Music – Tom Irwin

Some folks could care less, I know, but I always enjoy the celebration of jolly St. Patrick, if for nothing else than enjoying music from the Emerald Isle and neighboring islands. If you’re not a fan of Celtic sounds, that’s okay too, because everybody parties when the Celts turn it on. Let’s start with some […]

With a hip-hop to the hippity-hop, we march on through the not-so-merry month of March with more music than a month might muster, if a month could muster music. For Thursday excitement, Joshua Allen, a singing, songwriting, guitar player from Rolla, Missouri, rolls into the Trailblazer Lounge on Dirksen Parkway for a night of original […]

Leave old February behind as we march into March with plenty of live music for the lamb or lion in you. This weekend blues rules at Third Base Sports Bar with two remarkable shows featuring nationally acclaimed powerhouses. Friday brings in Johnny Rawls, a major player in soul blues who spent a good deal of […]

Well, that didn’t take long to wind through the shortest month. Certain parts seemed interminable, but now we look forward (for sure) and back (as needed). For early evening, most excellent Friday night music, don’t miss the Brian Pryor Quartet playing cool jazz as the artist of choice at Robbie’s for our lovely Uptown Friday […]

As February freezes and thaws, count on the tunes to hold steady and get us through until spring arrives. There are plenty of activities out there, but let’s spend some time on something special called “house concerts” for now. House concerts are simply a concert held in a house. Known generally as wonderful experiences that […]

A quick look through the Pub Crawl shows an interesting trend of several burgs surrounding the capital city hosting live music at new and old venues. It seems that “get out of town” is taking on a new meaning. Our Thursday romps occur at venues that host various artists on a regular basis, such as […]

2018 rolls along its merry way on this roller coaster ride of time, but rest assured that no matter what, the live music offered in town is consistently good and plentiful. On Friday, Austin, Texas, bar-band breakouts Mike and the Moonpies conjure up a rockin’ country sound at Boondocks as part of a cross-country tour […]

I think I blinked and missed it, as we are now in the last week of January 2018. Maybe we can blame the fancy flight of time on our ever-happening live music scene that doesn’t quit. It’s the last Thursday of the month, and that means its time for Americana Night at the Curve Inn, […]

 What better way to thaw the cold than by making a visit to a nearby watering hole or other house of performance to see some live music and feel the sound waves eradicate your chills. Who knows, it might even be a balmy 40 degrees by the time you get around to reading this. For […]

Hardly anything (other than maybe a friendly animal, or a pile of quilts, or a blazing fire) can warm the bones like a good musical performance. Since hauling any of the aforementioned things around could be considered cumbersome, silly or dangerous, go see some live music to heat things up and beat the winter blahs. […]

With New Year’s Eve behind us, we can now comfortably head into 2018 with a full January weekend on the books. Let’s start off the new year with a look at some of the many area artists and local venues that make our community a better place to be. On Thursday night, singer and guitarist […]

With New Year’s Eve being a celebratory night and falling on a Sunday in 2017, we have a solid, full weekend before the party to party and partake in live music. It seems some of our music folk have taken full advantage of the situation and booked mighty good stuff for this pre-2018 weekend. One […]