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Gimme Five! Josh Kimbrough of Butterflies

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When his band Mortar and Pestle went bust, Josh Kimbrough decided that instead of taking some deserved time off, he’d channel his feelings into a batch of new songs.  So Kimbrough harnessed his chops and gathered his friends and launched Butterflies, a band whose music aims for some balance of college rock accessibility and acoustica living room sincerity.

Butterflies’ sole full length (to date), Nothing’s Personal, is an promising collection of tunes that showcase the band’s range.  The plaintive quality of Kimbrough’s songwriting and the tight-knit instrumentation brought by his full-time (Ross Connolly/TJ Maiani) and sometime (Katie Zickefoose/Bobby Britt/Joe Norkus) band-mates makes it clear that the title is but only wishful lying.  Nothing may be personal, but these songs definitely are.

As are the five toughest questions Kimbrough may have ever faced:

1. If your band were a book, what would it be?butterflies

I hate to do this, but my answer is a movie, not a book: A Few Good Men. Right now Butterflies is operating as a three piece, and I’ve got to tell you, TJ Maiani and Ross Connolly are unusually good men. After I’ve had a press pot of coffee, I’m not so bad myself. If you’ve missed Katie Zickefoose (keyboard) or Bobby Britt (fiddle) since we’ve scaled down to a triangle of testosterone, I can assure you that those two will be gracing our new record. We are working on it as you read this!

2. When was the moment you knew Butterflies was really going to work out?

Every time we find an excuse to pick up our instruments and make noise together, Butterflies is a success.  Other than that, I try not to think about whether it’s working out. There’s no time for that. Hopefully I’ll be able to look back once it’s over and have that moment.  That’s not to say I plan for it to ever end, but I also remember swearing to myself that I would never stop skateboarding, collecting basketball cards, and going to Toys “R” Us.

3. Describe the first time you ever wrote a song.

I was a little guy with a mini Casio keyboard and a supportive Dad. Having written songs for his jazz-fusion band in the 70s, my dad was a choice source for advice when I was inspired to write my first song. To get me started, he told me that a chorus is usually a general mantra or saying. I used the exact example he gave me and based the verses off of that. The keyboard was set  to banjo mode, which sounded nothing like a banjo. My Dad has taught me lots of songwriting tricks over the years.

4. Who/what might be a few inspirations or influences that might really surprise people?

Most members of Butterflies have a healthy appreciation of 80s punk rock. Minutemen, Black Flag, and Fugazi would be in this category. We are definitely inspired by the DIY culture that took root in that time period. Our sound, however, is probably more influenced by the first couple waves of bands that tried to sound like those bands.

5. What did you dream of being when you were a kid? (How’d that turn out?)

I wanted to be an architect when I was a kid. I thought it would be a unique and practical way to exercise my creative instincts. I did not follow that dream. That’s so sad. Now I feel like I’ve let my childhood self down. We can’t end this on a bad note, though. Here’s a daily affirmation Stuart Smalley style: You know what? I think this is the best interview I’ve ever done. And you know what? I deserve it! [turns to mirror] Because I’m good enough, I’m smart enough, and, doggonit, Butterflies is playing Local 506 on February 13th!

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Even if he did skirt the first question, you heard the man, go check out Butterflies live at the 506 on Feb. 13th!  And give Josh a high five when you see him!

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Advance Notice: The Week in Happenings 2/1-7

Apparently, it’s the week for benefits and orchestral performances and tough decisions. Oh and Sunday you’ll just have to figure out something to do on your on.  Something tells me there’ll probably be something on television…you know like a House marathon or something.*

Mon – 2/1

  • Sound Painting Orchestra Residency @ The Nightlight – First installment of a four Monday series featuring the SPO and their exploration of the improvisational composition process…or something wild and musically educational like that.  – $FREE!

Tues – 2/2

  • Citizen Cope @ Cat’s Cradle – $22 adv / $25 day of the show / $40 pass for Tues & Wed

Wed – 2/3

  • Citizen Cope @ Cat’s Cradle – $22 adv / $25 day of the show / $40 pass for Tues & Wed
  • The Bootlegs / Fluff Chick @ Local 506 – $FREE!

