Thursday, July 31, 2008

Kentucky Bluegrass Festival Full lineup

The 2008 Kentucky Bluegrass Music Festival, this Friday and Saturday at the Belvedere:

Friday, Aug. 1:
Kentucky Sassafras
5-7 p.m.
Blue River Bluegrass Band
7:15-8 p.m.
Relic
8:15–9:30 p.m.
Shadow Ridge
9:45- 11 p.m.
Saturday, Aug. 2:
Murphy’s Echo
4–4:45 p.m.
The Cumberlands
5–5:45 p.m.
Corn Island Quartet
6–6:45 p.m.
Kentucky Wind
7–7:45 p.m.
Hickory & Friends
8–9 p.m.
Carrie Hassler & Hard Rain
9:15–11 p.m.

Tuesday, July 29, 2008

Fleur De Lis Field Day Festival

This Saturday, Aug. 2, the Gutterman Family Farm is hosting The Fleur De Lis Field Day Festival. Eremy•Jirvin (of Second Story Man), Whistle Peak, Scott Carney and many others are slated to play, plus a bonfire and interpretive art. More here. —Mat

Monday, July 28, 2008

Snow Monster! now at LEO Music ’Cast


Photo by Jane Mattingly

Five-year-old Mabel Benzing leads the Louisville group Snow Monster! We interviewed her and her father, Dustin, about the band's new album, Ready In Seconds.

Thursday, July 10, 2008

Freakwater tours with She & Him

Freakwater will open seven shows for the duo She & Him, the project of M. Ward and Zooey Deschanel. Ze details, courtesy of newoldtymer:

Wednesday, July 23, The Opera House, Toronto, Ontario
Thursday, July 24, Academy of Music Theatre, Northampton, Massachusetts
Friday, July 25, Trocadero Theatre, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Saturday, July 26, Terminal 5, New York City
Monday, July 28, Cat's Cradle, Carrboro, North Carolina
Tuesday, July 29, Variety Playhouse, Atlanta, Georgia

Boston Phoenix: Wax Fang — Kentucky's Best New Band

The Boston Phoenix recently named Wax Fang Kentucky's Best New Band.

Read it here. —MH

Tuesday, July 1, 2008

Live: Melissa Etheridge @ The Palace Theater





More photos of the show are here: http://www.simohen-art.com/gallery/blondie.htm

http://www.simohen-art.com/gallery/melissaethridge.htm

Beantowners give Slint props

A release courtesy of the Boston Phoenix:

The Boston Phoenix and ThePhoenix.com announce Slint as Kentucky’s Best All-Time Band

The Boston Phoenix and thePhoenix.com announced today the release of its inaugural “50 Bands/50 States” list, and guess who made the cut at www.thephoenix.com/50states —Mat Herron