Charlotte NC Live Music, Band News & More 08/08/12 - 08/15/12

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CHARLOTTE  EVENTS WEEKLY NEWSLETTER
(compiled and distributed by Laurie  Koster since March 2003)
August 8, 2012 - August 15,  2012

THANKS TO YOUR VOTES AND SUPPORT,  THIS CHARLOTTE EVENTS CALENDAR WON BEST MUSIC BLOG IN CHARLOTTE!
Congratulations to ALL the  winners!
http://charlottemusic.tumblr.com/

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**All shows are in Charlotte,  NC, unless stated otherwise** (click on the day of the week to jump to  that day)

WED | THU | FRI | SAT | SUN | MON | TUE | WED

What's New | Looking Ahead | Thank You | Links 

Wednesday August 8 - Happy Birthday Ralph  Janelli!

**Chuck  Johnson
5 Steps II
7:30pm
http://www.facebook.com/events/337860012968240/

**Jared  Allan
Threes (Uptown)
7pm-10pm
http://www.jaredallan.com

**Greg  Lilley
Epicentre Plaza Commons  Market
11am-2pm
AND
Blackthorne (Ballantyne)
6-9pm
http://www.reverbnation.com/greglilley

**Tosco House  Party
The Evening Muse
8pm
http://www.eveningmuse.com

**Scowl  Brow RESIDENCY
Snug Harbor
9pm - No Cover
http://www.snugrock.com

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Thursday August 9

**MaxxMusic  Presents: Ray Wylie Hubbard (Tickets still  available)
The Double Door Inn
9pm
http://doubledoorinn.com/eventlist.aspx * http://www.maxxmusic.com/concerts/hubbard.htm

**Sixth Floor  Trio
The Evening Muse
8pm
http://www.eveningmuse.com

**Simplified Acoustic  w/Clee & Sheridan
The Rusty Rudder
6:30pm
http://www.simplifiedmusic.com

**Big Fat  Gap
US National Whitewater Center
7pm - No Cover
http://usnwc.org/riverjam/band-schedule/

**Greg  Lilley
Icehouse
7pm-10pm
http://www.reverbnation.com/greglilley

**Chuck Johnson & the  Charleyhorse Trio
The Lodge: A Sportsman's Grill
http://www.facebook.com/events/483118245051287/

**Justin Faircloth and Alan  Edwards
Petra's
http://www.facebook.com/events/463491010348303/

**106.5 The End presents  Attaloss w/Falling Through April and The Jupiter Tide
Tremont Music  Hall
8pm

**Colours
Summit  Coffee
8pm-11pm
Davidson, NC
http://www.summitcoffee.com

**Big  Octave
Blue Restaurant And Bar (at the corner of 5th and  College)
8pm-11pm
http://www.myspace.com/bigoctave

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Friday August 10

**MaxxMusic  & Landshark Entertainment Present: Grown Up Avenger Stuff CD Release  w/Sequoyah, Cusses and The Go Devils
The Visulite  Theatre
8:30pm
http://www.visulite.com * http://www.maxxmusic.com/concerts/avenger.htm

**The  Charlotte Folk Society presents: Wayne Henderson & FriendsThe  Great Aunt Stella Center
http://www.folksociety.org

**Simplified
NC  Music Factory - The Saloon
9:30PM
http://www.simplifiedmusic.com

**Jared  Allan
The Village Tavern
6pm-9pm
http://www.jaredallan.com

**MaxxMusic  Presents: Moreland & Arbuckle
The Evening Muse
8pm
http://www.eveningmuse.com * http://www.maxxmusic.com/concerts/moreland.htm

**Mike  Strauss Trio
Summit Coffee
8pm-11pm
Davidson, NC
http://www.summitcoffee.com

**MaxxMusic  Presents: Elliott & The Untouchables
The Double Door  Inn
10pm
http://doubledoorinn.com/eventlist.aspx * http://www.maxxmusic.com/concerts/untouchables.htm

