The Ex-Bombers blow it up at Buzz Bomb Brewing Firm this Saturday night time in celebration of the duo’s 14 years of constructing music collectively.
It doesn’t matter what season we’re in, there’s all the time one thing and nearly something, plus almost all the pieces you want whereas by no means amounting to nothing week after week. So let’s go see what’s within the works on the market.
Thursdays are resurging, beginning with the Thursday Night time Dwell showcase at Motorheads, nonetheless going sturdy after a number of years. This week contains performances by Kristi White, Susan Leeann, Zach Landes, Justin Lowe, Joe Marshall, Tad Finch (Embers’ Reverie), Mandy Rose, Trish Giacomini, Steve Gragert, Roger Wainwright, William Richards, Chris Noonan (Head Over Ft: Tribute to Alanis Morissette) and Travis Ried, Max Grevenbrock and Jeff Cunningham (Travis Ried Band). Our good friend and unbelievable guitarist Jose Gobbo continues his month-to-month tributes to jazz greats with a trio efficiency that includes the music of Charlie Parker on the Pharmacy Gallery. An homage to Elis Regina is up for Gobbo’s last tribute of 2024 on Dec. 12. Out at UIS within the Studio Theatre, the Tater Tots (Kristi Lecocq and Micah Stroll) carry out “songs stuffed with pleasure, motion and enjoyable” because the dynamic duo presents their present for teenagers of all ages described as a “sensory pleasant” occasion with tickets accessible by way of the UIS field workplace. Final however not least, Casey Cantrall takes his music to the Mom Highway Diner, whereas Mike Metz hosts an open mic (superior!) on the Hen Tavern, to conclude our Thursdays with a hoot.
On Friday, singer-songwriter and guitarist Kevin Aldrich with vocalist Diane Dietz “share love songs throughout a number of genres and time intervals” at a present entitled “Voice and Guitar: Love Songs” on the now extremely popular UIS Studio Theatre for the Date Night time music sequence. In our bars, the celebs on Friday embody the Illinois School Scholar Jazz Combo getting credit score enjoying the Friday Night time Jazz & Blues present at Boone’s, Deja Voodoo doing what they achieve this effectively on the Curve Inn, Brandon Santini bringing the blues large time upstairs at Harvest Market Farmhouse Brews, Sunshine Daydream doing three units (rely ’em!) of Grateful Useless at Danenberger Household Vineyards, Preston Searl and mates catching as much as Nineteen Seventies/80s traditional rock with a contact of blues at Goodfellas and Mudhound grinding it out at Blue Grouch, simply to call a number of.
Saturday will get stepping into a rush when Cherry & Jerry leap up from St. Louis to share songs and tales about ragtime and blues at Stella Espresso & Tea at 10:30 a.m. To not recommend you permit city, however you possibly can roll on out to Petersburg and catch John Drake at 1st & third Wine Bar (3-6), then cruise to Chandlerville as Branded fires issues up at Duke & Joannie’s beginning at 8pm. Again in downtown Springfield, Buzz Bomb Brewing hosts the one and solely Ex-Bombers (7-10) because the cool and catchy duo celebrates its 14th anniversary of constructing music collectively by recreating that oh, so memorable first gig in Columbia, Mo., at a cultured joint known as the Snake Pit. Remember to try the Ex-Bombers web site to get cool merch and recordings, too, whereas celebrating authentic music being performed by artists at work.
Sunday Funday actually lives as much as that rhyming moniker this week beginning with Billy Galt from Champaign (and Blues Deacons’ fame) early at Harvest Market Espresso Bar, Debbie Hutson tickling the ivories at Pease’s, Micah Stroll (our 2024 BoS Songwriter winner) at It is All About Wine, Ricarda Rosalina using songs into Trails Finish in Curran and Dirks-Beckerman (that is Larry and Wendy to you) at Fortunate’s on the Sq. in Petersburg after the bar’s third annual Beers, Bears & Brats fundraiser for the Petersburg Hearth Division.
And guess what? Yep, there’s extra the place that got here in our celebrated music listings.