Thurs – 2/4

  • Haiti Benefit featuring Chatham County Line, A Rooster for the Masses, Filthybird, The Hotwires, Roger Gupton, The Debonzo Brothers, and Andy Bilinski @ The Pour House – $12 suggested donation

Fri – 2/5

  • Embarrassing Fruits / Secret Message Machine / Brambler Ramblers (members of Inspector 22, Waumiss, and Kingsbury Manx) @ The Nightlight – $5
  • Organos EP Release Party featuring Birds and Arrows and Ye Old Shoppe @ The Pinhook – If you recall, I’ve already featured and sung the praises of Organos AND Birds and Arrows. Now’s your chance to catch both in action at one of Durham’s best venues.  It couldn’t be a clearer opportunity, if I’d of planned it myself. – $5
  • WKNC Double Barrel Benefit featuring Max Indian, Bellafea, VeeLee, and The Light Pines @ The Pour House – $7 adv / $9 at the door

Sat – 2/6

  • Bob Marley Birthday Bash featuring Mickey Mills and Steel, Jamrock, dub Addis, Truth and Rights, Joel Keel, and DJ Ras J @ Cat’s Cradle – $15 adv / $20 day of the show
  • Sinful Savage Tigers / Mandolin Orange / Ox Magnolia @ The Cave – $5
  • Dylan vs. Petty for Haiti featuring Big Fat Gap, Birds and Arrows, Gambling the Muse, It Is Rain On My Face, Mandolin Orange, Mary Johnson Rockers, The Pneurotics, Semi-Formal @ Local 506 – $5 minimum donation
  • WKNC Double Barrel Benefit featuring Roman Candle, Spider Bags, Midtown Dickens, and The Tender Fruit @ The Pour House – $7 adv / $9 at the door

*God, how I wish it really was a House marathon.

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Gimme Five! Pete and Andrea Connolly of Birds and Arrows

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There is a violent tension in the moniker Birds and Arrows, but the music that couple Pete and Andrea Connolly craft, spins that friction away from brutality and into elegant, elemental heights.  If you take even just one passing listen to their music, it’s apparent these are voices that aren’t in harmony so much as interlocked.  It’s as if two people wandering around the woods suddenly came upon each other and realized they were singing the same song– a romantic image made all the more apropos because Pete and Andrea are newlyweds.

Cute personal history aside, it’s the instrumental textures  and intimate lyrics that should really catch your attention.  From their debut EP Woodgrain Heart to their latest full length Starmaker, the Connolly’s have dreamed up what can only (to my ear) be described as a shimmering deconstructed pop-country sound.  There’s a grounded, vintage tone to the arrangements, but a spacey, voyeuristic disconnect in the translation.  All in all, it’s a head-scratchingly beautiful mess of music that you can catch at any number of local shows coming up in the near future.

So, now that you’re convinced they’ve got the musical chops, check how they tackle the furious five:

1. If your band were a craft project, what would it be?

PETE and ANDREA: We would be a little boat made out of Popsicle sticks.  See photo……

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2. When was the moment you realized there was something to this musical partnership that needed to be shared?

PETE: When my brother Jon first played me a CD that Andrea had given him of her solo stuff.  I wanted to play drums, sing or just be a part of it.

ANDREA: I would say it was when I found out Pete was such an awesome drummer.  He made my songs much more interesting.  and also, the first time we sang harmony together.  Pete had written me this beautiful (sappy) love song and he would play it for me often and I would sing harmony on the choruses.

3. Describe your typical PE experience.

PETE: Getting picked second or third to last due to my height and huge Robert Plant hair but then the team being pleasantly surprised with my performance…..if I were even there cause I was probably scoring beer at the local Vietnamese Market.

ANDREA: I always thought I was as strong (if not stronger) than all of the boys.  Which at the time probably wasn’t that far off sent most of them were very small and hadn’t hit puberty yet.  So, I would end up challenging them to a race or to a pull up contest etc…  Pete probably would say I am still like that to this day.  Trying to prove my strength and never asking for help when lifting my huge amp.

starmaker4. Who/what might be a few inspirations or influences that might really surprise people?

