The X Holiday ALTercation: An exposition of acoustic pop music
November 29, 2018 BY TOM NETHERLAND | SPECIAL TO THE HERALD COURIER From test tubes marked melodically distinct come a quartet of pop music purveyors. Swirls of pop music halo Bristol’s Paramount on Friday. Presented by 99.3 The X, Holiday ALTercation spotlights New...
Center Stage: McGuinn and Hillman celebrate 50 years of Byrds Sweetheart of the Rodeo
November 22, 2018 BY TOM NETHERLAND | SPECIAL TO THE HERALD COURIER America divided sharply along political, societal, geographical and generational lines in 1968. Along came a rock ’n’ roll band of longhairs with a seemingly unlikely record. They were The Byrds....
Center Stage: ‘Fiddler on the Roof’
November 01, 2018 BY TOM NETHERLAND | SPECIAL TO THE HERALD COURIER BRISTOL, Tenn. — Perseverance in the midst of immense societal and familial change envelops the life and lives of Tevye, his family and community. Life teeters upon a sharpened point of upheaval....
‘Coming Home’ to be shown at Hope Gala 2018 in Bristol
October 28, 2018 BY TOM NETHERLAND | SPECIAL TO THE HERALD COURIER Inspired footsteps can lead one to journey far from even that which imagination can conjure. Take the route of Jeremiah Caleb. In search of his late father’s roots, Caleb undertook a 40-day pilgrimage...
Sidewalk Prophets: Contemporary Christian group comes to Bristol on Nov. 3
October 27, 2018 BY TOM NETHERLAND | SPECIAL TO THE HERALD COURIER Consequently, past and present and as long as there remains a future, prodigals roam the landscape. Cast afar, some return to repent, and some do not. Enter contemporary Christian’s Sidewalk Prophets....
Music of Cream: 50th Anniversary World Tour sets the stage at the Paramount
October 26, 2018 BY TOM NETHERLAND | SPECIAL TO THE HERALD COURIER Cream bubbled to the surface of the rock world as if from a nuclear reactor in the winter of 1966. American blues, rock and pop sensibilities clashed in the form of a three-man English band. Rapturous...
Center Stage: An evening with … Lyle Lovett and Robert Earl Keen
October 18, 2018 TOM NETHERLAND | SPECIAL TO THE HERALD COURIER Floorboards and flies listened back when young bucks Lyle Lovett and Robert Earl Keen swapped songs on Keen’s porch. Students at Texas A&M University, they hadn’t a clue as to what lay ahead. “I think...
Carson Peters and Iron Mountain partners with The Paramount to hold benefit for 7-year-old fighting cancer
July 21, 2018 BY TOM NETHERLAND | SPECIAL TO THE HERALD COURIER Kingston Baker played with Legos on Thursday afternoon. “I’m building a bank,” said Baker, age 7. Fun, yeah buddy, he was having fun. “I do until I start feeling bad,” he said. “I’m feeling good.”...
Pieces of the Past: Historic Mighty Wurlitzer graces theater stage
June 01, 2018 BY DALENA MATHEWS and ROBERT SORRELL | Pieces of the Past Only two organs have ever graced the stage of the historic Paramount Center for the Arts on State Street since it opened in February 1931. The original organ was dismantled in the 1950s, when the...
With Dave Mason, comes major rock’n’ roll history
June 23, 2018 Tom Netherland Upon the stoop of rock ‘n’ roll history resides Dave Mason. A witness to and participant in a number of seminal moments in time marked as remarkable fill Mason’s past. Slide in alongside the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame member when he visits...