James Armstrong and band plays Casey’s Pub on Thursday, May 1, at 7:30 p.m. Wow, what a month of May music coming up. Yessiree, there’s no maybe about it; we are in for a blast of interesting and exciting music moments in the next several weeks. That then leads right into the summer season, including […]
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April ending acts
Pimpin Henry plays Crowe Fest 14 at Crow’s Mill Pub on Sat., April 26. A sure sign of the upcoming warmer season is the opening of outdoor venues. Curve Inn, consistently chosen by Illinois Times readers as the best beer garden in town, manages to keep the music going all year, but in the warmer […]
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Don’t skip national record store day
National Record Store Day is on April 19. It’s that time of year again when we celebrate on an international level a great holiday of profound importance to the world. Well, yes, there’s Passover and Easter, too, but I was referring to National Record Store Day, happening in 2014 on April 19. The other holidays, […]
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Here comes the sun and the shows
Scott Miller performs the Bedrock 66 Live! concert series, Fri., April 11 at Julia’s Lounge. If there was no other way to tell the turning of the seasons than by careful observation of the local music scene, one might become as knowledgeable as the ancients were in noticing and identifying how the changing weather patterns […]
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No fooling around this April
Famed jazz drummer Barrett Deems (born in Springfield on March 1, 1914 and died in 1998) was honored last Sunday at Sangamon Auditorium during a performance by the SFJazz Collective. Oh, how I wait for April Fools’ Day to fall on a Thursday again. But alas and alack, we have a few years left to […]
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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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Springtime is a-coming
The Blue Gs and The Station perform at Donnie’s Homespun on Friday night at the Acoustic Power Outage show. Whether the weather acts like it or not, spring is officially here. At this point, even calling the season “spring,” however the weather, is a relief, if not an actual respite. Fortunately, there’s plenty of good […]
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Saint Pat’s party
Mulligan Munro joins in the St. Pat’s Party at McCormick’s Smokehouse 4 to 6 and at It’s All About Wine 7 to 10, on Sat., plus a Prairie Grapevine concert on Tues. at 7:30 p.m. at the Abraham Lincoln Unitarian Universalist Congregation. PHOTO BY RACHEL OTWELL I imagine for many celebrating during Saturday’s Saint Patrick’s […]
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March in the meantime
Dwayne Dopsie and the Zydeco Hellraisers entertain for a Mardi Gras celebration on Sat,. March 8 at Donnie’s Homespun. Music starts at 5 p.m. with Brooke Thomas. Just one week into March and perhaps the big thaw is here, but whether or not, there are plenty of events to experience in the meantime as we […]
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Music marches on
Rockin’ Johnny Burgin shakes, rattles and rolls the Walnut Street Winery on Thursday, Feb. 27, at 7 p.m. As we wrap up another February, March looks to be a fun-filled month of entertainment options. Anchored by Mardi Gras and St. Patrick’s Day as party-pleasers, several other unrelated concerts and shows fill the calendar with assorted […]
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Eric ‘Guitar’ Davis
Eric “Guitar” Davis was murdered in December 2013 in his hometown of Chicago. PHOTO COURTESY kate gardiner via Flickr.com As our country continues somehow to confuse the constitutional right to bear arms against a tyrannical enemy with an individual right to use weapons when the mood arises for pleasing personal passions, we mourn another loss […]
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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 […]
