Chaplin’s Variety Showcase
Featuring Spencer Mulder, Tucker Jameson & The Hot Mugs, Brian Jackson, Mapril
Show Date: 07/29/10
Show Time: 8:00pm.
Admission: $10 ($12 door)
Out of music hotbed Grand Rapids, Michigan, explodes newcomer Spencer Mulder. Mulder is a prolific young songwriter who’s confident voice, rockin’ rich chord voicings, and heartfelt lyrics have proven to be the perfect prescription for a rapidly [...]
The Tragics
with Jess Ray and Campbell
Show Date: 07/30/10
Show Time: 8:00pm.
Admission: $10 ($12 door)
Neil Young claims that rock and roll will never die, but after 2010, it just might be on life support. While hip hop and kiddie pop ruled the charts and weird-for-the-sake-of-being-
weird electronic rock was all the rage on indie radio, great rock records were [...]
Evolv
with HONOR and Silent Reunion
Show Date: 07/31/10
Show Time: 8:00pm.
Admission: $10 ($12 door)
In the summer of 2005 Ben and Jaroslav Benes, brothers from a Philadelphia hard hitting band (Little Joe Pinto), were searching for a change…a change in musical direction, a fresh lineup, a new beginning. With the addition of Jerry Decker (drums), Mike Massey (bass), [...]
Coyote Run
with TBA
Show Date: 8/04/10
Show time: 8:00pm.
Admission: $20
Within a sweeping soundscape, Coyote Run engages the audience in story after story, whisking them away to celebrate the ancient Celtic springtime holiday of Beltane (Mayday), celebrate the harvest festivals of the fall and the bringing in the barley, roll out the guns against Sir Francis Drake, snatch back [...]
Walter Strauss
with Angel Ocana
Show Date: 08/06/10
Show Time: 8:00pm.
Admission: $10 ($12 door)
“Michael Hedges meets Bruce Cockburn and together they steal Ry Cooder’s smoking jacket…”
Blame it on Rawlins, Wyoming. Fingerstyle guitar wizard Walter Strauss was born out there in the big open, and was seduced to look to the vast spaces of the American West for his musical [...]
John Francis
with Carsie Blanton
Show Date: 08/07/10
Show Time: 8:00pm.
Admission: $12 ($15 door)
Returning to his hometown! John Francis live shows range in dynamism from pin-drop intimacy to all the spitfire of a raucous chicken-wire barroom and a big-tent revival all rolled up in one. John Francis is primed to release his 2nd full-length record, “The Better Angels”, [...]
Freddie and Michele
with Leaving Cash
Show Date: 08/13/10
Show Time: 8:00pm.
Admission: $10 ($12 door)
Freddie & Michele are a voice and guitar duo, based in the budding metropolis of Sanatoga, PA, approximately 35 miles west of Philadelphia. Featured are the vocals of Michele Kienle and the guitar of Fred Will. Currently the pair perform stylized cover versions of contemporary and [...]
Dave Spencer Trio
with boog
Show Date: 8/20/10
Show Time: 8:00pm.
Admission: $10 ($12 door)
It’s been a working hibernation for Philadelphia alt-folker boog. Having left Temple University to pursue his music exclusively, boog has spent the past winter crafting a collection of new songs entitled ‘The Walking Club.’ Careful diction, old-fashioned language, and haunting progressions and melodies permeate the record, whose [...]
Jack Murray & The Midnight Creeps
with Tin Bird Choir
Show Date: 09/10/10
Show Time: 8:00pm.
Admission: $10 ($12 door)
Singer/songwriter Jack Murray, now living in Huffs Church, PA -shares a hometown (Sevierville, TN) with Dolly Parton. Jack was a founding member of country-rock band Golden Rocket in the mid-70s, featuring a unique mix of folk blues, honky-tonk, rock & roll and traditional country music. [...]
Burning Bridget Cleary
with TBA
Show Date: 10/23/10
Show time: 8:00pm.
Admission: $15
“One of the most exciting bands I’ve seen in the last couple of years . . .–Jack Baker,The Irish American News “ . . . a rockin’ Celtic sound”! -irishphiladelphia.org “. . . a highlight of this summer’s Philadelphia Folk Festival”. – [...]
