As for some events this week:
Tonight, Wednesday, July 8 :
- The Bob Dylan Show (also featuring Willie Nelson and John Cougar Mellencamp) is coming to the Louisville Slugger Field. Doors are at 5:30 p.m. and tickets are $69.50.
- The Summer Classic Film Series at the Kentucky Theatre is showing "The Godfather" at 1:30 and 7:15. (All seats $4.) Take the gun, leave the canoli.
- KCTC Summerfest kicks off this evening at the Arboretum, with Henry IV (running through Sunday). This summer theater festival stepped up to fill the gap that Shakespeare in the Park left when it ended a few years back. For more info, visit the KCTC Summerfest homepage.
Thursday, July 9:
- Catch local poet Sunny Montgomery on Trivial Thursdays with Mick Jeffries on WRFL from 7 a.m. - 9 a.m. (tune into 88.1 fm or stream it at wrfl.fm). Sunny was recently chosen by the ELandFGallery Small Projects Accelerator to be the Bangin' Up a Storm! poet, meaning she will tour area nursing homes on July 15, reading poetry (both original and favorite chosen poems). The event will close with a public reading at Morris Book Shop at 7:30. More info on this unique event at the ElandFGallery site.
- Award-winning orchestral pop nine piece Lost in Trees will be playing at Natasha's: "Garden State Film Festival’s winner for Best Music in a Short Animation, Lost in the Trees brings their nine piece band to Natasha’s Bistro. The Chapel Hill natives are surrounded by praise from a variety of publications including Entertainment Weekly, Pop Matters, All Music Guide, IGN, Shuffle Magazine and The Independent. With their fearless leader at the helm, composer, musician, vocalist Ari Picker this stunning orchestral-pop outfit performs a truly engaging, dynamic live show. Their vibe is something special, rare and infectious." Show starts at 9 p.m., $7.
- Great night of experimental music at Al's Bar, featuring Sound/Vision, a local outfit made up of mostly UK music students ( I think!)who performs avant garde + modern compositions, with video accompaniment. Experimental cellist Valerie Kuehne from New York and drummer David Grollman will also perform.
- Coralee and the Townies are playing at the Fishtank.
Friday, July 10
- Forecastle Fest kicks off in Louisville tonight with headlining sets by Zappa Plays Zappa (Zappa tribute band led by Zappa's son Dweezil), Pretty Lights (glitchy electronica) and Black Keys (rockin' Southern blues-indie two-piece). The After Party on the Belle of Louisville features DJs Tim Norris, Jesse Jamz, and Designer Drugs.
- Louisville's Mickey Clark (who happens to be my uncle) will be performing at Natasha's. He's a Nashville-trained "legendary songwriter" (according to Natasha's - not trying to toot my own familey's horn here), whose songs have been recorded by the Oak Ridge Boys and Jerry Lee Lewis. His latest album features guest appearances by Sam Bush, Tim Krekel, John Prine and others. If country-twinged singer-songwriter stuff is up your alley, this show is definitely recommended! $7, 9 p.m.
- For more country-twinged singer-songwritin' action, check out the lovely Coralee and the Townies at Al's Bar.
Saturday, July 11
- 2:00 p.m. - Adam Craft will sign Songs of Nod at Morris Book Shop. From Morris' website: "Local Author Adam Craft will sign his second work of macabre vignettes, Songs of Nod. This new collection of eighteen stories can be read as a companion to Craft's first work, Echoes of Nod, but it also stands fully on its own."
- 4 p.m. - 7 p.m - Public memorial for James Baker Hall, who died on Thursday, June 25. "Music will begin at 3:30p and the service will start at shortly after 4p. in Lexington's Gratz Park. (If the weather is forbidding, we'll move inside to the Jesse Stuart room of the Carnegie Center.) Around 5:30 a reception will begin in the Carnegie Center, with food and drink and poetry. We would like to ask that contributions for the reception be made as wine - if you knew Jim, you understand how much he treasured wine. So, bring some libation and please celebrate Jim, if you wish, by bringing along a poem to read. We hope you'll join us as you can."
- Louisville's Forecastle Festival will feature a performance from Lexington's March Madness Marching Band today! Other Saturday performances will include Man Man, Arnett Hollow, Royal Bangs, Black Crowes, Widespread Panic and many more
- Good Foods Market & Cafe will offer live music & grill out every Saturday in July! Enjoy local grilled meats and veggie burgers, signature homemade fresh squeezed lemonade, fresh organic juices, iced tea, and fruit smoothies. This Saturday features live music from Lot 13 (classic rock).
- Spooky Qs / Smuttynose/Betty Rat at Al's Bar
- I think I've written enough about the SUNN 0))) show on this blog already, but just in case you didn't catch it, it's tonight, at the Southgate House in Newport, and it's going to be the darkest, heaviest shit ever. See you there - if you think you can handle it.
- On that note, the light & airy Bluegrass Collective will be making their triumphant return to Pazzo's Patio (one of my favorite patios in town) tonight! If you've seen these guys, you know they're great, and if you haven't, let me tell you - they're great! Casual, traditional bluegrass with some fun covers thrown in for good measure. 9ish p.m.
- The Forecastle line-up tonight features These United States, Yonder Mountain String Band, the Avett Brothers, and more Widespread Panic (in case you didn't get enough on Saturday night).
Monday, July 13
- The place to be tonight is Al's Bar, for Deer Tick, raucous honky tonk garage music. It's a WRFL sponsored show, so you know it's gonna be good - right?
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