Metro Weekly

Concert

  • Uking it Up

    By on August 8, 2012

    ''Did you know we had 964 ukulele players last year?'' Marcy Marxer is reminiscing about the success of last year's UkeFest at Strathmore, which attracted...

  • Swing Time

    By on May 10, 2012

    This summer, Steven Reineke will perform with Idina Menzel at Wolf Trap, supporting the Broadway and TV star with the National Symphony Orchestra Pops. But...

  • Marriage Singer

    By on September 29, 2011

    ''I want my child to be able to marry whoever she wants to marry when she grows up, and have the same rights as everyone...

  • Pioneering Pop

    By on August 31, 2011

    Andy Bell is feeling his age. ''I love Beyoncé and Rihanna and stuff, but it's so hyper, everything,'' says the 47-year-old. ''You kind of feel...

  • Lyrically LuPone

    By on August 31, 2011

    ''I've had an affinity with gay people since I was like, 6 years old,'' Patti LuPone says. ''The person I've known the longest, I knew...

  • Wedding Singer

    By on July 7, 2011

    ''I put together this program before ,'' says Steven Blier, ''but now that it has, the program has a different meaning...

  • Drumming Decades

    By on November 4, 2010

    ''My passion for the group grows every time I'm with them,'' says Joe Bello of D.C.'s Different Drummers. Bello is not the only one. This...

  • Musical Wizardry

    By on July 15, 2009

    There's this amazing detail in sounds and colors and orchestrations that you just really don't hear in the movie theater anymore,'' says the National Symphony...

  • Dark Victory

    By on June 3, 2009

    ''I didn't know what was happening -- I thought he was having a mid-life crisis or something,'' says composer Michael Shaieb of a close friend...

  • Nice Piaf

    By on March 25, 2009

    Jil Aigrot Jil Aigrot has become known for singing as Edith Piaf. So perfect is her Piaf, she was tapped to voice the singing portions...

  • Alphabet Soup

    By on March 18, 2009

    Jeff Buhrman knows his gay ABCs -- knows them well. And he'll help the Gay Men's Chorus of Washington recite them at everything gAy to...

  • Choral Milestone

    By on January 21, 2009

    What comes to mind when you think of human warmth? That's the question Robert Convery asked members of the Lesbian and Gay Chorus of Washington...

  • Life Songs

    By on November 26, 2008

    After a recent dress rehearsal with the Capitol Pride Symphonic Band, director Joe Bello was feeling emotional. ''They actually moved me to tears on the...

  • Piano Gal

    By on May 28, 2008

    By the time she was only 11, Rachael Sage decided she wanted to be a singer-songwriter. Namely, a female Billy Joel. ''Why not? He was...

  • Final Bow

    By on April 16, 2008

    Before Scott Barker learns how to play the fiddle, the 43-year-old will take his final bow with the D.C. Different Drummers' Capitol Pride Symphonic Band....