Traditionally, touring musicians will come home to visit their families around the big, warm, cozy holidays: Thanksgiving or Christmas. That’s when you’ll catch them doing ad hoc solo shows at […]
Bill DeYoung
Bill DeYoung was Connect's Arts & Entertainment Editor from May 2009 to August 2014.
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Noteworthy: Hank Williams III
HANK WILLIAMS III His first name is actually Shelton, and he’s more of a punker than a honky tonker, but the 36-year-old Williams is, indeed, the grandson of country music’s […]
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Red, white, and swing
Y’all watch now – this is how they do the Fourth of July in N’awlins. A quarter of the musicians in Savannah’s Equinox Jazz Orchestra are Louisiana natives, including bandleader, […]
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A fiery Fourth
Twenty-three performers, spanning a bucketful of genres from punk to blues, country to hip hop, jazz to rock ‘n’ roll. And you’ve probably never heard of any of them. The […]
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What’s Next: Send us your stuff!
Our mission here at Connect Savannah is to provide the most complete, and most well-rounded, coverage of arts and entertainment in the Savannah area. If something is happening in town, […]
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Street songs
A collection of 10 hip-hop songs written, produced and performed by a group of young people from Savannah’s juvenile justice system, Dirty Water is truly the music of the streets. […]
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Noteworthy: Col. Bruce Hampton & the Quark Alliance
Col. Bruce Hampton and the Quark Alliance Col. Bruce, with his swinging, funky, bluesy, fluid sense of toe-tapping tuneage, is a microcosm of Georgia music, every salt and stripe of […]
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Simon says
Neil Simon wrote “Rumors” at the end of the 1980s, following the three semi-autobiographical plays that made up his so-called “Eugene Trilogy.” Although wildly successful, those plays (“Brighton Beach Memoirs,” […]
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Back in the ranks
He retired from the Army in 1995, with just about the highest rank imaginable, but John Sobke is still proudly serving his country. When the 80-member Savannah Winds Community Wind […]
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Shout-out to history
Vaughnette Goode-Walker, who’s in charge of the Telfair Museum’s Juneteenth celebration this week, wants to make one thing perfectly clear: “There’s no such thing as black history or white […]
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The new normal
Like a lot of people, Jason Statts used to idly wonder, every once in a while, what it would feel like to be paralyzed. “It was after I got into […]
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Gypsy jazz times two
No one can really explain the attraction. Gypsy jazz, a fast-moving, free-wheeling style of acoustic music popularized in 1930s Paris, has enjoyed a renewed popularity in America over the last […]