**Today The  Moon, Tomorrow The Sun, Lo Ultimo, If You Swim
Snug  Harbor
9pm
http://www.snugrock.com

**Greg  Lilley
Queen City Q (Uptown)
5pm-7pm
AND
Ed’s Tavern 
10pm-1am
http://www.reverbnation.com/greglilley

**Lenny Federal Band  w/Wicked Powers (Every Friday)
The Comet Grill
9:30pm
http://www.cometgrillcharlotte.com * http://www.myspace.com/lennyfederal

**Elevate Lifestyle WEB  AWARDS 2012
BlackFinn American Saloon
8pm-11pm
http://www.facebook.com/events/496386050375693/ * http://www.facebook.com/BlackFinnCharlotte
Thank  YOU for voting the Charlotte Events Calendar the Best Music Blog  2012!

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Saturday August 11

**Greg  Lilley
Birdsong Brewing Co.  (NoDa)
3pm-6pm
AND
Threes
7pm-10pm
http://www.reverbnation.com/greglilley

**A Benefit for Indigo: The  Smith Family Show
The Evening Muse
8pm
http://www.eveningmuse.com

**MaxxMusic Presents: The  Lenny Federal Band 
The Double Door Inn
10pm
http://doubledoorinn.com/eventlist.aspx * http://www.maxxmusic.com/concerts/lenny.htm

**Whitewater River Jam  presents Uncorked featuring Dangermuffin, Humming House,  Toneblazers
US National Whitewater Center
1pm - No Cover
http://usnwc.org/riverjam/band-schedule/

**Rusty Knox  Band
Summit Coffee
8pm-11pm
Davidson, NC
http://www.summitcoffee.com

**Freaky  Wack
Snug Harbor
9pm
http://www.snugrock.com

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Sunday August  12

**Jared  Allan
Wine Vault
7pm-11pm
http://www.jaredallan.com

**Afton  Showcase
The Evening Muse
6:30pm
http://www.eveningmuse.com

**Joint D,  Milk Youth, Infinite Void, One Another
Snug Harbor
9pm
http://www.snugrock.com

**Amy  Broome
Lake Norman Cottage
2pm-5pm
Davidson, NC
http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/AmyBroome

**Chuck  Johnson w/Tom Kuhn
Philosopher's Stone Tavern
5pm
http://www.facebook.com/events/273016469467045/

**Sai Musiq  Jazz Series Featuring Michael Zinna
The Double Door  Inn
7pm
http://doubledoorinn.com/eventlist.aspx

**The Roundtable's Sunday  Edition hosted by Randy Walker (every Sunday)
WSGE  91.7FM
noon-1pm
http://www.wsge.org/program/publicaff.php

**Divakar Hosts the New Music  and Indie Label Show 7pm-8:30pm
AND "90 Minutes" (Local & Regional Music)  - 8:30pm-10 pm
WEND 106.5 The End (every Sunday)
http://www.1065.com

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Monday August 13 - Happy Birthday Vanessa Sicilia & Amanda  Stone!

**Chuck Johnson w/Tom Kuhn
Cedar Street Tavern
5:30pm
http://www.facebook.com/events/219430648167654/

**Fat Face Trio
Snug Harbor
9pm
http://www.snugrock.com

**Find Your Muse Open Mic  w/featured performer: Yaddatu the Band
The Evening Muse
8pm
http://www.eveningmuse.com

**The Monday Night  All-Stars
The Double Door Inn
10pm
http://doubledoorinn.com/eventlist.aspx

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Tuesday August 14 - Happy Birthday Emily Benton, Tony Schaffer  & Jason Perkins!

