In its 37th year, this downtown celebration of Hellenic life, culture, faith and especially food is just about the same age as Free Times. The Greek Festival embraces the joyful spirit of living life ...

After more than a year of searching, the Columbia Orchestra has announced its new music director, Richard Scerbo. Scerbo, who founded Inscape Chamber Orchestra, based in the Washington, D.C., area, ...

The ultimate success of any experiment is tough to measure. Chase a near-prophetic ability to match your hypothesis and outcomes, and you'll almost always be disappointed. Permanence can't be the ...

Everyone who plays music, Logan Garner says, does so for different reasons — but really the same reason. Some musicians prize self-expression, singing their sadness, playing their vision of the color ...

Every afternoon, Ari Freed, CC ’28, sets up his cello in his dorm room and plays a melody that fills the corridors of John Jay Hall. Freed is a student in the Columbia-Juilliard program, where he ...

Country music lovers gathered Friday evening at Rose Music Hall for the highly anticipated Missouri Country Fest. The event featured a lineup of many talented local Missouri musicians, including Nick ...

Deep in the bowels of Lerner Hall, behind a nondescript set of double doors, sits a little-known feature of Columbia’s music scene: CU Records, the only student-run recording studio on campus.

Columbia has set aside $600,000 for the return of one of its biggest events, but some feel the pitch doesn’t justify the potential investment. From 2000-06, the 3 Rivers Music Festival loomed large ...

Sunday is Easter, and that means in addition to sunrise services for those of the Christian faith, there are church and neighborhood Easter egg hunts in what seems like every community in the Midlands ...

The Columbia Greek Festival has been around for 36 years, and every year it gets even better. This festival is exactly what it sounds like, offering all things Greek! Patrons gather every year to ...