The Kentucky Symphony Orchestra celebrates 25 seasons with a return to its first home, Northern Kentucky University’s Greaves Hall, for four of its five concerts in 2016-2017, beginning with season opener The Over Tour on Oct. 22. KSO founder and music director James Cassidy promises the all-orchestral program of overtures (including William Tell, Poet and […]
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Photos: DevouGrass Brings Bluegrass to Park
DevouGrass Music and Arts Festival returned to Covington’s Devou Park on Saturday. The free event at the iconic bandshell featured live bluegrass music, activities for kids (including a run and ride), food trucks, arts & crafts, and more. This year, the event partnered with the City of Covington to bring the annual fall festival to Devou […]
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Kentucky Symphony Closing Summer Season with Straussing Out
Many polkas, a quadrille, lots of Die Fledermaus – those tuneful Strausses knew how to please an audience. Kentucky Symphony marks the close of its free concert summer season and kicks-off the beginning of the 2016-17 performance season on Sept. 3 with a trip to Vienna and a program made up entirely of the work […]
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Sounds from a More Laid-Back Time Coming to Devou, Courtesy of Kentucky Symphony
The Kentucky Symphony Orchestra will catch the sun on Wednesday, August 6, featuring the smooth sound and crossover jazz classics of Chuck Mangione, Spyro Gyra, Deodato, and Chick Corea for a free concert in Devou Park. “These tunes and artists were heard everywhere in the ‘70s and early ‘80s,” said KSO Music Director James […]
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It’s Gonna Be Lots of Fun When the Kentucky Symphony Returns to Devou!
The Kentucky Symphony Orchestra returns to Covington’s Devou Park for a free, three-concert summer season beginning in July that offers pop, jazz, and a Viennese New Year-style celebration that previews the KSO’s upcoming 25th anniversary season. Audiences are invited to dance, clap and sing-along when the musical party in the park begins July 9 with […]
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Star Vocalist Morgan James Headlines KSO Show in Florence
SOULbrette is the key word in the title of Kentucky Symphony Orchestra’s season closing concert headlining Morgan James on Saturday, May 14. The reason for the sobriquet? The idea of “a blonde soubrette soprano winding up in Motown” led to the concert’s title SOULbrette (Puccini to Prince), says KSO Music Director James Cassidy. “Adding the […]
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Award-Winning Vocalists Coming to The Carnegie on June 9
The Carnegie Concert Series will present Trilogy Two: Featuring Nancy James, Dixie Karas, and Pamela Mallory on Thursday, June 9 at 7:30 p.m. Award-winning vocalists Dixie Karas, Pamela Mallory, and Nancy James come together for a singular evening of jazz, soul, and even a little musical theatre too! Joining the singers onstage are jazz greats Rick […]
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Huge Benefit Concert for NKY Hates Heroin Scheduled for Saturday
Local musicians Kevin Schmidt of Ampline and Jeff Albers of Knife The Symphony, have teamed up with independent record label Phratry Records owner Jerry Dirr to organize a benefit concert to raise funds for NKY Hates Heroin. The event, which takes place Saturday, May 7 at the Southgate House Revival in Newport, features nearly twenty […]
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Tickets for Suits That Rock Concert On Sale Tomorrow
On Saturday, June 18 and again Saturday, June 25, more than 40 prominent business and community leaders will take to the stage at The Carnegie in Covington for the 9th Annual Suits That Rock concert, benefiting The Carnegie’s education department. All “Suits” by day, performers are trading in their business attire and briefcases for microphones […]
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Heads Will Roll: Kentucky Symphony Celebration of Freedom After Dictatorship
The Kentucky Symphony Orchestra will fill Northern Kentucky University’s Greaves Concert Hall stage on April 9 – baritone Kenneth Shaw, 150 voices from the KSO Chorale, the Northern Kentucky Community Chorus, and Voices of the Commonwealth and 70 musicians – for Dmitri Shostakovich’s rarely heard Execution of Stenka Razin. The cantata is a wall of […]