5 Live Music Musts - January 8, 2016
Friday, January 08, 2016
With many national touring acts taking a break during the winter months, it’s a great time to visit some local venues and support live music. We’ll feature some of the best area restaurants, clubs, and coffeehouses in January, leading up to our 2nd annual “Best Dive Bar” edition later this month. This week we’ve got five top shows around the area in our column “5 Live Music Musts.”
Men of Great Courage at Narragansett Café Tonight
The Narragansett Café is undoubtedly Jamestown’s finest establishment for live music. The popular venue has a year round music series and this week hosts Mark Cutler and the Men of Great Courage. Cutler’s Americana centered Schemers offshoot band put out a great debut album in 2013 and promise a follow up later this year. They’re simply a great band well worth checking out. And there’s no cover! Music starts at 9:30PM. As always, the band encourages everyone to bring a can or two of food for donations to local pantries.
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75 or Less is a Rhode Island record label featuring Indie artists who play everything from folk to metal. Tonight, you can catch four of the label’s finest at Firehouse 13 in Providence. The line-up includes Karma Rocket, the Bob Kendall Band, Everett Brothers Moving Company, and The Anchorites. Rock out at the old fire station at 41 Central St. in Providence tonight starting around 8PM. Tickets are only $7 and will be available at the door.
Vudu Sister and Allysen Callery at Jimmy’s Saturday
Newport is an easy ride with lots of free parking on a mid-winter night, and Jimmy’s Saloon has a great line-up this month beginning tomorrow. Plan on a night of haunted folk and more with headliner Vudu Sister, a band that plays “songs of death, the dying, the dead, murder, sadness and insanity.” Leader Keith McCurdy promises a new album this Spring following up on 2013’s acclaimed Household Items. Also on the bill, award winning ghost folk singer-songwriter Allysen Callery, who also has a new album scheduled for release this Spring. Tiny Diamond and Jillian Kaye open at 9PM. Tickets only $5.
Vance Gilbert at Stone Soup Coffeehouse Saturday
The venerable Stone Soup Coffeehouse in Pawtucket starts off 2016 with noted folksinger Vance Gilbert. The popular artist, well known on the coffeehouse circuit, released his 12th album, Nearness of You in 2015. The album is more jazz oriented than his usual folk fare, featuring standards like Ain’t Misbehavin’ and “When Sunny Gets Blue.” Joanne Lurgio, who released her own new album “Rise From the Storm” in 2015, opens at 7PM – tickets are $18, $12 for youth, and $9 for children.
Bill Harley at Dartmouth Grange Saturday
Grammy award winning musician and local legend Bill Harley is best known as a children’s entertainer, and has been called "the Mark Twain of contemporary children's music," by Entertainment Weekly. He brings his family show to the Paskamansett Concert Series at the Dartmouth Grange Patrons Hall at 1133 Fisher Rd, in Dartmouth, MA tomorrow night. Tomorrow night’s show begins at 7:30, tickets are $15 general admission ($12 for kids under 18, seniors 60 and over, and college students); $35 family admission.
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