Somehow I went more than two months since my last concert calendar. Perhaps I was distracted by all the shows I went to in that interval ( Read more... )

The Wreckless Eric & Amy Rigby concert has been cancelled. Advance ticket sales were poor, and Eric & Amy expressed concern that the crowd was not going to be large enough to be worth their time. As Ed & I cannot afford to put an advance down, the show has been cancelled.

If this makes you sad, next time buy advance tickets!

As always, you can hear many of these bands on Fantasy For Transmitter and Two Hosts on WRUW-FM 91.1. If you like the radio show, consider donating during the WRUW telethon between April 8 and April 14 by going to the WRUW website or calling 216-368-2208. Thank you.

And now, on to the concert calendar. As always, bold means I'm definitely going ( Read more... )

EDIT April 3 2013 - This show has been cancelled. Details.

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Apparently the route to hosting a house concert is to let my good friend Ed of Chasing Infinity find awesome people to play in my living room. After hooking me up with Jeremy Messersmith, Ed delivered again when he put me in touch with ( Read more... )

After hosting two successful Eliza Rickman house concerts in my living room, it was time to branch out to a new musician. Fortunately, my friends Ed from Chasing Infinity and Emma from The Occasional Detour had ideas in that area. They wanted to bring Twin Cities resident Jeremy Messersmith into town, but neither one had an appropriate space for ( Read more... )

After more or less lucking into hosting two successful Eliza Rickman house concerts, I was definitely interested in doing another one. However, I wasn't really certain of how you would even go about doing this. The bands I like mostly have outgrown people's living rooms, or are far too loud to even consider hosting in a residential area. I suppose ( Read more... )

My last concert calendar was nine weeks ago but I somehow only managed to make it to five concerts since then ( Read more... )

So last September it was my distinct privilege to have Eliza Rickman perform a set in my living room. Counting Eliza and myself, 20 people rocked out to her music that night.

Well, time passes and Eliza came out with a new album called O, You Sinners. As we all know, a musician who has a new album goes on tour, and Eliza was no exception. Once ( Read more... )

So two Saturdays ago Eliza Rickman rolled into Cleveland late in the afternoon. I fed her a margherita pizza from Angelos. Thus fortified, she did two shows on Saturday night, the first at the Barking Spider and the second in my living room, which I intend to more fully review in a later post. In between shows Eliza drank a lot of chocolate milk, ( Read more... )

Which is good because, it's spring, when we all want to be outside and the outdoor venues start booking shows for the summer months. Let's get to it. As always, double-check all the information because I've been known to type a thing or two incorrectly.

April
R 4/19 - Esperanza Spalding @ Tri-C Metro Auditorium. SOLD OUT. This up and coming ( Read more... )