Take the cover band concept of playing popular songs and combine it with a DJ-style song mashup to make an “oddly entertaining blend of musical alchemy”, and there you have the design behind Fun DMC. Combined artists include Journey and Metallica, Nelly and The Bee Gees, Run-D.M.C. and Avril Lavigne, Usher and Michael Jackson, LMFAO […]
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Old Smoke Band with Trina Madonia
Coming from nearby Bloomington to celebrate Old Abe’s birthday, Old Smoke Band invited Springfield’s own Trina Madonia to sing some lead and background vocals for the occasion. Starting out in 2013 as a duo called The Armadillo Brothers, the two soon grew into the Americana fivesome of Adam Humphreys (guitar, vocals), Jeremy Myers (guitar, vocals), […]
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Dan Hubbard
Dan Hubbard Known to Springfield fans as a headline performer at SOHO festival pasts, as well as other venues with his band The Humadors, Dan Hubbard is on a brand new adventure and invites you to come along. Now playing as a solo artist, in 2015 Hubbard recorded an album of a lifetime with Ken […]
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SOHI House Band
A Springfield-based, indie-rock group citing heavy influences from the hip-hop, R&B and rap genres, the SOHI House Band plays a rather different role than most local music groups. Signed to Midwest record label HISO Music in 2015, band mates Matt Wingo (drums, keys, vocals), Aaron Carbonell (bass) and T Bakes (guitar) back up the roster […]
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Hipbone Sam
Hipbone Sam Together for over six years now, it’s hard to imagine a time when Hipbone Sam wasn’t on the scene. Bandmates Kevin Hawkins as Hipbone Sam (lead vocals, rhythm guitar), Rick Mari (lead guitar, keyboards, vocals), Rob Ross (drums, vocals), Mark Riefler (bass guitar, vocals) and newest member Zack Fedor (harmonica, guitar, vocals) put […]
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Angela Perley & the Howlin Moons
Hailing from Columbus, Ohio and hitting towns all over the Midwest since 2009 with the sound and the fury of a modern American rock and roll band on a mission, Angela Perley (vocals, electric guitar, musical saw), Chris Connor (lead electric guitar), Billy Zehnal (electric bass) and various drummers including Maxwell Button, Adam White and […]
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Lyman Ellerman
Lyman Ellerman Riverton native and current Nashville resident, songwriter, guitarist, vocalist and performer, Lyman Ellerman is a man of many musical talents. The good news for us is that he keeps refining and defining said talents through a lifetime of music making. His most recent project, Something Better, is now out on CD and his […]
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Jackson Taylor and the Sinners
Jackson Taylor and the Sinners Born just outside Austin, Texas, Jackson Taylor spent his formative years traveling and soaking up the sounds of real country music with his migrant worker family. When, as a young man, he made a move to Nashville, as many aspiring country artists do, the scene there was stifling and not […]
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Lowder & Manning
Considered by many as one of our area’s music-making treasures, Jaigh Lowder and Jill Manning play original songs at an exceptional level of composition and performance. Jaigh’s guitar prowess is nothing short of masterful and Jill’s voice reaches into your chest and touches the heart. That combined with a keen sense of the human spirit […]
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Hospital Job
Hospital Job Yes, there is a punk band from Springfield called Hospital Job. Yes, they’ve toured the U.S. twice and western Europe. Yes, they have plans in the works for a 2016 East Coast tour and dates at regional and national punk music festivals. Yes, they’ve released two full LP/CDs with the third (Never Get […]
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The Love Hogs
Playing only their second show in 15 years, the legendary Love Hogs return to a Springfield stage after coming out of a pen from the past to play the Downhome Music, Art & Beer Festival last year. Far from being a bore (or a boar?) the power trio of Keith Voegele (bass, vocals), Greg Patterson […]
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Kilborn Alley Blues Band
Kilborn Alley Blues Band PHOTO COURTESY WILLOW RIDGE WINERY Continuing the terrific run of early Thursday shows at The Alamo, sponsored by the Illinois Central Blues Club and presented by James Armstrong, Kilborn Alley drops in from our neighboring city of Urbana. These guys make the rounds, celebrating 15 years of being a traveling blues […]
