Music

Like most Georgia-grown musical geniuses, Lloyd Buchanan’s roots run deep in the church. Raised in a house where secular music was forbidden by strict motherly decree, his first exposure came from watching his grandfather, Ernest Childs, Sr., wow crowds as part of gospel vocal quartets. “I grew up with a bunch of guys in a gospel quartet that was a younger version of what my grandad was doing,” Buchanan explains over coffee. “We would spend…

 by Frank Etheridge Four men wait in the dark of a January night outside the locked back door of iHeartMedia’s offices on 13th Avenue. Smoking and standing next to the towering metal-frame broadcast antennas—their radio reach maximized from this placement atop the western edge of a hilltop neighborhood once called Boogerville—they’re from Atlanta and here to see DJ Cashflow. About 45 minutes before the start of his “Cashflow Radio” program on Beat 98.3FM—on the air…

Faculty Recital: Natalie Higgins, horn Feb. 4, 4 p.m. Legacy Hall, RiverCenter for the Performing Arts, 900 Broadway, Columbus Guest Artist: Emily Brebach, english horn Feb. 4, 7:30 p.m. Free. Legacy Hall, RiverCenter for the Performing Arts. 900 Broadway, Columbus Guest Artist: Brian Meixner, euphonium Feb. 6. 6:30 p.m. Free. Legacy Hall, RiverCenter for the Performing Arts. 900 Broadway, Columbus Bobaflex returns to Soho Bar & Grill Feb. 8, 7:00 p.m. – midnight, Soho Bar & Grill, 5751…

  By Frank Etheridge Larry Mitchell is a traveling man. Reached by phone in mid-December, Mitchell was on the road in Virginia. In this week, sandwiched between his 53rd birthday and Christmas, Grammy-winning guitar wizard Mitchell had played a gig with jazzman Stanley Jordan in New Jersey, composed a score for a theatre production directed by Jim Henson’s daughter, Heather, outside of Washington, D.C., before teaching music to special-needs children in Virginia. Perhaps best known…

The Arbitrary / Psycho Hill / Foolery at The Estate Visit Columbus’s only do-it-yourself music venue for live music. $8. Jan. 4, 7 – 10 p.m., The Estate, 1231 Midway Drive, Columbus Alabama Avenue at Soho Playing southern rock, classic country and fun party songs, Alabama Avenue returns to one of Columbus’s favorite music venues. Jan. 6, 10:30 p.m. – 1:45 a.m., Soho Bar & Grill, 5751 Milgen Road, Columbus Post Nothing / Crushed!? /…

by Frank Etheridge Every year, William J. Bullock, Ph.D., finds a new way to tell an old story. “I’m a professor at heart, so I really enjoy the research,” Bullock (called Bill by those who know him) says of finding music to fit into Cantus Christmas, an annual highlight of the holiday season in Columbus and gold-star event on the city’s cultural calendar now in its 18th year.    “I start with four parts,” he…

Sorry No Sympathy at The Estate Columbus’s only DIY music venue presents Sorry No Sympathy, Dec. 4. $7, doors open at 7 p.m., band starts at 8 p.m. Dec. 4, 7 – 11 p.m., The Estate, 1231 Midway Drive, Columbus Caroling at Old Town with Sola Voce Sola Voce, Voices of the Valley’s auditioned chamber ensemble, invites you to Old Town Dec. 5 for three sets of caroling. Dec. 5, 6 – 7:30 p.m., Old…

Guitar prodigy Jontavious Willies pushes forward an old-school sound by Frank Etheridge “I learned myself,” Jontavious Willis explains of how he learned to play the blues. Sitting at a table in a break room inside Jordan Hall on Columbus State University’s main campus, Willis wears camo shorts and a black t-shirt from the legendary Washington, D.C. venue the 9:30 club, a gift he received while in the nation’s capital at the prestigious Lincoln Theatre as…

Alabama Avenue at Soho Playing southern rock, classic country and party song favorites, Alabama Avenue brings their soulful southern review show to Soho Bar & Grill, a classic venue in its own right. Come for the music, stay for pool, darts, sing-along and dancing. $5 cover. 10:30 p.m. – 1:45 a.m., Nov. 3, Soho Bar & Grill, 5751 Milgen Road, Columbus Nearly Normal String Band Join musicians Vivia and Neil Araki for a lively performance…