The Emily Brass show scheduled for Saturday at Awful Arthur's (Towers) has been canceled due to a death in the family.
The Seed will play the show instead.
The Emily Brass show on March 7 at Awful Arthur's in Blacksburg is still happening.
Confirmed Performances Include Widespread Panic, Phil Lesh & Friends,
Gov't Mule and many more.
Further proof that Lesh is, indeed, alive!
It's not everyday that we music fans here in Ro-noke, Vuh-jin-ya, can say that the announcement of a Steve Earle concert in the Star City is NOT the biggest music news of the day.
Wednesday, though, was one of those days.
From my colleague Dwayne Yancey, who keeps a close eye on these things:
Same bands as last week, just a different order -- but Red Clay River continues to dominate the MusicCast charts. And Illbotz just missed the list.
1. "Rattlesnake Mountain," by Red Clay River
2. "Company Men," by Red Clay River
3. "Two Chicken Sandwiches," by Alec Baldwin
4. "Can’t Hate the Hater," by 3feetup
5. "Burned Out Car," by Red Clay River
Watch them on the MusicCast.
They just won a Grammy, and now they're coming to Roanoke. Robert Plant and Alison Krauss are scheduled for June 2 at the Roanoke Civic Center. Tickets go on sale March 3. Tickets are $70, $60 and $49.50, civic center spokeswoman Robyn Schon said in an e-mail. Prices include fees, but not credit card charges, she wrote.
The raw feed of the news release is below. I wish I had time to write more about this one. Busy afternoon.
This is the quality. Steve Earle, a multiple Grammy-winner, is one of the great contemporary songwriters. Allison Moorer is an amazing singer, whose sister is Shelby Lynne.
Steve Earle w/ Allison Moorer
Monday, April 14, 2008 - 7:30 PM
Jefferson Center - Roanoke, VA
Tickets go on sale Monday, according to show promoter DLP Concerts.
Gold $32, Silver $28, Bronze $22
Call 540-345-2550
Indie music fans who listened to WUVT back in the early 1990s (before there was even the phrase "indie music") might remember Paleface, whose minimalist "antifolk" music was ready-made for college radio. I hadn't thought about Paleface in years, so I was shocked -- shocked, I say! -- to see his name in print recently. I thought, "Could that be the same Paleface who sang 'Burn and Rob'?"
One of the overlooked aspects of Coda coffeeshop's closing is the uprooting of the old-time fiddle jam, which had been held there every Wednesday. The jam came to Coda just a couple of years ago following its long, productive run at Mill Mountain Coffee downtown. The Coda was a great spot -- right there on Grandin Road in the middle of the movie, music and restaurant hub-bub.
When I wrote a review of Darrell Scott's Friday night show at 202 Market, I noted that a photo of Scott is part of the Nashville Portraits exhibit at The Art Museum of Western Virginia.
Today, Scott sent a message through his publicist, responding to my request to know more about the photo.
Tommy Edwards and Barefoot West are on the bill at High Point. Is Roanoke starting to get a coffeehouse music scene?
