Center Stage: The Sing-Off and YouTube sensations take the stage at the Paramount Center for the Arts
May 02, 2019 TOM NETHERLAND | SPECIAL TO THE HERALD COURIER Home Free’s bass singer stepped out of line to place a call to Bristol, Tennessee. “I’m about to walk in to see ‘The Avengers: Endgame,’” said Tim Foust, by phone last Friday from Deadwood, South Dakota. End...
Center Stage: Del McCoury getting a little help from his friends
April 11, 2019 TOM NETHERLAND | SPECIAL TO THE HERALD COURIER Del McCoury leaned forward after an interview in Richmond, Virginia. “Have you ever heard of the band named Phish,” McCoury asked. “They spell their name with a P. We’re playing with them tomorrow night. My...
Raul Malo at The Paramount
March 28, 2019 TOM NETHERLAND | BRISTOL HERALD COURIER Raul Malo stood outside his black tour bus behind the Paramount on Saturday afternoon. The lead singer and co-founder of The Mavericks grinned like a man who’d just stumbled upon a wad of cash. Instead, the...
Short Takes: Clint Black will be KILLIN TIME at the Paramount
March 28, 2019 TOM NETHERLAND | SPECIAL TO THE HERALD COURIER Clint Black With the line “What do you say when it’s over,” Clint Black burst upon the country scene in late winter 1989 with the song “Better Man.” Four No. 1 singles later, Black’s album “Killin’ Time”...
Music the universal language for Justin Moses
March 24, 2019 SUZI MCKEE | KINGSPORT TIMES-NEWS Growing up in Madisonville, Tennessee with a very close-knit family, Justin Moses learned to love music and appreciate the tunes emanating from instruments that he found fascinating very early. The family frequently...
Burns showcases Bristol Sessions in new ‘Country Music’ series
March 24, 2019 DAVID MCGEE | BRISTOL HERALD COURIER Sunday night patrons at the Paramount gazed at stark black-and-white images as the camera zoomed in on the faces of Sara, Maybelle and Alvin Pleasant Carter from Maces Springs, Virginia, and Mississippi’s Jimmie...
Raul Malo & The Mavericks ignite memories of old school country cool
March 21, 2019 Tom Netherland | Special to the Herald Courier Raul Malo owns one of the most prodigious voices in country music history. He aligns well with Patsy Cline and Ray Price among the genre’s finest. Experience the masterful Malo as he helms The Mavericks on...
‘OVERWHELMED’ Paramount hosts Ford’s 100th birthday celebration
February 13, 2019 BY DAVID MCGEE | BRISTOL HERALD COURIER BRISTOL, Tenn. — The Tennessee Ernie Ford birthday celebration reached a crescendo Wednesday with the screening of black-and- white TV shows from the Bristol native’s career, followed by enough cake to feed the...
Center Stage: Bristol Ballet presents ‘The Nutcracker’ at Paramount
December 06, 2018 BY TOM NETHERLAND | SPECIAL TO THE HERALD COURIER BRISTOL, Va. — Christmas abounds at Bristol Ballet. Twinkling notes of Tchaikovsky’s “Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy,” like icicles dancing, recently tip-toed through the corridors of Bristol Ballet....
Short Takes: Down Home to feature musical richness of Scott Miller
December 06, 2018 TOM NETHERLAND | SPECIAL TO THE HERALD COURIER Scott Miller Scott Miller strives forth as a songster unafraid. He’s as apt to tickle as tackle the difficult. In that, Miller brings life and its voluminous contours to Johnson City’s Down Home for...