Christian Bauhofer — the musician who named himself Minnesota after the state with 10,000 lakes — has been a force on the bass scene for nearly a decade. Original tracks like "Push It," "HiLow," "Float," "Thunderdome" and "Colors" are dependable festival favorites and crush the dance floor time and again.

Southern Adventist University's Symphony Orchestra will present a free concert on Sunday, March 8, at 7:30 p.m. in Collegedale Church of Seventh-day Adventists, 4829 College Drive East.

One of the area's most popular concerts for fans of Southern gospel music takes place Saturday night, March 7, at Memorial Auditorium, 399 McCallie Ave., when Paul Belcher presents his 47th "Battle of Songs" concert.

I've done this job a long time and written far too many stories about benefits. I wish we didn't need to have them, but they do show how giving and loving people can be.

Platinum-recording artists Sister Hazel stops in town Thursday, Feb. 27, on its tour in support of EP series "Elements," which recently topped the Billboard charts.

Choral Arts will celebrate the beauty of nature with its next performance on Thursday, Feb. 27 at Second Presbyterian Church.

Lee University's School of Music Opera Theatre will present two one-act operas in performances Friday, Feb. 28, through Monday, March 2, in Dixon Center, 1053 Church St., Cleveland, Tennessee.

The Jericho Brass Band will play a free concert at North River Civic Center, 1009 Executive Drive in Hixson, on Friday, Feb. 28, at 7 p.m.

Kansas is a very different band now than the group people knew in the 1970s, when the band rose to the top of the rock scene behind multiplatinum albums "Leftoverture" and "Point of Know Return."

Dr. Lynn Worcester Jones, pianist, will partner with guest baritone Dr. Andrew White to present a concert of pieces by female composers from the 19th through 21st centuries on Saturday night, Feb.29.

Legendary guitarist Joe Bonamassa stops in Memorial Auditorium, 399 McCallie Ave., on Tuesday, March 3, for an 8 p.m. show.

The performance has been canceled due to health reasons.

Directed by Gennevieve Brown-Kibble, the program will include arrangements by Jeffery Van and Ethan McGrath from Walt Whitman's Civil War poetry.

Male chorus InSpirit will perform at the next Sunday afternoon at Simpson concert on Sunday, March 1, at 3 p.m.

At the time of this writing, tickets remained for JFest, Riverbend, Bonnaroo and Moon River, the four largest music festivals in our area.

Ana Popovic made one of the boldest musical statements that any artist from the blues or rock scenes has made in recent years with 'Trilogy,' a three-CD set released in 2016 that showcased three different sides of her music — one disc devoted to blues, one to funk-centric songs and a third to jazz.

Five free concerts are scheduled by vocal and instrumental ensembles at area colleges and universities in the coming week. Following is a list of when and where to find them.

The schedules have been set for this year's Road to Nightfall, which for the last nine years has been staged to both showcase local talent and to give one act the opportunity to headline one night of the annual summer concert series.

Singer Gordon Lightfoot, known for hits "Sundown," "If You Could Read My Mind" and "Rainy Day People," fulfills his commitment to return to Chattanooga for a concert after having to postpone in July when a leg injury left him unable to walk.

The Chattanooga Bach Choir and Orchestra continues its Masterworks Series with a concert on Saturday, Feb. 22, celebrating the 250th anniversary of composer Ludwig van Beethoven's birth.

Maybe you recognize Walk Off the Earth as that band that burst onto the internet with a video of all five of them playing one guitar and singing Gotye's "Somebody That I Used to Know." (That YouTube video is now approaching 190 million views.)

Multifarious jazz trio is comprised of Sue McKenzie playing saxophones, Susan Mayo on cello and Paul Elwood on banjo. Two of those instruments are obviously not often associated with jazz, yet Multifarious makes the combination enjoyable and hearing Elwood play might change your perception of "banjo music."

Since I began writing this column almost 25 years ago, one of the goals has been to provide a look at where we are and where we came from as it relates to the entertainment scene. In particular, the live music scene.