September 25, 2008

Titusville jewelery artist melikewhoa has new items up in her Etsy store.

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Oil City filmmaker Matt Croyle's screenplay, Potential Inertia, has been selected as a finalist in the 2008 Great Lakes Independent Film Festival.

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Elisabeth von Trapp, the granddaughter of Maria and Baron von Trapp will be in Franklin Thursday, October 2 for the Franklin Civic Operetta's opening night production of The Sound of Music at the Barrow-Civic Theatre

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Pittsburgh Opera (801 Penn Ave in Pittsburgh's Strip District) is holding a family-friendly open house on October 4 from 10:30am - 2:30pm.

Schedule for the day
10:30 Open House begins
11:00 Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre School
12:00 Brown Bag Opera
12:30 Attack Theatre
1:30 Opera Improv presented by Pittsburgh Opera’s Education Department
2:00 Chatham Baroque

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Big Leg Emma is "going on hiatus". Their farewell show will be October, 10 2008 at Reg Lenna Theatre (3rd Street, Jamestown, New York 14701) Cost : $15.

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Ben Sollee has announced a November 15, 2008 Club Cafe (Pittsburgh PA) date.

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Upcoming Shows of Local Interest:

Trina Hamlin plays the Robert W. Rhoades Center at Clarion University–Venango Campus tonight at 7 p.m. Free and open to the public.

Gypsy Piano Blues appears at Seneca's Brother Bean Friday from 7-9pm. No cover. You can preview her music here.

Jerome Wincek and the Old Hats play Oil City's Howling Dog Cafe (Seneca St, Oil City PA 16323) at 8 pm Saturday. No cover.

KRS-One will play at Erie's Forward Hall on October 9. Tickets are $22 at the door.

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Free and Legal Downloads:

Rusted Root Live at KC Crossroads on July 1, 2008

Alejandro Escovedo Live at The Belly Up Tavern on September 8, 2008

Cracker Live at WYEP Rock the Block Party on September 6, 2008

Songs were sung, young hippes started perfecting their circle dance technique:


dogs were annoying (when it says "no dogs", it doesn't mean, no-dogs-except-for-your-cute -dog-which-I'm-sure-wouldn't-ever-bother-anyone. Jerks), stupyfingly awful stage patter was rambled, and Lebanese food was eaten. All in all, The 2008 Oil Region Indie Songwriters Festival was a smashing success by any measure.


Jerome Wincek and the Old Hats ran through a killer set from Astral Road

Video from the final day of the Oil Region Indie Songwriters Festival

Trina Hamlin:




Naomli Bennet:



Brad Yoder:






We cut after Newmen's set and headed to Seneca to catch Illalogical Spoon at Brother Bean








Just an awesome, awesome show. Spoon, as heard that night, was an 8 piece band including two drummers, a trumpet/harmonica guy, a accordionist/percussionist, a cellist, guitar/vocalist, bass, and a guy who was a dead ringer for Adrien Brody who occasionally did some spoken word or screaming. There were driving beats that rose to escastic crescendos, syncopated handclaps, those clicking noises that Snoop made on "Drop it Like Its Hot" and a whole lot of sweet. Spoon veered from Americana (really good Americana - you know how you can never take Tom Waits' faux hobo thing seriously, that it's all a big goof? Not so for Spoon as they spiraled from Woody Guthrie sounding train moments to prison shouts to morphing the tune halfway through into a swingy hot jazz sound) to moments that seemed to veer to straight up chaos until a musical thread was found and they improved themselves back out.

We bought everything they were selling that night and would have bought more if they had it.

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The 50th Annual Kennerdell Music and Arts Festival, held this year on August 2 from 10-8 is looking for artists and crafters.

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You've got your folk in my hardcore! You've got your hardcore in my folk!

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Louisville Punks: A Radio History

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No posting tomorrow - I'm taking my mother to a doctor's visit at the Cleveland Clinic. So here's an extra helping of music. See you Wed.

Free and Legal Downloads:

This Bike is A Pipe Bomb Live at Rhino's on July 7, 2006

The New Amsterdams Live at Stubb's BBQ on August 23, 2003

The Decemberists Live at The Orange Peel on April 11, 2008

Soul Coughing Live at End Sessions on October 4, 1998

Southern Culture On The Skids Live at Tractor Tavern on April 19, 2008

The Wreck of the Southern Old 97 (1924)

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Concert #22- Bach's Songs...for Strings