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Top tickets: September 12, 2013
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Thursday, September 12, 2013
FRIDAY
Bukuru Celestin CD Release
Bukuru Celestin and his family arrived in America as refugees from Burundi almost six years ago. Since then, he has attended Music Lab at Jefferson Center where, by the time he graduated, his African gospel/folk music had caught the ear of international jazz-funk bassist and producer Michael League, of Snarky Puppy. Celestin and League collaborated on an album, “Amkeni,” released on the groundUp/Ropeadope label. The disc came out in late July and debuted at No. 8 on the iTunes world music charts.
Celestin, the Music Lab and a band loaded with some of Virginia’s finest players will celebrate the album with a CD release party. Pay the $12 admission fee and get a free copy of “Amkeni,” a wonderful fusion of Celestin’s African music, Southern gospel and funky jazz.
“It was amazing, the way he turned it to be,” Celestin said of the disc. “It was perfectly the way I wanted it to be.”
League and his Snarky Puppy bandmates are on their own tour this month and can’t be here. League said in a phone call last month that the record remained in that iTunes chart’s top 10 for most of the first week of its release, “which is amazing, especially for a 20-year-old artist’s first record.”
“It made me so happy to see that for him, because I was 20 when I made my first record, and it took me nine years of being a professional musician for anything that I had done to get into the top 10 of any chart, for that matter.”
Celestin’s singing kin, Furaha, Elvanie and Ephrasie, will back him up, as usual.
Details: 8 p.m. Rehearsal hall, Jefferson Center, Roanoke. $12; all ages. 345-2550, jeffcenter.org, bukuru.bandcamp.com/album/amkeni
Willie Nelson & Family
With Lukas Nelson and Promise of the Real
Flip back to Tuesday’s Extra section or visit music.roanoke.com to read more about this show, including an interview with Nelson’s son, Lukas.
Details: 7:30 p.m. Roanoke Performing Arts Theatre, Roanoke. $69.50, $49.50, $39.50. 877-482-8496, hometownbanktixnow.com, willienelson.com, promiseofthereal.com
FRIDAY-SUNDAY
Pink Moon Festival V
With EOTO, Rumpke Mountain Boys, David Gans, Big Something, Greenhouse Lounge, Former Champions and more
Annual outdoor music festival includes strong national acts along with such Roanoke Valley bands as Funk Punch.
Details: Noon each day. 641 Willowbend Road, Rock Camp, W.Va. $50 gate; $5 dog fee at gate. 304-994-0169, pinkmoonfestival.com, rumpkemountainboys.com, eotomusic.com
TONIGHT
Pete Anderson
Flip back to Tuesday’s Extra section of music.roanoke.com to read more about this hot guitarist and hear a podcast at blogs.roanoke.com/cutnscratch.
Details: 8 p.m. Blue 5 Restaurant, Roanoke. Free. 904-5338, blue5restaurant.com, peteanderson.com
The New Folk Social Hour
With Scott Fore, host Spencer McKenna
Fore, a perennial top finalist at the annual Old Fiddler’s Convention, in Galax, won this year’s guitar competition.
Details: 9 p.m. Fork in the Market, Roanoke. Free. 400-0644, marketfork.com
FRIDAY
The Young Sinclairs
With Peace Beast
Roanoke indie-rockers The Young Sinclairs have seen two of their recent singles get play on Little Steven’s Underground Garage radio show as “Coolest Song in the World.”
Details: 9 p.m. The Bazaar, 675 Brandon Ave., Roanoke. $5; all ages. 309-0928, theyoungsinclairs.bandcamp.com, peacebeast.bandcamp.com
BIG Something
North Carolina-based jam-rockers have built a strong following in Roanoke.
Details: 10 p.m. Martin’s Downtown Bar & Grill, Roanoke. $8. 985-6278, martinsdowntown.com, bigsomething.net
Sonny Moorman
Blues-rock from Cincinnati, Ohio.
