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Concert For A Cure

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MIX 107.7 and Premier Physician Network proudly present Concert For A Cure, benefitting the Noble Circle Project at The Brightside.
Join us Monday, October 21st for an evening filled with community and hope as we come together to support and empower women who have faced and are battling breast cancer. Come and enjoy music on the McAfee Heating & Air stage by Tyler Glenn and Chris Allen of Neon Trees, AJA, Joe Jordan, Stranger and Elyse Wilkinson!
An auction will be held with proceeds benefitting the Noble Circle Project with items such as vinyl, concert tickets, Dayton Dragons merch bundle, Skyline chili merch bundle, autographed guitars from the Trans Siberian Orchestra, LANY, Night Ranger, Debbie Gibson, Wilson Phillips and others. Signed posters from Lukas Graham, Panic! At The Disco, MIXFest 2024 artists, and more!
Doors open at 5:30PM. Show starts at 7:00PM!
Tickets available at https://www.daytonlive.org/events/concert-for-a-cure/

Dayton Funk All-Stars Play Oregon Express

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To celebrate the OE’s ownership change one year ago, we are hosting the Dayton Funk All-Stars! No cover, show starts at 8. This is sure to be one of the greatest nights we’ve ever had, so be sure not to miss it!

20th Annual Dayton Music Fest

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The 20th Annual Dayton Music Festival is back on Oct 11th and 12th including stages at The Brightside Music & Event Venue, Blind Bob’s, Yellow Cab Tavern, Oregon Express, and Trolley Stop! A portion of all proceeds benefit our friends at WYSO Public Radio as a thank you for all of the support they show local music year round!

Dayton Music Fest 2024 – Oct 11 and 12

We’re excited to present 32 local bands, singer songwriters, MCs, DJs, artists, and more, with exciting reunions and amazing new up and coming artists playing side by side over two days at five Downtown Dayton venues!

Tickets and more details available at daytonmusicfest.com

Weekend passes are $25 in advance and $30 at the doors. Each single night is $20 at the doors.

*Discounted presale weekend pass sales end on Oct 10th at Midnight.
*All tickets are will call / check-in and you will not be emailed physical tickets.

Dayton Music Fest 2024 Line-up:

Friday – Oct 11th
Doors and VIP badge pick up starts at 5:00

The Brightside

Freya’s Felines Band – 5:30
Tronee Threat – 6:00
The 1984 Draft – 6:30
Zac Pitts – 7:00
crabswithoutlegs – 7:30
Paige Beller – 8:30
Salvadore Ross – 9:30
Smug Brothers – 10:00
The Nightbeast – 10:30
Kim L – 11:30

Saturday – Oct 12th

Blind Bob’s

Lilito – 8:15
Palm Ghosts – 9:05
Abertooth Lincoln – 9:55
Roley Yuma *Reunion – 10:45
mr. Gnome – 11:45

Yellow Cab Tavern

Stoneface Syd – 6:20
Motion Club – 7:10
Ruetschle – 8
NO balance. – 8:50
Exit Angles – 9:40
Oh Condor – 10:30
Sam King + The Suspects – 11:15

Oregon Express

Woovs – 7:55
Cellar Dweller FX – 8:45
Parade Rainer – 9:35
Dope Opera – 10:30
The Funkgi – 11:20

Trolley Stop

Arianna Holiday – 7:45
Tori Lee – 8:35
Tim Pritchard – 9:25
Nick Kizirnis and Kyleen Downes – 10:15
Max Nunery and Friends – 11:05

Cover starts at 5:00pm on both nights. Weekend passes can be picked up at The Brightside anytime after 5:00pm on Friday, Oct 11th. Full price weekend passes can be purchased at The Brightside as well.

Blind Bob’s kitchen is open until 11pm, Trolley Stop’s Kitchen closes at 10pm, Oregon Express’ kitchen closes at midnight, and Yellow Cab’s resident food truck, The Pizza Bandit, will be set up and serving through 11pm.



