Saturday July 17th - 2pm till 8pm & Sunday July 18th - 3pm till 8pm
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2pm - THE HI-RISERS
The Hi-Risers play energetic, song-oriented rock'n'roll. Formed in 1997, the founding members are Greg Townson (vocals, guitar) and Todd Bradley (vocals, bass). Jason Smay joined the band on drums in 2002. The band has recorded six CD'S, "Panic", "In The Spotlight", "Lost Weekend", "That Rock & Roll Beat", "The Fine Art Of Making Mistakes" and their latest "Once We Get Started". They also collaborated with Kaiser George (leader of The Kaisers) on the recent release "Transatlantic Dynamite" and Eddie Angel (Los Straitjackets/The Neanderthals) on "Eddie Angel Meets The Beatles." In addition, they've contributed recordings to numerous compilations.
The appeal of the Hi-Risers is probably best expressed by a bar patron who, after hearing the band for the first time, declared "you would have to be a total jerk not to love this band!"
Pete Worden and the Hardtimers play “real deal rockabilly music.” Worden describes his brand of music as bop. “We're no oldies band” says Pete, “I'm writing new bop carrying on the music that the cats started in the 50s.”
A brilliant guitar slinger and vocalist, Worden delivers an exciting live show, the likes of which will have you asking yourself, ‘how does he do that?’ As you stand outside a club where Worden is working out hard inside, you will swear you’re standing on Beale Street in Memphis. An older fan with a DA and pack of smokes rolled in his sleeve says, "I was there in the 50's and those guys do it right – like some kind of time machine." Younger fans see his show and think, ‘so this is what it was like...’
Taking listeners to a place where Appalachian music, ancient blues and gospel come together in powerful, unexpected combinations, The Tarbox Ramblers are left-field traditionalists whose rough-hewn, direct sound has drawn raves from Rolling Stone, All Things Considered, The New Yorker and many more.
This is old-soul music, and in freewheeling shows at clubs and festivals throughout the US and Canada, The Ramblers - string bassist Scott McEwen, drummer Robby Cosenza and guitarist Michael Tarbox - have played it to considerable effect, making converts of audiences wherever they’ve gone. Robert Plant caught the group’s live show and asked them to open his tour dates right on the spot; he later tapped them as backing band for a set with Alison Krauss at The Rock Hall of Fame’s Leadbelly Tribute.
Playing with the ease and familiarity of musicians who understand each other's deepest impulses, these gifted interpreters of traditional music also continue to write a growing number of startlingly good original songs. With this band, all that means that a lot can happen quickly: at any given Tarbox show you’re likely to hear thickets of gorgeous backwater guitar, followed by fierce waves of percussion in call-and response drum-and-vocal songs, followed in turn by timeless lightning-in-a-bottle laments. From a whisper to a roar - with what led The Washington Post to describe them as "a force of nature" – The Tarbox Ramblers’ astonishing inventiveness keeps their music vital even as it continues to evolve.
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6:30pm - THE DEX ROMWEBER DUO
Dex Romweber was and is a huge influence on my music. I owned all of his records as a teenager, and was thrilled at the fact that we were able to play together recently on tour. [He is] is one of the best kept secrets of the rock n roll underground.” - Jack White, White Stripes
Twenty years on from the FLAT DUO JETS, who created the template for stripped down rock and roll that’s been copped by the White Stripes and a thousand far less clever bands, Dex Romweber has teamed up with his sister Sara (Let’s Active, Snatches of Pink) for the first time on the debut album by the Duo, Ruins of Berlin.
Dex’s guitar conjures the primal ghosts that live in the scratchy grooves of 45s that snake through our collective musical DNA; some are well known, most long forgotten, but no one can draw the line between Link Wray and Marlene Dietrich and have it make sense like Dex. And when he sings, you get the sense, sometimes uneasy, that here is a man that HAS to sing, has to let it out, or all the pain, longing and triumph of the heroes and hep cats and sinners and losers he sings about will tear him apart from the inside. With Sara’s mammoth drumming as the spine, the Duo go well beyond any mindless retro tag; they absorb the essence of their idols before erupting with re-inventions that are both primitive and elegant.
In February 2010, the dynamic Dex Romweber Duo played a smash instore at Jack White's Third Man Records in Nashville for 250+ excited fans. No less than country legend Charlie Louvin amongst the throng. Mr. White Stripes/Raconteurs/Dead Weather himself kicked things off with an introduction and fiesty acoustic rendition of "You Don't Love Me Anymore" from Dex's Flat Duo Jets album White Trees. This historic live recording, the first of the "Third Man Live" series, was produced by Jack himself and is available now.
Sunday July 18th 3pm till 8pm
3pm - KRYPTON 88
"It seems lately that most rockabilly bands can't make up their mind. They either go country, go punk, or wuss out and play pop. It's hard core nuts like Rochester's Krypton 88 who keep rockabilly greasy, alive, and kickin'. For the past two and a half years, Krypton 88 has essentially been the only real rockabilly band on the local scene. Formed out of mutual appreciation for all things hot-rod, Guinness, and female, bassist "big" Mike Woolaver and singer guitarist Jim Via formed Krypton 88 to serve as the tear-it-up soundtrack for wild nights the town."
Curran began his professional career at age nineteen, leaving Maine to tour with Ronnie Dawson, “The Blonde Bomber.” Although Dawson was primarily a rockabilly musician, many blues and punk fans appreciated his performances. He taught Curran not to get pigeonholed. Curran toured next with Texas rockabilly doyenne Kim Lenz, moving to Dallas to join her backup band the Jaguars for two years, and performing on Lenz’s recording, The One And Only. Nick would stay with the Jaguars for two years. He is also featured on Lenz’s latest CD, It’s All True, and recently toured with her in the summer of 2009.
In 1999 the Texas Jamboree label issued Curran’s debut solo recording, Fixin' Your Head. As he would do on all future CDs, Curran used vintage recording equipment to achieve the feel and sound of old 45s and 78s, and the LPs of the 1950s. To support the recording he formed the band, Nick Curran and the Nitelifes.
From 2004 to 2007 Curran played with The Fabulous Thunderbirds appearing on their 2005 recording, Painted On. Also during that time, Curran and bassist Ronnie James started the punk band Deguello, saying that it “sounded as if Little Richard sang with The Ramones.”
Curran performed four songs in a scene in the 2008 HBO Series "True Blood," based on The Southern Vampire Mysteries by Charlaine Harris, which explores the co-existence of humans and vampires.
After performing a solo show in November, 2008, Nick formed the rock ‘n’ roll roots band, The Lowlifes. Curran is also in the Austin-based punk/rock ‘n’ roll band The Flash Boys.
"A Roadhouse-Style, Roots Rockin', Guitar Driven, Instrumental POWER TRIO!"
"The Wildest, Grungiest, Instro-Raunch-A-Rama This Side of LINK WRAY & DICK DALE!"
“60’s Garage Punk Guitar Instrumentals with an Overdose of Trash & Twang!”
NEW in 2010! The Tombstone Hands sprang from the imagination of Steve “Twang is the Thang” Litvak. Their use of bitchn’ stage gear is enough to turn the head of even the most jaded guitarista! ...
