https://johnchacona.com/dinosaur-fossil-exhibit-at-trec/) - Dinosaur fossil exhibit roars at TREC Erie Times-News ShowCase, 21 November, 2013
- [Bridgman/Packer "Voyeur"](https://johnchacona.com/bridgmanpacker-voyeur/) - Bridgman/Packer present innovative dance show at Erie Art Museum Erie Times-News ShowCase, 14 November, 2013
- [Erie Chamber Orchestra plays Haydn and Mozart](https://johnchacona.com/erie-chamber-orchestra-plays-haydn-and-mozart/) - High degree of difficulty Erie Times-News ShowCase, 14 November, 2013
- [Mercyhurst Dancers "What Is Happiness"](https://johnchacona.com/mercyhurst-dancers-what-is-happiness/) - Mercyhurst Dancers explore happiness Erie Times-News ShowCase, 7 November, 2013
- [Erie Philharmonic Orchestra 100th Anniversary Concert](https://johnchacona.com/erie-philharmonic-orchestra-100th-anniversary-concert/) - Erie Phil celebrates 100th with original piece Erie Times-News ShowCase, 7 November, 2013
- [Voice at Penn State Behrend](https://johnchacona.com/voice-at-penn-state-behrend/) - Voice brings sweet sounds to Penn State Behrend Erie Times-News ShowCase, 7 November, 2013
- [Jam Session at the Meadville Market House](https://johnchacona.com/jam-session-at-the-meadville-market-house/) - Preview: Meadville jazz tradition lives on with Sunday jam Erie Times-News ShowCase, 31 October, 2013
- [Gil Shaham with the Erie Philharmonic Orchestra](https://johnchacona.com/gil-shaham-with-the-erie-philharmonic-orchestra/) - Violin great Gil Shaham performs with Erie Phil Erie Times-News ShowCase, 24 October, 2013
- [The Erie Chamber Orchestra](https://johnchacona.com/the-erie-chamber-orchestra/) - Erie Chamber Orchestra's Friday concert to benefit pianist Erie Times-News ShowCase, 17 October, 2013
- [Julie Fowlis at Penn State-Erie](https://johnchacona.com/julie-fowlis-at-penn-state-erie/) - 'Brave' vocalist to sing at Penn State Behrend Erie Times-News ShowCase, 17 October, 2013
- [The Bengsons at the Erie Art Museum](https://johnchacona.com/the-bengsons-at-the-erie-art-museum/) - Indie duo the Bengsons fuse folk, indie rock Erie Times-News ShowCase, 10 October, 2013
- [Howard Fishman's Basement Tapes Project at Mercyhurst University](https://johnchacona.com/howard-fishmans-basement-tapes-project-at-mercyhurst-university/) - Basement Tapes Project plays Thursday at Mercyhurst Erie Times-News ShowCase, 3 October, 2013
- [Richard Pinhas at PACA](https://johnchacona.com/richard-pinhas-at-paca/) - Experimental French musician Richard Pinhas plays at PACA Erie Times-News ShowCase, 26 September, 2013
- [Rodney Mack Philadelphia Big Brass at Penn State Erie](https://johnchacona.com/rodney-mack-philadelphia-big-brass-at-penn-state-erie/) - Versatile Philadelphia big band opens Logan series Erie Times-News ShowCase, 19 September, 2013
- [Todd Green at Edinboro University](https://johnchacona.com/todd-green-at-edinboro-university/) - Multi-instrumentalist Todd Green plays at Edinboro Erie Times-News ShowCase, 19 September, 2013
- [Cashore Marionettes at MIAC](https://johnchacona.com/cashore-marionettes-at-miac/) - Lifelike Cashore Marionettes appear Saturday at Mercyhurst Erie Times-News ShowCase, 12 September, 2013
- [The Closing Ceremonies of Tall Ships 2013](https://johnchacona.com/the-closing-ceremonies-of-tall-ships-2013/) - Orchestra, fireworks to close Perry 200 ceremonies Sunday Erie Times-News ShowCase, 4 September, 2013
- [David Kim and the Erie Chamber Orchestra](https://johnchacona.com/david-kim-and-the-erie-chamber-orchestra/) - Philadelphia Orchestra concertmaster to play with ECO and Chamber Orchestra Season Schedule Erie Times-News ShowCase, 12 September, 2013
- [Maritime Music at Tall Ships 2013](https://johnchacona.com/maritime-music-at-tall-ships-2013/) - Shipshape tunes Erie Times-News ShowCase, 4 September, 2013
- [The Erie Philharmonic's "Play On" Art Auction](https://johnchacona.com/the-erie-philharmonics-play-on-art-auction/) - 100 years to play on Lake Erie LifeStyle Magazine, September, 2013
- [Previewing the close of the Bemus Bay Pops season](https://johnchacona.com/previewing-the-close-of-the-bemus-bay-pops-season/) - Bemus Bay Pops closes season with 4 shows Erie Times-News ShowCase, 29 August, 2013
- [Aquaculture in Erie County](https://johnchacona.com/aquaculture-in-erie-county/) - A Good Catch ERIE Magazine, August, 2013
- [Previewing the BBC/PBS series "Last Tango in Halifax"](https://johnchacona.com/previewing-the-bbcpbs-series-last-tango-in-halifax/) - Love and 'Last Tango' Lake Erie LifeStyle Magazine, September, 2013
- [Erie Jazz & Pop Coalition at 8 Great Tuesdays](https://johnchacona.com/erie-jazz-pop-coalition-at-8-great-tuesdays/) - Erie Jazz & Pop Coalition next at 8 Great Tuesdays Erie Times-News ShowCase, 15 August, 2013
- [Adrienne Hindmarsh Quartet at Romolo Summer Jazz Series](https://johnchacona.com/adrienne-hindmarsh-quartet-at-romolo-summer-jazz-series/) - Adrienne Hindmarsh Quartet closes Romolo series Saturday Erie Times-News ShowCase, 22 August, 2013
- [Reviewing the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra concert of 20 August](https://johnchacona.com/reviewing-the-chautauqua-symphony-orchestra-concert-of-20-august/) - ‘A Life-affirming way to say goodbye’: CSO premieres Colina’s ‘Three Dances’ in season’s final performance The Chautauquan Daily, 23 August, 2013
- [Nohaybandatrio and WorldService Project at the Crooked i](https://johnchacona.com/nohaybandatrio-and-worldservice-project-at-the-crooked-i/) - 2 European bands play Thursday at Crooked I (sic) Erie Times-News ShowCase, 15 August, 2013
- [Reviewing the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra concert of 13 July](https://johnchacona.com/reviewing-the-chautauqua-symphony-orchestra-concert-of-13-july/) - Heavyweight title bout The Chautauquan Daily, 15 July, 2013
- [Reviewing the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra concert of 11 July](https://johnchacona.com/reviewing-the-chautauqua-symphone-orchestra-concert-of-11-july/) - ‘Hard not to come to your feet’ The Chautauquan Daily, 13 July, 2013