Venues:

The Brightside – 905 E 3rd St, Dayton, OH 45402
Blind Bob’s – 430 E 5th St, Dayton, OH 45402
The Yellow Cab Tavern – 700 East 4th Street Dayton, Ohio 45402
Oregon Express – 336 E 5th St, Dayton, OH 45402
Trolley Stop – 530 E 5th St, Dayton, OH 45402

Burton Cummings of the Original ‘The Guess Who’ 60th Anniversary Hits Tour

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Burton Cummings, lead singer of the original The Guess Who and successful solo artist, is set to tour the U.S. this September, marking his 60-year-anniversary of making and releasing music. The tour will include a performance at Rose Music Center at The Heights on Thursday, September 26 with special guest King Solomon Hicks.

In addition to the tour, Cummings is also pleased to announce that A Few Good Moments, his first studio album since 2008’s Above The Ground, will release this year. Album release date details coming soon!

“Get ready, America! This fall, my band and I are hitting the road for the first leg of our U.S. tour! It’s been far too long, but we’re finally bringing the music straight to your doorstep. Join us at a venue near you where we’ll be performing my hits from the original The Guess Who and my solo career from over the past 60 years!” – Burton Cummings

Dayton Rotary Summerfest

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We’re bringing summer festivals back to downtown Dayton with the Rotary Club of Dayton’s SUMMERFEST! Join us for this FREE family-friendly community event – you’ll hear great live music from some of the region’s best groups.
We’ll have plenty of food trucks on hand for you to fuel up on delicious local fare. This is a fun event for the whole family!
Dayton’s best soul, funk, and blues artists share the stage for one unforgettable night at the Levitt Pavilion in the heart of downtown.
You won’t want to miss this amazing lineup of Dayton’s own:
– Heather Redman & The Reputation
– Doug Hart Band
– Dayton Funk All-Stars

An Astounding Visit to the ‘SOUTH PACIFIC!’

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Dayton is known for its Arts and all that are involved in it. With that in mind DPAA has put together a production of ‘South Pacific’ that is not to be missed. The event, directed by Joe Deer, is getting all the buzz. Luckily, I was able to hear from Joe about that show and how it all came together!

937: First of all, thank you for taking a minute to share some information about the ‘SOUTH PACIFIC’ performance coming to the Schuster Center this weekend, September 21 and 22. I understand this version of the show is slightly different?

JD:  This version of South Pacific was created for a concert at Carnegie Hall about 20 years ago that starred Reba McEntire and the Broadway star, Brian Stokes Mitchell. It’s adapted by David Ives, who is a terrific comic playwright on his own and who has done many adaptations of classic musicals for the New York City Center encore series. It retains virtually every note of the original score, but has trimmed the book substantially. That said, this is still a heartwarming, charming, and very moving story. I don’t think audiences are going to recognize that very much has been cut. Every storyline is still intact and every character still appears.

937: I’m intrigued. I love the idea of a faster paced show! But how and when did this all come together for Dayton Performing Arts Alliance. Sounds like it was all hands on deck!

JD: Two years ago, Kathleen Clawson , the artistic Director of Dayton Opera, and Neal Gittelman invited me to help create a concert evening celebrating the life and work of Stephen Sondheim. We used students from the musical theater, acting and vocal performance majors out at Wright State University and that was a huge success. Almost immediately, they approached me again about a collaboration on a concert musical. By that time, Wright State University administrators had met with People at the Dayton Performing Arts Alliance and created a more formal collaborative agreement. This is the first project out of that.

937: What a collaboration…and it has all fallen together well?

JD:  This has been a really great collaboration. We have so many different kinds of members of the artistic community involved here. Dayton Opera. Wright State Alumni and Faculty.  The production team is largely from the Dayton, the opera, and Dayton Performing Arts Alliance. With all those different groups coming together, you might expect some difficulties in making things work. But, that has not been the case.

937: I love that it seems so community focused as a production! Tell me this Joe, since the show is pared down, do we lose any songs. People love the ‘South Pacific‘ soundtrack.

