The Second Jimi Hendrix Experience is Coming!
Buddy Guy, Robert Randolph, Johnny Lang adn Kenny Wayne Shepherd will be coming together along with a host of other rock and blues musicians to embark upon the second Experience Hendrix Tour, serving to celebrate the legacy and music of Jimi Hendrix. This tour will take in 5 cities throughout the month of October, and you know you won’t want to miss out on all the fun that this concert experience would provide!
This tour will kick off on October 16 at Constitution Hall in Washington D.C. and will ahve stops at such locations as the Beacon Theater in New York City on October 17, the Hampton Beach Casino Ballroom in New Hampshire on October 18, the Trump Taj Mahal Casino Resort in Atlantic City, New Jersey on October 19 and the Palace Theater in Waterbury, Connecticut.
Guests for thsi tour will include Robbie Krieger, Mick Taylor an dHubert Sumlin as well as drummer Mitch Mitchell and bassist Billy Cox, all of whom were the rhythm section that played behind Hendrix at Woodstock. Other performers on this concert tour will include Chris Layton and Tommy Shannon who were the rhythm section for the late Stevie Ray Vaughn, and the Native American band Indigenous as well as Eric Gales.
You can be sure that this musical experience is going to be a great time, so make sure you get yourself tickets at stubhub.com today so you don’t miss out!
CMA Nominations Announced!
The Country Music Association are coming up, and the nominees were announced recently! George Strait, who had his 55th Number 1 single this year and recently was an inductee into the Country Music Hall of Fame, was given top nominations including entertainer and male vocalist of the year as his Country Music Association Awards nominations. In additon to Strait, many other of the who’s who in the country music business had their names appear as nominees including Brad Paisley who ties with George Strait in having five nominations.
Strait’s nomination for musical event of the year comes thanks to a performance he did with Jimmy Buffett and Alan Jackson, and his album of the year nomination comes thanks to “It Just Comes Naturally” while his 55th career number 1 single, “Wrapped” was nominated for single of the year. Paisely himself wa snominated for entertainer, male vocalist, his album entitled “Fifth Gear” best single for “Ticks” and best music video for “Online.”
Additoinally, Kenny Chesney, Rascal Flatts and Keith Urban finished out the entertainer of the year category while Josh Turner also gained a nomination for male vocliast of the year along with Chesney, Paisley, Strait and Urban. Bluegrass singer Alison Krauss gained a nomination for female vocalislt of the yar alongside Mirama Lambert, Martina McBride, Reba McEntire and Carrie Underwood. You know you are not going to want to miss all the excitement about this awards show, so check out stubhub.com for tickets to attend and keep an eye out on stubhub.com for concert information on all the nominated artists!
John Mellencamp to Tour!
John Mellencamp, who will be performing at Farm Aid in New York City, has announced that after this stint with the Farm Aid concert series, he will be embarking upon the first leg of his North American tour which will be a 14-city trip throughout areas of the American midwest. Kicking off this concert experience on September 6 with a performance at the RCA Dome in Indianapolis during the NFL’s Season-opening game between the Indianapolis Colts and the New Orleans Saints, you can just imagine how excited John Mellencamp fans are going to be at the prospect of seeing their music idol live!
Then John Mellencamp will join such greats as Willie Nelson and Neil Young as well as the numerous other artists who will be performing at Farm Aid 2007 on September 9 on Randall’s Island in New York City. After this stint in New York, however, Mellencamp will start his own tour in earnest, playing on October 26 at Hulman Center in Terre Haute, Indiana, and this tour will continue on through mid-November.
Highlights of this tour will include stopsat Can Andel Arena in Grand Rapids, Michigan on October 30 Seagate Convention Center in Toledo, Ohio on November 2, Alliant Energy Center in Madison, Wisconsin on November 6, Tyon Events Center in Sioux City, Iowa on November 10, and the Scottrade Center in St. Louis on November 15. If you are a John Mellencamp fan you know you are not going to want to miss out on this great show when it comes to your city so buy your tickets at stubhub.com today!
Bob Dylan Adds More Tour Dates!
Bob Dylan, one of the greatest men to be influential in the folk music wave of the 1960’s who is still very much alive and kicking and who has been engaged in tours all across the United States has announced yet another round of shows to take place during his upcoming United States tour with Elvis Costello and Amos Lee.
