Our Critics Picks
THURSDAY 4/10
Sophocles Slam
THE ANTIGONE CYCLE The
finale of People’s Branch Theatre’s ’07-’08 season is an original
reworking of the classic Greek Theban plays of Sophocles. Here, the
Antigone/Oedipus cycle is reimagined with contemporary urban style and
expressed via hip-hop, dance and the impassioned flair of slam poetry.
PBT artistic director Ross Brooks’ adaptation stresses the theme of
urban violence and its impact on the family, with a score by
award-winning singer-songwriters Lisa Kimmey and Juan Winans. The cast
of five includes Kamal Bolden, Rodrikus Springfield, Alicia Ridley,
Stephanie Vickers and Rashad Rayford. D. Richard Browder, who’s
successfully staged dances for Nashville Children’s Theatre, supervises
the choreography. This is a PG-13 show, with adult situations and
language. April 10-26 at The Belcourt Theatre
—MARTIN BRADY
Music
ROMANTICA Disaffected Americans such as Jeff Tweedy, Ryan Adams, Alex Chilton and the Sweetheart of the Rodeo-era
Byrds recast country, folk and rock ’n’ roll as interior monologue.
From Belfast by way of Minneapolis, Romantica bear comparison to any
number of groups who turn ready-made forms into pained examinations of
authenticity. On last year’s full-length America, singer and
songwriter Ben Kyle sounds like Tweedy—or Bruce Springsteen—while the
quartet’s moderate tempos and pedal steel surround songs that get
progressively more doleful. It takes a real romantic to describe the
Mississippi River as “holy water,” as Kyle does in “I Need You
Tonight.” In “How to Live in a Modern World,” Kyle wants nothing more
than to pull up roots and move to the big city. “Don’t do what your
daddy did,” he warns, but whether he plans to take his own advice
remains an open question. 7 p.m. at 3rd & Lindsley —EDD HURT
The Bittersweets
Music
THE BITTERSWEETS Change
has been afoot for the Bittersweets. They moved from San Francisco to
Nashville (there’ll be a farewell song to the city on their upcoming
album), signed with Compass Records and made their second full-length.
Fortunately it hasn’t hurt their exquisite alt-country pop one bit. The
duo at the heart of the Bittersweets is vocalist Hannah Prater and
guitarist and songwriter Chris Meyers. The whole band will join them
for this show, but they’ll do the rest of this Paste
magazine-sponsored tour in stripped-down fashion. Meyers’ melancholic
melodies are alternately fetching and devastating in Prater’s hands,
and her voice bears a resemblance to the luxurious lilt of Over the
Rhine’s Karen Bergquist. At shows, The Bittersweets are offering a live
album titled Long Way From Home to tide people over until the release of their new studio album. 7 p.m. at 3rd & Lindsley —JEWLY HIGHT
Oral History
STEPHEN DOSTER
A funny thing happens when you take a beautiful little seaside village
like, say, St. Simons Island in Georgia, and write a few hundred
magazine articles about how nice it is. Within a couple of decades, it
becomes just another beach town, with enough golf courses, chain coffee
shops and parking meters to push out all the local charm. Perhaps
that’s what led local author Stephen Doster to compose Voices From St. Simons: Personal Narratives of an Island’s Past,
a collection of 17 interviews with people whose connection to the
island goes back generations. As it turns out, St. Simons is something
of a crucible of American history—it was the landing place for Spanish
missionaries in the 1500s, a stronghold of the American Navy during
World War II and the birthplace of the world’s first motorized lawn
mower. Not bad for a beach town. 7 p.m. at Davis-Kidd Booksellers —CHRIS CLANCY
Trisha Yearwood
FRIDAY 4/11
Country Cookin’
TRISHA YEARWOOD The Grammy winner and country diva swaps lyrics for recipes with this month’s debut of Georgia Cooking in an Oklahoma Kitchen: Recipes From My Family to Yours. The
collection of Southern recipes includes no-fuss classics such as
pimento cheese spread, hash-brown casserole and cranberry salad with
Cool Whip, cream cheese and gelatin. Yearwood’s mom and sister chime in
with helpful kitchen hints, and mega-star hubby Garth Brooks pens a
foreword about, yes, cooking with love. (Cooking with Cool Whip just
doesn’t have the same ring.) 11 a.m. at David-Kidd Booksellers —CARRINGTON FOX
Art
IN MIND’S EYE Featuring work by Boston painter Laura Bean, ceramicist Debra Fritts and photo-encaustic artist Maggie Hasbrouck, In Mind’s Eye
presents work by three distinctive artists exploring form and
portraiture from a uniquely feminine perspective. Bean plays a game of
peek-a-boo with her paintings of dress forms that reveal as much as
they conceal, while Fritts’ anti-intuitive sculptures transform the
permanence of ceramics into transient entries in a 3-D diary.
