Southern Adventist University's Wind Symphony, Jazz Ensemble, Steel Drum Ensemble and Ringtones handbell choir will present a concert of popular music on Saturday, Feb. 15.

Chattanooga continues to grow in importance for Drew and Ellie Holcomb, the Americana duo who will perform Wednesday, Feb. 12, at the Tivoli Theatre.

Lee University will present pianist Helen Huang and violinist Paul Huang in the next Presidential Concert Series on Tuesday, Feb. 18. Their performance will begin at 7:30 p.m. in Pangle Hall, 340 Church St. in Cleveland, Tennessee.

I wrote a column for this month's Chatter Magazine postulating how Track 29 led us to Moon River, which to me highlights how far we've come as a city when it comes to live music.

Since Gloria Chien founded String Theory a decade ago, she has brought an illustrious roster of string musicians to play at Hunter Museum of American Art. The legendary bassist and his violinist son coming on Tuesday, Feb. 18, are no exception.

The members of Nickel Creek, who drew overflowing crowds during the band's Nightfall and Riverbend Festival appearances here several years ago, will reunite for this year's Moon River Music Festival, set for Sept. 12-13 at Coolidge Park.

As country music legends like George Jones, Johnny Cash and Merle Haggard pass on, country music purists often echo the question Jones asked: "Who's going to fill their shoes?"

The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Symphony Orchestra will present its annual Concerto Concert on Sunday, Feb. 9, at 3 p.m. in the Humanities Theatre on the campus of Chattanooga State Community College, 4501 Amnicola Highway.

To borrow the lyrics in Lauren Alaina's current single, "Getting Good," her life is already good. In fact, it's pretty sweet to be the country star right now.

Rachel McIntyre Smith is a talented, young, emerging singer-songwriter who came to Chattanooga to study at UTC.

Southern rock band Backwater Still returns to HiFi Clyde's, 122 W. Main St., on Friday, Feb. 7, for a 10 p.m. show.

She was "the other woman" blown up in a boat by Reba McEntire in the video for their famous duet, "Does He Love You."

Members of the Chattanooga Boys Choir and Chattanooga Choral Society for the Preservation of African-American Song will join voices Sunday afternoon, Feb. 9, for their 28th Simmons-O'Neal Memorial Concert in First-Centenary United Methodist Church.

Airlifter Brass, a brass quintet from within the U.S. Air Force Band of Mid-America, will play a free concert in the Chattanooga Theatre Centre on Monday night, Feb. 10.

The next performance in the String Theory concert series will present legendary clarinetist David Shifrin and soprano Hyunah Yu, making her String Theory debut, with String Theory founder and pianist Gloria Chien.

To celebrate the 10th anniversary of his breakout album, "City of Black & White," Mat Kearney decided to revisit some of his favorite songs off that record and rerecord them.

Secret Weave and the Shaking Ray Levi Society are presenting solo guitar improvisations by Sandy Ewen, a sound artist, visual artist and architect, Thursday, Jan. 30, at Exile Off Main Street.

Rock singer-turned-pastor Sherry Cothran will present her one-woman show, "Untamed Women of the Bible," at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Jan. 31, in Barking Legs Theater, 1307 Dodds Ave.

Musicians from A Golden Wire will present "No Noise or Silence: Music of the English Restoration" on Friday night, Jan. 31, in the next concert of the St. Paul's Artist Series.

Parker Gispert, one of the founders of The Whigs, will perform at The Woodshop, 5500 St. Elmo Ave., at 8 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 1, in support of his debut solo album, "Sunlight Tonight."

Although former Chattanoogan Mitch Rossell has played Riverbend, he's only now making his Songbirds debut when the singer-songwriter returns home Saturday, Feb. 1, with his band for a show at the Southside venue.

Chef Neville Forsythe was a popular personality in our community for many years because of both his skill in the kitchen and his way with people, so it was a huge loss when he died in a car accident last year.

Lee University School of Music will close this year's Performing Arts Series with the Beijing Guitar Duo on Tuesday, Feb. 4, at 7:30 p.m. The duo will also lead a masterclass on Monday, Feb. 3, at 6 p.m.