August 21 is the day when supreme coolness hits Cary’s Booth Amphitheater. G. Love and Special Sauce will be playing along with The John Butler Trio. Tickets are $27.50 advance, $29 day of show, and go on sale May 17 at 10am at Ticketmaster outlets. Lawn chairs and blankets are allowed.
The Booth Amphitheater will bring in three of the biggest acts of the 90’s. Collective Soul, Blues Traveler, and Live are coming on August 16. Tickets are $60 reserved, $30 lawn, and go on sale May 9 at 10am. Lawn chairs and blankets are allowed, but the crowd will likely be SRO.
Red’s will be hosting David Allan Coe on October 13, darlin’.
He’s free from The Wallflowers, and he’s coming to see us. On Friday, June 6, Jakob Dylan will play at the Lincoln Theatre.
Clay Aiken’s “On My Way Here” gets released in music stores today. It is Aiken’s first release since “A Thousand Different Ways”, released September 19, 2006. His agents have set up a nice little media blitz with the following appearances on major TV shows:
During the past two summers, Dave Rose, Andy Martin, and the gang at Deep South Entertainment have put together bang-up series of free concerts in Moore Square known as Bud Light Downtown Live. This summer, seven concerts comprise the schedule:
A rumor I’ve heard from a few reliable sources is that Yancy’s will move its live music operations to the former Hideaway BBQ location on Capital Blvd (map it). Word is that the loud, live music is a problem for people living in some of The Hudson’s condo units.
If this is true, it’s sad because the Yancy’s people put a lot of money and energy into sound dampening and audio-visual gearing for the Hudson site. We’ll see how this one turns out.
Wilco is coming to Cary’s Booth Amphitheatre on August 8. The presale for tickets begins at 10:00am this morning. General public tickets go on sale Friday.
Gavin DeGraw will perform at The Red Room Tapas Lounge on Wednesday, April 30 as part of the G105 Listener Lounge Series. This event will be held on West Johnson Street. Tickets are given to listeners exclusively through G105. For more information, visit www.g105.com
Ben Folds will be rockin’ the suburbs come May 30th. The concert will be at 7pm at Cary’s Booth Amphitheatre. Lawn chairs and blankets will be allowed. Tickets go on sale May 1 at Noon and are $37.50 reserved, and $25 lawn
The Brewery will host its biggest act in a quite a while when Augustana rolls through on Monday, May 26. Five Times August and Wild Sweet Orange will open. Tickets are $14 in advance and $16 at the door, and are available through eTix.
On September 19 the “Music Builds” tour will hit Time Warner Cable Music Pavilion. The tour to benefit Habitat for Humanity hits 23 cities and features the bands Switchfoot, Third Day, Jars of Clay, and Robert Randolph & The Family Band. No word on a ticket date.
The Regeneration Tour will be making its way to Cary’s Booth Amphitheatre on August 27. The acts appearing are ABC, A Flock of Seagulls, Naked Eyes, The Human League, and Belinda Carlisle. No word on tickets yet.
The Koka Booth Amphitheatre’s season will get started soon. One of their first events of the season is Duran Duran with Your Vegas on May 21. Reserved seats are $65 and lawn seats are $35. Tickets went on sale March 14, but are still available.
A great option for live entertainment is the Sam Cooke show now appearing at Prime Only’s Rat Pack Lounge. The show features Darrian Ford’s covers of Cooke hits like "You Send Me", "Twisting the Night Away", and more.
The show runs through April 26, and features two shows nightly (at 8pm and 10pm). For more reservations and more information call 835-2649.
XM Channel 43 will feature NC band Third of Never on tonight’s Radar Report at 10pm. Click the link for more information.
2008 nominee for the BB King award, Janiva Magness, will be playing at the Artsplosure festival on May 17.
On May 15 The Swell Season (Irish musician Glen Hansard and Czech singer and pianist Markéta Irglová) will be performing at Meymandi Hall in the Progress Energy Center downtown. The duo is best known from the movie Once. Opening is Dawn Landes. This concert is sold out.
North Hills will usher in summer with a Beach Music concert series that will make a lot of people forget Alive After Five. On Thursdays at 6pm in the North Hills Commons, the following bands will be playing:
It’s a great chance for true Carolina Girls to get down, and for all of you Northerners to go see what you’ve been missing!
Saturday, November 8 marks the date when The Black Crowes invade downtown Raleigh. They will be supporting their new CD, Warpaint, their first in almost 7 years. It’s the first CD with guitarist Luther Dickinson, who can cook it up and scramble it.