Diana Chittester rolls in from Ohio to play the Walnut Street Winery on Friday, May 9, 8 to 11 p.m. Maybe it’s just me, but May seems to be chock-full of more music than you can shake a stick at. Hopefully with the nice weather and all, you’ve picked up all the sticks in your […]
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Pimpin Henry
Fresh from a refreshing outing at last weekend’s Crowe Fest, Brad Jamison (vocals, bass), Doug Shannon (drums), Dustin Strother (guitar, vocals) and newest member Mike Tash (keys) are on a roll. From origins in 2001 as an “avant garde psychedelic trio,” the band played for a while, took five years off and then revved up […]
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No maybe for May music
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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Rosie Flores
A frequent visitor to Springfield since her appearance at The Alley in the early days of the Sangamon Valley Roots Revival, Rosie Flores never makes it back soon enough. The “Rockabilly Filly” is making a quick trip this week up from Austin, Texas, through Tennessee, Chicago, Grand Rapids, Mich., Indianapolis and Virginia – Illinois, that […]
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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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The Todd Henry and Stan Kupish Show
If you notice a couple guys sporting goofy glasses, wacky wigs, Elvis suits complete with sideburns, jumbo jackets, silly shirts, hilarious hats, all picked and paired at a moment’s notice to match songs from the 50s to the present performed with wild abandonment and superb aplomb, never fear, the odds are, it’s simply The Todd […]
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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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Hooten Hallers
Formed in Columbia, Mo., circa 2006, as a duo of John Randall on gunslinger guitar and Andy Rehm on destroyer drums, The Hooten Hallers toured the country espousing the glories of modern hillbilly life through blues, soul, country and a whole lot of hootin’ and hollerin’ from all reports. With the recent addition of Paul […]
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Billy Don Burns
Every review about the music of Billy Don Burns compares him with the greats of country music such as Merle Haggard, Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash and Waylon Jennings. Indeed, Burns has rubbed shoulders with them all, producing records for Haggard, getting songs cut by Nelson, keeping good company with Jennings and bumping Cash out of […]
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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 […]