- [L|E|C|O|M's new senior housing complex](https://johnchacona.com/lecoms-newsenior-housing-complex/) - Adding life to your years Lake Erie LifeStyle Magazine, August, 2013
- [Previewing Lake Erie Fanfare](https://johnchacona.com/previewing-lake-erie-fanfare-2/) - Lake Erie Fanfare marches back to Veterans Stadium Erie Times-News ShowCase, 25 July, 2013
- [Reviewing the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra concert of 16 July](https://johnchacona.com/reviewing-the-chautauqua-symphony-orchestra-concert-of-16-july/) - REVIEW: ‘Almost as torrid as the weather’ The Chautauquan Daily, 19 July, 2013
- [Reviewing the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra concert of 20 July](https://johnchacona.com/reviewing-the-chautauqua-symphony-orchestra-concert-of-20-july/) - CSO review: ‘Sensational in every way’ The Chautauquan Daily, 23 July, 2013
- [Special Consensus at Romolo Summer Music Series](https://johnchacona.com/special-consensus-at-romolo-summer-music-series/) - Special event -- bluegrass -- at Romolo Chocolates Erie Times-News ShowCase, 8 August, 2013
- [Jeremy Pelt at Erie Art Museum Blues & Jazz Festival](https://johnchacona.com/jeremy-pelt-at-erie-art-museum-blues-jazz-festival/) - Trumpeter Jeremy Pelt headlines Sunday at Blues & Jazz Fest Erie Times-News ShowCase, 1 August, 2013
- [Cocomama at Romolo Summer Jazz Series](https://johnchacona.com/cocomama-at-romolo-summer-jazz-series/) - Cocomama brings Latin jazz to Romolo Chocolates on Saturday Erie Times-News ShowCase, 25 July, 2013
- [Giacomo Gates  at Romolo Summer Jazz Series](https://johnchacona.com/giacomo-gates-at-romolo-summer-jazz-series/) - Jazz vocalist Giacomo Gates performs Saturday at Romolo Chocolates Erie Times-News ShowCase, 18 July, 2013
- [Big Sam's Funky Nation at 8 Great Tuesdays](https://johnchacona.com/big-sams-funky-nation-at-8-great-tuesdays/) - Big Sam's Funky Nation brings New Orleans to 8 Great Tuesdays Erie Times-News ShowCase, 18 July, 2013
- [Erie Arts Fest](https://johnchacona.com/erie-arts-fest/) - Erie Arts Festival celebrates Perry 200 with local bands, new location Erie Times-News ShowCase, 11 July, 2013
- [JazzErie's 2013 Jazz & Blues Walk](https://johnchacona.com/jazzeries-2013-jazz-blues-walk/) - JazzErie's 2013 Jazz & Blues Walk brings cool beats to Erie Erie Times-News ShowCase, 11 July, 2013
- [Bruce Johnstone at Romolo Summer Jazz Series](https://johnchacona.com/bruce-johnstone-at-romolo-summer-jazz-series/) - Bruce Johnstone returns Saturday at Romolo series Erie Times-News ShowCase, 4 July, 2013
- [Reviewing the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra's concert of July 23](https://johnchacona.com/reviewing-the-chautauqua-symphony-orchestras-concert-of-july-14/) - Sensational, terribly moving music making Chautauquan Daily , 26 July, 2011
- [Sicilian Jazz Project at the Romolo Summer Jazz Series](https://johnchacona.com/sicilian-jazz-project-at-the-romolo-summer-jazz-series/) - Sicilian Jazz Project plays Saturday at Romolo Chocolates Erie Times-News ShowCase, 26 June, 2013
- [Previewing the Bemus Bay Pops season](https://johnchacona.com/previewing-the-bemus-bay-pops-season-2/) - Bemus Bay Pops ups ante with comedy, country, tributes Erie Times-News ShowCase, 20 June, 2013
- [Concert Band of Northwest Pennsylvania 30th Anniversary concert](https://johnchacona.com/concert-band-of-northwest-pennsylvania-30th-anniversary-concert/) - Concert Band of Northwest Pennsylvania celebrates 30th anniversary Erie Times-News ShowCase, 20 June, 2013
- [Blue to the Bone at the Romolo Summer Jazz Series](https://johnchacona.com/blue-to-the-bone-at-the-romolo-summer-jazz-series/) - Blue to the Bone plays at Romolo Chocolates on Saturday Erie Times-News ShowCase, 20 June, 2013
- [A Fathers Day meditation](https://johnchacona.com/a-fathers-day-meditation/) - SINGLE DADS dish Her Times Magazine , 2 June, 2013
- [The Perry Square Fountain](https://johnchacona.com/the-perry-square-fountain/) - The Age of Wonder ERIE Magazine , June/July, 2013
- [Colter Harper Group at PACA](https://johnchacona.com/colter-harper-group-at-paca/) - Rusted Root's Colter Harper plays CD release show at PACA Erie Times-News ShowCase, 13 June, 2013
- [Christian Howes at Romolo Summer Music Series](https://johnchacona.com/christian-howes-at-romolo-summer-music-series/) - Jazz violinist opens Romolo Music Series Erie Times-News ShowCase, 13 June, 2013
- [Bach & Beyond Music Festival](https://johnchacona.com/bach-beyond-music-festival/) - Bach & Beyond Music Festival this weekend in Fredonia, N.Y. Erie Times-News ShowCase, 13 June, 2013
- [Erie Chamber Orchestra "Night in Espana"](https://johnchacona.com/erie-chamber-orchestra-night-in-espana/) - Erie Chamber Orchestra closes season with 'Night in Espana' Erie Times-News ShowCase, 6 June, 2013
- [Kate Buczek Memorial Concert](https://johnchacona.com/kate-buczek-memorial-concert/) - Exciting bill for Sunday's Kate Buczek Memorial Concert Erie Times-News ShowCase, 30 May, 2013
- [Academy Theatre "Georgia On My Mond" revue](https://johnchacona.com/academy-theatre-georgia-on-my-mond-revue-2/) - Meadville concert features best of Georgia natives Erie Times-News ShowCase, 30 May, 2013
- [Academy Theatre "Georgia On My Mond" revue](https://johnchacona.com/academy-theatre-georgia-on-my-mond-revue/) - Meadville concert features best of Georgia natives Erie Times-News ShowCase, 30 May, 2013
- [Spethz at at Basement Transmissions](https://johnchacona.com/spethz-at-at-basement-transmissions/) - Erie's Spethz creates cathedral of sound Erie Times-News ShowCase, 16 May, 2013
- [Solitaire Miles and Lydia Marks Struble at the Erie Ale House](https://johnchacona.com/solitaire-miles-and-lydia-marks-struble-at-the-erie-ale-house/) - Accomplished jazz vocalists share spotlight Friday at Erie Ale House Erie Times-News ShowCase, 9 May, 2013
- [Erie Opera Theatre presents "La Bohème"](https://johnchacona.com/erie-opera-theatre-presents-la-boheme/) - Erie Opera Theatre presents 'La Bohème' at Playhouse Erie Times-News ShowCase, 2 May, 2013