PETE: I would have to say Boston.  When I was in 7th grade I used to drum on an office chair with rulers to “Smokin'”

ANDREA: Babs.  My mom says (I don’t remember this very well cause I was 3) whenever she would put on a Barbra Streisand record I would sing along for awhile and then claim that I could perform it much better.  So, all my musical career I have been secretly trying to out sing Barbra.

5. What did you dream of being when you were a kid? (How ’d that turn out?)

PETE: I told my mom when I was 5 that I wanted to be a Jet Airplane salesman or I could fall back on being a Rockstar….the air industry doesn’t look so enticing anymore so I’m working on the Rockstar thing.

ANDREA: Well, music and performing is the only thing I have ever done since I could talk.  So, I would have to say a musician of some kind.  then, when I picked up a guitar in middle school and got introduced to classic rock I wanted to be Stevie Nicks  Oh, and I also in the back of my mind wanted to be a vet (like a lot of little kids)  I loved animals.  So, I actually tried this for a semester in college and after castrating a pig I realized it wasn’t for me.  So, back to the stage.

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Please check in next week to see who else will take up the challenge of facing down the five.  And if you happen catch a Birds and Arrows live–and you really should–by all means give Pete or Andrea a high five.

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Advance Notice: The Week in Happenings 1/25-31

As you can see, there are more than a few chances to take January out with a bang.

Mon – 1/25

  • Arielle Bryant / Nathan Asher @ Local 506 – The much esteemed Nathan Asher sort of fell off the map after his Infantry broke up, but now he’s back– although I have it on good authority that’s more a “back around town” than a “back playing a lot of shows,” so you better catch him while you can. $FREE!

Tues – 1/26

  • The Mebane Acting Company presents the play “Art” @ The Pinhook – $TBA

Wed – 1/27

  • The Entrance Band / Lights / I Was Totally Destroying It @ Local 506 – $10
  • Western Civ / Boy Genius / Mitch Easter @ The Pinhook – $TBA

Fri – 1/29

  • Those Darlins / Pine Hill Haints / Violet Vector and the Lovely Lovelies @ Local 506 – The Darlins have been all the buzz since before they even showed up much hailed but record-less at last year’s SXSW.  Their swaggering country comes off with just the right touch of kick ass attitude and you’d be crazy to miss out on them while they’re still on the upswing.  If you do make it out to the show, be sure to take the gals sage advice from their tune “DUI or DIE”: “Remember if you want to drink and drive / Better find a boy to take you home for the night.” $7 adv / $8 at the door
  • Killer Filler / Blood Red River @ The Cave – $5
  • Fin Fang Foom / Free Electric State / Gray Young / deVries @ The Pinhook – $TBA

Fri/Sat – 1/29-30

  • Donna the Buffalo / The Believers @ Lincoln Theatre – $17 adv / $20 day of the show / $30 advance Fri/Sat bundle
  • PineCone’s Winter Music Fest @ Raleigh’s Meymandi Concert Hall – One-day tickets, either day: $40-$50 PineCone members, $45-$55 public / Two-day pass: $70-$90 PineCone members, $80-$100 public
    • Friday: Kris Kristofferson, Tift Merritt (with special appearance by Raleigh’s own Community Music School Choir), Tony Rice Unit, and Bearfoot
    • Saturday: Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder, Dale Ann Bradley, Michael Cleveland & Flamekeeper, and Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass

Sat – 1/30

  • Minor Stars Record Release Party with Transportation / Devries @ Local 506 – $5 (includes a copy of the CD)
  • Jo Gore & The Alternative / Highway 54 @ The Cave – $5

Sun – 1/31

And?

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Gimme Five! Maria Albani of Organos

This week, I’m proud to kick off a new feature to spotlight artists and entertainers in our community who though deserving of a real high five, will have to settle for our internet version–although this one‘s pretty great too.  The concept is simple: one person, five questions.

