Nightspots
Wednesday Feb 24, 2010
The Ark: Seth Walker
Blues-based down-home Americana by this Austin-based singer- songwriter. $15.
The Black Pearl: Laith Al-Saadi
Soulful acoustic rock and blues covers and originals by this local singer-guitarist.
The Blind Pig: One Be Lo
Local hip-hop MC, also known as One Man Army. Opening acts are Yin and other local hip-hop MCs TBA.
The Circus: Red Sea Pedestrians
Kalamazoo neo-klezmer sextet of singer-songwriters and multi- instrumentalists who blend traditional klezmer music with a host of other styles.
Elbow Room: The Great Lakes Myth Society
Local folk-rock sextet whose music is an eclectic mix of Appalachian music, prog-rock, and sea shanties. Opening acts: Black Jake & the Carnies is an Ypsilanti octet that calls its energetic, foot-stomping blend of punk, old-time music, and bluegrass “crabgrass.” All Music Guide writer Steve Leggett calls it “a kind of raucous acoustic Americana that tosses postmodern Appalachian murder ballads, Irish drinking songs, skewed, twisted love songs and general cautionary tales into a stylistic blender that has them sounding like nothing so much as a maverick, hopped-up punk polka band in full 21st- century everything-fits jug band mode.” Theodore is a St. Louis quartet led by singer-songwriter Justin Kinkel-Schuster that plays country-folk Americana with a distinct Mexican flavor. Jim Roll, isa nationally prominent local singer- songwriter known for his barbed alt-country-flavored folk- rockballads and love songs.
The Habitat Ultralounge: Slice
East Lansing pop dance quartet.
Keystone Underground Martini Bar: Open Mike
All musicians invited. 10 p.m.
