Charlotte NC Live Music, Band News & More 11/06/13 - 11/13/13

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CHARLOTTE EVENTS WEEKLY NEWSLETTER
(10 years of live music in Charlotte compiled and distributed by Laurie Koster)
November 6, 2013 - November 13, 2013

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

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

Wednesday Nov 6

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

**Cop Graves (November Residency)
Snug Harbor
http://www.snugrock.com

**Skinny Velvet (every Wednesday)
Jack Beagle's NoDa
8pm
https://www.facebook.com/events/502050413216367/

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Thursday Nov 7

**MaxxMusic Presents: Caleb Caudle w/Roseland & John Moreland
The Evening Muse
8pm
http://www.eveningmuse.com * http://www.maxxmusic.com/concerts/caleb.htm

**MaxxMusic & Landshark Entertainment Present: Three Of Clubs Fall Tour 2013
The Visulite Theatre
http://www.maxxmusic.com/concerts/clubs.htm

**Fiftywatt Freight Train
The Double Door Inn
http://www.doubledoorinn.com

**Mike Strauss
Pizza Peel
8pm-10pm
http://www.mikestrauss.net

**Big Octave (John Alexander, Ron Brendle, and Chris Garges) (every Thursday)
Blue every Thursday
8pm-11pm
http://bigoctave.bandcamp.com/

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Friday Nov 8

**MaxxMusic Presents: David Ramirez With Logan Brill (Stick around after this show for The Rocketboys and pay only $4 more at the door!)
The Evening Muse
8pm
http://www.maxxmusic.com/concerts/ramirez.htm

**MaxxMusic & Koster Promotions Present The Rocketboys ($4 special ticket with your David Ramirez ticket)
The Evening Muse
10:30pm
http://www.eveningmuse.com * http://www.maxxmusic.com/concerts/rocketboys.htm

**MaxxMusic & Landshark Entertainment Present: The Greencards
The Visulite Theatre
http://www.maxxmusic.com/concerts/greencards.htm

**Charlotte Folk Society Gathering Concert & Jams featuring The Stray Birds
Great Aunt Stella Center
7:30 PM, Free
http://www.folksociety.org

**MaxxMusic Presents: Wiggle Wagons with Jim Garrett & Chris Payne
The Double Door Inn
http://www.doubledoorinn.com

**Mike Strauss Duo
Summit Coffee
8pm-11pm
Davidson, NC
http://www.mikestrauss.net

**House Concert with Blues Master Paul Geremia
SLHC Concerts
Hickory NC
http://www.facebook.com/events/173103029559177/

**MidAtlanticMusic Presents - NoDA Fall Musicfest featuring performances by 100 performers crossing all genres of music including Michael Tracy, Grown Up Avenger Stuff, Falling Through April, Butterfly Corpse, Dixie Still, Seven Story Fall, Nizzie, Dizi Johnson and many, many more!!
November 8-10 at multiple NoDA locations
6pm-
http://www.facebook.com/events/1374949896076325

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

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Saturday Nov 9

**Jim Avett w/Born Old
The Evening Muse
8pm
http://www.eveningmuse.com

**MaxxMusic & Landshark Entertainment Present: Drew Holcomb and the Neighbors
The Visulite Theatre
http://www.maxxmusic.com/concerts/holcomb.htm

**Rick Spreitzer & The Antique Babies
Vintner Wine Market
7pm-10pm
http://www.rickspreitzer.com/shows.htm

**Two Geezers Behaving Badly featuring The Funky Geezer w/Bill Stroupe
Angel's
6pm-8pm
Bessemer City, NC
http://www.facebook.com/events/608102915913059/

**MaxxMusic Presents: An Evening with Young the Giant - SOLD OUT
The Double Door Inn
http://www.maxxmusic.com/concerts/giant.htm

