Many thanks to Jon Waits for this review and photos of last week’s Thursday Night Opry with The Train Wrecks, The Accomplices, and City Hotel. On a colder than usual evening last week, musical camaraderie and soulful performances warmed the…
Another post from photographer Jon Waits. Jeff Two-Names and the Born Agains is a relatively new punk band on the Savannah scene. They opened on Saturday night for The Attack and Crazy Man Crazy at The Jinx. More pics after…
From Consequence of Sound: Using video captured by four different fans and audio recorded with mics set up in the mezzanine level, Tony Adams pieced together footage of Young’s January 7th performance into a 2-hour concert film. The setlist stretched…
Turbo Fruits, a thrilling band from Nashville, will be headlining on 1/27 at Dollhouse Productions. Savannah Stopover thinks so highly of Turbo Fruits that they’ve brought the band to town twice before. There’s a bluesy edge to the group’s high-energy…
What a beautiful performance by Meklit Hadero and her ensemble on Tuesday night at Dollhouse Productions. Really, if you’re anywhere close to where Meklit is performing, you need to check her out. Meklit’s live show was a bit jazzier than…
Meklit Hadero was born in Ethiopia, raised in the U.S., and heavily influenced by the arts scene in San Francisco. She was named a TED Global Fellow in 2009, has served as an artist-in-residence at New York University, has been…
We’ve posted before about efforts by Savannah Rocks! to preserve musical history and build bridges between generations of musicians and music lovers. Savannah Rocks!’ user-created bulletin board of local rock and roll history is still hanging at The Sentient Bean,…
Savannah-raised and London-based singer-songwriter Kristina Train was mentioned twice this week by Bruce Springsteen in major national radio interviews promoting his new album High Hopes. Springsteen raved about Train’s work in an interview on iHeartRadio and in an interview with…
Dope Sandwich, the Savannah-based hip hop label that has been at the forefront of the local scene for over a decade, has entered the new year with new goals and ambitions. With plans to release three albums in 2014 —…
Savannah Stopover today confirmed 84 acts for the 2014 festival. Note, however, that we might yet see some new band added to the list, and we haven’t seen the detailed schedule for March 6-8. [UPDATE: Click here to see the…