extended play
Holy Hell & the Hangovers works out at Brewballs in Burlington on Wednesday. Caleb Caudle & the Bayonets, the Lonely H and Country Dan Collins anchor the mid-week night at the Garage in Winston-Salem, while Jerry Chapman presides at Foothills Brewing.
Clay Howard & Benjy Johnson provide a midday respite at Center City Park in Greensboro on Wednesday. EMF Faculty and special guests Andrew Willis and Henry Lebedinski perform Bach’s Brandenburg Concerti at First Presbyterian Church in Greensboro on Wednesday.
Hey Monday, This Providence, the Friday Night Boys, Stereo Skyline and the Bigger Lights gang up at Green Street Club — also in Greensboro, of course — on Wednesday.
Peter’s Shadow, Rising From the Ashes and Walking Edith Park converge on the Soundvent in Thomasville on Thursday. Simplified plays an outdoor concert at Corpening Plaza in Winston-Salem on Thursday. And the Saving Graces and the Successful Failures surface at the Garage.
Bright Sheng conducts an Eastern Music Festival Young Artists Series concert featuring flautist Les Roettges performing Shostakovich, Bright Sheng and Tchaikovsky at Guilford College’s Dana Auditorium in Greensboro on Thursday. Lost in the Trees appears with Rachel Loebs at the Blind Tiger.
The hard-working Holy Hell & the Hangovers rock Red Bull Tavern in Burlington on Friday. Left on Cates, Kaustic, Pivot, By Morning, We Are Masked and Drive She Said plug in and turn it up at the Raven in Burlington on Friday.
Getting back to Winston-Salem, Rose’s Pawn Shop, the bo-stevens and 500 Miles to Memphis erect a roots-rock tripod at the Garage on Friday. Matt Hill & the Buzzkillz work 6th & Vine, and TS Leach appears at Elliott’s Revue.
In Greensboro, Jose-Luis Novo conducts an Eastern Music Festival Young Artists Series concert featuring the works of Poulenc and
shostakovich at Dana Auditorium on Friday. Dan Zanes & Friends
perform under the “emF kids concerts” banner at Greensboro Day School
on Friday. other cool stuff in Greensboro on Friday: the
Mantras at the Blind Tiger; the Secret Handshake,
PlayRadioPlay!, Love You Long Time, Saturday Night Lies and Stereo in
Stasis at Greene Street Club; and Chinese Fire Drill, Ryan Houser
and Kristen Leigh at Maya Art Gallery.
A Light
Divided, Resort to Killing, Black 29, Zero System and 7 Day Sorrow
hold the Soundvent under a reign of terror on Saturday.
African Heritage Day features bluesman Boo Hanks, poet
Josephus III, African choir Ohenemma, storyteller Fred Motley
and the Kuumbia African Dance Co. at the Charlotte Hawkins Brown
Museum in sedalia on Saturday.
Jeffrey Dean Foster & the
Birds of Prey and the Houstons rave up at the Garage on
Saturday. The Feral Souls and Joe Blevins of the old stone
Revue get down at Elliott’s Revue on Saturday.
The
Eastern Music Festival Orchestra, conducted by Gerard Schwartz and
Bright Sheng, and featuring pianist Horacio Gutierrez, performs
Beethoven, Bright sheng and Janacek at Dana Auditorium on Saturday.
The musical component of “comics and chords” at the Flatiron
in Greensboro on Saturday is Filthybird and Jew(s) and
Catholic(s). continuing with Saturday events in Greensboro: Bertha
Young & the BYoung Band work Studio B, Jim Weider’s Project
Percolator rocks the roots tip at the Blind Tiger, and the Forever
Endeavor, Autumn Nights and the Coliseum play for the glory of God at
Caf Jam. The Philharmonia performs at Lindley Park in
Greensboro on Sunday, July 19. The One Love Reggae Festival
features Bounty Killer, Serani, Collie Buddz, Tanya Stephens and
Mavado in the Greensboro Coliseum parking lot on July 19.
The New Horizon Band gives a free concert at the Greensboro
Cultural Center on July 19. The Strangers Family Band appears
at Elliott’s Revue on July 21. The Hideout Bar in
Winston-salem hosts a jam session every Tuesday, which falls on July
21. A UNCG Chamber Series concert features pianist Horacio
Gutierrez performing schubert, Takemitsu and Brahms at UNCG’s Recital
Hall on July 21. on the same day, a Carnegie Chamber Series
concert features works by Persichetti, William Grant still, Thierry de mey
and Beethoven at Guilford college’s Hege Library.
Our Horse Jethro,
Renee Arozqueta and Spider Octopus appear at the Green Bean on
July 21, and Cythera plays the Blind Tiger.
Both
nights of the EMF and Greensboro Opera performance of the songs of
Rodgers and Hammerstein at Temple Emanuel in Greensboro on July 21 and
22 are sold out.


