Hasbrouck’s work—the highlight of the show—blurs the line between
photography and painting, while simultaneously re-creating realistic
portraiture into fantastic narrative. April 11-May 10 at Gallery One; opening reception, 6-8 p.m. —JOE NOLAN
Jason Eady
Music
JASON EADY
After chasing the muse through his teens, Jason Eady soured on the
narrow confines of Nashville country and ditched music for the Air
Force. While stationed in London he saw Steve Earle live and changed
his tune. When he was discharged, he returned to his Mississippi home
and recommitted himself to songwriting, incorporating a broad mix of
influences, including bluegrass, gospel, blues, folk and, in
particular, Texas country. It’d be fine if that was all he was
offering—he’s backed by some crack players—but he’s also blessed with a
narrative gift. The bustling folk of “Dancing Maria” suggests John
Mayer, were he edgy enough to tell the story of a john attempting to
turn the tables on a wallet-stealing stripper. 7 p.m. at 3rd &
Lindsley —CHRIS PARKER
Tarkovsky
THE MIRROR Last week Solaris, this week The Mirror:
For admirers of Andrei Tarkovsky, that’s more screenings of his work in
the past two weeks than Nashville theaters have had in the past 10
years. The Soviet master’s phantasmagorical 1975 sleepwalk through a
dying man’s childhood memories—realized in hallucinatory long takes,
like the legendary shot that sweeps from a child’s spoon dropping off a
kitchen table to a cabin engulfed in fire—gets its first local showing
in decades, courtesy of the New Pantheon Library. That’s the small
lending library co-founded by Watkins graphic-design student Ben
Marcantel and his NYC-based friend Austin Alexander, who hope to
supplement their Cocteau-to-Flannery O’Connor catalog with a monthly
movie club. If the free projected-from-DVD show in Watkins’ theater
goes well, expect more such nights—including a possible screening of
Cocteau’s 1930 The Blood of a Poet with an original score by Hands Off Cuba. 8 p.m. at Watkins College of Art & Design
—JIM RIDLEY
Snootchie Bootchies!
MALLRATS It got the ol’ stinkpalm from critics back in the day—you know, way back in 1995—but now Kevin Smith’s follow-up to Clerks looks like an early-’90s time capsule, all the way down to the Magic Eye posters and the first-wave B.J. and the Bear
nostalgia. Those who called it a major-studio sell-out couldn’t have
been more off-base: As an extension of Smith’s Askewniverse, it’s as
minutely detailed and hermetically personal as the Star Wars
saga he worships. Featuring then-skateboard champ Jason Lee in his
first role, along with pre-stardom Ben Affleck, Claire Forlani, Shannon
Doherty and Joey Lauren Adams (a guest at the upcoming Nashville Film
Festival), the day-at-the-mall farce screens at midnight with a
particularly rowdy program planned for the Friday show. Topless fortune
telling, anyone? Selected by projectionist Matt Polman. Midnight April 11-12 at The Belcourt Theatre —JIM RIDLEY
Snowbound
THE MOUSETRAP With
55 years on the London stage and more than 23,000 performances, this
Agatha Christie whodunit is theater’s all-world longest-running show.
