This hometown hero gets credit for being an award-winning vocalist, acclaimed performer and passionate composer, and we can assure you she’s also a hard-working, well-respected and motivated maker of music. Morgan Minsk left Springfield for Boston in 2011 to use her recently awarded, quite coveted, full scholarship to Berklee College of Music. A recipient of […]
Music
Posted inMusic
A November to remember
I have often stated in these lines about how quickly time seems to pass, but the fourth weekend of November already? Come on, you’ve got to be kidding! But here we are and away we go. This week the Curve Inn kicks off a new season of Thursday Night Roots, featuring area Americana-type bands every […]
Posted inMusic
Wayward Motel
This six-piece, all-American, Americana, rock ‘n’ roll, rock band based here in the capital city puts out a sound that spans across a sonic landscape far more far reaching than one might expect from the local scene. Led by singer, songwriter, guitarist and multi-instrumentalist Josh Catalano, who is joined by Rory Davis (keyboards), Matt Natale […]
Posted inMusic
November cometh
Here we go on into the fall season that felt much more like winter this week, but nothing stops the intrepid live music attendee from making the rounds to get the goods on good tunes. Our week ahead presents an assortment set to appease the most persnickety of audiences. Thursday grants us an interesting triad […]
Posted inMusic
Billy Don Burns
From his origins as an extremely respected songwriter and performer in Nashville in the early 70s to his current stance as an indelible icon to a younger generation of “outlaw” country artists, this one-man force of nature continues to defy the odds by being relevant and rebellious for some 50 years in the country music […]
Posted inMusic
November cometh
I’ve heard more songs about the dark and dreary days of November than any other time on the calendar. But that shall not refrain us from enjoying these moments any old way we can, so off into the depths of forbidding November we go. First, let’s pay our respects to a recently departed musician, as […]
Posted inMusic
Josh Abbott Band
These rockin’ country fellas from Lubbock, Texas, take their hometown music legacy seriously and present a raucous live show backed by strong songwriting and mighty musicianship. Headed by singer and songwriter Josh Abbott (acoustic guitar, vocals) and other founding member Austin Davis (electric banjo), while ably joined by fellow JAB cohorts Preston Wait (fiddle, electric […]
Posted inMusic
Halloween help
Per usual, there is a slew of music mustered up for this weekend, but first, with Halloween on a Thursday this year, we must help ourselves to the haunted happenings here and below. On Halloween night, the Third Base bar hosts a fundraiser for the Illinois Central Blues Club as a thank you for all […]
Posted inMusic
The Neverly Brothers
A travelling band since 2003, this trio of hard-working, lifelong musicians from Chicago present an educationally entertaining show that covers early rock ’n’ roll and the British invasion in American pop music from 1955 to 1965. They’ve played all around the Midwest and other parts of the U.S. at festivals and theaters, proving that period […]
Posted inMusic
Cello and chill
The Illinois Symphony Orchestra began its 2019-2020 season with “Beautiful and Bold” at the UIS Performing Arts Center on Saturday, Oct. 19. After a rousing rendition of “The Star Spangled Banner,” the concert proper got underway with Wagner’s “Forest Murmurs” (drawn from the opera Siegfried, part of the Ring of the Nibelungen cycle). Typical of […]
Posted inMusic
Onward in October
Rolling right on through the fall as we’re rocking your world, our music takes us to a bunch of fun stuff, as one might well imagine. Shall we see what? Thursday evening delivers a couple of blues news extras as Johnny Burgin returns with a rockin’ blues show at Hand of Fate in Petersburg and […]
Posted inMusic
Carolyn Sills Combo
This award-winning (2018 Ameripolitan Best Western Swing Act) music group peels back layers of time to present old-fashioned Western Swing music, while adding all the contemporary class necessary to make it plausible and pleasing. Praised by critics, fans and anybody within earshot, Carolyn Sills (bass, vocals) and the crew of Jimmy Norris (drums), Gerard Egan […]
