Free show at Ft. Stewart Country music’s Trace Adkins (“You’re Gonna Miss This,” “Honky Tonk Badonkadonk”) will headline a free concert July 3 at Donovan Parade Field, Ft. Stewart. […]
Bill DeYoung
Bill DeYoung was Connect's Arts & Entertainment Editor from May 2009 to August 2014.
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God, a guitar, and a big bunch of blues
Jonny Lang went down to the crossroads – and found a cross. Maybe it’s an oxymoron, a devoutly Christian electric blues guitarist, but Lang – who proudly “came to Jesus” […]
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Noteworthy: Connor Christian & Southern Gothic
CONNOR CHRISTIAN & SOUTHERN GOTHIC This band’s just-released 90 Proof Lullabies, a reviewer said, “is one of those albums that you hear playing at a party that makes you immediately […]
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What’s Next: Music, photos at the Jepson
The Telfair Museum of Art’s final Jepson Live concert of the season – taking place in the Jepson Center, naturally – happens Thursday at 5 p.m. Vocalist Roger Moss, accompanied […]
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The final frontier
In Saving Luna, an extraordinary documentary from filmmakers Michael Parfit and Suzanne Chisholm, the central issue is whether or not humankind – in this case, the residents of a logging […]
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My name is EARLE
“Townes Van Zandt is the best songwriter in the whole world and I’ll stand on Bob Dylan’s coffee table in my cowboy boots and say that.” – Steve Earle, 1995 […]
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Red Collar @ The Jinx
RED COLLAR For kinetic, frenetic live shows, moshers in the Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill region tend to gravitate towards this high-energy four-piece. Red Collar is a punky, hardcore buzzsaw-guitar band that – […]
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Kids ‘n’ creatures
It’s got a lion, a witch and a wardrobe, a cast of thousands – well, a cast of about 75 – and an army of half-human creatures sporting hooves, horns […]
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What’s Next: Mercer, and more Mercer
Mercer and still more Mercer Savannah continues to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the birth of favorite son Johnny Mercer, and June is a particularly fertile month for tributes […]
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Four Bitchin’ Babes
FOUR BITCHIN’ BABES Since the runaway success of the stage show “Menopause The Musical,” female entertainers of a certain age have felt free to celebrate – with song, dance […]
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Remembering Bo Diddley
In the autumn of 2002, I sat in Bo Diddley’s kitchen for what would turn out to be the last time. The rock ‘n’ roll pioneer had moved to Central […]
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Cultural connection
You want an order of culture with that? For most of its 14 years, the main draw at the Savannah Asian Festival has been the food. It’s like a walking […]