Tom Irwin

Did I miss something, or did the month of March just fly by in a whirlwind of activity? I suppose the feeling is a combination of the approaching spring season, plus a reaction to the lessening of COVID restrictions and, more importantly, the number of COVID cases falling here in our area and around the […]

Come on in folks, and see what’s happening this week. We have a parade and a birthday party, with lots of live music covering Celtic, blues, rock, Latin and other goodies. Shall we? After our annual St. Patrick’s Day parade was postponed over the last two years due to pandemic issues, and again last week […]

Come one, come all, to enjoy the fine fixings we are about to show you in this second full weekend of March 2022. The weather is chilly now, but gets better soon, and with Daylight Savings Time springing forward on Sunday, hang in there, those delightful days of live music in our abundant outdoor music […]

Hello fellow travelers, and welcome to the month of March in 2022. Our first full weekend is chock-full of goodies as we continue to work our way back to our regularly scheduled programming after the nearly two-year pandemic interruption. I’m going to jump out of the daily order to start with Sunday and the Doug […]

As we approach the final days of February 2022, this amazing month of live music is going out with a big bang. I’ve been tooting our music scene horn pretty hard as we come blasting back from the abyss of past pandemic years with exceptionally diverse and dynamic shows, but this weekend really does take […]

As we go on meandering through the winter of 2022, with COVID maybe on the side of waning (again), the Super Bowl out of the way (with more talk about the halftime show than the game) and a blast of cold weather on the way, allow me to possibly brighten your day with the possibilities […]

Well, now wasn’t that a fun time of snow, shoveling, snow again, shoveling again, cancelled gigs, other gigs that weren’t but probably should have been, and all kinds of delightful experiences we can happily move on from. This weekend looks to be a bit different weatherwise so let’s see what’s out there in the bars […]

What with the predicted snowstorm this week, who knows what will happen, especially dealing with the aftermath of wintry precipitation. But let’s proceed as if our weekend is balmy and bright with plenty of live music going on, but be prepared for cancellations. Let’s get right to it when Charhm, one of my all-time favorite […]

Here we are and here we go through the last weekend in January for 2022 and we have a bang-up bunch of stuff going on. After this week of chilling temps, do I contemplate using the “cold weather, hot music” cliche to discuss upcoming live music in our fair city? Then again, isn’t music good […]

Here we are in mid-January and it’s starting to feel a lot like winter, but before you know it, those hot summer nights shall return. But in the meantime, let’s see what’s happening this weekend. Thursdays seem to be the one night of the week that could use some help in the live entertainment department, […]

Good grief and good golly, let’s “let the good times roll” as I bring you good tidings of the Springfield-area music scene. And I am saying all that for me more than you, as the coldness of January combined with the continued pandemic woes tends to bring me down. So let’s see if we can’t […]