Lots happening this Fri., Sept. 25. Here's a quick breakdown of some highlights, plus the full Friday schedule, and, finally, a peek at what's coming up this weekend…
MarchFourth Marching Band with UNRB, Sepiatonic WMNF sure does love MarchFourth Marching Band. The Portland ensemble headlined Friday night’s main outdoor stage at Tropical Heatwave this year, and has been brought back to town by the community radio station to deliver their outlandish feast for the eyes and ears in a more intimate club/theater atmosphere. MarchFourth is made up of 20 or so musicians and dancers who take marching band music to a whole new level of vivacious bombast with Vaudeville-style dancing, hooping, acrobatics and stilt-walking, eye-popping costumes – burlesque frippery, parts of embellished marching band uniforms, feathered head pieces and glittering hats – and a great big percussion-fueled brass-blasted sound rocketing from jazz into sinister rock, Afro-beat exotic and funkadelic territories. A must see, especially with equally vibrant ska-punk uke-and-horns rockers (and multi-year Best of the Bay winners) UNRB warming the stage along with electro-hued Sepiatonic, billed as a "vaudeville-style belly dance, burlesque, and musical project from the Bohemian arts epicenter of Portland … Larger than life characters, burlesque, and variety acts bring to life the soundscape of original electronic and live music on stage." (State Theatre, St. Petersburg)
SPC Piano Concert Series: Paul Posnak, Classics and Classic Jazz An intriguing program of piano-powered classical music (Chopin, Haydn), jazz (Fats Waller) and compositions that lie somewhere in between (Gershwin, Ernesto Lecuona) by UM professor/arranger/concert pianist Paul Posnak. (SPC Music Center, St. Petersburg)
The Ries Brothers The youthfully rocking Ries brothers (drummer Charlie, age 19, and guitarist Kevin, age 15) have been causing quite the stir here, opening for the likes of Los Lonely Boys and Edgar Winter Band. The duo was supposed to be featured in this year’s 25 & Under Fall Arts issue, but had to bail when Charlie got a dog bite that took him to the hospital. We’ll get back to the brothers in due time. Until then, this exciting gig finds the Ries Brothers headlining the newly revamped Murray. (Murray Theatre @ Ruth Eckerd Hall, Clearwater)
Sara Rose Band & The Oak Hill Drifters Two feminine-commanded area acts plying vintage-soaked rockabilly hit the New World stage on this Friday night stand: the Bay area’s own Sara Rose Band plying traditional country and honky tonk as piloted by its namesake songstress, while The Oak Hill Drifters from Orlando blend ‘40s-‘60s-hued country, Western Swing and R&B, steel slide guitarist Tom Cooper shares lead vocal duties with acoustic guitar slinger Rachel Decker.. (New World Brewery, Ybor City)
ALSO TONIGHT
Rock Solid Pressure Industry Showcase Pre-Party w/Psykotribe/Kadaver Dolls/The Defiant/Dreamkiller/Funeral For A Clown/Under Fallen Order Local 662, St. Petersburg
Lychee Camp/Zach Abati/The Incorporated/Vie./Samurai Shotgun Brass Mug, Tampa
Come Back Alice w/Lefty Williams Skipper’s Smokehouse, Tampa
Fowler’s Bluff Ella’s Americana Folk Art Café, Tampa
Pop Will Eat Itself w/Severed Heads Orpheum, Ybor City
The Underground Burlesque Show feat. Lounge Cat The Underground @ Moscato's, St. Petersburg
Gator Wine Dunedin Brewery, Dunedin
Brendan Nolan Palladium Theater, St. Petersburg
TC Carr & Bolts of Blue Ale and the Witch, St. Petersburg
Children Of Orion/Mirkwood/Slade & The Wasters/Within Us Fubar, St. Petersburg
Attic Records Presents: Stephen Kellogg Hideaway Café & Recording Studio, St. Petersburg
Juanjamon Band Ringside Café, St. Petersburg
COMING UP THIS WEEKEND
Bogus Pomp Orchestra Sat., Sept. 26, Palladium Theater, St. Petersburg
Destroyer Fest Presents: flyingsnakes Reunion Show w/Shroud Eater/God Harvest/Meatwound/Weltesser Though Sat., Sept. 26, Local 662, St. Petersburg
The Golden Pelicans/Frost Fang/Darkhorse Sat., Sept. 26, The Bends, St. Petersburg
Delbert McClinton Sat., Sept. 26, Capitol Theatre, Clearwater
The Rock Solid Pressure Industry Showcase XIII Sat., Sept. 26, State Theatre, St. Petersburg
Skipper's 35th Anniversary Party w/Dropin Pickup/Dukes of Juke feat. Freight Train Annie & Late Night Brass Horns/TC Carr and Bolts of Blue featuring Josh Nelms/The Cheaters/Shaun Hopper Sara Rose Band/Betty Fox Band/Impulse/Quivering Rhythm Hounds/Uncle John's Band/Shane Meade and the Sound/Gypsy Wind Sat., Sept. 26, Skipper’s Smokehouse, Tampa
Soul Saturday w/Blackbird Morning Sat., Sept. 26, Hideaway Café & Recording Studio, St. Petersburg
Hyperbolic Chamber Music 5: Music for Tuba and Electronics Sat., Sept. 26, The Venture Compound, St. Petersburg
Andrew Rayel Sat., Sept. 26, Amphitheatre, Ybor City
Punk & Ska Pizza Party & Potluck w/Treephort/Abortion Twins/Unchecked Aggression/Mosquito Teeth/YugoSKAvia/Lobster's Gyro Shack/ Broseph Skalin/many more Sat., Sept. 26, Brass Mug, Tampa
Plan C: Luxury Mane/Smokestack Lightning/Funny Bunny/Broken Things Sat., Sept. 26, The Amsterdam, St. Petersburg
VoicePlay Sat., Sept. 26, The Club at Treasure Island, Treasure Island
The Bloody Jug Band Sat., Sept. 26, Dunedin Brewery, Dunedin
Funktastic Soul Sat., Sept. 26, Ringside Café, St. Petersburg
Danfield w/The Florida Mountain Boys Sat., Sept. 26, Ale and the Witch, St. Petersburg
Swinging Jazz Supper w/Sasha Tuck and the Friendly Giants Sun., Sept. 27, Ale and the Witch, St. Petersburg
Gemini Syndrome w/9 Electric/Huntress/Exotype Sun., Sept. 27, State Theatre, St. Petersburg
Consider the Source Sun., Sept. 27, Dunedin Brewery, Dunedin
This article appears in Sep 24-30, 2015.