**Jared  Allan
Cedar St. Tavern
8pm-11pm
http://www.jaredallan.com

**Red Rocking Chair (every  Tuesday)
The Comet Grill
http://www.cometgrillcharlotte.com

**Bill Hanna Jazz Jam
The Double Door Inn
9pm
http://www.doubledoorinn.com

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Wednesday August 15

**MaxxMusic  Presents: South85 w/GalFriday Band
The Double Door
9pm
http://www.maxxmusic.com/concerts/south85.htm

**Greg  Lilley
Blackthorne (Ballantyne)
6-9pm
http://www.reverbnation.com/greglilley

**Jared  Allan
Threes (Uptown)
7pm-10pm
http://www.jaredallan.com

**Scowl  Brow RESIDENCY w/Killbillies
Snug Harbor
9pm - No Cover
http://www.snugrock.com

**106.5 The  End presents Saints of Valory w/s.o. stereo and Morrowville
Tremont  Music Hall
7:45pm

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******************************************************** Band/Artist/Media News, Features,  Announcements and Upcoming Local and Regional Events ****************************************************   *** = New Additions This Week Misc News, Events & Announcements: Thank you to Scott Teel for this awesome T-Shirt!  He walked  into the Desert Noises show at the Evening Muse, sporting this shirt and  surprising us all!  Orders may be taken soon!  ***Creative Loafing's Best Of Voting Ballet is now open - http://clclt.com/charlotte/BestofCharlotte2012Ballot/Page **August 2012 Art at The  Evening Muse Carla Garrison - http://www.facebook.com/events/468665069810501/ **1st Annual Bands Together  for Lupus featuring: Andrew Stamper, Ryan Bach Band, Jackson Cozort, Flesh &  Stone, Leigh Ann Stevens and Friends, Sy Arden, Funky Geezer and Matt Perrone  - The Chop Shop - Sunday, Aug. 19th. All Proceeds benefit The  Alliance for Lupus Research - http://vogue-management.com/events **The Evening Muse Monday  Night Find Your Muse Open Mic and Radio Show is looking for weekly and featured  talent.  If you are an original artist (local or touring) who would  like to play the 30 minute featured performer slot on one of the Monday nights,  please email us at fymbooking@gmail.com with the date you'll be in town or  interested in, your EPK or links to your music and/or a good, decent quality  video.  Special perks for being featured!  ALSO - Each Monday a Bada$$ of the  week will be selected.  The winner receives a $15 beverage card to use anytime  at The Evening Muse, the opportunity to pick their preferred performance time  for the following Monday, AND their set will be played on Plaza Midwood  Community Radio.  ***The Featured Performer  Slots are filled through November.  Please keep this in mind when requesting  dates.  Find us on FB - http://www.facebook.com/pages/Find-Your-Muse-Open-Mic-and-Radio-Show/213629105349332 and Follow us On Twitter - http://www.twitter.com/FindYourMuseClt. **Daniel Coston has a  variety of his best photos framed and for sale at Jack Beagle's - brought to you  by ShomoLive Charlotte.  