Larry Jack’s Magical Music Tour – 7/9/21

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Hey everybody,

It’s another good week of shows coming up. Be sure to take advantage of your COVID vaccination and go out and see some friends and good music around town. There are plenty of shows around town, but a few that I would like to point out. Damon & The Shitkickers are playing on Saturday afternoon. Since Tony Beasley is behind the bar, it is the closest we have to a Jinx show at this time. If you are able to make the ride to Bluffton, Swamptooth is playing at Roasting Room on Saturday. If you haven’t been there yet, this would be a good chance to see a great band. Although I am not a great fan of tribute bands, the Prince tribute band at Coach’s on Saturday also sounds interesting. Another good show to consider is the Homegrown Show at Victory North on Thursday. Some of this area’s best musicians with a side of BBQ, what more could you ask for? Get your shot and come out rocking.

7/9 Friday
Aaron Zimmer – Foxy Loxy Cafe (6p)
Jeremy Riddle – Rail Pub (6-9p)
Heavy Honey – City Market (7-10p)
Parts & Labor, Stewart Marshall – Coach’s Corner (7p)
Puff Mudd – Cockspur Grill (8p)
Anders Thompson Trio- Warehouse (8p)
CBDB – Barrelhouse South
Wing It, 11:57 Band – Wormhole

7/10 Saturday
Bottles & Cans – 2 Cracked Eggs (9a)
Damon & The Shitkickers- El Rocko (4-6p)
Ben Keiser- Ghost Coast Distillery (4-6p)
Bottles & Cans – Congress Street Social Club (7p)
Swamptooth- Roasting Room Bluffton
Whiskey & Wine – Jazz’d (7:30p)
Purple Madness – Coach’s Corner
Broken Glow, Xulu Prophet- Wormhole
DOTS, Street Clothes, Garlands – El Rocko (9p, $7)
SexBruise? – Barrelhouse South

7/11 Sunday
Ron Helman – Collins Quarters (3p)
Cory Chambers – Foxy Loxy (6-9p)

7/14 Wednesday
Dustin Price – El Rocko

7/15 Thursday
New American Hologram, Aaron Zimmer Duo, Eckstine and Rose, Jason Bible – Homegrown Jam at Victory North (7:30p, $12-25)

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WEEKLY SHOWS
Tuesday
Eric Culberson Open Jam – McDonoughs

Wednesday
Eric Culberson Band – McDonoughs
Open Mic – Wormhole

Thursday
Danielle Hicks Crosby Duo – New Realm Brewery (6-9p)
Tommy Holland Open Mic – Coach’s Corner

Friday
Swamptooth- Service Brewery (6p)

Sunday
Hitman – 2 Cracked Eggs (9a-1p)
Voodoo Soup – Congress Street Social Club

Larry Jack’s Magical Music Tour – 7/2/21

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Hi everyone,

The weekend is here and the shows I am able to find and list seem to be getting bigger each week. This week, is a treat for all of you who grew up listening to 90’s music. Rock 106.1 is having it’s 20th Anniversary Party at the beautiful Trustees Garden on Saturday. Featured acts will be Puddle of Mudd, Filter, and Sponge. Sounds like a good day if that is your thing.

I would also like to give a special shout out to Savannahjams web site, run by our buddy Scott Siegel. That site also has a listing for upcoming shows. Scott seems to venture out a little farther than I do, I think he even crosses Victory to the wilderness area out there, whatever it may be. If you like this blog, you will probably like his also. And as always, be sure to like the hissing lawns site and feel free to share this page. And another thing, go get vaccinated and start seeing some shows, it is a little weird at first, but you will be happy you did it.

