by veermagmain | Jan 6, 2024 | Drama & Comedy, Stage & Film
By Jerome Langston The subject of comedian Preacher Lawson’s lengthy locs, comes up quite early in our recent phone chat. His hair is even alluded to in his most recent comedy tour name, Loc’d And Loaded, though I guess the tour name didn’t stick…as he quickly...
by Jeff Maisey | Apr 5, 2022 | Drama & Comedy, Stage & Film
(Aamira Challenger, Katie Housley, Palymyra Mattner, Joshua Liburd, and Conner Keef. Photo by Darryl Estrine. Aquila Theatre’s The Great Gatsby.) By Montague Gammon III The Aquila Theatre’s casting of The Great Gatsby, coming to the Norfolk’s Attucks Theatre...
by Jeff Maisey | Oct 15, 2021 | Musical Theater, Stage & Film
By Jerome Langston “You literally feel like…when you walk into that theatre, that you are right there in 1959 with Billie Holiday and her band,” says Georgia native Ashley Bishop-Diggs, who portrays the iconic jazz singer in Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar &...
by Jeff Maisey | Apr 7, 2015 | Concert Previews, Music
By Tom Robotham As a longtime jazz fan, I feel blessed to have lived in New York City in the early 1980s. Many of America’s greatest jazz pioneers were still alive, and I was fortunate enough to catch them in concert: Ella Fitzgerald, Benny Goodman, Count Basie, Chet...
by Jeff Maisey | Feb 12, 2015 | News, News & Views
By Staff Bluesy rock band Seth Stainback & Roosterfoot and acoustic duo Little Pants each won two categories in the 2015 Veer Magazine Local Music Awards. A special tribute was paid to Norfolk Sound pioneer Lenis Guess. Photographer Sherry Boylan was...