http://www.danielcoston.com * http://www.shomolive.com Upcoming House  Concerts: **2012 Little Yellow Music House  Concerts (Columbia, SC) 8/25 Mark Robinson w/Daniel Seymour featuring  Tom Hall; Kristi Rose and Fats Kaplin with May Kirby and Marv Ward 9/22 - https://www.facebook.com/LittleYellowMusicHouse **SLHC  Basement Series Presents: Barbara Lamb 8/25; Julia Haltigan and Freddie  Stevenson 10/07; http://www.supportlocalhouseconcerts.org **2012  Teagarden House Concerts (South Charlotte, NC) 10/20: The Cloers CD  Release Party;  teagardensound@gmail.com. Recent Reviews, Photos, Interviews, TV,  Press and Current Events worth noting: **Music  Videos of Bands You Should (and may eventually) Get To Know:  http://charlottemusic.typepad.com/unknown_greats_you_should/ **Happy Trails - Rodney  Lanier - http://vimeo.com/33930867 **Rodney Lanier Memorial  Service and New Orleans style processional down N. Davidson - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZjdovdIkzU&sns=fb *  **Goodbye Rodney - John Schacht/Shuffle Magazine - http://www.shufflemag.com/charlotte-bids-adieu-in-style-to-local-musician-rodney-lanier/ R&R Motel Guests Latest News: ***Wheeler Brothers open for the Avett Brothers Sold Out  Show - http://gregackerman.blogspot.com/2012/08/live-music-review-avett-and-wheele ***Jukebox the Ghost exclusively premiered their new music  video for "Somebody" on ew.com (Entertainment Weekly), and were a pick of the  week on USAToday.com! http://music-mix.ew.com/2012/08/06/jukebox-the-ghost-somebody-video-coney-island/ ***Joshua James opened for My Morning  Jacket in Salt Lake City, UT! http://www.cityweekly.net/utah/blog-2443-8076-concert-review-my-morning-jacket-joshua-james-at-tcs.html This and That: **Randy Walker, host of WSGE 91.7FM's The Roundtable's  Sunday Edition, is looking for bands/musicians who would like to  be a featured guest on his weekly radio program. If interested, please contact  Randy at lowwillie@aol.com for more information. http://www.wsge.org/program/publicaff.php Radio: **The Roundtable's Sunday  Edition hosted by Randy Walker (every Sunday) - WSGE 91.7FM - 9am-10am  -http://www.wsge.org/wsge/ **Listen online to our  local and regional bands at WNCW 88.7FM , "90 Minutes", CharlotteMusician.com, WGWG 88.3FM (Boiling Springs, NC) and WSGE 91.7FM, as well as those weekly specialty programs  mentioned above. **Plaza Midwood Community  Radio - http://pmcradio.org/ Misc.  Organizations and Links: **The Charlotte Live  Alt/Rock/Indie Music Meetup - http://www.meetup.com/LiveMusicMeetup/ **Post and read reviews  about anything and everywhere in Charlotte at Yelp.com - http://www.yelp.com/charlotte-nc **Essential Charlotte - The  People & Places That Make Us Unique - http://www.essentialcharlotte.com