- [JazzErie presents the Northcoast Jazz Collective](https://johnchacona.com/jazzerie-presents-the-northcoast-jazz-collective/) - Northcoast Jazz Collective plays Sunday morning show Erie Times-News ShowCase, 2 May, 2013
- [Lipbone Redding at the Erie Art Museum ](https://johnchacona.com/lipbone-redding-at-the-erie-art-museum/) - Lipbone Redding opens Erie Art Museum music series Friday Erie Times-News ShowCase, 2 May, 2013
- [The Symphonic Singers of Erie "Erie Sings America" Musicale](https://johnchacona.com/the-symphonic-singers-of-erie-erie-sings-america-musicale/) - American salute Erie Times-News ShowCase, 25 April, 2013
- [5 Browns at Mercyhurst University](https://johnchacona.com/5-browns-at-mercyhurst-university/) - 5 Browns keep it all in the family with Mercyhurst concert Erie Times-News ShowCase, 4 April, 2013
- [Erie Philharmonic Orchestra with Danielle Pastin](https://johnchacona.com/erie-philharmonic-orchestra-with-danielle-pastin/) - Erie Phil wraps up 99th season on Friday Erie Times-News ShowCase, 11 April, 2013
- [Erie Philharmonic Pops "Colour My World"](https://johnchacona.com/eroe-philharmonic-pops-colour-my-world/) - 'Colour My World' gives classical edge to rock 'n' roll Erie Times-News ShowCase, 4 April, 2013
- [Dawn Upshaw at SUNY Fredonia](https://johnchacona.com/dawn-upshaw-at-suny-fredonia/) - Genius vocalist Dawn Upshaw performs Saturday in Fredonia, N.Y. Erie Times-News ShowCase, 11 April, 2013
- [Dafmark Dance Theater's "The Waves"](https://johnchacona.com/dafmark-dance-theaters-the-waves/) - Dafmark puts words into motion with 'The Waves' Erie Times-News ShowCase, 4 April, 2013
- [Gabriel Alegría Afro-Peruvian Sextet at Erie Art Museum](https://johnchacona.com/gabriel-alegria-afro-peruvian-sextet-at-rie-art-museum/) - Afro-Peruvian sextet returns to Erie Art Museum on Monday Erie Times-News ShowCase, 14 March, 2013
- [Wolff & Clark Expedition at PACA](https://johnchacona.com/wolff-clark-expedition-at-paca/) - Groove-heavy jazz to juice up PACA on Tuesday Erie Times-News ShowCase, 14 March, 2013
- [Erie Philharmonic Viva Italia](https://johnchacona.com/erie-philharmonic-viva-italia/) - Erie Phil presents juicy works by Rossini, Mendelssohn Erie Times-News ShowCase, 7 March, 2013
- [Pianist Alec Chien at Allegheny College](https://johnchacona.com/pianist-alec-chien-at-allegheny-college/) - Pianist Alec Chien honors father at Allegheny concert Saturday Erie Times-News ShowCase, 7 March, 2013
- [JazzErie presents the Wheaton College Jazz Ensemble](https://johnchacona.com/jazzerie-presents-the-wheaton-college-jazz-ensemble/) - Wheaton College Jazz Ensemble plays Erie on Sunday Erie Times-News ShowCase, 7 March, 2013
- [JUNK at Edinboro University](https://johnchacona.com/junk-at-edinboro-university/) - Edinboro welcomes physical-dance troupe JUNK on Wednesday Erie Times-News ShowCase, 7 March, 2013
- [Matthew Shipp Trio at PACA](https://johnchacona.com/matthew-shipp-trio-at-paca/) - Vanguard jazz pianist Matthew Shipp returns Wednesday Erie Times-News ShowCase, 28 February, 2013
- [Erie Chamber Orchestra's Guess the Composer concert](https://johnchacona.com/erie-chamber-orchestras-guess-the-composer-concert-4/) - Guess the composer Friday at Luther Memorial Church Erie Times-News ShowCase, 21 February, 2013
- [Capitol Quartet at Penn State-Behrend](https://johnchacona.com/capitol-quartet-at-penn-state-behrend/) - Capitol Quartet brings saxophone harmony to Behrend on Monday Erie Times-News ShowCase, 21 February, 2013
- [Shen & Bones Performance Group's "Lost & Found"](https://johnchacona.com/shen-bones-performance-groups-lost-found/) - See "Lost & Found" at Dafmark Dance Theater Erie Times-News ShowCase, 21 February, 2013
- [The Erie Philharmonic Orchestra Opening Concert](https://johnchacona.com/the-erie-philharmonic-orchestra-opening-concert/) - Lady Goes First and recommended recordings Erie Times-News ShowCase, 28 September, 2006
- [Previewing the Erie Chamber Orchestra's April 19 concert](https://johnchacona.com/previewing-the-erie-chamber-orchestras-april-19-concert-2/) - In the popular imagination, the harp is associated with winged celestial musicians or with mute, curly-haired film comics. Most people just don’t take it terribly seriously. The French are an exception. The modern concert harp was perfected in France and found champions among French composers. Two of them, Debussy and Ravel, will be featured on
- [Anderson & Roe at Mercyhurst University](https://johnchacona.com/anderson-roe-at-mercyhurst-university/) - Anderson & Roe are pianists who pop Erie Times-News ShowCase, 7 February, 2013
- [Nathan and the Zydeco Cha-Chas at the Erie Art Museum](https://johnchacona.com/nathan-and-the-zydeco-cha-chas-at-the-erie-art-museum/) - Nathan and the Zydeco Cha-Chas to perform Friday Erie Times-News ShowCase, 7 February, 2013
- [Ethnic Heritage Ensemble at the Erie Art Museum](https://johnchacona.com/ethnic-heritage-ensemble-at-the-erie-art-museum-5/) - Ethnic Heritage Ensemble shines its light Sunday Erie Times-News ShowCase, 31 January, 2013
- [Cantus at Penn State Behrend ](https://johnchacona.com/cantus-at-penn-state-behrend/) - Choral group Cantus makes stop at Behrend Erie Times-News ShowCase, 24 January, 2013
- [Inon Barnatan with the Erie Philharmonic Orchestra](https://johnchacona.com/inon-barnatan-with-the-erie-philharmonic-orchestra/) - Erie Phil welcomes brilliant guest pianist, Inon Barnatan Erie Times-News ShowCase, 24 January, 2013
- [Grégoire Maret at Mercyhurst University](https://johnchacona.com/gregoire-maret-at-mercyhurst-university/) - Jazz harmonica player Grégoire Maret comes to Mercyhurst Erie Times-News ShowCase, 17 January, 2013
- [Violinist Adé Williams with the Erie Chamber Orchestra ](https://johnchacona.com/violinist-ade-williams-with-the-erie-chamber-orchestra/) - Erie Chamber Orchestra, violinist Adé Williams honor MLK with concert Friday Erie Times-News ShowCase, 17 January, 2013