It’s a classic Christie setup: A cadre of disparate individuals get
snowed-in at a hotel, and one of them is a killer. Rachael Parker and
Scott Hutcheson star. Through April 13 at Lamplighter’s Theatre, Smyrna —MARTIN BRADY
Music
BARBERSHOP HARMONY SOCIETY’S 70TH ANNIVERSARY Grab your porkpie hat and get ready to harmonize. Friday marks the 70th
anniversary of the founding of the Barbershop Harmony Society, a
Nashville-based organization with over 30,000 U.S. members. Since its
heyday, barbershop music has been preserved by a network of unrelenting
devotees—and made the occasional foray into pop culture kitschery: Who
could forget Homer Simpson and The Be Sharps? In celebration of this
occasion, the society will open Harmony Marketplace, a one-stop-shop
for all your barbershop needs, located at the group’s headquarters (110
Seventh Ave. N.). Suspenders optional. 10 a.m.-4 p.m. at Harmony Marketplace —LEE STABERT
Norree Boyd as Mama
Vintage Musical
MAME OK, so Mame is definitely better than Hello, Dolly!,
the last Jerry Herman musical to get mounted at Kaine Riggan’s
Nashville Dinner Theatre. It has a hipper story—about a New York
socialite who gains unexpected custody of her 10-year-old nephew—and
the songs, while still often in Herman’s incessantly peppy cut-time
mode, have more depth and humor. There’s “My Best Girl,” “We Need a
Little Christmas,” “Bosom Buddies” and, of course, a title song that’s
just like “Hello, Dolly,” only slightly better. Riggan has roped in
Norree Boyd, executive director of the Metro Nashville Arts Commission,
to play the lead. Holly Butler—Dolly in the aforementioned
production—plays second fiddle here as Mame’s pal Vera, but that means
she gets to sing one of the funnier numbers (a waltz, no less!) in the
musical theater canon, “The Man in the Moon Is a Lady.” April 11-27 at Donelson Senior Center for the Arts —MARTIN BRADY
Mercy Lounge —JACK SILVERMAN
SATURDAY 4/12
Music
MAURA O’CONNELL
This native Irishwoman got her start in the early ’80s, singing for
Irish folk traditionalists De Dannan, and worked with Béla Fleck and
the New Grass Revival in the mid-’80s. Fleck produced her solo debut,
1988’s wonderful, string-laden Just in Time. She settled in
Nashville and continues to move between pop, Celtic and American roots
music, covering artists ranging from Richard Thompson and Van Morrison
to Mary Chapin Carpenter and Patty Griffin. Her voice has the sleek
lines of a sportscar, accelerating smoothly into the upper registers
and roaring out with an alluring purr that makes even the mundane an
adventure. 8 p.m. at The Belcourt Theatre —CHRIS PARKER
Beat That
NASHVILLE GETS FRESH
There’s nothing like gyrating bodies and rubbery, laid-back reggae
grooves to get the endorphins and altruism flowing. Throw in visual
art, an array of dance performances and pulsing tribal percussion and
you’re likely to get a mixture of sensory stimulation, patchouli
hypnosis and environmentally conscious euphoria. That’s more or less
what world-music-minded drummer Thomas Anderson is going for with
Nashville Gets Fresh. Thomas’ own funk, reggae and hip-hop-blending
band capitalFRESH! are anchoring the night, and donating a portion of
the proceeds to an environmental sustainability fund. Thomas has
enlisted local groups like Full Circle Art Cooperative, Nashville Belly
Dance All-Stars (comprising Bodhicitta Bellydance Troupe and others),
the Nashville B-Boys (who make their weekly break-dancing home at
Rocketown) and tribal drum duo RhythMystik. Other rhythm-gifted folks
like the Flecktones’ Futureman will be there too. Heady stuff. 7 p.m. at Elevation
—JEWLY HIGHT
Music
BENEFIT IN HONOR OF TAMMY HART FEAT. GARRISON STARR
This town sure knows how to throw a party with a purpose. Local
Americana singer-songwriter Garrison Starr headlines this benefit in
honor of Tammy Hart, who recently underwent a cord blood stem cell
transplant at Vanderbilt Univerity—only the fourth of its kind—to cure
a rare form of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. All the proceeds benefit the
NTAF South-Atlantic Bone Marrow Transplant Fund. In addition to an
intimate performance by standout Starr, the event will feature a silent
auction and barbecue from Hog Heaven. The early start time means this
event is totally family-friendly. Bring the kids. Share the love. 5-8 p.m. at First Unity Church (5125 Franklin Road) —LEE STABERT
Music
RONNIE BAKER BROOKS
It’s a tragedy that we’ve become so used to blues guitarists who sound
as stiff and cold as a plate of day-old scrambled eggs, but Ronnie
Baker Brooks is doing his part to buck the trend. “I got the skee-uhls
to pay the bee-uhls,” Brooks proclaims on his latest album The Torch.
