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Drake gave an unusual shout out after receiving honors at the Billboard Music Awards on Wednesday night. The rapper was thinking of “Game of Thrones’” most-recent episode while delivering his acceptance speech for Top Billboard 200 Album, “Scorpion.” His response started with the par-for-the-course, but still earnest, acknowledgement of those...

Mother’s Day is in a couple weeks, but rap star Drake honored his mom when he won the night’s top honor at the 2019 Billboard Music Awards. Drake picked up top artist — besting Cardi B, Ariana Grande, Post Malone and Travis Scott — in Las Vegas on Wednesday night....

Free tickets are available for the Pittsburgh Youth Symphony Orchestra’s season finale concert on May 5 in Heinz Hall in Pittsburgh. Doors will open one hour prior to the 7:30 p.m. performance. Conducted by PYSO music director Earl Lee, the program will feature: • Keiko Abe’s “Prism Rhapsody,” with soloist...

Few artists have the popularity, fan demand and stamina to do what Eric Church is doing: performing two consecutive shows at a big venue in big city. Country stars — Garth Brooks, Luke Bryan and Toby Keith — have given Pittsburgh two or more consecutive concerts at giant, packed venues...

The iconic Patti LaBelle will be the featured performer at the annual Pittsburgh International Jazz Festival in June. Presented by the August Wilson African American Cultural Center, the event is curated and directed by Janis Burley Wilson, president and CEO of the cultural center. The festival is a combination of...

Singer Amy Grant, sometimes called “The Queen of Christian Pop,” will perform at 7 p.m. May 4 at Amplify Church, Pittsburgh East Campus, 9400 Saltzburg Road, Plum. Tickets at $32.50 and $37.50 are available at 800-965-9234 or itickets.com. Since the beginning of her music career in the late 1970s, Grant...

Woodstock 50 is proving to be as chaotic as the original festival held in 1969. A financial investor in the festival announced Monday it was pulling its funding from the anniversary event, set to take place Aug. 16-18 in Watkins Glen, N.Y. “Despite our tremendous investment of time, effort and...

Pittsburgh jazz legend Roger Humphries will receive an honorary degree of Doctor of Humane Letters during West Virginia Wesleyan College’s 128th commencement on Saturday. Humphries became an internationally recognized jazz figure through his work with Horace Silver and others in the mid 1960s. He recorded with Silver on three of...

Tickets go on sale at noon Friday for a performance by country musician John Schneider at Jergel’s Rhythm Grille, according to a concert announcement. Schneider will visit the area on Aug. 9 for an 8 p.m. show. His music career kicked off in the 1980s, but Schneider also is a...

Singer-songwriter Kiefer Sutherland will visit Jergel’s Rhythm Grille for a tour stop on June 28, according to a concert announcement. Tickets go on sale Friday at noon for the 8 p.m. show. Also a longtime, award-winning actor, Sutherland delved into music with a debut album in 2016 and a world...

Hugh Jackman has added a Pittsburgh date to his first world tour, with “The Man. The Music. The Show” coming to PPG Paints Arena on Oct. 9. Tickets go on sale to the general public at 10 a.m. May 3 at hughjackmantheshow.com. American Express card members can purchase tickets from...

The Westmoreland Youth Symphony Orchestra program will present its spring concert May 8 at Seton Hill University’s Performing Arts Center in Greensburg. Admission is free for the 7:30 p.m. program at 100 Harrison Ave. The WYSO Philharmonia will present arrangements of Respighi’s “Ancient Aires and Dances,” the last movement of...

Music fans apparently caught more than some great tunes at a California music festival this month. The annual Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival draws about 250,000 people to the Empire Polo Club in Indio, California, across two weekends in April. In addition to the impacts that any large event...

A shoulder injury to one of the members of Blues Traveler has caused the group to postpone its Rivers Casino concert. The show was originally scheduled for Saturday. It has been rescheduled for Thursday, Aug. 29, at 8 p.m. All tickets issued for the Saturday show will be honored for...

Taylor Swift, who has been teasing fans for weeks with clues about a new project to be announced Friday, hyped fans up when she visited a mural in Nashville on Thursday. The pop star surprised a few hundred fans, posing with them in front of a mural she commissioned. View...

Pittsburgh Musical Theater will present its final Seize the Stage season show, “Disney’s Newsies,” at the Byham Theater, 101 6th St., Pittsburgh. Performances are set for 7:30 p.m. May 2-4 and 10-11 and at 2 p.m. May 5 and 12. Tickets start at $18 for adults and $9 for children....

NEW YORK — A new Prince album featuring his versions of songs he wrote for other artists will be released in June. The 15-track “Originals” will include “Nothing Compares 2 U,” the No. 1 hit for Sinéad O’Connor; “The Glamorous Life,” Sheila E.’s signature song and Top 10 pop hit;...

NEW YORK — Fresh off his Broadway run, New Jersey’s Bruce Springsteen looked West for inspiration on a new album he’s planning to release on June 14. The 13-song disc is his first new studio album in five years. Titled “Western Stars,” Springsteen said Thursday the album draws some inspiration...