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***Looking Ahead: (new additions or updates)

(^=Potential sell out - recommend getting advance  tickets)

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08/15 - The  Lumineers - The Grey Eagle (Asheville, NC)
08/16 - Eilen  Jewell - - The Grey Eagle (Asheville, NC)
08/17 - Jay  Brannan - The Visulite Theatre
08/18 - Malcolm Holcombe - The Evening Muse
08/18  - George Jones - Durham PAC (Durham, NC)
08/22-23 - ^Langhorne Slim & The Law - The Grey Eagle  (Asheville, NC)
08/25 -  My Morning Jacket w/Band of Horses - TW Cable Uptown  Amphitheatre
08/26 -  Holy Angels Benefit - The Comet Grill08/27 -  Okkervil River w/The Mynabirds - The Visulite  Theatre
09/07 - A Silent  Film - The Edge (Rock Hill, SC)09/08 - ^Tosco Music Party featuring: The Steel Wheels,  Avante, Eliot Bronson, Martin Rivas, Strictly Dixie, Desmond Myers, Carriage  Club Chorus, Ellis Paul, Muriel Anderson, Actual Proof, My Darling Clementine  & More! - Halton Theater
09/09 -  Colin Hay - McGlohon Theater
09/10 - Chris Isaak - McGlohon Theater 
09/13 - Two Gallants -  The Grey Eagle (Asheville, NC)09/14 -  Scott Miller & Bobby Bare Jr. - The Grey Eagle (Asheville,  NC)
09/23 - Michelle  Shocked - The Grey Eagle (Asheville, NC)09/25 -  Mark Kozelek (of Sun Kil Moon & Red House  Painters) - The Grey Eagle (Asheville, NC)
09/26 - Fiona  Apple - The Fillmore Charlotte
09/27 - Frontier  Ruckus - US National Whitewater Center
09/28 - ^Matthew Mayfield, Matthew Perryman Jones &  Callaghan - The Evening Muse
10/01 -  Gotye - Raleigh Amphitheater (Raleigh, NC)
10/02 - Allen Stone  w/Sister Sparrow and the Dirty Birds - The Visulite Theatre
10/02 - Andrew Bird - The Neighborhood Theatre
10/07 - Bell X1 - The Casbah (Durham, NC)
10/09 -  Jackie Greene - Visulite Theatre
10/09 - Nick Lowe -  McGlohon Theater
10/11 - Jim White Combo - The  Evening Muse
10/13 - Sons of Bill, The David Mayfield Parade &  Acoustic Syndicate - Whitewater River Jam Fall  Finale10/14 - Heart w/Alejandro  Escovedo - Koka Booth Amphitheatre (Cary, NC)
10/17 - James  McMurtry w/Joe Pug - Visulite Theatre
10/18 - Indigo Girls Full Band - McGlohon  Theater
10/19 - Chris Knight - Double Door Inn
10/20 - Chatham County  Line - The Neighborhood Theatre 10/24 - ^An Evening With Chris Smither - The Grey Eagle  (Asheville, NC)
10/26 - Lucy Kaplansky - The  Evening Muse
10/26 - Wheeler Brothers - The Evening Muse
10/26 - Sam Bush  Band - The Neighborhood Theatre10/26 - David  Sedaris - The Durham Performing Arts Center (Durham, NC)
10/20 - Tim O'Brien  with Mollie O'Brien & Rich Moore - The Grey Eagle (Asheville,  NC)
11/02 - Chris Robinson Brotherhood - The  Neighborhood Theatre
11/03 - The Whigs - The Visulite Theatre
11/03 - ^Motion City Soundtrack w/Jukebox the Ghost and Now,  Now - Tremont Music Hall
11/08 -  The Who - Bi-Lo Center (Greenville, SC) (performing Quadrophenia in its  entirety)
11/09 - Loudon Wainwright III - Wingate University
11/09 - The  Who - Greensboro Coliseum (performing Quadrophenia in its  entirety)11/16 - Justin Townes Earle w/Tift  Merritt - McGlohon Theater
11/17 - Perpetual Groove - The Neighborhood  Theatre
12/01 - Carolina  Chocolate Drops - The Neighborhood Theatre12/08  - Keb' Mo' - McGlohon Theater

THANK  YOU!

"Hey Laurie, I meant to tell  you during our last chat how much I appreciate you promoting the Roundtable and  all the stuff I do!"
Randy Walker - WSGE 91.7FM's The Roundtable's  Sunday Edition

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Thank you to those who have reciprocated links or  shown appreciation or have supported me in some way throughout the years.  This  weekly newsletter not only takes many, many hours to compile, distribute, blog  and promote, but also costs a monthly fee.  As many have shared with me, it's  both a valuable resource, and a treasured promotional tool. I started it, (in  2003), as a service to my musician clients and friends who, at the time, had few  ways of promoting their shows, or a publication that would have an interest in  writing about, or even listing their independent shows. It has grown since then  to include much more, but its purpose remains the same - not to be a  comprehensive list, but a way to help promote and advertise those artists and  venues I'm familiar enough with to personally recommend, and whom I feel may  need, and appreciate, what I do.

Best of Charlotte Awards  & Press Patrons of the Arts • by Courtney  Devores - The Charlotte Observer • March, 2012 First  Couple of Charlotte Music (Uptown Magazine) Living it up at the 'Rock  & Roll Motel' •  Charlotte couple shares their home with touring rock  bands. by April Denée/The Charlotte Observer http://aprildenee.com/2011/05/01/livin-it-up-at-the-rock-roll-motel/ http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2011/05/01/2256244/living-it-up-at-the-rock-roll.html #1  Music Fan (Charlotte Folk Society)

The  Charlotte Weekly Happenings Newsletter, Updates and latest news can also be  found at: 

NEW:  TRENDING CHARLOTTE  MUSIC - http://www.twylah.com/charlottemusic

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