Details: 9:30 p.m. Blue 5 Restaurant, Roanoke. Free. 904-5338, blue5restaurant.com, sonnymoorman.com
The Soles
Hear lots of Grateful Dead covers from this trio — Adam Beason, John McBroom and Matt Leonard.
Details: 9 p.m. 501 Speakeasy, Roanoke. Free. 400-6377, facebook.com/501speakeasy
Polychrome
Pop-rock originals and covers.
Details: 9:30 p.m. Awful Arthur’s, Salem. Free. 387-1004, facebook.com/awfularthurssalem, polychromelive.com
Dirty Rumors
Classic rock and jam covers.
Details: 9 p.m. The Coffee Pot Roadhouse, Roanoke. $5. 774-8256, facebook.com/Roanokesroadhouse
Contagious
Asheville, N.C., band goes the rock route, a la Nickelback, 3 Doors Down and Creed.
Details: 9 p.m. Sidewinders Steak House and Saloon, Roanoke. $5. 904-2777, sidewindersaloon.com, reverbnation.com/contagiousrockband
SATURDAY
Star City Latin Dance Festival
With West End Mambo
Learn to get your groove on in all-day dance lessons, then get that groove working with a live salsa band.
Details: 9 p.m. (lessons at 9 a.m.) Fitzpatrick Hall, Jefferson Center. $99 full-day pass, $18 per class; $12 for performance. 345-2550, jeffcenter.org/scldf13, westendmambo.com
Anthony Hall Memorial Rock Out
With Madrone, Electric Chameleon
Madrone celebrates the life of Anthony Hall, cousin of frontman J.D. Sutphin. Hall was stabbed to death outside a Roanoke bar a year ago.
Details: 9 p.m. Awful Arthur’s, Downtown. $5. 344-2997, facebook.com/awfularthursdowntown, madroneonline.com, facebook.com/electricchameleon
Black Dog Music and BBQ Festival
With Donna The Buffalo, Big Daddy Love
Read more about festival headliner Donna the Buffalo and its new album, “Tonight Tomorrow and Yesterday,” at roanoke.com/living/music.
Details: 11 a.m. Chateau Morrisette, Blue Ridge Parkway Milepost 171.5, Floyd. $25 advance; $30 gate; $20 to designated drivers and ages 13-20; free to 12 and younger accompanied by paying adult. 593-2865, thedogs.com, donnathebuffalo.com, bigdaddylove.com
The Oak Ridge Boys
Flip back to Wednesday’s Extra section or visit music.roanoke.com to read more about this show, and hit blogs.roanoke.com/cutnscratch to hear an audio interview with Oak Ridge Boys bass singer Richard Sterban.
Details: 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Edwards Hall, room 117, New River Commnunity College, Dublin. $30, $35. 674-3600 (ext. 4307), nr.edu/fiddle, oakridgeboys.com
Dirt Road Scholars
Rocking country.
Details: 9 p.m. Sidewinders Steak House and Saloon, Roanoke. $5. 904-2777, sidewindersaloon.com, reverbnation.com/thedirtroadscholars
The Color J
Funk and soul grooves.
Details: 10 p.m. The Blues BBQ Co., Roanoke. Free. 344-5683, facebook.com/BluesBbqCo, reverbnation.com/thecolorj
Common Foundation
Ska and reggae from Asheville, N.C.
Details: 10 p.m. Martin’s Downtown Bar & Grill, Roanoke. Free. 985-6278, martinsdowntown.com, commonfoundationband.com
Super Hold
Hear your favorite songs from the 1980s.
Details: 9:30 p.m. Awful Arthur’s, Salem. $10. 387-1004, facebook.com/awfularthurssalem, superholdband.com
Sharaya Spears
Folk-leaning singer/songwriter.
Details: 8 p.m. 501 Speakeasy, Roanoke. Free. Free. 400-6377, facebook.com/501speakeasy, reverbnation.com/sharayahspears
SUNDAY
Close Kin: Sammy Shelor with David and Linda Lay, Kirk Sutphin, The New Ballard’s Branch Bogtrotters
This concert, which honors Joe Wilson and the National Council for the Traditional Arts, features some of the best performers that Southwest Virginia has to offer.