Talk is cheap, but you just can’t put a price on this record’s expert
production, which joins elements of blues, rock, funk and soul for a
fresh, vital new blend. Meanwhile, Brooks, for all his boasting, knows
how to conquer with restraint. Rather than burn up the fretboard with
lethargic leads and predictable solos, he pours his soul into rocking
rhythm parts. He lets the band swagger along until the heat builds and
then hits the high notes so that the music packs a real punch. 10 p.m. at B.B. King’s Blues Club
—SABY REYES-KULKARNI
More Family Tradition
JETT WILLIAMS As the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum’s spiffy new exhibit Family Tradition: The Williams Family Legacy demonstrates,
Jett Williams’ story ranks with Hank Williams’ as one of country
music’s most compelling. Her fascinating 1990 autobiography Ain’t Nothin’ as Sweet as My Baby
describes her life as an adopted child whose identity remained a
mystery until a lengthy series of lawsuits and trials proved she was
the legendary singer’s daughter. The exhibit does a superb job of
placing her within the context of her family. Hosted by exhibit
co-curator Michael McCall, the program will feature Williams talking
about her remarkable journey from average citizen to member of one of
popular music’s emblematic families. A gifted performer in her own
right, she’ll also perform songs from her father’s repertoire, which
promises to be a uniquely emotional experience. 2 p.m. at Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum —EDD HURT
Music
THE HOTPIPES W/THE HOWLIES
Somewhere amid Nashville’s cluttered country-rock and slick,
radio-friendly pop scene lie the Hotpipes, a band with both hipster
cred and genuine pop appeal, championing the best parts of art rock,
post-punk and experimental pop. The Hotpipes offer remarkably tight,
mature compositions marked by a strong sense of adventure. Their latest
effort, Future Bolt, showcases their sharpest songs to date,
and finds them evolving on a sound driven by wailing drums, raucous
guitars and lead singer Jon Rogers’ trademark rangy wail. Their
spacious, sprawling anthems are adorned with keys, tambourines,
synthesizers and horns, displaying the same type of ferocity, courage
and vinegar we’ve learned to expect since their self-titled release.
Let’s all hope Rogers is on point when he sings, “the future is where
we belong,” because this band deserves to stick around. Opening up are
The Howlies, who bring their ragged, vintage garage-pop all the way
from the ATL. 9 p.m. at The Basement —MURRAY SHARP
Think Pink
THE PINK PANTHER Nobody
remembers the diamond-heist McGuffin that props up Blake Edwards’ 1963
farce—the title refers to a priceless gem—since the movie itself was
hijacked by a supporting player (not to mention the animated feline
added as an afterthought). As intrepid, insipid Inspector Jacques
Clouseau, Peter Sellers parlayed a mouthful-of-fromage accent and a
gift for snowballing pratfalls into the role of a career. This isn’t as
consistently funny as some of the later films (there’s that plot with
David Niven, Robert Wagner and Capucine to contend with), but Edwards’
sure hand with the scaffolding of a sight gag produces some classic
moments—like Sellers’ ill-advised lean for support on a spinning globe.
Selected by operations director Melinda Morgan. Noon April 12-13 at The Belcourt Theatre—JIM RIDLEY
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Charlie Sizemore Band
Music
CHARLIE SIZEMORE BAND
Once a singing partner of Ralph Stanley, Charlie Sizemore is the
undisputed holder of the “Lawyer With the Most Lonesome Voice” title.
That might seem belied by the humorous cast of his current
chart-topping single, “Alison’s Band,” but most of Good News,
his Buddy Cannon-produced Rounder debut, showcases a mournful voice
that’s gained gravitas through the years without losing any of its
mountain twang. Backed by a band that included bassist/songwriter John
Pennell, veteran mandolin man Danny Barnes, nifty new dobro whiz Matt
DeSpain and the redoubtable Wayne Fields on banjo, Sizemore works
through a set of songs heavy on a kind of fatalism that’s been an
enduring strain in country music for decades, leavened only by the
occasional flash of mordant—and equally resigned—wit. Fields passed
away just weeks ago, but the rest of the band remains intact, enhanced
by the addition of under-praised banjo player Barry Crabtree. 9 p.m. at Station Inn —JON WEISBERGER
Art
POSITION EAST: RESURRECTION Nashville
