Browsing: Music

Wild West, Waco’s hotspot for country music and two-step dancing, hosted its last guests this January. The downtown bar and…

It’s Christmas time in the city. For students and Wacoans who love Baylor’s Christmas on Fifth Street, the holiday festivities don’t have to stop there. The third annual Waco Wonderland kicks off at 6 p.m. this Saturday in Downtown’s Heritage Square.

Retrospectives typically look back on an entire career, gathering together the works that embody and encompass an artist’s career. The exhibit opening this week in the Martin Museum does the opposite, looking forward on three young Baylor artists’ careers.

Canned episodes of “Whose Line is it Anyway” isn’t cutting it for comedy fans in Waco. That’s why the Brazos Theatre Group is hosting an improv comedy night at 9 p.m. Friday.

The stage at Waco Hall will be lit up once again during this Homecoming’s traditional Pigskin Revue. From Thursday to Saturday, Pigskin will welcome the spring’s top Sing acts back to the stage to reprise their performances to audiences of alumni, students and guests to Baylor.

When Bryan senior Landon McGee plays the guitar, he closes his eyes. It’s not because he has the stage fright of a first grader playing a cow in his first school play. He closes his eyes because his music, even when it’s shared with an audience, is his own private world.

Superstar cellist Yo-Yo Ma will be performing with the Waco Symphony Orchestra in Waco Hall on Thursday. The gala concert is now sold out, but students and members of the public with tickets will be treated to a Dvořák concerto that is known to be one of the most stunning, technically demanding pieces written for the cello.

Fabulous vocals and contagious grooves. That’s what was heard and felt when Seattle, Wash., singing group Groove for Thought visited Roxy Grove Hall at 6:30 p.m. Monday.

On the drive back to Waco with a paper due the next day, a sunburn beginning to appear, a dead cell phone and a pair of legs more sore than after a five mile run, I find myself wondering why I didn’t go to ACL sooner.

Drew Holcomb, singer and songwriter of the folk rock band Drew Holcomb and the Neighbors, spoke with the Baylor Lariat about his Medicine Fall Tour and the meaning behind the music. He will be performing with Penny and Sparrow at 8 p.m. Sunday at Common Grounds.

The Pastiche Chamber Ensemble will travel from Louisiana to perform for free at Baylor at 3:30 p.m. today in the Glennis McCrary Music Building’s Meadows Recital Hall.