Details: 3 p.m. Blue Ridge Music Center, Blue Ridge Music Center, Milepost 213, Blue Ridge Parkway, near Galax. $10; free to 12 and younger. 276-236-5309 (ext. 112), blueridgemusiccenter.org
Richfield’s Concert by the Lake Series
With Celtibillies, Warpipe
High-profile Celtic/Appalachian band Celtibillies and bagpipe-slinging Warpipe plays by the small lake at the Richfield campus.
Details: 1:30 p.m. Richfield, 3737 W. Main St., Salem. Free. 380-6511, richfieldliving.com
Blue Moonshine
Original bluegrass and Americana from a Roanoke band.
Details: 5 p.m. Fork in the Alley, Roanoke. Free. 982-3675, forkinthealley.com, bluemoonshineband.com
MONDAY
The End of America
Check out a New York City folk/Americana band with a name and songs inspired by Beat generation pioneer Jack Kerouac.
Details: 9:30 p.m. Fork in the Market, Roanoke. Free. 400-0644, marketfork.com, theendofamericamusic.com
TUESDAY
Dustin Smith and the Sunday Silos
Des Moines, Iowa, folk-rock band is reminiscent of recent Holy Ghost Tent Revival music.
Details: 10 p.m. Martin’s Downtown Bar & Grill, Roanoke. Free. 985-6278, martinsdowntown.com, dustinsmithtunes.com
WEDNESDAY
Dustin Lynch
Up-and-coming country act has such songs as “She Cranks My Tractor” and “Wild In Your Smile.”
Details: 7:30 p.m. Sidewinders Steak House and Saloon, Roanoke. $20 plus service fee advance online; $25 door. 904-2777, sidewindersaloon.com, brownpapertickets.com/event/462053, dustinlynchmusic.com
The Mantras
Prog-rock jammers.
Details: 10 p.m. Martin’s Downtown Bar & Grill, Roanoke. $6 advance; $8 day of show. 985-6278, martinsdowntown.com, themantras.com
Bukuru Celestin CD Release
Bukuru Celestin and his family arrived in America as refugees from Burundi almost six years ago. Since then, he has attended Music Lab at Jefferson Center where, by the time he graduated, his African gospel/folk music had caught the ear of international jazz-funk bassist and producer Michael League, of Snarky Puppy. Celestin and League collaborated on an album, “Amkeni,” released on the groundUp/Ropeadope label. The disc came out in late July and debuted at No. 8 on the iTunes world music charts.
Celestin, the Music Lab and a band loaded with some of Virginia’s finest players will celebrate the album with a CD release party. Pay the $12 admission fee and get a free copy of “Amkeni,” a wonderful fusion of Celestin’s African music, Southern gospel and funky jazz.
“It was amazing, the way he turned it to be,” Celestin said of the disc. “It was perfectly the way I wanted it to be.”
League and his Snarky Puppy bandmates are on their own tour this month and can’t be here. League said in a phone call last month that the record remained in that iTunes chart’s top 10 for most of the first week of its release, “which is amazing, especially for a 20-year-old artist’s first record.”
“It made me so happy to see that for him, because I was 20 when I made my first record, and it took me nine years of being a professional musician for anything that I had done to get into the top 10 of any chart, for that matter.”
Celestin’s singing kin, Furaha, Elvanie and Ephrasie, will back him up, as usual.
Details: 8 p.m. Rehearsal hall, Jefferson Center, Roanoke. $12; all ages. 345-2550, jeffcenter.org, bukuru.bandcamp.com/album/amkeni
Willie Nelson & Family
With Lukas Nelson and Promise of the Real
Flip back to Tuesday’s Extra section or visit music.roanoke.com to read more about this show, including an interview with Nelson’s son, Lukas.
