Staff's Picks
Here's a few of our favorite "Do Not Miss" Shows!
Click on the thumbnails for the bands web sites!

Date
Web Site
Show / Comments
Blake's
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.

Thur
6/19

Hot Buttered Rum... $15 adv. $17 d.o.s.
After Party; Stiff Dead Cat...

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

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
Greencards have an ability to go out on stage in front of 20,000 strangers, and magically turn them into friends and fans.

     
Brent's
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."

Sat.
7/19

(Singer/Songwriter) David Lindley
w/ TBA, After Party; Saddle Tramps, All Tickets $23- Seated Show On Sale Now!

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.

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.