Composer Zina Goldrich has spent nearly two decades developing “Ever After,” a revisionist Cinderella story powered by human courage rather than magic — and Phoenix Theatre Company’s brand-new Stephenson Theatre is finally giving it the stage it deserves.
At 76, Phoenix singer-songwriter Sarah James is releasing original music, running a globally followed vintage guitar series, and donating Waylon Jennings’ Stratocaster to the MIM — proof that some stories take a lifetime to get started.
Singer-songwriter Jai Graves took the long road to Arizona — from Kentucky hockey rinks to Detroit dive bars — and found his country music voice in the Sonoran Desert, where a Rising Star Award and a debut album signal the moment everything clicks.
Vietnam veteran Doug Bradley has written a memoir organized entirely by its soundtrack — from doo-wop in postwar Philadelphia to Hendrix in Vietnam — tracing a life shaped by music and the extraordinary history it witnessed firsthand.
Adopted from Bulgaria and raised in Anthem, baritone Jacob Soulliere carries the Phoenix Boys Choir, the Boulder Creek choir risers and the mentors who shaped him to Carnegie Hall and the San Francisco Conservatory — and wherever the music takes him next.
Carefree jazz vocalist Shannon Wallace walked away from a grant application — and toward her true calling — when a single question forced her to reckon with what music is actually for.
The music of BARANS creates cinematic instrumental rock as “songs for your human experience.”
Fondly recalling joyful memories of music-making during their youth, Cave Creek residents Greg and Olga Barker recently uncovered opportunities at Desert Hills Community School of Music to not only share that joy with their four young daughters but also rekindle it in their own lives.
Strumming, drumming and singing — 15 talented student musical acts will take the stage at Harold’s Corral for Cave Creek Unified Education Foundation’s Rock the District fundraiser on Saturday, April 15.
Known together as The Damn Kids, guitarist Phil Mazzio, drummer Brock Hauser, guitarist and vocalist Jack Montesano and bassist and vocalist Luke Horton prevailed over more than 300 competitors to win Alice Cooper’s 20th Annual Proof is in the Pudding Music and Dance Competition.