POSTS BY William Speidel
Bill Speidel is our local seersucker suit wearing, swing dancing foodie and vintage musicologist who’s DJed swing and blues dances nationally as far away as Florida, Las Vegas , Seattle and Quebec City. Bill is also the organizer of Norfolk’s monthly Southside Stomp Swing Social at The Mambo Room. He’s served as President of the Cromwell Farm Civic League and is a registered landscape architect with a degree in urban design and planning. If you somehow can’t pick him out of the crowd by his vintage ties, he’ll be the one drinking the sazerac cocktail and critiquing the food, décor, and the music playing in the background.
The Avett Brothers Return to Norfolk
By William Speidel
Despite these successes, at their core The Avett Brothers remain a humble pair of siblings from nearby North Carolina just happy to be making music.
A Swinging Good Time at Still Worldly Eclectic Tapas
By William Speidel
We playfully knocked on the restaurant’s speakeasy door as if its barred panel would slide back and someone in a fedora would ask us to whisper a password.
Blues Legends Buddy Guy and BB King Play The Ted
By William Speidel
[It felt] like you were at a family gathering listening to great granddad tell stories from his youth
Review: Amadeus @ Chrysler Hall
By William Speidel
Solieri’s descent into wickedness, set against the backdrop of the Orchestra and Chorus singing and playing the timeless masterworks of Mozart, is brilliantly haunting in revealing a world that can be cruelly cold and hateful even as it is aesthetically beautiful.
Not Your Grandfather’s Swing Music
By William Speidel
Solomon Douglas (formerly of the Glenn Miller Orchestra) brings his Swingtet to the Boot this Sunday night. Can you swing it?
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