JD: The score for this revolutionary musical remains very much intact. With one notable exception – you’re going to hear 46 musicians playing a score that was written for about half that number.  There’s a kind of enhanced time machine quality to getting to perform a score like this with an orchestra the quality of the Dayton Philharmonic. Kathleen was very intentional about finding singers that are the quality Dayton Opera patrons are used to hearing, but who have an understanding and love for this kind of musical theater. She did a remarkable job. I will tell your readers that a number of Dayton actors who are some of their favorites are in this, including Bruce Cromer, Jake Lockwood, Josh McCabe, and a handful of others. I leave rehearsal at the end of the day feeling so happy to work with the quality of singing actor that we are fortunate to have this production.

937: This just sounds incredible!! What do you feel the audience with walk away with after seeing ‘South Pacific?’

JD: I think audiences are gonna walk away from this production surprised by how relevant it still feels. You are uplifted and awakened to the revolutionary nature of this show, which is now 75 years old. Rodgers and Hammerstein were very daring in what they set out to do. And the show won a Pulitzer Prize for drama as a result. That’s very unusual.

937: You know I’m in that musical theatre stuff myself, and my love also goes into the visual aspect. What can we expect there?

JD:  We have a marriage of very traditional scenery and costumes with some very 2024 technology that helps to tell the story. But, the real stars of the show are Rodgers and Hammerstein and the remarkable performers who bring the score and story to life. This production is going to be thrilling for every audience member. Whether you have a lot of familiarity with this show or whether it’s a brand new experience for you.I am simply thrilled to be part of it.

937: ALL THE SUCCESS in the world to you Joe! Cannot wait to see this!

SOUTH PACIFIC show on  September 21, 2024, at 7:30pm & September 22, 2024, at 2:30pm. Performances are in the Winsupply Theatre at the Schuster Center. For tickets click below:

Rodgers and Hammerstein’s South Pacific

 

 

 

 

An Evening with Ellis Paul

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You’re invited to experience one of the premiere traveling troubadours since the early 90s! Ellis Paul has some amazing stories to tell and the songwriting prowess to wow you when he does. Join us for a special show at in The Brightside’s VodVil Bar with special guest Rich Reuter!
✨ How to Go? ✨
Thursday, Sept 19th
The Brightside – 905 E 3rd St, Dayton
Doors 7pm / Show 7:30pm
Tickets $25 advance: https://www.venuepilot.co/events/101866/orders/new
$30 day of show
All ages welcome!
ABOUT THE ARTIST:
Ellis Paul doesn’t just write songs; he’s a guitar-carrying reporter who covers the human condition and details the hopes, loves, losses of those he observes, turning their stories into luminous pieces of music that get under your skin and into your bloodstream. And much like the artists who have influenced him, everyone from Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan and Paul Simon to the singer-songwriter who is undoubtedly his greatest inspiration, Woody Guthrie, Paul weaves deeply personal experiences with social issues and renders them as provocative works that are as timely as they are timeless.
Born and raised in Maine, Paul attended Boston College on a track scholarship and in the evenings became a fixture on the city’s open mic circuit. After winning a Boston Acoustic Underground songwriter competition, he caught the ear of folk luminary Bill Morrissey, who produced his indie album Say Something in 1993. This led to a seven-album contract with Rounder Records and the 1994 album, Stories.
His songs have appeared in several blockbuster films (Me, Myself, and Irene; Shallow Hal, Hall Pass) and have been covered by award winning country artists (Sugarland, Kristian Bush, Jack Ingram). Through a steady succession of albums of his own – a remarkable 23 releases so far – and a constant touring presence around the world, Paul’s audience has grown into a loyal legion of fans. Along the way, he has picked up an impressive number of awards including the prestigious Kerrville New Folk Award, 15 Boston Music Awards, An Honorary Doctorate from the University of Maine, the 2019 International AcousticMusic Awards Artist of the Year and most recently his album, The Storyteller’s Suitcase, was named the 2019 NERFA Album of the Year.
His new album “55” touches on the necessity of gratitude in a difficult era of the pandemic and divided political stances on his own imprint, Rosella Records.

