Tickets on sale: Carlos Mencia, American Idols and Loretta Lynn
On sale today:
Carlos Mencia, Oct. 23, Murat Theatre
Boys Like Girls and Good Charlotte with Metro Station, Aug. 6, The WhiteLies Lawn at White River State Park
Spiritualized, July 21, Vogue
G. Love & Special Sauce with John Butler Trio, Aug. 6, Murat
… and the whole Little Nashville Opry fall season, which includes George Jones, Loretta Lynn, Daryle Singletary, Tanya Tucker, Sawyer Brown, Ronnie McDowell, Roy Clark and more.
On sale tomorrow:
American Idols Live, July 22, Conseco Fieldhouse
Third Day, Switchfoot, Jars of Clay and Robert Randolph, Aug. 22, Verizon Wireless Music Center
Los Lonely Boys and Los Lobos, Aug. 9, Murat
Make way for BLEMF … *trumpet fanfare*
There’s more than music in the Bloomington Early Music Festival. Consider this picture:
This is Paige Whitley-Bauguess, a baroque dancer and instructor from the 18th-century town of New Bern, NC, who heads a baroque arts project, has produced baroque dance DVDs and directs two historical social dance troupes. It’s a little closer to the real thing than renn faires. (Though those have their merits for people into such a thing. I personally plead the 5th.) More on this artist, one of a couple dozen vested in this two-week fest of all things early:
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Broad Ripple Art Fair this weekend
The Scene will be the first to admit that our resources aren’t as prolific, so occasionally the big Indy thing may skip our radar. With that said, visual art-minded folks should set aside some gas to head up to the Broad Ripple Art Fair, Saturday and Sunday at the Indianapolis Art Center. Hours are during daylight (about 10 a.m.-5 p.m., though longer on the second day), and more than two hundred crafty folks’ works will be on display in the myriad of booths.
Normally we get a press kit (or at least an e-mail) plugging for publicity, but this year it seems they were lax in that department.
And yes, Bloomington artists are included in that massive participants’ list.
Barring that, scribble in your schedule “ART” for next Thursday (May 22), when three — count ‘em, three — exhibits celebrating our good ol’, fish-topped courthouse have opening receptions, at the history center and Monroe Bank, at around the same time. Coincidence? Now where’d I put my crystal ball…
Swinging Steaks in town for a concert, Taste bands announced
Don’t let the rain put a damper on your weekend plans; there’s tons of events for the picking.
This just in, courtesy HTO: Catch the Boston band Swinging Steaks at a noon concert, Friday at City Hall. The Taste of Bloomington veteran act has played with such legends as John Fogerty and The Black Crowes. It’s all a part of the “Be Bloomington” year-round initiative stuff. The group makes a drop by town en route to their gig in Madison, for the festival down there.
Speaking of Taste of Bloomington, the downtown folks revealed its lineup for this year, including (we hope) Here Come the Mummies, Jenn Cristy, Polka Boy and The Ark Band. Sounds like music to work up an appetite.
Jeremy Kennedy’s new show
Meet the girls from the “Bleeding Heartland Rollergirls”
They host a roller derby bout this weekend in Bloomington.
In memory of LonPaul Ellrich
Dan Coleman blogged earlier this week about the passing of former Bloomington music contributor LonPaul Ellrich. I would have referred this sooner, but I am under the weather at the moment. More on the Marmoset musician/multi-instrumentalist and producer can be found here and here.
Joe Lally (of Fugazi) one of Monday’s events to choose from…
The list of highlights gets longer every week. Here’s one:
What’s on stage
This week in theater:
Monroe County Civic Theater unveils its latest traveling, adapted take on a classic: “Little Red Riding Hood,” with the children’s tale going further into the woods — exploring a girl’s adventure into womanhood. See it first at Rachel’s Cafe on Thursday, then later at the Cinemat, library and MCL Cafeteria. Pictured below (courtesy photo):
BLEMF’s crown jewel for 2008: The opera “Tigrane,” with baroque dancer/expert/guest stage director Paige Whitely-Bauguess and music director Stanley Ritchie working with a cast and crew to present Alessandro Scarlatti’s opera seria masterpiece from 1715. In comedia dell’arte form, the story is loosely based on that of Herodotus, of Queen Thomyris’ revenge on the Persian emperor Cyrus the Great. See it Friday night and Sunday afternoon at the Bus-Chum.
And you still have a chance to see Terri Wagener’s “Work,” a powerful drama that won the Reva Shiner playwrighting contest this year. This world premiere tells the story of a recently-widowed African-American woman whose compensation check leads to a reality trip into the hash social climate of the late 1960s. The show continues Thursday-Sunday and next week at Bloomington Playwrights Project.