- [Nova Free-Jazz Trio at PACA](https://johnchacona.com/nova-free-jazz-trio-at-paca/) - Free-jazz trio Nova plays Saturday at PACA Erie Times-News ShowCase, 10 January, 2013
- [Tom Jolin at the Erie Art Museum](https://johnchacona.com/tom-jolin-at-the-erie-art-museum/) - Songs from Lincoln era come alive this weekend at Erie Art Museum Erie Times-News ShowCase, 10 January, 2013
- [Previewing the 2013 Second Season](https://johnchacona.com/previewing-the-2013-second-season/) - Look ahead to great classical music events in 2013 Erie Times-News ShowCase, 3 January, 2012
- [2012:  ten favorite jazz CDs](https://johnchacona.com/2012-ten-favorite-jazz-cds/) - 2012 Musical Memories: Best jazz CDs Erie Times-News ShowCase, 27 December, 2012
- [2012 in jazz and concert music:  the year in review](https://johnchacona.com/2012-in-jazz-and-concert-music-the-year-in-review/) - 2012 Musical Memories: Jazz, classical Erie Times-News ShowCase, 27 December, 2012
- [Best Jazz  CDs of 2005](https://johnchacona.com/best-jazz-cds-of-2005/) - 10 Best Jazz CDs: List No. 2. Erie Times-News ShowCase , 29 Dec., 2005
- [Forever Young](https://johnchacona.com/forever-young/) - Here's a confession: though I write about performances, I seldom attend them. There are a variety of justifications for this, none of them interesting enough to list, but this weekend, none of them applied. Three nights, three performances. Here's what I heard: Friday: D'Angelo Piano Trio at Luther Memorial Church As I wrote in ShowCase,
- [Erie Philharmonic Chorus "Messiah" at St. Peter Cathedral](https://johnchacona.com/erie-philharmonic-chorus-messiah-at-st-peter-cathedral/) - Get a Handel on 'Messiah' Tuesday at St. Peter Cathedral Erie Times-News ShowCase, 13 December, 2012
- [Erie Chamber Orchestra holiday singalong concert, Erie Opera Theatre's "Amahl and the Night Visitors"](https://johnchacona.com/erie-chamber-orchestra-holiday-singalong-concert-erie-opera-theatres-amahl-and-the-night-visitors/) - ‘Amahl,’ Christmas singalong concerts return this weekend Erie Times-News ShowCase, 6 December, 2012
- [Mercyhurst Dancers " 'Tis The Season"](https://johnchacona.com/mercyhurst-dancers-tis-the-season/) - Mercyhurst dancers present holiday-themed show this weekend Erie Times-News ShowCase, 6 December, 2012
- [Presidio Brass at Edinboro University](https://johnchacona.com/presidio-brass-at-edinboro-university/) - Presidio Brass puts spin on holiday songs Thursday in Edinboro Erie Times-News ShowCase, 6 December, 2012
- [Erie Symphonic Singers holiday concerts](https://johnchacona.com/erie-symphonic-singers-holiday-concerts/) - Symphonic Singers present 2 holiday concerts Erie Times-News ShowCase, 6 December, 2012
- [Erie Philharmonic Pops Holiday Concert](https://johnchacona.com/erie-philharmonic-pops-holiday-concert/) - Cue the Pops' spotlight on Kate Amatuzzo on Saturday Erie Times-News ShowCase, 29 November, 2012
- [Erie Chamber Orchestra with the Edinboro University Singers](https://johnchacona.com/erie-chamber-orchestra-with-the-edinboro-university-singers/) - Erie Chamber Orchestra to play Mozart, Beethoven on Friday Erie Times-News ShowCase, 15 November, 2012
- [Simple Gifts at Penn State-Behrend](https://johnchacona.com/simple-gifts-at-penn-state-behrend/) - Simple Gifts brings exotic world music to Behrend Erie Times-News ShowCase, 15 November, 2012
- [Artist Lee Steadman](https://johnchacona.com/artist-lee-steadman/) - the community as canvas lee steadman Lake Erie Lifestyle Magazine, November, 2012
- [Voxare Meets "Man with a Movie Camera"](https://johnchacona.com/voxare-meets-man-with-a-movie-camera/) - String quartet accompanies silent classic at Mercyhurst Erie Times-News ShowCase, 20 September, 2012
- [The Erie Philharmonic and violinist Jennifer Frautschi](https://johnchacona.com/630/) - Violinist makes Phil debut with Vivaldi's "Four Seasons" Erie Times-News ShowCase, 8 November, 2012
- [Erie Philharmonic Pops' "An Eerie Night"](https://johnchacona.com/erie-philharmonic-pops-an-eerie-night/) - Philharmonic Pops takes eerie turn Saturday Erie Times-News ShowCase, 24 October, 2012
- [Pat Metheny Unity Band at Mercyhurst University](https://johnchacona.com/pat-metheny-unity-band-at-mercyhurst-university/) - Pat Metheny Unity Band performs Tuesday at Mercyhurst and a survey of Metheny's best recordings Erie Times-News ShowCase, 4 October, 2012
- [Lydia Marks and Richie Conn at Erie Ale House](https://johnchacona.com/lydia-marks-and-richie-conn-at-erie-ale-house/) - Lydia Marks, Richie Conn play Saturday at Erie Ale House Erie Times-News ShowCase, 13 September, 2012
- [Mercyhurst Ballet Theatre and SoMar Dance Works' "Beyond Words"](https://johnchacona.com/mercyhurst-ballet-theatre-and-somar-dance-works-beyond-words/) - Mercyhurst Ballet Theatre and SoMar Dance Works' "Beyond Words" Erie Times-News ShowCase, 25 October, 2012
- [The Erie Philharmonic's season-opening concert](https://johnchacona.com/the-erie-philharmonics-season-opening-concert/) - Erie Phil to open 99th season with high-powered concert Erie Times-News ShowCase, 18 October, 2012
- [Previewing the Erie Philharmonic's 99th and 100th seasons](https://johnchacona.com/previewing-the-erie-philharmonics-99-and-100th-seasons/) - There's good reason to celebrate and a preview of the 2012-2013 season Erie Times-News ShowCase, 18 October, 2012
- [Aeolus Quartet at Behrend's Logan Series](https://johnchacona.com/aeolus-quartet-at-behrends-logan/) - Aeolus Quartet opens Behrend's Logan series on Wednesday Erie Times-News ShowCase, 6 September, 2012
- [Classical Jam  at Penn State-Behrend](https://johnchacona.com/classical-jam-at-penn-state-behrend/) - Game-changing Classical Jam performs next week at Behrend Erie Times-News ShowCase, 11 October, 2012
- [The Erie Chamber Orchestra plays the music of English composers](https://johnchacona.com/the-erie-chamber-orchestra-plays-the-music-of-english-composers/) - The British are coming! Erie Times-News ShowCase, 11 October, 2012