Kicking us off is Maria Albani, who after playing bass for some of the area’s best (once upon a time with: Pleasant, Un Deux Trois,  and Tennis and the Mennonites, currently with: Schooner) is now ready to take center stage with her own understated and wholly mysterious music under the moniker Organos.

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Given her murky lyrics and percussive arrangements, it’s clear Albani’s new found stake to the spotlight is less a calculated progression than an artistic risk.  The tracks are cluttered with more cardboard boxes and kitchen utensils than typical indie rock dude-bro instruments and the song narratives feel unselfconscious, fragmented, although the hooks are catchy.

The sound bespeaks the project’s beginnings as a little homework experiment, but now it’s grown legs with Albani set to release her first EP of tunes this February.  She’s also assembled a seaworthy crew to aid her in translating the music to the stage which you can catch in action at the release show for Organos’ The Limbs EP on Pox World Empire Records at The Pinhook on February 5th featuring openers Birds and Arrows and Ye Olde Shoppe with members of Wild Wild Geese.

Now all that’s left are the five hardest hitting questions in faux business. Get at ’em:

1. If your band were a movie, what would it be?

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2. When did you start to think music might really work out as something more than a livingroom hobby?

When I played my first show at CD Alley. It was 1996, and we set up outside  behind the dumpster of University Massage. And hornets were swarming around my hands and nobody elses! At that moment I was like, “Wow! I can totally do this, for real!”

3. Describe your typical high school dance experience.

I barely went to High School, let alone a dance. I can tell you about some Middle School dances though. Sneak drinkin’ Boone’s Farm Strawberry Hill and/or Mad Dog 20 20 beforehand, and dancin’ my butt off when any INXS song came on.

4. Who/what might be a few inspirations or influences that might really surprise people?

Stevie Nicks, Michael Hutchence, Pepe The Prawn, Cats, & tequila. I don’t think that people would be too surprised by those last two.

5. What did you dream of being when you were a kid? (how ’d that turn out?)

Ricky Schroder’s wife (now known as “Rick” Schroder), an artist, & a singer. Ricky and I never hooked up, but the artist and musician dreams have come true!

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Tune in next time, you never know who’s coming or what questions will be thrown their way. And by all means, if you happen to see Maria on the street, give her a high five.

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Advance Notice: The Week in Happenings 1/18-24

There may be more variety this week than in any post yet.  I take it as a challenge; you should take it as an opportunity.

Tues – 1/19

  • Sperm Count / Shithorse / Cerebral Ballzy @ The Nightlight – Billed as a “HARDCORE SHOW!!” Be prepared for manic guitars distorting, krautrock flailing, audience participating and the tiniest bit of cursing (if I had to guess). $5

Wed – 1/20

  • Secondhand Freespace: Book Smart – How to Book a Tour with Panelists: Django Haskins of the Old Ceremony, James Helper of I Was Totally Destroying It, Jason Kutchma of Red Collar, Emma Nadeau of Lost in the Trees / Trekky Records and Moderated by Eleni Binge of Beloved Binge @ Local 506 – $FREE!
  • Studio Gangsters / Robobilly @ The Cave – These g-men and their cowboy robot buddies, clearly take their pot shots at white boy rap and overly-sentimental country (respectively), but they also church out their fair share of head banging/hanging tunage. $5

Thurs – 1/21

  • Jason Webley / Billy Sugarfix @ Local 506 – $TBA
  • Gross Ghost / Veelee / Old Bricks @ Slim’s Downtown – The triangle’s largely cornered the market on the pop bliss of couple-dom (I’m thinking Bowerbirds, Birds and Arrows, Rosebuds) and Veelee is a worthy addition to that impressive roster.  The precocious melodies of Matt and Ginger, who have been playing together since sometime last year, run down those familiar drifty byways of the country folk, but mix it up with their fair share of shakers and minor chords too. Go hear for yourself. $TBA