**MaxxMusic Presents: Mipso CD Release w/David Holt
The Neighborhood Theatre
http://www.maxxmusic.com/concerts/mipso.htm

**Lucky Five w/The New Wilde and Old Sun
Tremont Music Hall
http://www.tremontmusichall.com

**Kenny Roby w/Sam the Lion
Snug Harbor
10pm
http://www.snugrock.com

**MidAtlanticMusic Presents - NoDA Fall Musicfest featuring performances by 100 performers crossing all genres of music including Michael Tracy, Grown Up Avenger Stuff, Falling Through April, Butterfly Corpse, Dixie Still, Seven Story Fall, Nizzie, Dizi Johnson and many, many more!!
November 8-10 at multiple NoDA locations
6pm-
http://www.facebook.com/events/1374949896076325

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Sunday Nov 10

**MaxxMusic Presents: An Evening with Marshall Crenshaw
The Evening Muse
8pm
http://www.eveningmuse.com * http://www.maxxmusic.com/concerts/giant.htm

**MidAtlanticMusic Presents - NoDA Fall Musicfest featuring performances by 100 performers crossing all genres of music including Michael Tracy, Grown Up Avenger Stuff, Falling Through April, Butterfly Corpse, Dixie Still, Seven Story Fall, Nizzie, Dizi Johnson and many, many more!!
November 8-10 at multiple NoDA locations
6pm-
http://www.facebook.com/events/1374949896076325

**Sunday Funday at Roux!
11am
http://www.facebook.com/events/597050040331492/

**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 "90 Minutes Plus" (Local, Regional & Indie Music)
8 pm-10 pm
WEND 106.5 The End (every Sunday)
http://www.1065.com/pages/divakar.html?_show

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Monday Nov 11

**Find Your Muse Open Mic w/Cannon
The Evening Muse
8pm
http://www.eveningmuse.com

**Monday Night All Stars (every Monday)
The Double Door
10pm
http://doubledoorinn.com/eventlist.asp

**Chuck Johnson & Tom Kuhn
Cedar Street Tavern
5:30pm
http://www.facebook.com/events/207997409348271/?ref=2

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Tuesday Nov 12

**The Mike Dillon Band & KUNG FU
The Visulite Theatre
http://www.visulite.com

**Chris Cook (Every Tuesday)
Sharkey's
7pm
Gastonia, NC
http://www.facebook.com/events/212603485559319/?ref=22

**Bill Hanna Jazz Jam (every Tuesday)
The Double Door Inn
9pm
http://www.doubledoorinn.com/calendarview.aspx

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

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Wednesday Nov 13

**Charlotte Folk Society Folk Jubilee featuring: Ruth Shumway, Paul Finnican, Little Big String band (Glen Alexander, David McGuirt & Scott Caveness), and Piedmont blues guitarist Danny Wicker
The Evening Muse
8pm-10pm
http://www.folksociety.org

**The Situationals w/ Sy Arden
The Saloon NC Music Factory
8:30pm
http://www.facebook.com/events/237996802991504/

**MaxxMusic Presents: The Floorboards
The Double Door Inn
http://www.maxxmusic.com/concerts/floorboards.htm

**MaxxMusic & Landshark Entertainment Present: Big Bad Voodoo Daddy - 20th Anniversary Tour
The Neighborhood Theatre
http://www.maxxmusic.com/concerts/voodoo.htm