7/2 Friday
Ember City – Rail Pub (6pm)
Monkey Man – Starland Yard (6:30p)
Elton John Tribute – Coach’s Corner ($25-35)
Lyn Avenue- Plant Riverside (7p)
Ray Lundy- Jazz’d (7:30)
Stan Ray – Cockspur Grill (8p)
Miss Paradise- Congress Street Social Club
Tanner Fussell Band – Barrelhouse South

7/3 Saturday
Wildwood- Ghost Coast Distillery (4p)
Damon & The Shitkickers- Service Brewery (6-8:30p)
Aaron Paul Zimmerman – DeSoto (6:30p)
Ray Lundy- Oak 36 (7p)
Ben Keiser- Jazz’d (7:30p)
Rock 106 Concert at Trustees – Puddle of Mudd, Filter. Sponge, Lilakk ($26)
Eric Culberson Band, Willie Jackson and the Tybee Blues Band – Tybee Post Theater
Of Good Nature – Congress Street Social Club (7p)
Tongues Of Fire, Dustin Price- El Rocko
Cheating Alethia, Highland Drive – Wormhole
Steelin’ Hearts – Barrelhouse South

7/4 Sunday
Lyn Avenue- Collins Quarters Forsyth (2p)
TG Live Band – Congress Street Social Club (7p)

7/8 Thursday
Garrett Deming – Sentient Bean (6:30p)
Jason Bible – Jazz’d (7p)

WEEKLY SHOWS
Tues –
Culberson Open Jam – McDonoughs

Wed –
Eric Culberson Band – McDonoughs
Open Mic – Wormhole

Thursday –
Danielle Hicks Crosby Duo – New Realm Brewery (6-9p)
Tommy Holland Open Mic – Coach’s Corner

Fri –
Swamptooth- Service Brewery (6p)

Sat –
Hitman – 2 Cracked Eggs (9a-1p)
Liquid Ginger – Boomy’s (every 1st Saturday)

Sun –
Hitman – 2 Cracked Eggs (9a-1p)
Voodoo Soup – Congress Street Social Club

HalfAth Music Event – photos

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There was nothing HalfAth’ed about this festival! Wow, that was fun! The only thing hotter than the temperature was the music!

Shit. I’m even more out of practice writing about music than I am taking pictures. Sigh. We’ll work on it. Let me just knock out the details and then you can check out the photos in the gallery while you should be working.

HalfAth Music Event was 18 Athens/Georgia musical acts over a sweltering Friday and Saturday in Savannah. Friday at Ships of the Sea then late Over Yonder (New venue, who dis?) in Starland, Saturday a marathon at El-Rocko. Legit production and the performances were uniformly impressive. Seriously, I’d have a hard time picking a favorite set. David Barbe fronting Elf Power for a cover of The Glands? T. Hardy Morris solo Over Yonder? Linqua Franqa holding court at El Rocko? Killer. The amount of Athens people in the crowd was a subject of jokes all weekend… Several of the artists had last performed at the 2020 Savannah Stopover… Live music is back, let the catharsis begin.

Seriously, I’ll work on the writing thing. Jeez.

Anyway, I took a bunch of photos, check em’ out after the jump …

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Larry Jack’s Magical Music Tour – 6/24/2021

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Hey everyone,

It has been so nice seeing so many old friends at the shows that I have been to. If you have been vaccinated, I feel that it is a good time to be out. There are plenty of shows, many of them are early (Thank You, whomever is responsible for that) and there are a good bit of outside shows, if that makes you more comfortable. Don’t forget, the pandemic showed us what it is like to not have live music. Go support the shows that are out there.

6/25 Friday
HalfAth Festival – Ships of the Sea (3:30-11p, $20/$22)
Ryan Taito – Rail Pub (6p)
Markus Kuhlmann – Foxy Loxy Cafe (6p)
Jason Bible- Churchill’s (7p)
Joe Nelson & James Pittman – Jazz’d (7:30p)
Ray Lundy- Cockspur Grill on Tybee (8p)
Susto – Service Brewery (SOLD OUT)
Ember City- Barrelhouse South
Chicago Tribute Band, Thomas Claxton & the Myth- Coach’s Corner
Dead See Prophets- Wormhole
T Hardy Morris, Caleb Darnell – Moodrights (11p, $20)

6/26 Saturday
Keystone Postcard, Whaleboat- Block Party at Broughton & Montgomery St (12:45p)
Half Ath Festival – El Rocko (4p, $10)
Timesawyer Band – Service Brewery (6p)
502’s – Congress Street Social Club
Dead Man’s Hand – Warehouse (8p)
Insight, Lilakk, Redeye, Killfloor, Obvious Liars- Wormhole
Toxic Oscar, Hitman – Coach’s Corner ($10)

