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Check out info from a parking lot drive-in show that was a centerpiece of Down by Downtown. Featuring a headless Keen! Tad Dickens / The Roanoke Times When blues-rocker Tab Benoit took the stage outside Berglund Center April 7, it broke a bit of a drought for Roanoke’s largest music venue. The Berglund hadn’t hosted a concert since the COVID-19 shutdown last year. And an outside show? Berglund hadn’t done one on that scale since it presented some shows at Elmwood Park a few years...

Oklahoman As COVID-19 vaccines continue to be administered, concerts are starting to come back to Oklahoma after more than a year of relative silence due to the pandemic.  In Oklahoma City, Chesapeake Energy Arena announced last week its first new addition to its concert calendar in months: Country music star Kane Brown will be bringing his "Blessed and Free Tour" to The Peake on Oct. 14 with special guests Jordan Davis and Restless Road. Tickets are on sale as of today through Ticketmaste...

CLEARWATER — Grammy nominated singer, songwriter and guitarist Tab Benoit will perform with special guests The Whiskey Bayou Revue featuring Josh Garrett Saturday, May 8, 8 p.m., at the Bilheimer Capitol Theatre, 405 Cleveland St., Clearwater. Tickets start at $35. Call 727-791-7400 or visit www.rutheckerdhall.com. Tickets are limited as this concert will be presented at 50% capacity. Born in 1967, Benoit grew up in Houma, Louisiana. A Cajun man who knows his blues, he began playing guitar...

Blues Guitarist/Vocalist Tab Benoit Brings the Blues Back to King Center Benoit will bring his gritty and soulful Delta swamp blues to Orlando.by BWW News Desk Grammy nominated singer, songwriter and guitarist, Tab Benoit, has built a remarkable 30+ year career on the foundation of his gritty and soulful Delta swamp blues. Along the way he has acquired a devoted legion of fans, as well as five Blues Music Awards, including BB King Entertainer of the Year (twice) and an induction into The Loui...

This week promises a varied array of entertainment choices. You can take in a concert, watch a play, get physical or help save wildlife. Or you can do everything — it’s not an either/or decision. Whatever you choose, there’s always something going on that you’ll find of interest. ‘Tracers,’ at Flagler College Lewis Auditorium The play, about “grunts” during the Vietnam War, moves with the men from basic training to combat in Vietnam and deals with their realization “that their...

Three great Blues albums Three great Blues albums consist of releases from Early Times & The High Rollers, Alastair Greene and The New Moon Jelly Roll Freedom Rockers. Author: Early Times & The High Rollers are hanging out on The Corner(VizzTone Label Group) with Popa Chubby for one track (“She’s About To Lose Her Mind”) while settin’ the woods on fire for nine more blistering blues-rock gems. Besides being a popular Sirius/XM disc jockey on the Bluesville channel, Early plays guitar, ...

Berglund Center hosts first outdoor live event since beginning of pandemic People enjoyed an evening under the stars for Tab Benoit and Samantha Fish Tags:  On Wednesday night, Tab Benoit and Samantha Fish rocked the Berglund Center parking lot. It’s the area’s first live event since the pandemic restrictions went into place. People enjoyed the music from their cars under the moon-lit sky. The Berglund Center said it hopes to do more of these shows in the future while pandemic restrictions...

UNF spring opera Students in the Opera Program at the University of North Florida tackle "La finta giardiniera," which Mozart wrote when he was just 18 years old. Performances are scheduled for 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday at the Coxwell Pavilion Stage on the UNF campus. The shows are free, and can also be watched via livestream on the UNF School of Musics YouTube page. Lots of laughs: James Gregory and Dom Irrera We could all use a chuckle, and there are two options in the Jacksonville area this...

-Messenger photo by Chad Thompson Bob Wood, of Fort Dodge, a founding member and past president of the Lizard Creek Blues Society, poses with a guitar at his home. The Lizard Creek Blues Society is dissolving, Wood announced on Tuesday. The organization is donating its remaining funds to the Fort Dodge Fine Arts Association. -Messenger photo by Chad Thompson Bob Wood, of Fort Dodge, a founding member and past president of the Lizard Creek Blues Society, poses with a guitar at his home. The ...

Blues, rock and soul guitar-slinger and singer Samantha Fish returned to Rocky Mount, Virginia, for her third appearance at that towns Harvester Performance Center. Here is a montage of songs from that performance. Blues/rock guitarist and singer Samantha Fish was in a familiar place — on tour — when, in her words, “basically everything went to hell.” The COVID-19 pandemic sent her and countless other touring acts back home. For Fish, though, home was New Orleans, one of the...