**Cop Graves (November Residency)
Snug Harbor
http://www.snugrock.com

**Skinny Velvet (every Wednesday)
Jack Beagle's NoDa
8pm
https://www.facebook.com/events/502050413216367/

************************************************* Band/Artist/Media News, Features, Announcements and Upcoming Local and Regional Events ************************************************* *** = New Additions This Week Misc News, Events & Announcements: **"Rockin' Kids First" 2nd Annual Benefit Concert and Auction for Kid's First of the Carolina's. December 14 at 1:00pm until December 15 at 1:30am at The Chop Shop featuring: Chosen Rejects, Carson Hilll, The Reason You Stayed, Radio Toy Company, Rock U Roadshow, JackKnife Barbers, One More Hero, Jonas Sees In Color, Moses Jones, Jake Haldenwang Music "Halden Vang", Analog Daze, Michael Tracy, Fiftywatt Freight Train, Beyond the Fade, REVELUS, A Course of Action, Kelen Heller **VOTED BEST AMATEUR NIGHT BY CREATIVE LOAFING BEST OF 2013 - 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 ofthe Monday nights, please email us at findyourmuse@eveningmuse.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.***The Featured Performer Slots are filled through JANUARY!. 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. - ***Find Your Muse Open Mic and Radio Show was chosen as the Winner of the 2013 Best Open Mic Night in Charlotte by Charlotte magazine BOB Awards! Congratulations Team FYM: Erik Button, Ralph Jannelli, Pat Maholland and Don Koster! And of course a big thanks to all the musicians, performers and attendees who come out week after week and help make this weekly event SO successful. **Thank you for your support of the SHOMOLIVE Indiegogo fundraising campaign! Visit http://www.indiegogo.com/shomo?c=activity&a=1434608 to read all the great press from The Examiner, The Impaler Speaks, CLTBuzz, Historic SouthEnd, CltBlog and More! ***Local Music Management Startup ShomoLive Launches Beta This Summer! http://detailedblock.com/2013/04/26/local-music-management-startup-shomolive-launches-beta-this-summer/ Upcoming House Concerts: **Charlotte's Other Concert Venue - Your Living Room (Jody Mace/Common Chords House Concerts talks to WFAE) http://www.wfae.org/post/charlottes-other-concert-venue-your-living-room **Support Local House Concerts Basement Series Presents: Nov. 8th Paul Geremia http://supportlocalhouseconcerts.org/ **Common Chord Concerts Present: Time Sawyer Saturday, November 16 at 7:30pm http://www.facebook.com/events/724984347528624/ Recent Reviews, Photos, Interviews, TV, Press and Current Events worth noting: **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: ***Watch for a new website that will feature all of these artists and more of our touring friends. Radio: **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. (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", 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: **ROCKS! Entertainment is a Community-Based online source for music entertainment in the Piedmont area of North Carolina. https://www.facebook.com/ROCKSMagazine **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

***Looking Ahead:
new additions or updates italicized in blue
^=potential sell out - recommend getting advance tickets
* = promotional sponsor - thank you!

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11/10 - Houndmouth w/The Wheeler Brothers - The Grey Eagle (Asheville, NC)
11/12 - Cyndi Lauper - Belk Theater
11/14 - ^Kevin Devine & NowNow - The Evening Muse
11/15 - Patrick Davis - The Neighborhood Theatre
11/15 - ^Ellis Paul w/Peyton Tochterman - The Evening Muse
11/20 - ^An Evening With Tim O’Brien & Darrell Scott: NIGHT ONE - The Grey Eagle (Asheville, NC)
11/21 - ^An Evening With Tim O’Brien & Darrell Scott: NIGHT TWO - The Grey Eagle (Asheville, NC)
11/22 - Folk Soul Revival w/Keelan Donovan - The Evening Muse
11/23 - A Silent Film - The Neighborhood Theatre
11/23 - Cast Iron Filter - Summit Coffee
11/27 - MGMT - Grady Cole Center - Charlotte, NC
12/07 - John Prine w/Justin Townes Earle - Ovens Auditorium
12/14-15 - Carolina Chocolate Drops w/ Pokey Lafarge - The Neighborhood Theatre
12/30 - Gregg Allmann Band w/The New Familiars - The Fillmore Charlotte
12/31 - ^The Avett Brothers w/Shovels & Rope - TW Cable Arena
01/12 - B.B. King - Blumenthal Performing Arts
01/16 - Jason Isbell w/Holly Williams - Neighborhood Theatre
01/17 - Bettye LaVette - The Neighborhood Theatre
02/01-02 - Neutral Milk Hotel - Cat's Cradle (Carrboro, NC)
02/08 - Tosco Music Party 25th Anniversary - Knight Theater
02/22 - HOUSINGFEST: A Concert to End Homelessness, The Blind Boys of Alabama w/Jim Lauderdale - Neighborhood Theatre
04/19 - Chick Corea - Knight Theater

THANK YOU!

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