By SDCN Editor San Diego, CA–Music En La Calle, the free music festival and street fair that brings together colorful musical performances representing a wide range of cultures and styles, returns to City Heights for the fifth time. Presented by Bodhi Tree Concerts, a San Diego nonprofit that presents music events featuring local artists and […]

By Danny R. Johnson – Entertainment News Editor Tina Turner, the earthshaking singer whose rasping vocals, sexual magnetism, and explosive energy made her an unforgettable live performer and one of the most successful recording artists of all time, died on Wednesday, May 24, at her home in Küsnacht, Switzerland, near Zurich. She was 83. Her […]

By SDCN Editor San Diego, CA–La Jolla Music Society’s annual SummerFest returns to The Conrad from July 28 to August 26, bringing the finest chamber musicians in the world to La Jolla for four weeks of glorious concerts.  Music Director Inon Barnatan, returning in his fifth year, has created an exciting program titled “The Great […]

By Danny R. Johnson – Entertainment News Editor NEW YORK, NEW YORK–Harry Belafonte, the singer, actor, and activist whose wide-ranging success blazed a trail for other Black artists in the 1950s, died on Tuesday at age 96. A child of Harlem, Mr. Belafonte used his platform at the height of the entertainment world to speak […]

By SDCN Editor Carlsbad, CA–Chuck D, the legendary leader and founder of rap group Public Enemy, social activist, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee, and Grammy Lifetime Achievement award winner, will be honored with NAMM’s Impact Music and Culture Award at the NAMM Show, being held April 13 to 15, in Anaheim, California. The […]

By Danny R. Johnson – Jazz Music Critic Like all great jazz musicians, the saxophonist Wayne Shorter, who died on March 2, 2023, at eighty-nine, had a distinctive, original, and instantly recognizable sound. He tended to play within the higher pitches of his tenor saxophone, as did John Coltrane (with whom he practiced and gigged, though they […]

By SDCN Editor Los Angeles, CA–Mercury/UMe will release a digital-only 40th-anniversary Deluxe Edition of Donna Summer’s all-time classic solo album, “She Works Hard For The Money.”  Originally released June 13, 1983, when musical tastes were changing by the minute, “She Works Hard For The Money” sealed the late singer as a creative multi-genre force to […]

By SDCN Editor Los Angeles, CA– ”The Songs of Bacharach & Costello,” personally compiled by Elvis Costello, brings together all of the published songs that Costello wrote with Burt Bacharach, one of the great composers of popular music in the 20th and 21st centuries.  Available through UMe, “The Songs of Bacharach & Costello,” celebrates a […]

By SDCN Editor Poway, CA–The Poway Symphony Orchestra kicks off its first concert of 2023 with a first-time appearance by the Grammy Award-winning Chestnut Brass Company at the Poway Center for Performing Arts.  The “American Extravaganza” performance will feature all-American music from Five of a Kind for Brass Quintet and Orchestra, an upbeat piece composed […]