5 p.m. Friday through 2 p.m. Sunday, May 17-19. Misty Meadows
Farm, 455 Providence Rd. S. at Ennis Rd. $15-$50. www.drumstrong.org
Toubab Krewe and Sam Bush headline Friday and Saturday,
respectively, at this family-friendly weekend festival. The focus is a
24-hour drum circle where teams drum tirelessly to raise funds to fight cancer.
Other acts include The Broadcast, Of Good Nature, Jeff Sipe Trio, Kevin
“KalimbaMan” Spears, and Rich Redmond.
The Hush Sound
After a five year hiatus the band returns with its signature
male/female vocals and bouncy intelligent pop. The two new songs it premiered
through Soundcloud suggest new material will be as hummable and hooked-filled
as ever. With Hockey, River City Extension, Genevieve Schatz from Company of
Thieves, and Lucas Carpenter.
Treasure Fest III
5:30 p.m. Friday and 2:30 p.m. Saturday, May 17-18. Various
Plaza-Midwood venues and The Milestone, 3400 Tuckaseegee Rd. $25-$30. http://treasurefest.blogspot.com/p/schedule.html
This annual eclectic underground music festival stretches across
two neighborhoods with performances from around 70 acts including Sundials,
Secret Hospital, Franz Nicolay (the Hold Steady), Hectorina, It Looks Sad, and
Mineral Girls Friday and Torchrunner, Whatever Brains, Wymym’s Prysyn, Joint D≠, Rogue Nations, and Pullman Strike Saturday.
Michael Tracy & Friends Music Matinee
Michael Tracy & Friends Music Matinee
3 p.m. Sunday, May 19, Chop
Shop, 399 E. 35th St. $10-$15. www.chopshopnoda.com
Bluesy Charlotte-based rock guitarist and vocalist Tracy heads up
this seven band local bill featuring the Joe Davis Band, FiftyWatt Freight
Train, Analog Daze, Jake Haldenwang, Gary Ramsey, and StellaRising. BBQ will
also be served at this family-friendly event.
The Jazz Room
6 p.m. Tuesday, May 21, Stage
Door Theater, 5th and College Streets. $10. 704-372-1000.
The second installment of this monthly after work jazz series,
which sold out its debut in April, features Columbia-based trumpeter Mark Rapp
performing the timeless works of the legendary Miles Davis.
Jesse Dee
This
33-year-old Bostonian writes and sings like a soul artist decades his senior.
With warm, live production, flattering horn and guitar work and songs that
thematically cross generations, he could be America's male equivalent to
Amy Winehouse.
Charles Walker Band
9 p.m. Thursday, May 23, Double Door, 1218 Charlottetown Ave.
$10-$12. 704-376-1446.
Fronted by sassy female vocalist Porsche Cameron and led by
saxophonist/keyboardist Walker, this Milwaukee combo conjures the decadent
party vibe of carefree `70s Motown, funk and soul with a rippling blues edge.
Brother Dege
7 p.m. Thursday, May 23, US National Whitewater Center, 5000
Whitewater Center Parkway. Free. www.usnwc.org
This eccentric Southern songwriter plays mean, twangy slide and
a resonator guitar that's sound is at once gritty and metallic and sings
with equal parts soul and world-weariness. His music was recently featured in
“Django Unchained.”
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