Coachlight Musical Theater keeps its stage busy with a rotating lineup of shows, including “The Higher the Hair, the Closer to Heaven 2,” “The Road to Gnaw Bone” and “America the Music,” among others.
Styx in French Lick, Fallon on Late Night and an Indiana Jones press kit
Among items in my inbox, both electronic and metal, this morning:
- A DVD press pack for “Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull,” whose opening is just one weekend away (and I can’t wait — as can’t fans the world over, evidenced by recent TV showings of the other IJ films),
- A press release from French Lick about tickets on sale now for the August Styx show at the Casino,
- and several local events this weekend and next.
Also the teaser line TV-NBC-Fallon on the wire caught my eye; AP reports that “A person close to the negotiations who spoke on condition of anonymity because the announcement hadn’t been made confirmed the widely rumored change (Jimmy Fallon taking over following Conan O’Brien’s exit) Sunday and said a news conference was planned for Monday. (**UPDATE: This indeed was confirmed this afternoon. I’m typing this update at about 4 p.m.)
All that’s left is an official date for NBC’s transition: O’Brien moving out West to take over for Jay Leno on the “Tonight” show and Fallon following in the next time slot.
So now the half-inch thick stack of other mail is left to be sorted through, in hopes that everything pertinent and local gets some coverage. I estimate about two-dozen events in this stack alone.
I’ve been digesting BLEMF details all morning, outside of this, so look for a package on that in Thursday’s paper, among other things.
Two more events in my inbox this morning
…and both are happening Saturday — one early, one later:
Tune in to WFHB or drop by the Waldron’s Firebay to hear local folk notable Merrie Sloan and Toby Purnell perform on “Saturday’s Child,” 11 a.m.-noon on 91.3 or 98.1 FM (100.7 FM if you’re in Brown County). Free bagels, coffee and live music to start out the weekend; what could be better than that?
(Oh and you can follow it up with brunch on Sunday at the Players’ Pub or Jazz at the Station, if you’d like another go-around of breakfast and music.)
If you’re the type to sleep in, though, you can catch the duo live at Max’s Place, 6-8 p.m. Says Merrie in an e-mail: “We will be featuring our first-born child joining her mommy on a new song dedicated to our late great friend Evan Farrell.” Both shows are free.
Meanwhile, for film buffs, Pangea Day will be going on starting at 2 in IU’s Woodburn Hall — four hours, 24 films.
“Locations in Cairo, Kigali, London, Los Angeles, Mumbai, and Rio de Janeiro will be linked for a live program of powerful films, live music, and visionary speakers. The entire program will be broadcast – in seven languages – to millions of people worldwide through the Internet, television, and mobile phones. The 24 short films to be featured have been selected from an international competition that generated more than 2,500 submissions from over one hundred countries. The films were chosen based on their ability to inspire, transform, and allow us see the world through another person’s eyes.” See www.pangeaday.org for more.
Plenty of time between to get something for mom.
On the horizon
The well received Bon Iver on the local Jagjaguwar record label will perform in town again in August — tickets go on sale tomorrow at Landlocked and online at Sprit of ‘68 promotion’s ticket Web site. See what the artist is up to on his My Space page…
Question of the week: What do you include in your summer music soundtrack and why?
Now for the upcoming shows…
Weird. It’s time for *that* news.
Clicky the linky for all that’s crazy in the world.
Random bits as I wade through piles of copy
Ever see a face and have that one line from a TV series or movie pop into your head? Well if you know the phrase “This is an honorable death” and see the star of “RedBelt” and put the two together, you’ll know what I’m talking about. *repeats to self* He’s not a villain, he’s not a villain…
And to continue in my semi-obscure/insider references (but not really), the New York Times had a really good article on steampunk today, which encapsulates the spirit behind the trend very astutely.
Once I get through these movie pages, I’ll post News of the Weird and upcoming shows later this afternoon. Incidentally, if you’d like to put in your two cents about, oh, I don’t know, “Iron Man” or “Baby Mama,” you can do so here. I’m going to make a concerted effort to get more of these in the paper.
Also this weekend…
We’re going to be tuning this for a while, but among the highlights of the week is the new show opening at Pictura. The gallery’s grand opening was packed (1,000 people went through, according to gallery reps), and I can vouch for that, as I braved the wall-to-wall crowd to see what this place was all about. Dark colored walls, low-light spotlights, top-shelf treats and snazzy surroundings made this a hip place to be, with giant, wall-size photos everywhere you looked. Plus a little entryway connects the space to Wandering Turtle’s gallery next door. Here’s what-I-can-assume-are-thumbnail versions of some photos on display (disclaimer —> I took out the words, so you could see the images, but there was no mention of which photographer did what, so think of this like a visual scavenger hunt).
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