6/27 Sunday
Swamptooth- Plant Riverside (1-4p)
Eric Britt- DeSoto (5p)

WEEKLY SHOWS
Tues –
Culberson Open Jam – McDonoughs

Wed –
Eric Culberson Band – McDonoughs
Open Mic – Wormhole

Thursday –
Danielle Hicks Crosby Duo – New Realm Brewery (6p)
Tommy Holland Open Mic – Coach’s Corner

Sun –
Voodoo Soup – Congress Street Social Club

Super Awesome Pop-Punk Show W/ a Jeff Two-Names reunion , debut of the Manarovs, Sins of Godless Men and one Cloudsoup

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What’s great about pop-punk is it’s over quick and you don’t have to know music theory to write it. 

Wednesday night’s El-Rocko show started as a two-band pop-punk show celebrating the reunion of Jeff Two-Names—a reunion no one asked for—after two of their members left Savannah for good, forever, because they got better jobs.

Then two more bands, Sins of Godless Men and Cloudsoup were added, but they aren’t pop-punk, because Savannah can only have two pop-punk bands at a time. It’s a rule.

If the roof had collapsed and killed everyone in El-Rocko on Wednesday, pop-punk music would have ceased to exist in Savannah. Literally all 10 Savannahians who love, write and play pop-punk were there. Thankfully, nothing tragic happened. Enough tragic shit has already happened, I suppose. It’s time for fun. And Wednesday was incredible fun. 

A return of Sins of Godless Men to the live stage delighted their one fan. Hard not to love loud rock ‘n’ roll and be completely infected by bassist Jeremiah Stuard’s on-stage moves. Plus, Sins has guitar/bass riffs for days and superb breakdowns held down by one of the best drummers in the entire southeast. (I am that fan).

Sandwiched between the headlining Christian dads (the drummer is a Reverend of some renown) and the brazen atheists, was the debut of a brand new pop-punk band. The Manarovs consists of former members of Jeff Two-Names, including Jeff himself, and the long-forgotten, thankfully short-lived Ramages.

Jeff blazed through some killer pop-punk solos over songs about space or something. It’s a narrative-writing band. Similar to most of The Lillingtons’ albums and that one Coheed and Cambria album. Hopefully there will be a picture book with the album that’s coming out soon. 

After the first two songs, Jeff proclaimed, correctly, “If you don’t like those two, you won’t like the next seven.” 

Jeff Two-Names, a band comprised of two real-life dads, set a new world record on Wednesday. 

Several members of the Guinness World Record Company were on-hand to ensure accuracy, including the world-renowned Professor Phil and his Zenith Defy Lab time piece. They played three or four songs in 2 minutes and 14 seconds to the second. No one will debate that in court.

Then the in-famous Gilbert ‘Gil’ Cruz joined the Dad’s on vocals for some Drop Kick Murphys and Bouncing Souls tracks. At this point, the show turned very interactive as members of other bands, local producers, and recording engineers, jumped on stage to help with vocals. So everyone in the crowd felt comfortable singing along. Even Gil! 

There was no half-circle of respect around the front of the stage at this show. Everyone was up front and center. Two dudes formed their own private mosh pit in the corner and seemed very happy about it. 

The good thing about pop-punk is it’s over quick and the good thing about Dad’s playing pop-punk is the show will be done by 11 p.m. on a school night. 

And the best thing about friends moving away is when they come back. 

Still begs the question, who starts a pop-punk band in their 30s? 

  • Cloudsoup
  • Sins Of Godless Men
  • The Manorovs
  • Jeff Two-Names and The Born Agains

Larry Jack’s Magical Music Tour – 6/18/21

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6/18 Friday
Josephine Johnson – River House (6p)
Jason Bible – Rail Pub (6-9)
Mike’s Blue Rambles – North Beach Bar & Grill (7-10p)
Ramona Quimby – Jazz’d (7:30p)
High Velocity- Warehouse (8p)
Antagonizers ATL, Patriot – Wormhole ($12)

6/19 Saturday
Damon and the Shitkickers- El Rocko (4-6p)
Ben Keiser- Ghost Coast Distillery (4p)
Adam Nye – Foxy Loxy Cafe (6-9p)
Matt Eckstine – River House (6p)
Eric Culberson- Congress Street Social Club (7p)
Anders Thompson Trio – City Market (7-10p)
Back n Black – Coach’s Corner
Ben Keiser Band- Barrelhouse South

