Band Spotlight

This 20-year-old singer-songwriter and performing artist hails from Crawfordsville, Indiana, but she’s traveled far and wide on a wonderful and unfolding musical adventure. She decided at the ripe old age of five to devote her life to music and wrote her first songs at age eight. By the time she was 14, Kasey had released […]

This band lineup of Jessica Dooley (vocals, guitar), Chris Harris (bass, vocals), Allan Harris (guitar, vocals), Josh Hutchison (guitar, vocals) and Tim Lynn (drums) is tearing up the place wherever they go with years of stage experience and heartfelt emotion driving the good stuff home. You can tell when the musicians in a band are […]

Our blues friend, Johnny Burgin (he recently dropped the Rockin’), stops by for a one-night only local show on Friday, and we point that out because in the past, the artist formerly known as Rockin’ Johnny would hang around central Illinois for nearly two weeks at a time, playing gigs all over the place. Burgin […]

Originally formed by band mates Denny Lucas (guitars, keys, vocals) and Mike “Mouse” Bearup (guitars, vocals) in 1992 with Brian Smith, the latest members of the group, Bill Ward (bass, vocals), Mandy Rose (vocals) and Kevin Klickna (drums, percussion) join in to play a range of popular hits with a full light and sound system […]

Where does one start to list the accomplishments of John Clifton in the world of blues music? During a career spanning 40 years of making music his life’s work, the vocalist, harmonica player, songwriter and musician has nearly done it all and continues doing more. Steady on the road for some 150 dates a year, […]

A true believer in the healing power of music, singer-songwriter Emily Hope feels her musical mission is to “inspire, encourage and enact change.” Armed with a ukulele and Martin guitar, as well as a transcendental voice that delivers her message clearly and with passion, Emily sings her own tune as she “strives to write songs […]

Calling themselves a “party rock cover band,” JukeRox indeed lives up to that calling with a striking set list of your favorite hits covering the genres of “rock, pop, hip-hop, country or heavy metal” with incredible musicality and stunning showmanship. Band members Janet Morris (lead vocals), Kent Starr (guitars, vocals), Kylan Davis (keys, vocals), Tim […]

This 25-year-old songwriting, guitar-slinger native of Austin from near the Texas Hill Country (now based in College Station, Texas), surely plays beyond his years. With a prescribed presence from the classic guitar rock of the 1970s as a backdrop, his clever and thoughtful songs ring out with a true Americana rock-n-roll character. His latest record, […]

This father and daughter duo from the local music community are both gifted musicians and singers, blessed with powerful and emotive voices that blend with a special harmony reserved for family members who sing together, all while accompanying themselves on piano and guitar. Along with a good selection of original tunes in their collective pockets, […]

Hailing from Central Illinois and based up Bloomington-Normal way, singer-songwriter Dan Hubbard continues on his chosen path of a life in song with a new record called Attention. This one feeds off his last recording (done in 2016 with Ken Coomer, original Wilco drummer and now Nashville producer), developing themes of hope and loss, based […]

Plenty of previously popular local bands have reunited, but it’s hard to imagine a more anticipated and requested reunion than this one from Secret Society. The group started out bucking contemporary music trends in 1989 when Doug Kirk (bass), Brian Curtis (keyboards), Howard Freitag (guitar) and Jim Engel (drums) “got together and started a prog […]