provides fertile ground for artists’ co-ops. Maybe it goes back to
memories of the Fugitives, maybe it has to do with gaps in our public
and commercial space, or maybe people just like each other. One early
aggregation was Position East, which began in 1992, back when East
Nashville was still the frontier of residential real estate. Among the
group’s members were Kristi Hargrove, from the Watkins faculty, Jeff
Hand, known for his faux fur “paintings,” and Sherri Hunter Warner,
whose large mosaic sculptures serve as local landmarks. Position East
held biennial exhibits and used houses on the market as temporary
galleries. By 2000, members had started to move away and the group went
dormant, but they’ve decided to get together for a reunion show—back in
their old ’hood. April 12-May 25 at Art & Invention; opening reception, 6-10 p.m. —DAVID MADDOX
“Macrophagia,” Michael Baggarly at the Tennessee Arts Commission Gallery April 10-May 16; opening reception, 5-7 p.m. Saturday, April 12
Art
SURFACE RECORDINGS The
latest exhibit at the Tennessee Arts Commission Gallery continues an
exciting trend of intriguing contemporary shows at this venue that is
often overlooked in lieu of the new downtown First Saturday gallery
scene. Surface Recordings features new work by Lain York and
Michael Baggarly, two of Middle Tennessee’s most consistently
compelling artists, who both explore the intangible nature of texture
in paint and sculpture. York’s increasingly three-dimensional paintings
on wood panel deconstruct mask-forms and portraiture to create an
ironic iconography, while Baggarly’s sculpture re-creates familiar
furniture forms, rendering the seemingly comfortable anything but
inviting. Make an extra trip downtown for this exhibit—it promises to
be the next must-see show of the new year. April 10-May 16; opening reception 5-7 p.m. —JOE NOLAN
SUNDAY 4/13
In Heaven Everything Is Fine
ERASERHEAD An
early work that helped launch one of the great careers in current
American movies—that of production designer Jack Fisk, the hidden
genius behind the Terrence Malick filmography as well as There Will Be Blood, Phantom of the Paradise and the 1975 blaxploitation jawdropper Darktown Strutters.
It’s Fisk who pulls a giant crank on camera, opening the floodgates to
David Lynch’s 1977 debut—the director’s self-described “dream of dark
and troubling things,” reportedly completed with cash Fisk’s wife Sissy
Spacek made working on Carrie. Little more than a decade later,
Lynch, the man who made this black-and-white maelstrom of skinned-calf
babies, dust-bunny chanteuses, ink-spurting chickens and white-noise
industrial malaise, would find the natural home for his obsessions: a
network-TV soap. The movie screens for one week only in a new 30th-anniversary print, ready once again to startle and scar the unwary. Bring the post-nuclear family. Through April 19 at The Belcourt Theatre —JIM RIDLEY
Children’s Musical
A YEAR WITH FROG AND TOAD Award-winning children’s author/illustrator Arnold Lobel wrote a series of four “Frog and Toad”
books in the 1970s. That material was developed into this musical by
his daughter Adrianne, with a score by Robert and Willie Reale. After a
successful debut in 2002 at the Children’s Theatre Company of
Minneapolis, the show made it to Broadway and was later nominated for
three Tony Awards. The TPAC Presents series brings in this touring
production, which follows Lobel’s beloved characters (there’s also
Snail, Mouse and Turtle) as they move through the four
seasons—planting, swimming, raking and sledding—and learn important
lessons along the way. Noon & 4 p.m at TPAC’s Polk Theater —MARTIN BRADY
MONDAY 4/14
Blairing Horn
THE BLAIR COMMISSIONS PREMIERE
No, it’s not an investigation into the former British prime minister’s
complicity in the Iraq War. Thanks to a gift from the James Stephen
Turner Family Foundation, the Blair School of Music has been working
with some of the world’s great composers, commissioning “New Music for
the 21st Century,” to
be performed locally and around the country over the next few years.
The series premiere features a horn trio by Lowell Liebermann,
highlighting the talents of Blair professor Leslie Norton, principal
horn player for the Nashville Symphony. (For you novices, “horn” is the
proper name of what is often called a “French horn.”) According to The New York Times,
Liebermann is “as much of a traditionalist as an innovator,” and his
music is widely hailed for both its imagination and accessibility.
