Articles
Purveyors of ‘Devil Music’
Metal has been declared dead many times over by various outlets, but a die-hard trio of musicians in a small town in Kosciusko County are proof that metal is not […]
The Magical Musical Tour
Pippin has had two very distinct lives on Broadway. In its first presentation, it was a star-making vehicle for Ben Vereen in 1972, earning him a Tony Award and making […]
Preserving Independents
Ten years ago Bob Roets was more than a little concerned about the financial viability of his business. And with good reason. In seven years he had to shutter three […]
Carnivorous Comedy
For many years the most popular and often performed musicals followed a fairly predictable pattern. The stories and songs of musical theater greats like Rodgers and Hammerstein or Lerner and […]
Everywhere Man
You may have seen Jared Andrews in a number of places around Fort Wayne. Maybe he took your cover at The Brass Rail. Or perhaps you saw him behind-the-scenes working […]
Stapp and Deliver
Anarchy is a good word for it. The history of Art of Anarchy has been turbulent, to say the least, and in the six years that the band has been […]
Let’s Go for Even Bigger!
Two queens, a boy wizard, and an old guy in red socks. Sort of sounds like an odd poker hand. But really it’s just one way to describe a small […]
The Music’s No Joke
They’re a self-described biker band with a funny name, a name that’s known not just by the local following they’ve built up over the last four years, but across the […]
Spinning Hits from the 50s to the 80s
Introducing ‘Biff and The Cruisers’ from Fort Wayne, IN. Band members are Rob Pierce on lead guitar and vocals, Dan Ertel on bass guitar and vocals, Jim Courtney on keyboards […]
Of Drummers and Plane Crashes
What do gospel music, high school drummers and a plane crash have in common? BackWater somehow bring all these seemingly isolated oddities together in a most convincing fashion. Once these […]