- [Tatsuya Nakatani with Shen & Bones Performance Group and Patricia Skantze](https://johnchacona.com/bones-performance-group-and-patricia-skantze/) - Drummer, dancers team up for Erie performance Erie Times-News ShowCase, 27 September, 2012
- [Mr. Jack Daniel's Silver Cornet Band  at Edinboro](https://johnchacona.com/mr-jack-daniels-silver-cornet-band-at-edinboro/) - Mr. Jack Daniel's band may pep you up at Edinboro Erie Times-News ShowCase, 11 October, 2012
- [Jazz at Chautauqua](https://johnchacona.com/jazz-at-chautauqua/) - Jazz at Chautauqua honors 'living music' Erie Times-News ShowCase, 20 September, 2012
- [Erie Chamber Orchestra's season-opening concert](https://johnchacona.com/erie-chamber-orchestras-season-opening-concert/) - Erie Chamber Orchestra season opens Friday under Kraemer Erie Times-News ShowCase, 20 September, 2012
- [Erie Philharmonic Orchestra](https://johnchacona.com/erie-philharmonic-orchestra/) - Hooray for the Red, White and Hugh Erie Times-News ShowCase, 20 April, 2006
- [Kurt Elling at  Independent Arts Fest](https://johnchacona.com/kurt-elling-at-independent-arts-fest/) - Elling-Tones Erie Times-News , 2 June, 2011
- [LehrerDance at Mercyhurst University](https://johnchacona.com/lehrerdance-at-mercyhurst-university/) - LehrerDance company inaugurates Mercyhurst Institute for Arts and Culture season Erie Times-News ShowCase, 6 September, 2012
- [Previewing the Mercyhurst Institute for Arts and Culture season](https://johnchacona.com/previewing-the-mercyhurst-institute-for-arts-and-culture-season/) - Mercyhurst Institute for Arts and Culture takes new direction Erie Times-News ShowCase, 6 September, 2012
- [Previewing Lake Erie Fanfare](https://johnchacona.com/previewing-lake-erie-fanfare/) - Lake Erie Fanfare: Pageantry on steroids Erie Times-News ShowCase, 26 July, 2012
- [Tony Grey Trio with Nir Felder at PACA](https://johnchacona.com/tony-grey-trio-with-nir-felder-at-paca/) - Jazz guitarist (sic) Tony Grey leads trio at Erie gig Erie Times-News ShowCase, 23 August, 2012
- [Pete Mills at the Romolo’s Summer Jazz Series](https://johnchacona.com/pete-mills-at-the-romolo’s-summer-jazz-series/) - Pete Mills ends Romolo series with jazz funk Erie Times-News ShowCase, 16 August, 2012
- [Reviewing the season-snding concert of the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra](https://johnchacona.com/reviewing-the-season-snding-concert-of-the-chautauqua-symphony-orchestra/) - Trifonov ‘terrifically exciting’ in guest spot with CSO, Zur; Zemach receives dignified send-off The Chautauquan Daily, 23 August, 2012
- [Reviewing the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra concert of August 9](https://johnchacona.com/reviewing-the-chautauqua-symphony-orchestra-concert-of-august-9/) - Chen, Parker, CSO present positively Olympic performance The Chautauquan Daily, 11 August, 2012
- [Claire Daly at the Romolo's Summer Jazz Series](https://johnchacona.com/claire-daly-at-the-romolos-summer-jazz-series/) - Daly's baritone sax swaggers into Erie Erie Times-News ShowCase, 9 August, 2012
- [Red Baraat at the Erie Art Museum Blues & Jazz Festival](https://johnchacona.com/red-baraat-at-the-erie-art-museum-blues-jazz-festival/) - Red Baraat: Community-minded Erie Times-News ShowCase, 2 August, 2012
- [Greg Hatza ORGANization at the Romolo's SUmmer Jazz Series](https://johnchacona.com/greg-hatza-organization-at-the-romolos-summer-jazz-series/) - ORGANization brings keys of jazz to Romolo's Erie Times-News ShowCase, 26 July, 2012
- [Bill O'Connell's Latin Jazz All Stars at the Romolo Summer Jazz Series](https://johnchacona.com/bill-oconnells-latin-jazz-all-stars-romolo-summer-jazz-series/) - Latin Jazz All Stars to play next in Romolo series Erie Times-News ShowCase, 19 July, 2012
- [Previewing the Crawford County Music Festival](https://johnchacona.com/previewing-the-crawford-county-music-festival/) - Crawford County Music Fest grows, adds newcomers Erie Times-News ShowCase, 19 July, 2012
- [Reviewing the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra concert of July 5](https://johnchacona.com/reviewing-the-chautauqua-symphony-orchestra-concert-of-july-5/) - Myers finds ‘effulgent lyricism in precisely conceived performance’ The Chautauquan Daily, 7 July, 2012
- [Dwight Adams at Romolo's Summer Jazz Series](https://johnchacona.com/dwight-adams-at-romolos-summer-jazz-series/) - Dwight Adams brings Detroit jazz to Erie Erie Times-News ShowCase, 12 July, 2012
- [Vocal Trash at the Chautauqua Institution](https://johnchacona.com/vocal-trash-at-the-chautauqua-institution/) - Vocal Trash dances, pounds and sings at Chautauqua Erie Times-News ShowCase, 12 July, 2012
- [JazzErie's Jazz and Blues Walk](https://johnchacona.com/jazzeries-jazz-and-blues-walk/) - JazzErie night of music offers 10 shows for 10 bucks and Four Questions for Frank Singer Erie Times-News ShowCase, 5 July, 2012
- [Previewing the Bemus Bay Pops summer season](https://johnchacona.com/previewing-the-bemus-bay-pops-summer-season/) - Bemus Bay Pops pays tribute all summer Erie Times-News ShowCase, 21 June, 2012
- [Previewing the Erie Philharmonic  next two seasons](https://johnchacona.com/previewing-the-erie-philharmonic-next-two-seasons/) - Erie Philharmonic announces new season Erie Times-News ShowCase, 21 June, 2012
- [Molly Gene One Whoaman Band at the Crooked i](https://johnchacona.com/previewing-weeks-three-and-four-at-chautauqua/) - One Whoaman Band set for Crooked I show Erie Times-News ShowCase , 15 July, 2011
- [Cellist Edward Arron with the Erie Chamber Orchestra](https://johnchacona.com/cellist-edward-arron-with-the-erie-chamber-orchestra/) - New Erie Chamber Orchestra director debuts Erie Times-News ShowCase, 7 June, 2012
- [Dave Callaghan & Hardbop begin the Romolo Summer Music Series ](https://johnchacona.com/dave-callaghan-hardbop-begin-the-romolo-summer-music-series/) - Romolo Summer Music Series begins with jazz's Hardbop Erie Times-News ShowCase, 7 June, 2012