6/24 Thursday
Cracker – The Windjammer (Isle of Palms)

Weekly shows:
Tues –
Culberson Open Jam – McDonoughs

Wed –
Eric Culberson Band – McDonoughs
Open Mic – Wormhole

Thursday –
Danielle Hicks Crosby Duo – New Realm Brewery (6p)

Fri –
Swamptooth- Service Brewery

Sun –
Voodoo Soup – Congress Street Social Club

El-Rocko 5th Anniversary Party with Basically Nancy, Sporrs, Rev. Bro Diddley, Upchuck, 4th Ward Afro Klezmer, West End Motel

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There’s this great story about the Atlanta band Mastodon. 

Standing on the red carpet for the 2015 Grammy Awards, dressed in a full L.A. Dodgers uniform, guitarist Brent Hinds was trolling reporters by telling them he had just came from late night practice with the Dodgers and that he “only hits home runs.” Then he dropped a bag full of underwear, money and weed. After refusing to pick it up when asked, he was subsequently kicked out of the Grammys, allegedly. 

That’s essentially the story of El-Rocko’s 5th Anniversary Party, except no one kicked Brent Hinds out. 

Five years ago, Rocko’s original design leaned more towards cocktail lounge than rock ’n’ roll bar, but supply and demand (and ambitious staff members coupled with owner Wes Daniel’s music appreciation background) has driven it in a different direction.

This is probably true: For the first time in America in over a year a six-band bill, mixing Atlanta and Savannah bands, was put together with former Jinx staff slinging drinks behind the gold-flaked fancy bar, to celebrate five years of Wes’ Rock Lounge.

Savannah’s Basically Nancy and Atlanta’s Sporrs opened a 5 p.m. show (!) with some stellar punk/garage rock before local legends Reverend Bro. Diddley and The Hips played a killer set of psychedelic/indie rock. All great stuff, but the next band brought the madness that made the night. 

The moment UPCHUCK struck the first chord, the first mosh pit in America in a year (also probably true) started. At the center of the dance floor a tornado formed, fed by ruckus hardcore punk, that nearly tore the place down.

Midway through UPCHUCK’s set, the floors were bowing and the rafters were literally swinging as water sprayed in all directions from unknown, unseen sources. Larry Jack made a home in the middle of it. It was almost like everyone there had spent a year locked inside not moshing. The pit even got political. Because everything is political. (Except this post). 

After a nice recess for the floor and rafters, Brent Hinds, not dressed in a Dodgers’ uniform, sat in with the 4th Ward Afro Klezmer Orchestra and then manned the electric guitar for his project West End Motel to finish out the night. Around 1 a.m., frontman Tom Cheshire was just getting warmed up as West End Motel bounced through their best hits, officially declaring late night shows back in Savannah. 

El-Rocko is, apparently, where rock now happens in Savannah and no one cares what’s in your bag, man.

Happy Birthday you beautiful bastard.

Here’s Tom Cartmel with some photos:

Basically Nancy
Basically Nancy
Sporrs
Rev. Bro.
Rev. Bro’s pants.
Sporrs
Upchuck
Upchuck & The Pit
Dodgers’ Designated Hitter, Brent Hinds

Larry Jack’s Magical Music Tour – 6/11/21

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Go ahead and have some fun this weekend. Plenty of shows while the sun is still shining. As always, corrections and additions are appreciated. Feel free to share.

6/11 Friday
Charlie Fog Band – Starland Yard (6p)
Stan Ray – River House (6p)
Jon Lee Acoustic – Churchill’s (7p)
Voodoo Soup- Coach’s Corner (7p)
Andrew Gill, Kyle Yardley Band- Warehouse (2, 8p)
Juniper IV – Wormhole
Kyle Bradley Band – Barrelhouse South
Eric Culberson Band – Billy’s Place (upstairs at McDonoughs) (8:30p)
Ray Lundy – Sea Wolf Tybee (10p)

