
Staff's
Picks
Here's a few of our favorite "Do Not Miss"
Shows!
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on the thumbnails for the bands web sites!
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Blake's |
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Tues 6/10 |
Patrice Pike ...Free Show in the Red Room Patrice has been a professional musician since she was 16 years old, wowing and influencing musicians, critics and audiences alike. So well respected is Pike that Billboard magazine proclaimed her “one of the finest up and coming contemporary rock singers in America.” And while this is indeed, high praise, Pike deserves every bit of it. Patrice has maintained such a raw, down-to-earth quality and irrepressible talent that she will surely elicit even more praise as her career progresses. |
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Thur 6/19 |
Hot Buttered Rum...
$15 adv. $17 d.o.s. Hot Buttered Rum is a five-piece acoustic
bluegrass/rock/folk band with an enormously tight-knit bluegrass following;
they are constantly turning heads with their genre-breaking music and
their impressive and time-honored talent. Over time, this hard-working
band has been trained by the sounds of the Grateful Dead, Bob Marley,
Led Zeppelin as well as bluegrass and folk stars like Peter Rowan and
Darol Anger. They are just as comfortable on the mountaintops of Northern
California playing for 200 fans as they are at any rock club or theater |
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Thur. 6/26 |
"An Evening With" The Greencards...Only 125 tickets will be sold...All Tickets $15 / On Sale Now! The Greencards are an
acoustic music phenomenon that has played around the world, headlined
major festivals, won awards, and toured with Bob Dylan and Willie Nelson.
They’ve released three fine albums, and their latest release,
Viridian, was nominated at the Grammy Awards Ceremony in 2008 for ‘Best
Country Instrumental Performance’. Their label debut Weather and
Water was strong enough to win them a slot on the Dylan/Nelson tour,
but then they had to deliver. Fortunately, The |
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Brent's |
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Fri. 6/13 |
"Blues Diva" Shemekia Copeland... After Party; The Wingnut Adams Band, $18 adv. and $20 d.o.s On Sale Now! Critics from around the country celebrated Shemekia's music as fans of all ages agreed that an unstoppable new talent had arrived. Shemekia released two more CDs: 2000's Grammy©-nominated WICKED and 2002's TALKING TO STRANGERS (produced by Dr. John), and in that short period of time, collected five Blues Music Awards, a Grammy© nomination, five Living Blues Awards, and was honored with the coveted "Talent Deserving Wider Recognition" Award by the DownBeat Critics' Poll. Rock legend Robert Plant called her "the next Tina Turner." |
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Sat. 7/19 |
(Singer/Songwriter) David
Lindley Multi-instrumentalist David Lindley performs music that redefines the word "eclectic." Lindley, well known for his many years as the featured accompanist with Jackson Browne, and leader of his own band El Rayo-X, has long championed the concept of world music. The David Lindley electro-acoustic performance effortlessly combines American folk, blues, and bluegrass traditions with elements from African, Arabic, Asian, Celtic, Malagasy, and Turkish musical sources. |
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Fri. 7/18 |
(Very Special Performance) Pete Francis (of Dispatch)... Free Free Free in the Red Room! Francis spent years as a member of the renowned
independent band, Dispatch, writing such fan favorites as May Day, Two
Coins, and Ride a Tear. Dispatch recently became the first independent
band to headline and sell out three nights at Madison Square Garden
in New York City. |
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