Details: 7:30 p.m. Roanoke Performing Arts Theatre, Roanoke. $69.50, $49.50, $39.50. 877-482-8496, hometownbanktixnow.com, willienelson.com, promiseofthereal.com
FRIDAY-SUNDAY
Pink Moon Festival V
With EOTO, Rumpke Mountain Boys, David Gans, Big Something, Greenhouse Lounge, Former Champions and more
Annual outdoor music festival includes strong national acts along with such Roanoke Valley bands as Funk Punch.
Details: Noon each day. 641 Willowbend Road, Rock Camp, W.Va. $50 gate; $5 dog fee at gate. 304-994-0169, pinkmoonfestival.com, rumpkemountainboys.com, eotomusic.com
TONIGHT
Pete Anderson
Flip back to Tuesday’s Extra section of music.roanoke.com to read more about this hot guitarist and hear a podcast at blogs.roanoke.com/cutnscratch.
Details: 8 p.m. Blue 5 Restaurant, Roanoke. Free. 904-5338, blue5restaurant.com, peteanderson.com
The New Folk Social Hour
With Scott Fore, host Spencer McKenna
Fore, a perennial top finalist at the annual Old Fiddler’s Convention, in Galax, won this year’s guitar competition.
Details: 9 p.m. Fork in the Market, Roanoke. Free. 400-0644, marketfork.com
FRIDAY
The Young Sinclairs
With Peace Beast
Roanoke indie-rockers The Young Sinclairs have seen two of their recent singles get play on Little Steven’s Underground Garage radio show as “Coolest Song in the World.”
Details: 9 p.m. The Bazaar, 675 Brandon Ave., Roanoke. $5; all ages. 309-0928, theyoungsinclairs.bandcamp.com, peacebeast.bandcamp.com
BIG Something
North Carolina-based jam-rockers have built a strong following in Roanoke.
Details: 10 p.m. Martin’s Downtown Bar & Grill, Roanoke. $8. 985-6278, martinsdowntown.com, bigsomething.net
Sonny Moorman
Blues-rock from Cincinnati, Ohio.
Details: 9:30 p.m. Blue 5 Restaurant, Roanoke. Free. 904-5338, blue5restaurant.com, sonnymoorman.com
The Soles
Hear lots of Grateful Dead covers from this trio — Adam Beason, John McBroom and Matt Leonard.
Details: 9 p.m. 501 Speakeasy, Roanoke. Free. 400-6377, facebook.com/501speakeasy
Polychrome
Pop-rock originals and covers.
Details: 9:30 p.m. Awful Arthur’s, Salem. Free. 387-1004, facebook.com/awfularthurssalem, polychromelive.com
Dirty Rumors
Classic rock and jam covers.
Details: 9 p.m. The Coffee Pot Roadhouse, Roanoke. $5. 774-8256, facebook.com/Roanokesroadhouse
Contagious
Asheville, N.C., band goes the rock route, a la Nickelback, 3 Doors Down and Creed.
Details: 9 p.m. Sidewinders Steak House and Saloon, Roanoke. $5. 904-2777, sidewindersaloon.com, reverbnation.com/contagiousrockband
SATURDAY
Star City Latin Dance Festival
With West End Mambo
Learn to get your groove on in all-day dance lessons, then get that groove working with a live salsa band.
Details: 9 p.m. (lessons at 9 a.m.) Fitzpatrick Hall, Jefferson Center. $99 full-day pass, $18 per class; $12 for performance. 345-2550, jeffcenter.org/scldf13, westendmambo.com
Anthony Hall Memorial Rock Out
With Madrone, Electric Chameleon
Madrone celebrates the life of Anthony Hall, cousin of frontman J.D. Sutphin. Hall was stabbed to death outside a Roanoke bar a year ago.
Details: 9 p.m. Awful Arthur’s, Downtown. $5. 344-2997, facebook.com/awfularthursdowntown, madroneonline.com, facebook.com/electricchameleon
Black Dog Music and BBQ Festival
With Donna The Buffalo, Big Daddy Love
Read more about festival headliner Donna the Buffalo and its new album, “Tonight Tomorrow and Yesterday,” at roanoke.com/living/music.