6/12 Saturday
Damon & The Shitkickers- El Rocko (2:30-5p)
Natalie Goodman – Starland Yard (4p)
Damon and the Shitkickers – Service Brewery (6p)
Foreigner Tribute Band – Coach’s Corner
Sun/Down Music – Wormhole
Neutral Snap – Barrelhouse South
Little Bird – Congress Street Social
Ben Keiser Band- Molly MacPherson’s

6/13 Sunday
Katalysst, Clair Vandiver Duo – Starland Yard (3p, 6p)

6/18 Friday
Antagonizers, Jeff 2-Names – Wormhole

Larry Jack’s Magical Music Tour – 6/2/21

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Painting by Collen Rampulla (thanks again)

Hi everyone,

Hopefully most of you have “liked” the hissing lawns page. We are trying to get it rolling again after the Armageddon (you still gotta have music even after the end of the world, right?). We are a page devoted to the local music scene. I am one of the contributors. For those of you that don’t know me, I am more than likely the oldest guy you have seen at shows around town, especially if you have seen me at more than one show. Feel free to say “hello” if you see me out and about. This is my blog of most of the downtown music that I can find. As I said last week, it is pretty hard to find accurate information about the goings on right now, so feel free to add or correct anything you see. And, as always, feel free to share.

WEEKLY GIGS

Tues –
Culberson Open Jam – McDonoughs

Wed –
Eric Culberson – McDonoughs
Open Mic – Wormhole

Thursday –
Danielle Hicks Crosby Duo – New Realm Brewery

Fri –
Swamptooth– Service Brewery

Sat –
Liquid Ginger – Boomy’s (every 1st Saturday)

Sun –

Voodoo Soup – Congress Street Social Club

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6/3 Thursday
StuFest | Clouds & Satellites, Train Wrecks – Service Brewery
Wildstreet, Ember City – Wormhole

6/4 Friday
Waits & Co – Foxy Loxy Cafe (6p)

Lyn Avenue – Plant Riverside (7p)
Draucker – B&D Burgers (7p)

John Lee Murphy Duo – Jazz’d (7:30p)
Randall Bramblett – Coach’s Corner (7p, $25-35)
Anders Thompson Trio – City Market (7-10p)
Whiskey & Wine Trio – Churchill’s (7p)

6/5 Saturday
Draucker – Plant Riverside (1p)
Swamptooth- Ghost Coast Distillery
West End Motel, 4th Ward Afro Klezmer Orchestra, Upchurch, Rev Bro Diddley & The Hips, SPORRS, Basically Nancy- El Rocko 5th Anniversary (5p)

Damon and the Shitkickers – Service Brewing (6p)
Bottles & Cans – Congress Street Social Club (7p)
Eric & The Hologram – Plant Riverside (7p)
Georgia Kyle, Anders Thompson Trio – Warehouse (2p, 8p)
Def Leppard Cover Band – Coach’s Corner
Pink Floyd Cover Band – Tybee Post
J & The Bootleggers – Wormhole

6/9 Wednesday
Waits & Co – Foxy Loxy

Larry Jack’s Magical Music Tour 5/27/21

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Hi everyone,

It’s good to see enough music around to start the blog up again. I hope everyone will try to go to any events that they feel comfortable with. I do find that some sites are more comfortable than others. If you are still pretty queasy about crowds, I would recommend the show in Forsyth Park or anything at a Brewery. It’s been pretty hard to keep up with the shows that are going on lately, so feel free to add shows you know about. Hopefully it will be worth reading the comment section for additional stuff

Anyway, here we go with the first post-COVID edition of the Tour.

PS – Feel free to share.

Every Tues –

Eric Culberson Open Jam – McDonoughs

Every Wed –

Eric Culberson Band – McDonoughs

Open Mic – Wormhole

Every Fri –

Swamptooth– Service Brewery

Every Sun –

Voodoo Soup – Congress Street Social Club

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5/28 Friday

Markus Kuhmann – Foxy (6-9p)

Monkey Man – Isle of Hope Marina (6:30, free w/ vaccination proof)

Basik Lee – Wild Wing (7p)

Josephine Johnson – Jazz’d (7:30p)

Tell Scarlett- Coach’s Corner ($10, 7p)

Protosoul, Xulu Prophet, Al Gore Rhythm – Wormhole

Honey Hounds – Barrelhouse South

5/29 Saturday

Junkyard Angel – Ghost Coast Distillery (2p)

