This singer and songwriter, guitarist and performer from Casey, Illinois (between Charleston and the Indiana border), takes his belief in the power of song quite seriously. His physical voice, deep and moving, fits his artistic voice as Mitch Faulkner sings his self-penned songs in a “alternative country rock” genre, concerning “the risks and rewards of […]
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Joe Stamm Band
Originally from somewhere in Central Illinois with black dirt baked and caked into his soles and soul, Joe Stamm takes country music into the deep places where real feelings and real playing go to hang out together. As a young adult, football was his thing, but when Joe was forced to change careers he discovered […]
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2020 happens
Hello everyone, and welcome to another new year. Perhaps we should nickname this one the “Year of Hindsight” or maybe “Seen with Perfect Vision” or whatever other interesting thought we can do with the “2020” thing to make it a winner. But for now let’s get prepared for another year of amazing music in our […]
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Remembering to music
Welcome to our Remembering issue, celebrating the lives of those we lost i n the last year. Sadly, we had more than a few musicians join the everlasting band in 2019. Let’s send these dearly missed music makers off with a round of applause for a job well done on this old earth. Not to […]
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Mojo Universe
This band of brothers in style and substance hail from the St. Louis area and play regularly in the metro scene and surrounding towns. We welcome them for a New Year’s Eve show and hope they bring their groovy grooves and danceable sounds back to Central Illinois real soon. Mojo Universe expands into all kinds […]
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Alec James Payton
A folksinger by calling and by determination, this young man makes music for himself and we’re fortunate to be recipients of the thoughtful and provocative, insightful and superlative work he produces. After Alec James Payton took off a few years ago (was it more or less or less or more?) accompanied by an acoustic guitar, […]
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Music and more
It’s the weekend before Christmas and all through the town, lots of creatures were stirring and moving around. Why, heck yeah, they were! The city was hopping with all these folks going out to see the barrage of live music happening all over the place. First we have a call out for volunteers to help […]
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Jeremy Pinnell
This Kentucky native, specifically from Burlington about 15 miles from the Ohio River town of Cincinnati, brings the country of his state to the forefront, making compelling music with a distinct sense of place as traveling through time. Jeremy Pinnell does what the folks are calling “hardscrabble honky-tonk” and keeps the country rough and ready […]
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Decembering doings
Welcome to the middle of December as the going gets going on into a wonderful world of music making in many forms. The holiday shows are still showing up with a bunch of the regulars hanging tough as well, plus a few artists passing through we may never see again. Thursday holds a wild and […]
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Decembering now
Here we go into the days of December, gearing up for the big holiday hoopla with plenty of marvelous music to supplement the adventure. Along with normal pub performances, be mindful of downtown Holiday Walk music and other special stuff for the season listed in our listings. Would you like to spend an evening, specifically […]
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Julian Davis and the Situation
In tried-and-true fashion, this young man calls himself a “traveling musician” spending his precious time “plying his trade through guitar and mandolin on the roads of this country” and that surely is just what he’s doing. Julian Davis started his music a-rolling in 2016, convinced that bluegrass is a wide-open genre with room for a […]
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Thanks for giving
Welcome to our Thanksgiving special, complete with truckloads of thankfulness, the most prodigious party night of the year, a weekend full of happenings and a lead into the holiday season. Great googly-moogly, let’s gobble up the gobbledygook as the ruckus gets going good right now. Since we deliver Illinois Times a day early on Wednesday […]
