Chris Hawkins plays this Friday (6-9pm) in the Farmhouse Restaurant at Harvest Market. By the time you're reading this we've hopefully made it through the worst of the bitter cold and snowfall section of our current weather scene and worked our way to mildly brisk and melting. Nothing warms the inner soul and outer appendages like listening to music, be it live or online, so let's see what the music-makers are up to this third weekend of February in 2021. We begin by welcoming another venue to our fine fellowship of live music presenters, as the Farmhouse Restaurant at the fairly new Harvest Market grocery store begins a Friday evening run featuring central Illinois acoustic acts, upstairs in its mezzanine bar area. Chris Hawkins, a longtime singer and guitarist from the Peoria area covers all kinds of popular songs for the first-ever music performance in the newly renovated space. The gig goes from 6 to 9 and upcoming artists include myself for next Friday, with The Grand Moff Band, The Tangents, Joel Honey, Wowie Zowie, Ty Brando, Tom Beverly, John Drake and Billy Galt coming down the pipe. There's plenty of space to social distance as we attempt this social interaction thing again as safely as possible.