Jason Bible, Anders Thompson Band – Warehouse (2p. 9p)

Basik Lee, Kyle Yardley Band – Churchill’s (5p, 10p)

Swamptooth- Your Pie (Pooler)(6:30p)

Waits & Co – Service Brewery (6-8:30p)

Freebird – Coach’s Corner (7p)

Free Spirits – Jazz’d (7:30p)

Virginia Man & Tom Mackell – Molly MacPherson

Dead See Prophets – Wormhole

5/30 Sunday

Josephine Johnson- Ghost Coast (12:30)

Lisa Kay w/ Ben Keiser – Collins Corner at Forsyth (3-6p)

Draucker- Wild Wing (7p)

Nordista Freeze, Reverend Bro Diddley and the Hips, Fauvely at Victory North

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[Photos By Dylan Kennedy]

You gotta find your legs, your stamina, again. Gotta push through the malaise of staying up past 10:30 p.m. on a weekend. 7 p.m. shows will help. 

After a year of essentially no live music—there have been sprinkles of some here and there—live rock ’n’ roll is coming back online.

Virtual concerts were a necessary thing during the Great Pause, and probably a good thing for funding bands who lost all revenue sources, but the digital interface destroys the transference of energy you experience at a live music show. You simply can’t replace the live experience with screens. Same goes for sex.

Fauvely

Walking into Victory North on Saturday, there was a trepidatious buzz about. Pods had formed around high-top tables. A couple masks were donned. Drinks were pricy and plentiful. 

Mostly, there were smiles while Savannah native/Chicago resident/Savannah resident again Sophie Brochu and her band Fauvely gently strummed through an iridescent opening tune. The crowd was thin to begin. Typical for a 7 p.m. show in Savannah—an early hour pre-pandemic for a rock show in this city. 

Victory North’s addition to Savannah was a game changer in a city where the music scene has largely thrived in bars doubling as live music venues. Victory North was designed as a music venue—and a private wedding space because they have to make money somehow—and that makes it special. 

And it is a proper music venue with a proper stage, lights and sound, and an open center cavity where dancing is done hugged on three sides by a patchwork of New Orleans style iron work running the second floor balcony. 

The courtyard shows of the last few months at Victory North have been a blast and felt mostly safe pre-vaccine roll out, being heavily masked and outside. But Saturday was a real live inside show days after the CDC said it was cool. Not the venue’s first since March 2020, but a special one indeed. 

Fauvely laid out a wonderfully serene welcoming mat for the rest of the well-constructed bill. Delicate indie-rock/shoegaze with an occasional punch was just the right tonic for the mania to follow.

Second gear for the night was most certainly the highlight. When Reverend Bro Diddley and The Hips hit their first chord the crowd grew by 50 people immediately. 

Ty Thompson’s centerstage mania was a green light for dancing. It’s ok! You can dance outside your house now. And the entirely too cool for school band he’s put together to form The Hips is as tight as any touring act out there. Well, there are no touring acts right now, but you get what I am saying. 

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Larry Jack’s Magical Music Isolation Tour

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Thursday 4/30 

The War and Treaty, 4 p.m.

The Train Wrecks, “We Roll On” Video Premiere, 5 p.m.

Friday 5/1

Roy Swindelle, 7 p.m.

Moon River Opera, 7:30 p.m.

Lyn Avenue, 8 p.m.

Love from Philly featuring Kurt Vile, G. Love, Man Man, etc.

Saturday 5/2

Matt Eckstine, 7:30 p.m.

Sqaush, 7:30 p.m.

Garth Brooks, Trisha Yearwood live from the Grand Ole Opry, 7:30 p.m.

Jackson and Maggie Evans, 8 p.m.

Jason Bible, 10 p.m.

Sunday 5/3

Walter Parks, 9 a.m.

Eric Britt and Andrew Sovine, 3 p.m.

Monday 5/4

Tuesday 5/5

Tommy Holland @ Hull Park, 7 p.m. (Live in-person with social distancing rules in place. Keep 6-feet between you and another. And wear a fucking mask.)

Wednesday 5/6

Jeff Two Names, 7:30 p.m.

Georgia Kyle, 8:30 p.m.