Lots of great shows coming up in Sactown, as usual. Here are some of them. Go to the SBL Entertainment web site for more details.
Check out this list of shows!
Diego’s Umbrella
Buster Blue
San Francisco’s ambassadors of gypsy rock, Diego’s Umbrella captures California’s cultural multiplicity with enthusiasm, humor and decadence. These urban, gringo mariachis have performed more than 1 …
02/09
SHOW: 8:00 PM
Harlow’s Restaurant and Nightclub
Tickets
$12 advance, $15 day of show
Tempest
Since forming in 1988, Tempest has delivered a globally-renowned hybrid of high-energy folk rock fusing Irish reels, Scottish ballads, Norwegian influences and other world music elements. The last 23 …
02/10
DOORS: 6:00 PM / SHOW: 7:00 PM
Harlow’s Restaurant and Nightclub
Tickets
$15.00 – $18.00
Steelin? Dan: A Tribute to the music of Steely Dan
This 10-piece band is well known for their ability to recreate the timeless music of Steely Dan in a way that is authentic and powerful! As winners of the 2011 SAMMIE Award (“Best Cover Band”) as w …
02/11
DOORS: 5:30 PM / SHOW: 7:00 PM
Harlow’s Restaurant and Nightclub
Tickets
$15 advance, $18 day of show
Close to You: A Tribute to The Carpenters
CLOSE TO YOU ? ?The Music of the Carpenter’s ” The distinct and sensational alto voice of Karen Carpenter, along with the exquisite arrangements of Richard Carpenter, are restored by accomplished v …
02/12
SHOW: 7:00 PM
Harlow’s Restaurant and Nightclub
Tickets
$15 advance, $18 day of show
Storm Large
A performer of Wikipedian proportions , Storm Large has been singing and slinging inappropriate banter at audiences around the globe for more than 15 years . Seven years ago she moved to Portland and …
02/14
SHOW: 7:00 PM
Don Quixote’s International Music Hall
Tickets
$15 advance, $18 day of show
T. Mills
Pop music is yet to see the creative likes of an artist like T. Mills. Unlike any other artist before him, he brings unbridled passion to his genre-bending confections and enrapturing performances – a …
02/15
SHOW: 7:00 PM
Colonial Theatre (CA)
Tickets
$15 advance
Storm Large
A performer of Wikipedian proportions , Storm Large has been singing and slinging inappropriate banter at audiences around the globe for more than 15 years . Seven years ago she moved to Portland and …
02/15
SHOW: 7:00 PM
Harlow’s Restaurant and Nightclub
Tickets
$15 advance, $18 day of show
Cash?d Out: A Tribute to Johnny Cash
Cash’d Out is the premier Johnny Cash tribute band in the world, bar none. Cash’d Out is the only tribute band endorsed by and linked to the official Johnny Cash website. Cash’d Out live shows resp …
02/17
SHOW: 7:00 PM
Harlow’s Restaurant and Nightclub
Tickets
$15 advance, $18 day of show
Andy McKee
Antoine Dufour
Andy McKee is considered one of the world’s finest acoustic guitar soloists. His dedicated online community has raised his YouTube video views in excess of 78 million plays and at one point he held th …
02/17
SHOW: 7:30 PM
Bing Crosby Theater
Tickets
$20.00 advance, $25 day of show
Diego’s Umbrella
San Francisco’s ambassadors of gypsy rock, Diego’s Umbrella captures California’s cultural multiplicity with enthusiasm, humor and decadence. These urban, gringo mariachis have performed more than 1 …
02/18
SHOW: 8:00 PM
Don Quixote’s International Music Hall
Tickets
$12.00 – $15.00
Fred Eaglesmith
Like all great and genuine artists, Fred Eaglesmith lets his muse call the tune on his 18th album, Cha Cha Cha. And this time out it’s the big beat of rock’n'roll. And it is not only rock’n'roll, tho …
02/19
SHOW: 7:00 PM
Harlow’s Restaurant and Nightclub
Tickets
$22 advance, $25 at the door
Michael Martin Murphey
Michael is a proud son and life-long resident of Texas, where his family settled in 1858. He divides his time between ranches in the Panhandle of West Texas, Northern New Mexico, Southern Colorado and …
02/19
SHOW: 7:30 PM
Bing Crosby Theater
Tickets
$25.00
Guitar Masters Tour: Andy McKee plus special guests
Antoine Dufour, Stephen Bennett
Andy McKee is considered one of the world’s finest acoustic guitar soloists. His dedicated online community has raised his YouTube video views in excess of 78 million plays and at one point he held th …
02/22
SHOW: 7:30 PM
CSA Event Center
Tickets
$20 advance, $25 day of show
Charlie Hunter
Charlie Hunter?s latest recording effort, Gentlemen, I Neglected To Inform You You Will Not Be Getting Paid, features the jawdropping guitarist alongside drummer Eric Kalb (Sharon Jones and the Dap Ki …
02/26
SHOW: 6:00 PM
Bing Crosby Theater
Tickets
$20.00 – $25.00
An Evening of Romanza: Jim Brickman
Jim Brickman has revolutionized the sound of solo piano with his pop-style instrumentals and star-studded vocal collaborations. Since the release of his debut album No Words in 1994, Jim Brickman? …
02/29
SHOW: 7:30 PM
Bing Crosby Theater
Tickets
49.50-69.50
Chris Trapper
CHRIS TRAPPER began his career as the front man for late?90′s alternative rock band THE PUSH STARS (Capitol Records). With four CD releases and several high profile national tours ?? including a run w …
03/01