Fri – 1/22

  • Caltrop / US Christmas / Curtains of Night @ The Nightlight – An understatement: this will be loud. Bring earplugs and a willingness to be totally metal.  $TBA
  • Casey Driessan and the Colorfools / The Kickin’ Grass Band @ Berkely Café – $10
  • Vince Gill @ DPAC – “Go Rest High on That Mountain” is a KILLER song. I do not front. $28-$5
  • The Old Ceremony / Floating Action @ The Pour House – $6 adv / $8 at the door

Sat – 1/23

  • Haitian Earthquake Benefit: The Moaners / Terry McInturff & Friends / New Town Drunks / Charles Pettee / Puritan Rodeo / HWYL / Kitty Box & the Johnnys / + More TBA @ Cat’s Cradle – $10
  • Cantwell Gomez and Jordan / Whatever Brains / Birds and Arrows @ The Nightlight – $TBA
  • River City Ransom / Beloved Binge / Up the Down Escalator @ The Pinhook

Sun – 1/24

  • Queer Puppet Theater Night featuring Gepetta / Modern Day Pinocchio / Evan Greer @ The Nightlight – Taking the puppets to the political, Greer, a community organizer out of Boston, and Gepetta a “queer fabulist/puppeteer,” promise a fable for modern Pinocchios in all strings of life.

We’re always looking for new places to be and new bands to hear.  Please share.

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Advance Notice: The Week in Happenings 1/11-17

Hey baby, it’s cold outside– but even I, a born Floridian who whines so much about the cold I annoy myself, know that’s no excuse for missing shows.  See you out there!

Mon – 1/11

Wed – 1/13

  • Jemina Pearl / The Ettes @ Local 506 -Pearl’s record sports additional performances by Thurston Moore, Iggy Pop, Dave Sitek, and Derek Stanton and the tune “Sheena is a punk rocker” was featured on Gossip Girl (J Humphrey Designs FTW). So, I mean, if we’re talking cultural currency… omgzstfubffsrsly. – $10
  • The Tim Stambaugh Show @ The Cave – $5   
  • Jill Andrews / Amelia’s Mechanics @ The Pour House –  When the supremely wonderful Everybodyfields broke up, I was terrified, horrified, and utterly wrecked with paranoia that when it came to taking it solo Sam Quinn was going to turn out totally insane and Jill Andrews was going to be a massive bore.  THANK GOD, Jill (so far, at least) proved me wrong. SO COMPLETELY WRONG. I have been listening to her new EP since it landed in my mail box way back in October. So far, after about a million listens (if my iTunes count is to be believed), I have realized at least two true things: 1- Jill Andrews hates (perhaps LOATHES) refrains  and 2- I LUV Jill Andrews…but really I already knew that. Come on out to the show (I don’t want to stand alone). – $8 adv / $10 at the door

Thurs – 1/14

  • Wood Ear / Ben Davis and the Jetts / Filthybird @ The Pinhook

Fri – 1/15

  • Sierra Hull & Highway 111 / David Olney with Sergio Webb @ Berkeley Café – Hull, a mentee of the lovely Allison Krauss, offers up a mean mandolin breakdown. $15

  • Prison Books Collective Benefit – Radical Short Film Showing followed by Dance Party @ The Nightlight – Yep, you read that correctly.   
  • The Moaners / Lonnie Walker / Liza Kate @ The Pinhook – Top nominee for local show you best not miss.

Sat – 1/16

  • MOVITS / Juan Huevos @ Local 506 – umm… Swedish swinging hip-hop teams with local electro indie rap act? – $8 adv / $10 at the door
  • Blair Crimmins and the Hookers @ The Cave – Bawdy 1920’s pulp wannabes play seemingly accessible, melodic tune-age – $5
  • General Johnson & The Chairmen of the Board / The Executives @ Lincoln Theatre – If you’re into watching old white people dance, this is the show for you. – $10 adv / $12 day of the show

