Hook up to the stagecoach and watch some of these bands take the stage, and show their diversity:
— The country music band Stagecoach with its harmonies swings through Burkhardt on Friday night, June 27, and plays the Willow River Saloon. All of the group’s members share lead vocals and do songs that require four-part harmonizing. Might you think you’re hearing the Oak Ridge BOys? They also throw in some steel pedal guitar.
— Jawsy performed before a full main room at Dick’s Bar and Grill last Wednesday and with bartender Amanda leading them in vocals and sitting on her percussion instrument did a very diverse group of songs, some of which I had never heard before. Some of these songs are so rarely performed that Amanda needed to turn the pages of a church-choir-type music stand to reference some of the lyrics. The trio’s sound was jangly pop music, with the bassist helping occasionally on leads vocals, and they played for well over three hours, excluding set breaks. The final set didn’t start until after the group had taken the stage three hours earlier, so there was a lot of music to be heard. Keep posted for when Jawsy will be back.
— Speaking of trying songs that are beyond the tried and true, you’ll probably get some of that when Trandy Blue plays the Village Inn in North Hudson on Saturday, JUne 28, starting at 4 p.m. The one-woman show, who also makes forays into other of the arts such as photography, showed that diversity when taking on Blondie’s “Call Me” at a recent performance at GUv’s Place in Houlton. Then, at 9 p.m., there is a second band at the Village, the Swamp Kings, and with songs like “Momma’s Cajun Food” and “Swamp Appeal” and a logo of a mean-looking gator wearing a crown, they may be right when saying “there ain’t no party like a Swamp Kings’ party.”

 

Share the Post:

Related Posts

This about all that soft jazz, and a whole lotta related offerings, taking a renewed seat at the table, like a not-seen-for-a-while relative at Thanksgiving dinner, as they have plenty of quick eats or full meal to go with the music too, at a venue that adds another element to the local song scene. It’s an intimate setting, where you can be not much more than an arm’s length or two from one of the players as the regele you with their sung stories — and still stay out of reach and vocal range of that odd uncle, but close...
Business writing, and even life, is like penning a song. It moves through the various seasons, like The Rain Song. (Snow coming soon.) But the very season at which we choose to begin is telling. And it may vary. For each client’s, or band’s needs. Or the second side of an album. They say keep your friends close, your enemies closer, and your bandmates closest, because they are the ones you hole up with for long periods and churn out the creative process. One of those for me, is the pen during the day, and voice at times at night when...
When I first heard that star actor Nicolas Cage was in town for an extended stay to film one of his new movies, it didn’t take too much of a deep dive to discover that the film and its protagonist takes the name of Parish, which made me think it had something to do with things post-apocalyptic and churches, like some of his past flicks. (Spoiler alert: It actually is not a parish in the sense of the name of a church, but has that end of the world and eternity vibe, as it’s about a man who decides to hole up in his adapted...
Mr. Hat, meet Mr. Reality, meet Mr. Mandate. Via Mr. Crowley. If you don’t get that post-election humor, then there’s no hope … When it concerns the latter, check out the Ozzy song and it’s message, “won’t you ride my white horse” and “did you think you were pure,” see if you then get the gag, as a U.S. dictator’s realm falls in a landslide rarely seen. “Your lifestyle to me seems so tragic.” As the last midterm election tallies are being, well, tallied, South Park (and later SNL too) roared on with its satire on Wednesday night, getting going at it...
The divide in politics these days is not still as much left vs. right, with granted little center, it’s become the informed vs. the uniformed or downright ignorant, and by the flyers politicians put out, you can see they are catering to this predilection. So I propose a solution, though radical, as long as these days we’re throwing that word around all over the place even when it’s not merited, and it’s mentioned literally hundreds of times in Republican flyers across the state: If you are not going to educate yourself, don’t vote. If you think about it, this is very Darwin-ish. Another...
Hark Halloween has been buried, as the big inflatables are now being sacked and stored — they were slowly being replaced anyway by some bigger creatures of all, very tall types and rounds lengths of plastic, currently used as the centerpieces, not the ones that often end up laying flat on the ground, strung out. As far as the bigger than gourds, such pumpkins were seen around town at the bars and antique shops, such as three of carefully chosen shades set in a triangle, of all different colors were the shapes painted on — they being squares and circles of...
Scroll to Top