SHOW: 7:00 PM
Harlow’s Restaurant and Nightclub
Tickets
$10 advance, $15 day of show
An Evening with Alasdair Fraser and Natalie Haas
The musical partnership between Alasdair Fraser, long regarded as Scotland’s premier fiddle ambassador, and the sizzlingly-talented young California cellist Natalie Haas may not seem an obvious one. …
03/03
SHOW: 7:00 PM
Harlow’s Restaurant and Nightclub
Tickets
$25
Mickey Hart Band
Mickey Hart?is best known for his nearly three decades as an integral part of an extraordinary expedition into the soul and spirit of music, disguised as the rock and roll band the Grateful Dead. As h …
03/08
DOORS: 7:00 PM / SHOW: 8:00 PM
Colonial Theatre (CA)
Tickets
$30 advance, $35 day of show
Cornmeal and Hot Buttered Rum
Hot Buttered Rum, one of the hardest-working and fastest-rising stars in the musical firmament, has become, over the last five years, a group that is infinitely greater than the sum of its parts. It b …
03/09
SHOW: 8:00 PM
Bing Crosby Theater
Tickets
$15 advance, $20 day of show
Hawaiian Legends Tour
There?s a reason he?s been called Hawaii?s Renaissance man: George Kahumoku Jr. is a multiple Grammy Award & Hoku Award winning master slack key guitarist, songwriter, world-traveling performer, high …
03/10
DOORS: 5:30 PM / SHOW: 6:00 PM
Harlow’s Restaurant and Nightclub
Tickets
$25.00 – $30.00
Rhonda Vincent
To another artist at a similar point in their career, the idea of self-producing a new album, recording it in their own studio, and then releasing it on their own label, would be an unthinkable gamble …
03/10
SHOW: 7:30 PM
CSA Event Center
Tickets
$25.00 – $30.00
An Evening with John McCutcheon
No one remembers when the neighbors started calling the McCutcheons to complain about the loud singing from young John’s bedroom. It didn’t seem to do much good, though. For, after a shaky, lopsided b …
03/16
DOORS: 7:00 PM / SHOW: 7:30 PM
CSA Event Center
Tickets
$25.00 – $30.00
Girlyman
Can the members of Girlyman read each other’s minds? Sometimes it seems so. Onstage they often finish each other’s sentences or burst into improvised three-part ditties so tight they seem rehearsed. T …
03/17
DOORS: 6:00 PM / SHOW: 7:00 PM
Harlow’s Restaurant and Nightclub
Tickets
$20.00
Little Feat
In his preface to a recent Little Feat retrospective compilation, the band’s Paul Barrere wrote, “It’s almost 33 years ago exactly since Mr. [Lowell] George came to the front door of the Laurel Canyon …
03/17
SHOW: 7:00 PM
Colonial Theatre (CA)
Tickets
$45 advance, $55 day of show
Cheryl Wheeler
Kenny White
Cheryl Wheeler has to be seen to be appreciated. Nothing you read and nothing you hear from her albums prepares you for how good a performer she is. You may not be familiar with Cheryl, but you have …
03/20
DOORS: 6:00 PM / SHOW: 7:00 PM
Harlow’s Restaurant and Nightclub
Tickets
$20.00
David Wilcox
Wilcox was born in Mentor, Ohio, attended Antioch College[1][2] in Yellow Springs, Ohio in 1976 where he began learning guitar. He later transferred to Warren Wilson College[2][3] in North Carolina in …
03/24
DOORS: 6:00 PM / SHOW: 7:00 PM
Roseville Tower Theatre
Tickets
$25 advance, $30 day of show
Western Lights
?Bluegrass and Beyond!? Those three words just begin to introduce you to the music of this fine Sacramento band that has been around for more than 12 years with 2 Great CD?s to their credit. The band …
03/25
SHOW: 7:00 PM
Harlow’s Restaurant and Nightclub
Tickets
$12 advance, $15 day of show
Tom Rigney and Flambeau
The new Flambeau blues CD, “Don’t Fight It”, was just released on the Parhelion Records label on September 1, 2011, and will be hitting the airwaves all over the world very soon. This new disc is an e …
03/30
DOORS: 5:30 PM / SHOW: 7:00 PM
Harlow’s Restaurant and Nightclub
Tickets
$15.00
Hot Buttered Rum
Hot Buttered Rum, one of the hardest-working and fastest-rising stars in the musical firmament, has become, over the last five years, a group that is infinitely greater than the sum of its parts. It b …
03/31
SHOW: 9:00 PM
Don Quixote’s International Music Hall
Tickets
$15.00
Jeanette Harris
Jeanette started her music career by playing the piano at the age of seven and the saxophone at ten. She immediately connected with the sax and soon realized that people enjoyed hearing her play. Whi …
04/06
DOORS: 6:00 PM / SHOW: 7:00 PM
Harlow’s Restaurant and Nightclub
Tickets
$25 advance, $30 day of show
King’s X
Few hard rock bands are as widely respected yet criminally overlooked as King’s X. The trio (bassist/vocalist Doug Pinnick, guitarist/vocalist Ty Tabor, and drummer/vocalist Jerry Gaskill) seemed dest …
04/10
SHOW: 8:00 PM
Don Quixote’s International Music Hall
Tickets
$22 advance, $25 at the door
Todd Snider
Snider is a vociferous musician whose fans know him to be quite the workhorse. His acclaimed 2006 release, The Devil You Know found the barefoot troubadour performing live on The Tonight Show with Jay …
04/15
SHOW: 7:00 PM
Harlow’s Restaurant and Nightclub
Tickets
$22 advance, $25 at the door
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