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Hannah Maier from The Route interviews JD McPherson ahead of his show at Temple Theatre in Rochester on 12/13/2025. -
Hannah Maier interviews Ryan Montbleau ahead of his show at Water Street Music Hall in Rochester on November 20th. -
Latest Route Music News
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Mezzo-soprano Denyce Graves is retiring from the stage after a last performance as Maria in the Gershwins' Porgy and Bess at the Metropolitan Opera, and looking ahead to directing and mentoring. -
The Seattle Children's Theatre is the latest to say they will no longer perform at the Kennedy Center since Trump took over last year. -
Álvaro Lafuente's calming voice and steady rhythms feel like a lullaby with a fiesta tilt. At the Desk, the Spanish singer transports us to a club in Barcelona or a beach on Costa Brava. -
Adrian Quesada's album "Boleros Psicodélicos II" came out June 2025. -
Bob Weir, the founding member of and guitarist for the Grateful Dead, was a pioneer in how rhythm guitar is played in rock music. -
Surrounded by family in the band and in the audience, John Fogerty bookends solo material with the rock and roll staples of Creedence Clearwater Revival. -
Kilgore, who died Jan. 7, was a talented interpreter of American popular song. We'll remember her by listening back to her in-studio concerts with pianist Dave Frishberg from 1995 and 1999.
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Weir was 16 in 1963 when he ran into Jerry Garcia at a music store in Palo Alto. They decided to start a band, which evolved into the Grateful Dead. Weir died Jan. 10. Originally broadcast in 2016.
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Netflix's Stranger Things finale, which dropped Dec. 31, is shaking up the Billboard Hot 100. -
Georgetown University is moving Let Freedom Ring, its annual event celebrating the life of Martin Luther King Jr., to the historical Howard Theatre in order to save money, the university said.