Hairborn in Fairborn

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Get ready for Hairborn 2024! We have performances from Lätter and JUMP “America’s Van Halen Experience.” We can’t wait to listen to the best 80’s rock, drinks some brews, and enjoy food from our food trucks. This is a FREE event. Bring your own chair, seating is limited.
Band Schedule:
🤘 5:00 p.m. – 6:45 p.m. Lätter
🤘 7:30 p.m. – 9:30 p.m. JUMP “America’s Van Halen Experience”
Food Trucks:
🚛 The Family Spoon
🚛 Eaton Ice Cream
🚛 What the Taco
🚛 Freddie’s Franks and Burgers
🚛 Spicey Rooster BBQ
🚛 Philly Pretzel Factory
🚛 Bourbon Bayou

Kick off to Hispanic Heritage Month with The Iguanas

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A fixture of the New Orleans music scene for over two decades, The Iguanas’ music is an infectious mix of America’s musical heritage – Tejano and Conjunto sounds from the Texas/Mexico border region, as best exemplified by the accordion and bajo sexto, the American South’s Blues, Jazz and New Orleans R&B, and passion of the music of the Caribbean and Mexico. Taking their cues from all of these influences and then some, The Iguanas redefine the notion of Americana, crossing cultures, styles, eras… and even languages.

Edde Osborne Saxophone and Flute Player

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Join us at RiverScape on the second and fourth Tuesday of the month from June-October for live music, food, drinks and fun! Come support local musicians, try some delicious food from the Cafe, and challenge your friends to some giant lawn games. As part of the Downtown Dayton DORA, the RiverScape Cafe will also be offering a variety of cocktails, wine, beer and more for those 21 and over.
Edde Osborne, local musician, is an amazing saxophone and flute player and always gets the crowd dancing along to his fun covers of some the most well-known hits. You can catch Edde  September 10th at RiverScape from 7 to 9 PM. Admission is free! Weather Dependent.

2024 Guitarfest in Centerville

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Dayton Guitar4Heroes Band with the Rec4Heroes Veterans Alumni will be performing at this year
GuitarFest. It will take place Sunday, September 8, 2024, 4-7pm at Centerville’s Cornerstone Park, 5210 Cornerstone N Blvd, Centerville, OH 45440, just behind Costco.
Come support all the musicians who will be performing at this years 2024 Guitarfest.

Catacomb Records’ two-year Anniversary Metal Showcase

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Five local metal bands, Vile Sanctum, Plagues of Sorrow, Immortal Ruin, Dieomnia, and Bury Us All, will perform at The Hidden Gem Music Club in Centerville, OH, to celebrate Catacomb Records’ two-year anniversary. Entry is $20 presale and $25 at the door. The event will feature new t-shirts and hoodies for sale. Share and help spread the word! Digital tickets go online tomorrow, and physical tickets will be available in the shop next week.

End of Summer Music Fest

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Join us on Saturday, August 31st from 1pm-5pm for an epic End of Summer Music Fest!
Get ready to rock out with three incredible bands:
Set 1: 1pm-2pm | Downshift
Set 2: 2:30pm-3:30pm | Runaway Sons
Set 3: 4pm-5pm | BlackWater
But that’s not all! We’ll also have FREE drinks while supplies last and a fantastic food truck serving up delicious eats.
Don’t miss out on the perfect way to wrap up your summer. Come for the music, stay for the vibes, and enjoy a great day with the Buckeye Harley-Davidson family!

THE CONCERT: A TRIBUTE TO ABBA

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The Concert: A Tribute To ABBA continues to be the top ABBA tribute group in the world, dazzling all who see with their fantastic performance while playing the most iconic hits from ABBA, including “Mamma Mia,” “S.O.S,” “Money, Money, Money,” “The Winner Takes All,” “Waterloo,” “Gimme, Gimme, Gimme,” and “Dancing Queen.”

Many critics agree, The Concert: A Tribute To ABBA is the most amazing and authentic ABBA tribute show in the world. Come dance, come sing, having the time of your life at THE ULTIMATE TRIBUTE CELEBRATION!

*The Concert: A Tribute To ABBA is not affiliated with the original ABBA group or Mamma Mia.