These new dates will focus on the Midwest and will kick off on October 11 at the University of Pittsburgh and will continue on through the rest of ht emonth, stoppoing at such venues as Schottenstein Center in Columbus, Ohio on October 13, Freedom Hall in Louiseville, Kentucky on October 17 and the US Cellular Coliseum in Bloomington, Illinois on October 20 as well as Qwest Center in Omaha, Nebraska on October 26.
Coinciding with this additional touring dates, a new album entitled “Dylan” which is a three-CD restrospective of Dylan’s music which spans his entire career, will be released on October 1. You know you will not want to miss out on this incredible musical experience of hearing the man, Bob Dylan himself, perform live with his band, so make sure you get yourself tickets at stubhub.com today!
MySpace Music Tour Kicking Off!
The MySpace Music Tour, which is the first in a new series of concerts to be produced and branded by the popular website, will launch its tour on October 16 at Showbox SoDo in Seattle adnw ill continue on hitting clubs and theaters in 30 cities across the United STates throughout the end of November. Playing in this line-up are such bands as Hellogoodbye and Say Anything as well as Polysics and many more, so you can rest assured that you are not going to want o omiss out on this great musical extravaganza!
Some highlights of this MySpace Music Tour include stops at the Great Saltair in Magna, Utah on October 19, The Rave Eagles Club in Milwaukee on October 22, the Hammerstein Ballroom in New York City on October 30, Disco Rodeo on Raliegh, NOrth Carolina on November 4, Fillmore at Jackie Gleason Theater in Miami Beach on November 7, the Palladium Ballroom in Dallas on November 10, the Warfield Theater in San Francisco on November 16 and the House of Bluies in Las Vegas on November 23.
You know you aren’t going to want to miss out on this festival when it comes through your city, so make sure you have your tickets ready by buying them at stubhub.com today!
Hilly Kristal Dies
Hilly Kristal, the founder of that Bowery rock club of rock lore and New York notoriety, the locale that served as the birthplace of the punk rock movement and as a lunching pad for numerous bands including the Ramones, Blonde and The Talking Heads, CBGB, has died.
Kristal was 75 years old when he finally passed away from lung cancer. All this after having spent so much of last year fighting to stop CBGB’s eviction from its home of 33 years, during the final months of which Kristal had to use a cane to get around and was showing signs of his cancer treatments. Indeed, last year - before the club’s closing - CBGB was heading towards its final show with Patti Smith and Kristal had visions of opening a Las Vegas incarnaiton of the CBGB club, which originally opened in New York in 1973.
The club that Kristal created as a small out-of-the-way spot on skid row, would grow to become one of the well-known, beloved and most well-respected musical venues in this country, with a reputation that extended around the world. Interestingly, when Kristal began the club, he did so with the hope of making it a mecca of country, bluerass and blues, calling it CBGB & OMFUG for “Other Music For Uplifting Gourmandisers” but he found too few bands to book to play the club. Instead, CBGB would become the central point of the mid-1970s punk movement.
Survivors of Kristal included his wife Karen, and daughter, Lisa, and may he rest in peace knowing that he is very missed here on earth. For more information on great punk bands and shows, make sure you keep your eye on stubhub.com!
Family Struggles over Amy Winehouse
The troubled music sensation and jazz queen Amy Winehouse, with her sultry voice and mile-high hair, is still suffering quite a lot of media sensation and familial strife regarding her recent collapse and concert cancellations at the hands of everything from “exhauston” to an admitted drug overdose and a refusal, or a “lack of a need” to go into a drug rehabilitation program. Now it would seem that the ongoing media frenzy surrounding this tiny singer with the big voice and her drug-troubled ways has been gaining even more force during an August 28 BBC Radio 5 phone interview with Amy Winhouse’s father and her father-in-law quarreling over the best ways to help her.
Winehouse’s father-in-law insisted that fans should stop buying her albums and supporting her in general until she and her husband could recognize that they had a drug problem that was affecting her means of making a career and of doing what she loves. The father-in-law also stated that the music industry was obviously more intent on making money off of his daughter-in-law than they were on keeping a talented artist alive and well and able to perform for the fans that they so ably made her music available to. The father-in-law also stated that he believes that his son and daughter-in-law, who were married last May, may be taking cocaine, crack cocaine and possibly even heroin, and therefore are still in abject denial that they both have very serious drug problems.
