Bones Jugs play Bar None on Thursday, June 16, at 8 p.m. PHOTO BY SNK PHOTOGRAPHY Welcome to mid-June in central Illinois. The weather is heating up along with the music scene, save for the occasional thundershower that washes out a performance. Here comes the Sangamon County Fair with plenty of hot, modern country in […]
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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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Enamel
With Kevin Wasmer (vocals, guitar) and Sam Ganci (drums) as the core of the band’s hard-hitting, melodic sound for several years, the recently recharged Enamel added Nick Beal (bass) and Tyler Landess (lead guitar, vocals) for a first show on Halloween after only five weeks of heavy-duty rehearsals. Nick and Sam are longtime members of […]
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TONIGHT: Free all-star Bedrock show at Bar None
Robert Ellis will perform tonight at Bar None FOR FREE Robert Ellis’s second album Photographs was named one of the top 50 albums of 2011 by American Songwriter magazine. Matt Vasquez’s band Delta Spirit has had music prominently featured on both Friday Night Lights and Sons of Anarchy. Nashville’s Johnny Fritz (The Artist Formerly Known […]
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Weekend workings
The Harmans play the Bluegrass for Tallgrass fundraiser for Friends of Sangamon Valley this Sat., Nov. 15 in the indoor theater at New Salem State Park. The skies may go gray and the world darkens as November seeps into the soul, but look for enlightenment and excitement – or at least a drink and live […]
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Girl-A-Thon and more
The Girl-A-Thon band rocks the house at Boondocks on Sunday starting at 2 p.m. Many wonderful shows are happening this weekend on the music front from bar gigs to outdoor festivals. If we can visit a few here now, then you can go in person later. Before we go another word, let’s pause for the […]
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Bass, blues, folk, fun
Otis Gibbs sings for his supper at Donnie’s Homespun on Thurs., Aug. 21 at 7:30 p.m. Good heavens! Just when you think there’s nothing to do, there’s more than ever before. Here we go with a jam-packed weekend of assorted happenings. Here’s a snippet of Thursday events. Otis Gibbs, a bespectacled, bearded, Indiana native and […]
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Great rock show at Bar None tonight:
Middle Class Fashion Acclaimed St. Louis band Middle Class Fashion describe themselves as “sugar sweet pop with a secret dark side.” The Luzhin Defense The Luzhin Defense (a/k/a the extravagantly talented Rogers brothers of Springfield) modestly describe their output as “an oddly familiar landscape of pop music.” FUCK///MOUNTAIN When Brandon Carnes (owner-operator of […]
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Ending with a bang
A memorial music show for Ben Underwood takes place, Fri., July 25 at Bar None. As we wind down July, the events pile up. Here’s a mere partial listing of the many wondrous happenings for this week in the Springfield area. On Friday, Bar None hosts a memorial music night for the late musician Ben […]
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Bedrock 66 Live! moves
Nikki Hill and the Pirate Crew perform rock ’n’ roll for the Bedrock 66 Live! concert, Saturday, March 29, at the Hoogland Center for the Arts. Some 14 years ago, at the birth of the new millennium (wow, that sounds exciting), Sean and Jamie Burns decided to start a music performance organization. After years of […]
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Springfield wherever you go
Amy Benton performs at Fire and Ale in Sherman on Friday. A week ago, I was in sunny central Florida (it actually was 55 and raining most of the time) playing a few shows with friends. I’m glad to be back and I’d like to thank Ken Carlyle, Patrick Hagerman, Josh Reilly and Brian Reilly […]
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Music relief for winter weather woes
The Angry Inch appear at the Legacy Theatre with Hedwig Thursday through Saturday this weekend and next. PHOTO COURTESY THE LEGACY THEATRE Oh my, isn’t that snow so pretty as it falls from the sky? Then how quickly it becomes ugly as we deal with the removal of said snow in order to continue our […]
