The Illinois Symphony Orchestra began its 26th season on Saturday, Oct. 20, with a lopsided program at Sangamon Auditorium. The concert, billed as a “Bicentennial Celebration” for the state of Illinois, included a salute to the female gender, followed by a somber tribute to Abraham Lincoln before concluding with a spirited performance of one of […]
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All over town
Thursday night starts us off with a one-of-a-kind performance at Buzz Bomb Brewery enticingly entitled Pistol Pete’s Existential Crisis (7-9). Pistol Pete is Pete Midtgard, a lead singer on the upright bass who is/was the driving force behind the Twistin Tarantulas, a Detroit-based, rockabilly-punk trio that survived 25 years of life on the road. PP […]
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Stuart Smith
Give a guy a guitar, let him learn to play it, then watch as he knocks out some songs as a singer-songwriter. Next thing you know, he’s got a killer recording out on CD and LP. That would be the short story of Winchester native Stuart Smith, out on a tear in support of his […]
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The ins and outs of music
The early- to mid-October weather can be lovely, though sometimes too crisp and sometimes a bit toasty. With a weekend forecast calling for a big-time cooling off, be prepared to enjoy the last of our outdoor music festivals while wearing winter wear. For inside happenings, come hang out with Square of the Roots as they […]
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The Mazed
Conceived in the fall of 2016, organized as a band in 2017 and releasing their first CD in 2018, The Mazed is on the move and playing all-original music all the time. Originating as a collaboration between songwriters Shane Bumgarner (guitars and vocals) and Tim Lacy (guitar, percussion and vocals), after musicians Steve Clark (drums […]
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Taking to giving music
Off we go into October of 2018 with a blast of low-end sounds and high-end musicality, all available for your perusal simply by heading out the door and into a venue hosting live music. We begin with a memorial tribute on Tuesday evening, Oct. 9, during the award-winning Curve Inn open mic to honor the […]
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Los Injectors
There’s nothing in the world quite like this trio of “HeavyMetalPunkPsychobilly” music-mayhem makers, and more than likely, there never will be. Blessed with monstrous music chops and cursed with a desire to destroy any semblance of sanity (or maybe that’s the other way around), DeMON (Damon Soper on guitar and vocals), Jackhammer Washington (Jeff Cunningham […]
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Healing arts and blues
Other than the usual complaints of time passing quickly, we’ve had a dang good run of summertime fun, outdoor gigs and all. Now, as the festivals come to a close, with only a few left in early October and as the Sunday Funday patio and beer garden shows fade back inside, enjoy the time out […]
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Joel DaSilva (and band)
This award-winning, hard rockin’, busy, traveling blues man calls his stuff “Americana, roots rock and blues soul” to cover a wide range of an intense area of American music. Joel also adds in “rock ‘n’ roll, surf, swing, rockabilly, blues-abilly, funk, dunk, twang and songwriter” as parts of his musical expertise, making all this available […]
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Makings of music
Let’s first pay our respects to a recently departed friend of the local music scene and fan of all the cool music out there. Keith Perks passed away a few weeks ago from natural causes due to recent health issues. We miss his smiling face and cordial company as well as his compelling interest in […]
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The Black Lillies
With a hometown base of Knoxville, Tennessee, this group of experienced musicians, hailing from all walks of the Americana landscape, puts out a new album (their fifth studio release) on Sept. 28 called Stranger to Me. Now stripped down to a rocking and focused quartet, much closer to the original 2009 band concept than the […]
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Dry September music
Look out below and above, and in between, too, as we recover from the deluge of last weekend and prepare for more good live music inside and out during mid-September. Hopefully and expectedly events will be a bit more on the dry side of things. Our weekly adventures begin at 6 on Thursday night with […]