Sun – 1/17

  • The James King Band / Lorraine Jordan & The Carolina Road Band: A Benefit to Help Save James’ Beloved Cat @ Berkeley Café – Allow me to quote from the press release on the Berkeley’s website (because I’m vaguely sure you wouldn’t believe me): “James King is a cat lover. Recently his cat was attacked by a coyote that came up into the yard. He and his wife rushed the cat to the emergency vet clinic in hopes of saving it’s life. When they arrived the cat had lost a lot of blood and gone into shock. The vet was ready to put it down but James and his wife asked them to please try to save it. Well it turned out to be a miracle cat and lived but had no way of going to the bathroom on its own. A special operation was performed and it worked. The vet bill grew to $5,600. James and his wife have put everything they had saved into saving this cat. They have all of the bill paid except $2,240. If this is not paid the vet hospital said it would have to keep the cat. Also, if a new owner did not come in and adopt the cat they would keep it 10 days and then put it down. So this bill has to be paid.” Right. -  $15 (though larger donations are welcome)

Other places we need to be? Cough it up (but not in like a germy, mucus sort of way– that’s gross).

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Advance Notice: The Week in Happenings 1/4-10

Welcome to the New Year and with any luck a hundred new reasons to get out of your house and into the mix.

Thurs – 1/7

Fri – 1/8

  • Erie Choir / Audubon Park / Butterflies @ Local 506 $8
  • Old Bricks @ The Cave – If their myspace is any indication (and lord, I hope it is), old bricks makes raw, resolute folk music with an edge.  It’s an impercise definition, but it’s a lot of promise delivered in a few streaming songs– which makes for a good bet that checking them out at the old tavern may be an incredible way to break into the new year. $5
  • The Rosebuds / Megafaun / Lonnie Walker @ The Pour House – Word is that tickets are darn close to sold out for this triple bill of the area’s best and most promising indie rollickers.  Don’t waste time, just on the Megafun train, just $10 adv / $13 at the door.

Sat – 1/9

  • Transportation / North Elementary / The Library / Adam Price and Matt McMichaels @ Local 506 $6
  • The Bros Marler @ The Cave – Ummm… allegedly they sound like, “the beatles went drinking with led zepplin, got into django rheinharts car that bob dylan stole and had a huge car pile up with so many vehicles that all that was heard was the mystical harmony of this perfectly bad situation; while on the street corner was a whino playing a harmonica, hovered over a can fire with a homeless barber shop quartet intermittently swapping stories of love, loss, good times, and better days,” but I don’t know what the hell that means. $5
  • The Rosebuds / Megafaun / Hammer No More The Fingers @ The Pour House – This show is sold out online, but a few tickets are apparently still available at Schoolkids Records. $10 adv / $13 at the door

Sun – 1/10

Anywhere else we need to be?

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Advance Notice: The Week in Concerts 12/21-27

just in case you needed a solid excuse to escape your family…I mean, what?

Tues – 12/22

  • Jim Watson’s 24th Annual X-Mas Show @ The Cave – Jim Watson of the Red Clay Ramblers spreads the holiday cheer with seasonal offerings and plenty of room for audience interaction. $5

Wed – 12/23

Wed & Thurs – 12/23-24

  • Open Swap Meet @ The Cave – all day long, both days

Fri – 12/25

Sat – 12/26

  • Enloe Mix Dance Party with special performances by Viswas Chitnis / Carter Gaj (Max Indian) / dj LUXE POSH (aka Breniecia Reuben) / DJ Jason Perlmutter @ The Nightlight – $FREE!
  • Winter Reggae Jam 2009 ft. dub Addis / Crucial Fiya / Arif (from The Anchants) @ Cat’s Cradle $8 adv / $10 day of the show
  • Keny Roby / Regina Hexaphone with Dana Kletter & Friends @ The Cave

Sun – 12/27

  • Whiskey Kills the Butterflies @ Local 506 $FREE!
  • Edwin McCain Band / Paul Freeman @ Lincoln Theatre – $20 adv / $25 day of the show

Happy Holidays!

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Advance Notice: The Week in Concerts 12/14-20

Pointing the way to good times ever since 2009. Seriously friends, in a couple weeks that read so much more epically, it’s ridiculous.

(…okay, maybe not that much more epically, but you know what I mean.)