- [Erie Chamber Orchesrta and Madeline Su](https://johnchacona.com/erie-chamber-orchesrta-and-madeline-su/) - Hidin' In Plain Sight Erie Times-News ShowCase, 5 February, 2007
- [Reviewing the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra’s concert of July 21](https://johnchacona.com/reviewing-the-chautauqua-symphony-orchestra’s-concert-of-july-21/) - No power? No problem. Chautauquan Daily , 22 July, 2011
- [Kate Buczek Memorial Concert at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Erie](https://johnchacona.com/kate-buczek-memorial-concert-at-the-unitarian-universalist-congregation-of-erie-2/) - Buczek memorial concert features Brown, Ventrello Quartet Erie Times-News ShowCase, 31 May, 2012
- [Kurt Elling at Mercyhurst University](https://johnchacona.com/kurt-elling-at-mercyhurst-university/) - Jazz singer Kurt Elling to give Mercyhurst encore Erie Times-News ShowCase, 10 May, 2012
- [Steve Rudolph with J.D. Walter at Luther Memorial Church](https://johnchacona.com/steve-rudolph-with-jd-walter-at-luther-memorial-church/) - Jazz pianist Rudolph, ensemble to perform at Luther Memorial Church Erie Times-News ShowCase, 3 May, 2012
- [Erie Opera Theatre "The Elixir of Love"](https://johnchacona.com/erie-opera-theatre-the-elixir-of-love/) - Erie Opera Theatre offers a dose of 'Elixir of Love' Erie Times-News ShowCase, 3 May, 2012
- ["The Three Phantoms" at the Erie Philharmonic Pops ](https://johnchacona.com/the-three-phantoms-at-the-erie-philharmonic-pops/) - '3 Phantoms' show hits jackpot at Warner Theatre Erie Times-News ShowCase, 26 April, 2012
- [Fazil Say at Mercyhurst University](https://johnchacona.com/fazil-say-at-mercyhurst-university/) - Turkish pianist Fazil Say performs own compositions at Mercyhurst University Erie Times-News ShowCase, 19 April, 2012
- [The Erie Philharmonic plays Schönberg and Beethoven](https://johnchacona.com/the-erie-philharmonic-plays-schonberg-and-beethoven/) - Philharmonic, choruses, soloists to present 'Ode to Joy' Erie Times-News ShowCase, 19 April, 2012
- [Les Ballets Jazz de Montreal at Mercyhurst University](https://johnchacona.com/les-ballets-jazz-de-montreal-at-mercyhurst-university/) - Les Ballets Jazz de Montreal premiere's 'Night Box' at Mercyhurst Erie Times-News ShowCase, 12 April, 2012
- [The Erie Chamber Orchestra plays Britten, Strauss and Mozart](https://johnchacona.com/the-erie-chamber-orchestra-plays-britten-strauss-and-mozart/) - Erie Chamber Orchestra guest conductor sees diversity in making music Erie Times-News ShowCase, 12 April, 2012
- [Erie Civic Music Association presents Elvis in Hawaii](https://johnchacona.com/erie-civic-music-association-presents-elvis-in-hawaii/) - Tribute show at Warner to bring Elvis, circa 1973, to Erie Erie Times-News ShowCase, 12 April, 2012
- [Walden Chamber Players at Penn State Behrend](https://johnchacona.com/walden-chamber-players-at-penn-state-behrend/) - Walden Chamber Players play for free Thursday Erie Times-News ShowCase, 28 March, 2012
- [Matthew Shipp Trio at the Erie Art Museum](https://johnchacona.com/matthew-shipp-trio-at-the-erie-art-museum/) - Avant-garde jazz pianist Matthew Shipp set for Erie show Erie Times-News ShowCase, 5 April, 2012
- [Michael Austin and Michael Jones at BayBreeze Lounge](https://johnchacona.com/michael-austin-and-michael-jones-at-baybreeze-lounge/) - R&B saxophonist Michael Austin to play Easter concerts Erie Times-News ShowCase, 5 April, 2012
- [The Erie Philharmonic Pops plays the music of Harry Potter](https://johnchacona.com/the-erie-philharmonic-pops-plays-the-music-of-harry-potter/) - Erie Phil to conjure up Potter magic on Saturday Erie Times-News ShowCase, 28 March, 2012
- [Dafmark Dance Theater presents "Pictures In Motion at an Exhibit"](https://johnchacona.com/dafmark-dance-theater-presents-pictures-in-motion-at-an-exhibit/) - Dafmark dances piece inspired by Erie Art Museum exhibit Erie Times-News ShowCase, 22 March, 2012
- [JazzErie's Singers' Night](https://johnchacona.com/jazzeries-singers-night/) - Singers' Night features vocalists, ensembles Erie Times-News ShowCase, 22 March, 2012
- ["The Impresario" and "Gianni Schicchi" at Mercyhurst UniversityMercyhurst ](https://johnchacona.com/the-impresario-and-gianni-schicchi-at-mercyhurst-universitymercyhurst/) - One-act operas at Mercyhurst modernize Mozart, Puccini Erie Times-News ShowCase, 22 March, 2012
- [Erie Philharmonic plays Theofanides, Alexander and Tchaikovsky](https://johnchacona.com/erie-philharmonic-plays-theofanides-alexander-and-tchaikovsky/) - Erie Philharmonic to give free concert in Edinboro Erie Times-News ShowCase, 22 March, 2012
- [Erie Chamber Orchestra plays Mozart](https://johnchacona.com/erie-chamber-orchestra-plays-mozart/) - Erie Chamber Orchestra, soloists to present Mozart on Friday Erie Times-News ShowCase, 15 March, 2012
- [Erie Civic Music Assn. presents Southern Fried Jazz Band](https://johnchacona.com/erie-civic-music-assn-presents-southern-fried-jazz-band/) - Southern Fried Jazz Band to teach as they play at Warner Erie Times-News ShowCase, 15 March, 2012
- [Luther Memorial Church's Bach Festival](https://johnchacona.com/luther-memorial-churchs-bach-festival/) - Cleveland chamber choir to perform at Luther Memorial Church Erie Times-News ShowCase, 15 March, 2012
- [Bridgman/Packer Dance at the Erie Art Museum](https://johnchacona.com/bridgmanpacker-dance-at-the-erie-art-museum/) - Illusion adds to dance program at Erie Art Museum Erie Times-News ShowCase, 8 March, 2012
- [The Erie Philharmonic Orchestra with Mariangela Vaccatello](https://johnchacona.com/the-erie-philharmonic-orchestra-with-mariangela-vaccatello/) - Italian pianist, Erie Philharmonic to present Rachmaninoff concerto Erie Times-News ShowCase, 8 March, 2012
- [Fred Garbo Inflatable Theater Company at Mercyhurst College](https://johnchacona.com/fred-garbo-inflatable-theater-company-at-mercyhurst-college/) - Garbo brings inflated entertainment value to Mercyhurst Erie Times-News ShowCase, 29 February, 2012