The struggling singer’s own father criticized Amy’s husband’s father by saying that the record companies had shown nothing but love and respect to Amy as she struggled to overcome the mounting problems facing her. For more information on this ongoing struggle, and to keep an eye out for what may happen with Amy Winehouse’s various still-scheduled concert dates, check stubhub.com regularly!
Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival Returns!
The Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival is returning to San Francisco’s Speedway Meadow in Golden Gate Park for its seventh annual showcase. This free party will be happening from October 5 through October 7 and you know you aren’t going to want to miss out on all the bluegrass fun! After all, this festival brings together the biggest names in blugrass and alternative country and, as usual, the Festival will throw in some genre-bending surprises as well.
With such performres as Earl Scruggs, Doc Watson and all-time great Emmylous Harris poised to take the stage, you can see why fans would be rushing out to get tickets so excitedly. Plus, there will be other performers at this Festival including the Mekons, Nick Lowe and Boz Scaggs bringing the total number of performers to over 70 over this three-day non-stop music extravaganza! As an added bonus, this event is free, un-ticketed and non-sponsored thanks to the generosity of one Warren Hellman who not only is a bluegrass fan but is also a financier and a pretty wonderful philanthropist.
The Festival will open on a Friday with sepcial programs for school children from 10:30 am through noon before the more music-based fun-for-adults festival shenanigans begin. You know you aren’t going to want to miss out on this great festival so make sure you get your Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival tickets from stubhub.com today!
Gorgol Bordello To Tour!
Gorgol Bordello has announced that they will be going on tour throughout the United States and Canada before heading out to Europe to finish out the year with his touring schedule. The North American tour dates kicked off on August 27 at the House of Blues in San Diego and they will continue on through the beginning of November. Some of the clubs and theaters wherein Gorgol Bordello will be playing include The Fillmore in San Francisco on August 29, Toad’s Place in New Haven, Connecticut on October 7, Club Soda in Montreal on October 10, the Stone Ponuy in Ashbury Park, New Jersey on October 15, Tipitina’s Uptown in New Orleans on October 20, the Mayan Theatre in Los Angeles on October 25, First Avenue in Minneapolis on November 1 and the new Terminal 5 in New York City on November 3.
Gorgol Bordello will also make appearances at the Bumbershoot Festival in Seattle on September 1 as well as Vegoose in Las Vegas on October 27. The band’s European jaunt will kick off i November, with their first performance being at the Melkweg in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. They will continue on to hit up such cities as Paris, Vienna, Copenhagen, Helsinki, London and Glasgow.
You are surely going to love seeing this group live, so make sure you get yourself tickets at stubhub.com today!
Bo Diddley Suffers Heart Attack!
Though he is resting comfortably now, Bo Diddley, the renowned singer-guitarist, suffered a heart attack recently after the 78 year old performer had complained of dizziness and nausea during a routine medical check-up with his physician on Friday, August 24. According to Diddley’s publicist, the performer was taken to North Florida Regional Medical Center in Gainesville to have a stent implanted to improve the blood flow to his heart and the hospital in which he is resting in stable condition currently is located near the musician’s home in north central Florida, in the town of Archer.
According to Diddley’s publicist, Diddley is in stable condition in the cardiac care unite after having spent the entire weekend in intensive care. It was said that Diddley is conscious but that his situation is “very serious.”
All of this comes after Diddley was hospitalized in Nebraska last May after suffering a stroke during his performances in Council Bluffs, Iowa. He was soon transferred to Florida after this incident, and fans undoubtedly are hoping for his swift recovery. After all, Bo Diddley has been a beloved figure for years, ever since he topped the R&B charts with “Bo Diddley” in 1955, following this hit up with other hits including “Who Do You Love,” “Before You Accuse Me,” “Mona” and “I’m a Man.” With his black glasses and low-slung guitar, Diddley has been an icon in the music industry for years and fans are ready and willing to announce the immense skill and talent that the performer possesses. For more information on Bo Diddley make sure you keep an eye out on stubhub.com!