Mon – 12/14

  • The Whigs / The Features / Mean Creek @ Local 506 $10 adv / $12 day of the show

Tues – 12/15

  • Trekky Records presents Christmas at the Cradle 2009! featuring The Trekky Yuletide Orchestra / Dexter Romweber / Stuart McLamb and Missy Thangs of The Love Language / Des Ark / Whatever Drains / Organos / Veelee / Birds and Arrows / Mount Weather / hosted by Billy Sugarfix – Come one come all to Trekky Records’ fourth annual Christmas show featuring your favorite local bands playing your favorite holiday/seasonal tunes.  They promise snacks, drinks, a raffle and prizes, classic holiday films, and a visit from jolly Saint Nick.  It’ll be a massive snowdrift of winter cheer AND you’ll be helping benefit the National Multiple Sclerosis Society all for just $8 advance / $10 day of the show.

Wed – 12/16

  • Ben Davis & The Jetts / Bobby’s Fever / Inspector 22 @ The Cave $5

Fri – 12/18

  • Americans in France / Impossible Arms / Drunk Tigers @ The Nightlight $5
  • Squirrel Nut Zippers / Sol Driven Train / The Neverhads @ Lincoln Theatre $20 adv / $25 day of the show

Sat – 12/19

  • 6th Annual Evil Weiner X-Mas Show! @ The Cave $5 (starts at 10:00)
  • Holiday Honky Tonk and Burlesque Show featuring The Whiskey Smugglers / The Pneurotics / Gambling the Muse and burlesque performed by Miss Mary Wanna @ Local 506 $6
  • Annual Ho Ho Holiday Party! with Chatham County Line and Friends @ The Pour House Music Hall –  $17 advance/ $20 at door

Sun – 12/20

  • Nightlight Holiday Craft Fair – Swing by ye olde night club for a holiday craft extravaganza featuring artists such as: Reciprocities (feathered talismans and jewelry) / Danger Designs (leather wrist bands) / Abigail Martin (totebags from vintage linen dishtowels 1960’s-80’s) / Flytrap (screenprints, clothing) / Karen Casey (Fused Glass Designs) / Barehanded Press (Y.A. Ponce de Leon-clothing, screenprints) / Ed Gendron / Peter Pendergrass / Jodi Bock (stained glass jewelry boxes and jewelry) / Beth Peddle, and several other mystery crafters TBA.  All that and Mike Taylor will be spinning jams to inspire your spirit and your wallet.  It ‘s all happening 2- 6 PM. $FREE!

So help me Hitchcock, if you know that there’s somewhere awesome we should all be going or someone great we should all be hearing, you better share. Pretty please?

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Advance Notice: The Week in Concerts 12/7-12

Get up. Get out. Let us know how it was.

Mon – 12/7

  • Bowerbirds @ Gerrard Hall (UNC Campus)- Can’t track down solid info online, but their website confirms they’ll be there.

Wed – 12/9

  • Bill Callahan / Lights / Neil Morgan @ Local 506 $10 adv / $12 day of the show
  • Delta Rae / Birds & Arrows @ The Cave $5

Thurs – 12/10

Fri – 12/11

  • Drug Horse Holiday Show! featuring: The Sundowners, Max Indian, Ryan Gustafson, Mount Moriah, The Love Language, The Light Pines, Jeff Crawford, Josh Moore, Twelve Thousand Armies, The Tomahawks, and special guest DJ Steph Russ @ Local 506 $8 adv / $10 day of the show
  • Mandolin Orange / Big Fat Gap @ The Cave $5  
  • Tinsley Ellis CD Release Party @ The Blue Bayou $18/20 adv / $20/22 day of the show
  • 10 Year Anniversary ART SHOW of the Paper Hand Puppet Interventions‘ history and masks @ Nightlight – The masks and magic of Paperhand Puppet Intervention will be on display at the Nightlight during the second Friday art walk. Meet the artists– co-founders Donovan Zimmerman and Jan Burger—and check out papier mache’ creations new and old at the opening reception. $FREE!

Sat – 12/12

  • Embarrassing Fruits, Bambara, Reed Bejamin @ The Cave $5

And?