- [Fred Garbo Inflatable Theater Company at Mercyhurst College](https://johnchacona.com/count-basie-orchestra-and-new-york-voices-at-mercyhurst-college/) - Garbo brings inflated entertainment value to Mercyhurst Erie Times-News ShowCase, 29 February, 2012
- [Ray Barber, Erie breweries memorabilia collector](https://johnchacona.com/ray-barber-erie-breweries-memorabilia-collector/) - Koehler collector keeps brew hopping Lake Erie Lifestyle Magazine, January, 2012
- [Ethnic Heritage Ensemble at the Erie Art Museum](https://johnchacona.com/ethnic-heritage-ensemble-at-the-erie-art-museum-4/) - Ethnic Heritage Ensemble to make annual Erie Art Museum visit Erie Times-News ShowCase, 18 February, 2012
- [Erie Chamber Orchestra's "Guess the Composer" concert](https://johnchacona.com/erie-chamber-orchestras-guess-the-composer-concert-3/) - Prospective ECO conductor keeps us guessing Erie Times-News ShowCase, 9 February, 2012
- [Sybarite5 at Penn State Behrend](https://johnchacona.com/sybarite5-at-penn-state-behrend/) - Sybarite5 will shuffle the music at free concert in Erie Erie Times-News ShowCase, 2 February, 2012
- [Silver Roots at Penn State Behrend](https://johnchacona.com/silver-roots-at-penn-state-behrend/) - Chamber group Silver Roots visits Behrend on Wednesday Erie Times-News ShowCase, 27 February, 2012
- [The Erie Philharmonic Pops play the music of James Bond](https://johnchacona.com/the-erie-philharmonic-pops-play-the-music-of-james-bond/) - Daniel Meyer on Bond, James Bond Erie Times-News ShowCase, 15 February, 2012
- [Mark S. Doss at Mercyhurst College](https://johnchacona.com/mark-s-doss-at-mercyhurst-college/) - Opera star Mark S. Doss makes Erie debut Erie Times-News ShowCase, 2 February, 2012
- [Unfriending Facebook](https://johnchacona.com/unfriending-facebook/) - A couple of minutes ago, I deactivated my Facebook account. Because this is such a ubiquitous and easy method of communication, I want to say that you can still reach me. It'll just be a bit more difficult now. And maybe that will make our interactions a bit more valuable. We'll see. My coordinates are:
- [In Her Shoes](https://johnchacona.com/in-her-shoes/) - Mercyhurst dancers reflect on roles of today's women Erie Times-News ShowCase, 19 January, 2012
- [Erie Philharmonic Orchestra and Attack Theatre](https://johnchacona.com/erie-philharmonic-orchestra-and-attack-theatre/) - Erie Phil, Pittsburgh dancers to tell 'Soldier's Tale' Erie Times-News ShowCase, 19 January, 2012
- [My Favorite (not The Best) Recordings of 2011](https://johnchacona.com/my-favorite-not-the-best-recordings-of-2011/) - It's mid-month, plenty of time for the 6th Annual Jazz Critics Poll (formerly the Village Voice jazz critics poll) results to have been posted and parsed. Before I go on, I must thank Francis Davis for again asking me to participate in that endeavor. I hope I discharged my duties honorably in such lofty company.
- [The Erie Chamber Orchestra's Martin Luther King Day concert](https://johnchacona.com/the-erie-chamber-orchestras-martin-luther-king-day-concert/) - Erie Chamber Orchestra's MLK tribute doubly reflective Erie Times-News ShowCase, 12 January, 2012
- [Previewing Erie's jazz second season](https://johnchacona.com/previewing-eries-jazz-second-season/) - Count Basie Orchestra, New York Voices highlight Erie's jazz scene Erie Times-News ShowCase, 5 January, 2012
- [Jahman Brahman at the Crooked i](https://johnchacona.com/jahman-brahman-at-the-crooked-i/) - Jahman Brahman brings shred, wisdom to Crooked I Erie Times-News ShowCase, 5 January, 2012
- [Ten Best Jazz CDs of 2011](https://johnchacona.com/ten-best-jazz-cds-of-2011/) - 2011 Memory: The best jazz CDs of the year Erie Times-News ShowCase, 29 December, 2011
- [Ben Frazier's Birthday Bash at the Crooked i](https://johnchacona.com/ben-fraziers-birthday-bash-at-the-crooked-i/) - Frazier birthday bash benefit returns to Crooked I Erie Times-News ShowCase, 29 December, 2011
- [Sachal Vasandani at the Ambassador](https://johnchacona.com/sachal-vasandani-at-the-ambassador/) - Young jazz singer performs at annual JazzErie party Erie Times-News ShowCase, 22 December, 2011
- [The Enemy of the Good](https://johnchacona.com/the-enemy-of-the-good/) - Sachal Vasandani at the Hemingway Room, December 28, 2011 The great is the enemy of the good everywhere, but with its relentlessly picked-over archives and hagiographic impulse, jazz seems to suffer from invidious comparisons more than most art forms. Self-doubt, nostalgia and questioning are structures as timelessly improvised upon as the 12-bar blues and the
- [The Choir of the Church of Christ Savior and the Mercyhurst College Concert Choirs Sing Rachmaninov](https://johnchacona.com/the-choir-of-the-church-of-christ-savior-and-the-mercyhurst-college-concert-choirs-sing-rachmaninov/) - Mercyhurst, church choirs present concert Sunday Erie Times-News ShowCase, 8 December, 2011
- [Erie Opera Theatre's "Amahl and the Night Visitors"](https://johnchacona.com/erie-opera-theatres-amahl-and-the-night-visitors/) - Erie Opera Theatre's "Amahl" sees new roles for some Erie Times-News ShowCase, 8 December, 2011
- [Guy Lombardo's Royal Canadians Christmas Concert](https://johnchacona.com/guy-lombardos-royal-canadians-christmas-concert/) - Lombardo's Royal Canadians play Christmas concert Erie Times-News ShowCase, 8 December, 2011
- [Solitaire Miles at the BrewErie at Union Station](https://johnchacona.com/solitaire-miles-at-the-brewerie-at-union-station/) - Solitaire Miles returns to Brewerie with new CD Erie Times-News ShowCase, 24 November, 2011
- [Ana Vidovic with the Erie Philharmonic Orchestra](https://johnchacona.com/ana-vidovic-with-the-erie-philharmonic-orchestra/) - Classical guitarist is guest soloist with Erie Phil Erie Times-News ShowCase , 10 November, 2011
- [René Marie at Mercyhurst College](https://johnchacona.com/rene-marie-at-mercyhurst-college/) - Jazz singer returns to Erie for performance at Mercyhurst Erie Times-News ShowCase , 17 November, 2011
