Excitement over Kimbo Ishii-Eto’s first full season has resulted in the fourth sold-out season in a row for the Amarillo Symphony. With weeks to go before the Symphony’s opening concert, all seats...
CHS marching band tops record
The Canyon High School Soaring Pride Marching Band presents its largest band in Canyon’s history, topping off at 150 dedicated students. The goal this year is to blow the new 4A competition away b...
Jazz Band to perform at state meeting
The West Texas A&M University Directors Jazz Band is adding another gig to its summer repertoire with a July 28 performance at the 2008 Texas Bandmasters Association (TBA) Convention in San An...
First Baptist Church presents musical, Singing Women of Texas
“Thine is the Kingdom,” will be presented by the Sanctuary Choir and Orchestra at 6 p.m. Sunday at the First Baptist Church of Canyon. This musical takes the audience on a journey from creation to...
HSQ Cotik to present ‘solo’ recital
He’s used to performing as part of the Harrington String Quartet, but violinist Tomas Cotik will perform “Solo” at 8 p.m. April 22, in Northen Recital Hall at West Texas A&M University. The pr...
Since 2001, I’ve faithfully attended their annual summer tour; and although I did have to miss a year or two, due to an absence of funds, I made up for it by sometimes frequenting more than one sho...
Rock icons are everywhere, big and small and spanning the musical categories. However, the icon that has realized remarkably impressive status is the one that not only has a festival named after h...
If you’ll recall about a month ago, I wrote in to alert everyone about the upcoming music festivals around the country. I provided examples of all the different events held from April on into Sept...
I had a flashback Monday night. I was about eight years old, wearing a very fashionable broomstick skirt, sitting in the Civic Center Auditorium, and pouting. Although many will claim that nothi...
Mandi Collier is a Canyon native and now lives in Dallas It’s interesting when music, like history, repeats itself, and it is not uncommon to hear echoes of music past from artists present. Writi...
Out with the old, and in with the….old-er? Yes, a slight revision to the longstanding saying, but nothing could be more accurate when applied to the reunion tour of the Stone Temple Pilots. Now...