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There is not a style of instrumental or vocal music that the blues have not touched. There is a universality about it, and that’s likely one of the reasons the Bonita Springs Blues Festival is heading into its fourth year. Everyone loves the blues. And, at one time or another, everyone has the [...]

Jazz pianist Stuart Shelton has probably become the busiest musician — jazz or otherwise — in Naples, appearing somewhere seven nights per week. With his unparalleled technique and dexterity, inventiveness and sense of swing, he has few equals. [...]

“When I was a little girl, I used to read fairy tales,” Taylor Swift recalled on stage Sunday night at the BankAtlantic Center in Sunrise. She now appears to be living [...]

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Back in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, avant-garde artists were absolutely gaga over the connections between music and the visual [...]

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The debut of the Fifth Avenue Chamber Orchestra on Monday night was one of those concerts that is a reviewer’s nightmare. There are only so many ways to say [...]

While the Art League of Marco Island fights to balance its budget, it must now also find a director. Longtime executive director Christine Neal has resigned, effectiwe april [...]

There is not a style of instrumental or vocal music that the blues have not touched. There is a universality about it, and that’s likely one of the reasons the Bonita Springs Blues Festival is heading into its fourth year. Everyone loves the blues. And, at one time or another, everyone has the blues.
The quality level of national and local attractions — this year including Chicago’s Nick Moss and the Flip Tops; Michigan’s Motor City Josh and the Big Three; and, from Florida’s East Coast, Albert Castiglia — is another reason the event has been so successful and eagerly [...]

Rock, rap, bluegrass and strawberry shortcake were all featured at the three-day Naples Strawberry Festival and Indie Fest this weekend. The Cornerstone United Methodist Church hosted the fundraiser and a portion of the proceeds will go to Grace Place, a community center in Golden [...]

The Masters Art Festival held court at Collection at Vanderbilt this weekend featuring artists working in glass, painting, jewelry, woodwork, ceramics and sculpture. The Collection at Vanderbilt is located on the corner of Vanderbilt Beach Road and Airport-Pulling Road just across from the Ritz-Carlton Golf Lodge. Boulderbrook Productions, producers of the arts festival, hoped the location would draw residents who might not normally venture to traffic-heavy downtown Naples art festivals. [...]

Green beer and Irish music helped jump-start St. Patrick’s Day celebrations during Ave Maria’s Wearing of the Green event [...]

The program was a classical music fan’s altar call: Rachmaninoff’s Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini, Ravel’s Bolero, Schubert’s “Unfinished” Symphony. How fast can we get tickets to [...]

Melissa Gilbert is coming home. Nearly four decades after she first took up residence on the prairie, the child-star-turned-TV-movie queen is returning to the material that made her famous. Only this time in “Little House on the Prairie: The Musical,” which comes to the Naples Philharmonic on Tuesday, Gilbert is no longer the precocious Laura. She’s the [...]

If you build it, they will come. It’s super cliche, but that just might be the mantra Roy Terry IV lives his life by. The Methodist minister has started a church from scratch, built a state of the art performance facility at the church and launched an indie music festival from thin air. And every step of the way, people have [...]

Everyone likes a little uncertainty, just a smidge of healthy surprise. If that riddle arrives in the form of something beautiful to behold, so much the better. Raku pottery is such a puzzle, at least in its end result, but its process is simple and straightforward and, as the participants in artist Richard Rosen’s “A Taste of Raku” class learned, no mystery at [...]

David Merrick is possibly the most famous Broadway producer of all time. He’s also, perhaps, the most infamous. Notoriously hot-tempered, but also brilliant, Merrick made a career of making hits on the Great White Way. Now a one-man play exploring his life is making its world premiere in [...]

Here is this week’s Visual Arts column (beginning March 4, [...]

A “Baywatch” babe, an astronaut and a gold medal figure skater are among those who will compete on the spring season of “Dancing With the [...]