- [Signposts](https://johnchacona.com/signposts/) - Music fans in search of surprises should generally avoid Erie Philharmonic subscription concerts. Transcendent or mediocre, they usually come as advertised. So, it's refreshing to report that several wonders were on offer Saturday evening--and no, I don't mean the inclusion of a work by a living composer (remember "V2 Schneider" last season?). Not that I'm
- [Wadaiko Yamato at Mercyhurst College](https://johnchacona.com/wadaiko-yamato-at-mercyhurst-college-2/) - Japanese drummers bring 'enormous' sound back to Mercyhurst Erie Times-News ShowCase , 3 November, 2011
- [Dafmark Dance Theater's "Missing, Remembering"](https://johnchacona.com/dafmark-dance-theaters-missing-remembering/) - Dafmark Dance pays tribute to 9/11 with words, dance Erie Times-News ShowCase , 3 November, 2011
- [The Erie Chamber Orchestra's Bruce Morton Wright Memorial Concert](https://johnchacona.com/the-erie-chamber-orchestras-bruce-morton-wright-memorial-concert/) - Those of you you who regularly read the Erie Times' ShowCase entertainment tab may have noticed that this week's edition was a bit thin, coming in at 28 pages rather than the customary 32. That had the consequence of having to cancel previews that were scheduled to run. One of them was for the Erie
- [David Sedaris at Mercyhurst College](https://johnchacona.com/david-sedaris-at-mercyhurst-college/) - David Sedaris brings his sardonic wit to Mercyhurst Erie Times-News ShowCase , 20 October, 2011
- [Jeans 'n Classics with the  Erie Philharmonic Pops](https://johnchacona.com/jeans-n-classics-with-the-erie-philharmonic-pops/) - Jeans 'n Classics, Erie Pops salute the '80s Erie Times-News ShowCase , 20 October, 2011
- [David Lanz Liverpool at Mercyhurst College](https://johnchacona.com/david-lanz-liverpool-at-mercyhurst-college/) - David Lanz re-imagines the Beatles at Mercyhurst Erie Times-News ShowCase , 13 October, 2011
- [Lezginka Dance Company in the Erie Civic Music Association Series](https://johnchacona.com/lezginka-dance-company-in-the-erie-civic-music-association-series/) - Lezginka Dance whirls into Erie on Sunday Erie Times-News ShowCase , 13 October, 2011
- [Bruce](https://johnchacona.com/bruce/) - Last week, I took a position with Gannon University. It’s a significant step in many ways, but that is a subject for another day (and perhaps another venue). Two days into my tenure there, I attended a concert dedicated to the memory of Bruce Morton Wright, who passed into the next world this summer. As
- [Paul Taylor Dance Company at Mercyhurst College](https://johnchacona.com/paul-taylor-dance-company-at-mercyhurst-college/) - Paul Taylor Dance coming to Mercyhurst Erie Times-News ShowCase , 6 October, 2011
- [Those Poor Bastards at The crooked i](https://johnchacona.com/those-poor-bastards-at-the-crooked-i/) - Those Poor Bastards playing Saturday at crooked i Erie Times-News ShowCase , 6 October, 2011
- [For Women Only Expo](https://johnchacona.com/for-women-only-expo/) - For Women Only Expo kicks off Friday Erie Times-News ShowCase , 6 October, 2011
- [Opening Concert of the Erie Philharmonic Season](https://johnchacona.com/opening-concert-of-the-erie-philharmonic-season/) - Erie Philharmonic begins season with 'Don Juan' Erie Times-News ShowCase , 22 September, 2011
- [Hello Kitty Death Squad's Final Show](https://johnchacona.com/hello-kitty-death-squads-final-show/) - Say goodbye to Hello Kitty GoErie.com , 30 September, 2011
- [Guitarist Roland Dyens at Mercyhurst College](https://johnchacona.com/guitarist-roland-dyens-at-mercyhurst-college/) - Classical guitarist plays recital at Mercyhurst Erie Times-News ShowCase , 29 September, 2011
- [Allen Zurcher at Mercyhurst College](https://johnchacona.com/allen-zurcher-at-mercyhurst-college/) - Mercyhurst's Zurcher improvises with purpose Erie Times-News ShowCase , 15 September, 2011
- [ABBA Gold Opens the Erie Civic Music Association Season](https://johnchacona.com/abba-gold-opens-the-erie-civic-music-association-season/) - 'Take a chance' on ABBA Gold at Warner Theatre Erie Times-News ShowCase , 15 September, 2011
- [Erie's Heritage Festival](https://johnchacona.com/eries-heritage-festival-3/) - Erie Heritage Festival celebrates history Erie Times-News ShowCase , 8 September, 2011
- [Drinking Wine On the Cheap in Lake Erie LifeStyle Magazine](https://johnchacona.com/drinking-wine-on-the-cheap-in-lake-erie-lifestyle-magazine/) - Wine On the Cheap Lake Erie LifeStyle Magazine , September, 2011
- [Five Questions for Organist Pete Levin](https://johnchacona.com/five-questions-for-organist-pete-levin/) - Jazz organist Pete Levin answers questions before Erie gig Erie Times-News ShowCase , 25 August, 2011
- [Previewing the final weekend at the Chautauqua Institution](https://johnchacona.com/previewing-the-final-weekend-at-the-chautauqua-institution/) - Beach Boys, Lennon tribute en route to Chautauqua Erie Times-News ShowCase , 25 August, 2011
- [Reviewing the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra concert of August 16, 2011](https://johnchacona.com/reviewing-the-chautauqua-symphony-orchestra-concert-of-august-16-2011/) - Echoes of the Golden Age in CSO’s Tuesday performance Chautauquan Daily , 18 August, 2011
- [Reviewing the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra concert of August 11, 2011](https://johnchacona.com/reviewing-the-chautauqua-symphony-orchestra-concert-of-august-11-2011/) - No surprises, just a well-known plan executed to perfection Chautauquan Daily , 14 August, 2011

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- [Editorial writing](https://johnchacona.com/editorial/) - Changing music: How a Mercyhurst professor became the biographer for a revolutionary inventor Erie Times-News, October 3, 2022 Have bass, will travel. 'Fuzz' Samuel's path from Antigua to Erie includes worldwide tour stops Erie Times-News, July 5, 2022 From Generation to Generation, A New Collection Transcends Borders and Barriers AllAboutJazz.com, April 24, 2022 Tech/TV personality
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