Lindsay Eure returns with one-woman show, Rob Daniels comes home with Jimmy Wayne

It's homecoming weekend for two performers with Hampton Roads roots.

Lindsay Eure, from Chesapeake, is giving a one-woman concert Friday and Saturday at Norfolk's Wells Theatre, and Rob Daniels, from Norfolk, will play lead guitar when Jimmy Wayne performs Friday at the Verizon Wireless Virginia Beach Amphitheater as a warm-up for Brad Paisley.

Eure, 27, grew up in the local

theater scene, acting with The Hurrah Players in Norfolk, graduating from Great Bridge High School and the Governor's School for the Arts, and performing with Virginia Musical Theatre.

She worked in New York and toured with professional companies for several years, but has returned to Chesapeake as a home base from which she can do a planned national tour of her new show: Lindsay Eure in "Hit Me With a Hot Note!"

Backed by a four-piece band, she'll belt out hits and hidden gems from the 1920s through the 1950s. They are songs she has learned throughout her career. She said she decided about nine months ago that she had enough material to put together a "Liza Minnelli-style" one-woman show and that she would debut it here.

"It's just something that I've always wanted to do," she said.

Friends and family pitched in to help her pull this off, she said. Her grandmother Margaret Eure is a former Virginia Beach city councilwoman, and her grandfather Jay Eure is a retired entrepreneur who established a port-a-john business.

"I'm counting on local people to come and support us, and I hope that this will make people proud," Eure said.

Rob Daniels also said he's excited and proud to be performing back in Hampton Roads as part of a major tour.

He spent about 12 years in the local music scene before heading for Nashville in early 2007 to join Jimmy Wayne, a friend and former bandmate from southern North Carolina.

Wayne already had made a name for himself in the country music scene, and Daniels was ready for a change. He had been part of a Norfolk-based extreme metal band, Sic Seed, that had recently broken up.

The move paid off, and now Daniels is touring with one of country music's hottest acts, Brad Paisley. Also on the bill is Dierks Bentley.

"I have gotten as many guest passes as I absolutely could," he said. "It's really cool for me to get this opportunity. I paid a lot of dues in the Norfolk area."

Dan Duke, (757) 446-2546, dan.duke@pilotonline.com