With six awards, Adele has matched Beyonce for most Grammy wins in a night by a female act.
Adele's six wins Sunday night include album, record and song of the year. Beyonce set the record two years ago.Adele was shaking as she won album of the year, almost in tears as she held the award.
Whitney Houston, who ruled as pop music's queen until her majestic voice was ravaged by drug use and her regal image was tarnished by erratic behavior and a tumultuous marriage to singer Bobby Brown, died on the eve of the Grammy Awards she once reigned over. She was 48.
After 75 years of offering classical music in Tacoma, the Tacoma Philharmonic is merging into the Broadway Center for Performing Arts, the nonprofit organization that manages the City of Tacoma’s downtown theaters.
One of the biggest free events in Tacoma is on Saturday: The 14th annual Asia Pacific New Year Celebration. Held at the Tacoma Dome, the annual festival celebrates Asian cultures through dance, music and other entertainment, attracting about 8,000 people.
Brad Paisley doesn’t need to add much luster and flash to his live shows. He has the music (including 17 No. 1 singles), his longtime band, the personality and the guitar wizardry to pack a house and throw down a two-hour show filled with modern-country hooks and hard-rock licks. But these days, depending on the venue, that isn’t always enough.
The recording academy and Grammy producers have unveiled a flurry of Grammy performers this week, beginning Tuesday with a return to the stage for Adele and a Katy Perry announcement on Wednesday. Thursday, the curtain was pulled back on one of the Feb. 12 telecasts rock n roll acts: Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, who are gearing up for a new tour.
Van Halen fans know the veteran rockers are coming to the Tacoma Dome on May 5. Heres your reminder that tickets go on sale today at 10 a.m.
If you can get nearly 10 million YouTube hits by playing a George Harrison song, then you must be good. If you can get them by playing it on a ukulele, you must be Jake Shimabukuro.
Van Halen is coming to the Tacoma Dome. The reunited band announced Friday that its 2012 North American tour will include a stop in Tacoma on May 5.
It’s been five years since the rebirth of Tacoma’s First Night, the family friendly arts-based New Year’s Eve celebration downtown – and it’s on a roll. There are more stages, more giant puppets and more fire events than ever.
It’s almost winter, but get ready for some surf and sun: The Beach Boys are reuniting.
Prince – the enigmatic, chart-topping and perpetually youthful revolutionist of rock – blows into the Tacoma Dome on Monday after a seven-year absence.
If it seems like you need to spend a lot of money to get some holiday cheer, then read on. Six local concerts this weekend in Tacoma, Gig Harbor and Fox Island prove that the holidays don’t need to cost money to be joyful.
As Melissa Meztler walks into the basement of First United Methodist Church in downtown Tacoma, she’s carrying a pig. No, make that a goat – or is it a pig with antlers?
One of the reasons Tacoma’s School of the Arts was started was to integrate arts with core academics in a setting that made sense: Tacoma’s downtown, the heart of its arts scene.
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