Details: 11 a.m. Chateau Morrisette, Blue Ridge Parkway Milepost 171.5, Floyd. $25 advance; $30 gate; $20 to designated drivers and ages 13-20; free to 12 and younger accompanied by paying adult. 593-2865, thedogs.com, donnathebuffalo.com, bigdaddylove.com
The Oak Ridge Boys
Flip back to Wednesday’s Extra section or visit music.roanoke.com to read more about this show, and hit blogs.roanoke.com/cutnscratch to hear an audio interview with Oak Ridge Boys bass singer Richard Sterban.
Details: 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Edwards Hall, room 117, New River Commnunity College, Dublin. $30, $35. 674-3600 (ext. 4307), nr.edu/fiddle, oakridgeboys.com
Dirt Road Scholars
Rocking country.
Details: 9 p.m. Sidewinders Steak House and Saloon, Roanoke. $5. 904-2777, sidewindersaloon.com, reverbnation.com/thedirtroadscholars
The Color J
Funk and soul grooves.
Details: 10 p.m. The Blues BBQ Co., Roanoke. Free. 344-5683, facebook.com/BluesBbqCo, reverbnation.com/thecolorj
Common Foundation
Ska and reggae from Asheville, N.C.
Details: 10 p.m. Martin’s Downtown Bar & Grill, Roanoke. Free. 985-6278, martinsdowntown.com, commonfoundationband.com
Super Hold
Hear your favorite songs from the 1980s.
Details: 9:30 p.m. Awful Arthur’s, Salem. $10. 387-1004, facebook.com/awfularthurssalem, superholdband.com
Sharaya Spears
Folk-leaning singer/songwriter.
Details: 8 p.m. 501 Speakeasy, Roanoke. Free. Free. 400-6377, facebook.com/501speakeasy, reverbnation.com/sharayahspears
SUNDAY
Close Kin: Sammy Shelor with David and Linda Lay, Kirk Sutphin, The New Ballard’s Branch Bogtrotters
This concert, which honors Joe Wilson and the National Council for the Traditional Arts, features some of the best performers that Southwest Virginia has to offer.
Details: 3 p.m. Blue Ridge Music Center, Blue Ridge Music Center, Milepost 213, Blue Ridge Parkway, near Galax. $10; free to 12 and younger. 276-236-5309 (ext. 112), blueridgemusiccenter.org
Richfield’s Concert by the Lake Series
With Celtibillies, Warpipe
High-profile Celtic/Appalachian band Celtibillies and bagpipe-slinging Warpipe plays by the small lake at the Richfield campus.
Details: 1:30 p.m. Richfield, 3737 W. Main St., Salem. Free. 380-6511, richfieldliving.com
Blue Moonshine
Original bluegrass and Americana from a Roanoke band.
Details: 5 p.m. Fork in the Alley, Roanoke. Free. 982-3675, forkinthealley.com, bluemoonshineband.com
MONDAY
The End of America
Check out a New York City folk/Americana band with a name and songs inspired by Beat generation pioneer Jack Kerouac.
Details: 9:30 p.m. Fork in the Market, Roanoke. Free. 400-0644, marketfork.com, theendofamericamusic.com
TUESDAY
Dustin Smith and the Sunday Silos
Des Moines, Iowa, folk-rock band is reminiscent of recent Holy Ghost Tent Revival music.
Details: 10 p.m. Martin’s Downtown Bar & Grill, Roanoke. Free. 985-6278, martinsdowntown.com, dustinsmithtunes.com
WEDNESDAY
Dustin Lynch
Up-and-coming country act has such songs as “She Cranks My Tractor” and “Wild In Your Smile.”
Details: 7:30 p.m. Sidewinders Steak House and Saloon, Roanoke. $20 plus service fee advance online; $25 door. 904-2777, sidewindersaloon.com, brownpapertickets.com/event/462053, dustinlynchmusic.com
The Mantras
Prog-rock jammers.
Details: 10 p.m. Martin’s Downtown Bar & Grill, Roanoke. $6 advance; $8 day of show. 985-6278, martinsdowntown.com, themantras.com
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