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Oakland Americana band, The Shants, are be taking their Southern folk and country sounds up and down the West Coast in August, kicking off their tour in Sacramento. See them at The Naked Lounge, 1111 H  Street in Sacramento, on August 19. The show starts at 8:00 PM and cost is $5.00. Joining the kickoff party will be locals Not an Airplane, and The Foxtails which is the debut of a new band from Erik Hanson (The Stragglers, Forever Goldrush) and Brianna Lea Pruett.

From their press:

Though only a year old, The Shants have garnered praise from FILTER, No Depression, San Francisco Chronicle, and music blogs like Beat Surrender and A Truer Sound. The Shants’ slow-burning sound originates from the rural backgrounds of its members: from South Louisiana delta pines, to the brusk plains of Minnesota, to the rolling hills of the Central California Coast. The Shants now call Oakland, California home. They have shared the stage with Basia Bulat, Adam Acuragi, Damien Jurado, Christina Antipa, Grand Lake, and many others. NOTE: After moving from his hometown of Baton Rouge, Louisiana… singer Skip Allums spent a few years in Sacramento before settling in the Bay Area.

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Today’s Sacramento Bee had a nice article on all-ages music venues here in Sactown. Hey, music doesn’t care how old you are! You can read their article here.

It begins:

Much has been made of midtown and downtown Sacramento’s resurgent night life scene, with its wine bars and swank cocktail lounges. But a different renaissance is occurring as well – one less shiny, more grass-roots and definitely aimed at a younger crowd.

Sacramento’s all-ages music scene, once mostly spread out to suburban venues such as the Boardwalk and Club Retro, both in Orangevale, has centralized over the past few years and especially the past several months, with several intriguing all-ages (as opposed to 21-plus or 18-plus) venues opening either in or within a guitar pick’s throw of midtown.

And it goes on from there, check it out. Then let us know, did they get it right? Did they leave out the best place? If you have an opinion or an addition, feel free to leave us a comment.

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