Violinist Carolyn Huebl and pianist Mark Wait round out the trio. 8 p.m. at the Blair School’s Turner Recital Hall —JACK SILVERMAN
Tristan Prettyman
TUESDAY 4/15
Music
TRISTAN PRETTYMAN
She’s Jack Johnson’s female counterpart—a good looking surfer cum
groove-heavy rocker. Prettyman pens lilting folk-rock ballads
preoccupied with relationships, but, like Johnson, adds a jam band
shuffle. Easygoing and lighthearted, tracks like her debut single “Love
Love Love” are indistinct from the field of MOR pop. Indeed much of her
2005 debut, Twenty-Three, is as callow as her age (23, natch)
and driven by generic love paeans. But breaking up with then-boyfriend
Jason Mraz helped. Perhaps his meh-diocre rock was bringing her down,
because follow-up Hello is a broad leap forward, bringing a
keen musical edge and a darker, less pie-eyed attitude. It’s a far more
sophisticated work. 8 p.m. at 3rd and Lindsley —CHRIS PARKER
Wordsmiths
ZONE 3 POETS
Davis-Kidd honors National Poetry Month with a trio of poets from
Austin Peay’s Zone 3 Press. David Till, whose debut collection Oval was published in 2006, crafts wry poems built around prosaic moments: Here is a small apple in my sack. / I look at it with distrust, its one bruise, / but I am going to eat it. Leigh Anne Couch’s 2007 collection Houses Fly Away
won the Zone 3 First Book Award. Much of her poetry is rooted in
Southern imagery and culture. She navigates past and present
simultaneously, as in “Absence”: When I call to you smokehouse and fields, / your radio tubes and rusted tools, / what are you now but in pieces.... Andrew Kozma, also a First Book Award winner for his City of Regret (2007), explores grim emotional terrain with surreal, often violent imagery: ...we
whistled the wild dogs closer, watched them run / down a startled
rabbit and huddle, a blush of fur. 6 p.m. at Davis-Kidd Booksellers
—MARIA BROWNING
Music
SKELETONWITCH Thrash
is back, in a big way. A new generation of metalheads have absorbed
every minute detail of classic ’80s thrash—from Slayer’s speed and
brutality to Metallica’s melodicism and orchestration. No one has
managed to maintain as fresh an approach while simultaneously threading
all the holes of the genre quite as effectively as Ohio-based
Skeletonwitch. Also opening on the juggernaut bill are like-minded
revivalists Toxic Holocaust and sludgey Louisiana mainstays Soilent
Green. Death metal purveyors Hate Eternal headline. 9 p.m. at
Exit/In —MATT SULLIVAN
Music
MAGIC WANDS
How does a band that’s never played a show or released a record land a
gig opening for The Raconteurs? They use magic, duh. Hailing from
“Fantasy Island, Zaire,” the ethereal pop duo of “Chris and Dexy
Valentine” is a mystery wrapped in an enigma, smothered in good,
old-fashioned gossip—like if Kate and Sawyer from Lost started
a Cocteau Twins cover band. The pair have been accused of erasing their
old identities, threatening former bandmates and wrasslin’ with rock
’n’ roll widows. Their hazy, reverb-drenched love songs seem poised to
tear a hole in the fabric of the universe, but only time will tell if
these DHARMA bums make it off the island. 9 p.m. Monday, 14th and Tuesday, 15th at Mercy Lounge —SEAN L. MALONEY
WEDNESDAY 4/16
Shelter From the Storm
THE GARDENER WORLD PREMIERE I
still remember the shock of returning home to East Nashville 10 years
ago, only to find that I had walk through a tangle of overturned cars,
downed trees and snapped telephone poles to get to my house, which had
lost part of its roof. Though it bounced across the city, nowhere did
the 1998 tornado have a more profound effect than on the East Side.
Accompanied by a chamber orchestra, singers from East Nashville and
Vanderbilt (Vandy senior Kevin Longinotti died in the tornado) are
presenting the premiere of The Gardener, a four-movement piece by Vanderbilt’s David Childs, commissioned
to commemorate the anniversary. If you witnessed how the neighborhood
coalesced in the face of the tragedy, and how the community has thrived
since, the piece’s title makes perfect sense. Here’s hoping the
performance tears the roof off the place, figuratively. 7 p.m. at East End United Methodist Church —JACK SILVERMAN
Music
UFO
If you haven’t kept up with UFO in the 30 years since their most fabled
lineup came to an end, you might be surprised to find that the British
(now partially America-based) rock outfit has reunited four-fifths of
that stellar group. Considered hard rock when they formed at the end of
the ’60s, UFO rose to their highest level of prominence when
unique-voiced guitar hero and former Scorpion Michael Schenker joined
the band. Much like the Scorpion’s finest (pre-hit) material, UFO’s
music has aged gracefully and now sounds like classic rock that just
never achieved classic status. Visa problems have kept bassist Pete Way
from appearing on these U.S. dates, but fellow founders Phil Mogg and
Andy Parker, longtime keyboardist Paul Raymond and journeyman guitar
hero Vinnie Moore will all be on hand. 6 p.m. at Wildhorse Saloon —SABY REYES-KULKARNI