Sinners & Saints with Elonzo Wesley
Friday 6 p.m., Fountain Plaza, NC Music Factory, $10, www.ncmusicfactory.com
This Charlotte acoustic duo celebrates the release of "This Ain't No Country Song" - its split 7 inch record with songwriter Elonzo Wesley whose beautifully sparse tune gives the EP its name. He's on the bill with Everymen and Megan Jean and the Klay Family Band.
USNWC July 4th Celebration
The US National Whitewater Center’s annual Independence Day
festivities includes cornhole tournaments, fireworks and live music by
acoustic, folk, and roots acts the Shook Twins, the Honeycutters, and Greensky
Bluegrass Friday and Kansas Bible Co., Stokeswood, and Donavon Frankenreiter
Saturday.
Squirt 4th of July Bash
Snug Harbor makes it an all-day affair with two shows - first
it’s a matinee with female emcee Gangsta Boo of Three 6 Mafia with locals
Rapper Shane and Elevator Jay followed by an evening lineup of local rock acts
Hungry Girl, Serfs, and the Business People with Knocturnal host and resident
DJ Justin Aswell.
Warped Tour
With few true old timers on the bill Pierce the Veil, We Came as
Romans, Matchbook Romance, Escape the Fate, blessthefall, Family Force 5, the
Wonder Years, Metro Station, Black Veil
Brides, Juliet Simms, August Burns Red, Beartooth, Riff Raff, Asking Alexandria,
Silverstein and Miss May I are just some of the acts making for a decidedly
newer school Warped Tour.
Barenaked Ladies
Wednesday 7 p.m., Uptown Amphitheatre, 1000 NC Music
Factory Blvd., $29.50-$69.50, www.livenation.com
It’s hard to think of three quirkier, nerdier bands than
Barenaked Ladies, Violent Femmes, and Men at Work. Each holds the same sort of
slot for a generation charmed by unlikely, infectious radio hits. Ladies and
Femmes are joined by Men frontman Colin Hay, who has enjoyed the attention of a
new generation thanks to Zach Braff and “Scrubs.”
Stu Hamm
Wednesday 8 p.m., Neighborhood Theatre, 511 E. 36th
St., $20-$25, www.neighborhoodtheatre.com
With a sideman adept enough to keep up with both Steve Vai and
Joe Satriani, guitar geeks will want to tune in as this innovative bass guitar
giant is joined by Testament’s Alex Skolnick and Al Dimiola drummer Joel Taylor
for a mind, ear, and string bending (no doubt) musical exercise.
Freddy Jones Band
It’s not easy for a band to duplicate the success of its
first-run after a lengthy break, but the Chicago roots-rock band is making a
play to recapture the glory it enjoyed in the mid `90s as a peer to Hootie and
Dave Matthews with its new single “Those Diamods and the July release of “Never
Change” - its first full studio album since 1999.
The Temptations and Four Tops
Mirroring the short Broadway run the Motown legends did this
winter, the `60s two biggest vocal acts reunite for a friendly, if a tad
competitive, stroll down memory lane led by founders Otis Williams and Abdul
“Duke” Fakir the respective bands’ only surviving original members. It’s also a
perfect prequel to August’s Motown: The Musical at the same theater
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