This weekend marks 20 years since Baaba Seth formed—and one year since they reunited at the Jefferson Theater. Beleza Brasil builds some buzz for the release of their new disc, Cookin’ with Flavor, in the opening slot, with the Downbeat Project. Check the details here.
Plays? We got ’em. Live Arts continues its production of Memory of Water through the weekend, about a trio of funny British women who come together in the wake of their mother’s death; and, less funny, Play On! continues its production of Summer and Smoke through the month, a Tennessee Williams tearjerker about a near-love affair between a minister’s daughter and a freewheeling doctor. I saw the latter last night—check next week’s C-VILLE for a review. Live Arts’ site. Check Play On! Theatre is here.
The national band scramble that will bring thousands of bands to Austin, Texas, for the annual South by Southwest festival has a bunch of good music bottlenecking through town in the coming days.
Not among them is 87-year-old bluegrass progenitor Earl Scruggs (responsible for the "Beverly Hillibillies" theme and "Foggy Mountain Breakdown") who picked The Paramount Theater tonight to host his concert tonight. (Get it? He picked it.) An added treat: Sarah White and Ted Pitney open together. Paramount, go.
But among those Texas-band acts are the fun and hyped Massachusetts act DOM, plus Baltimore’s Secret Mountains, who play tonight at the Twisted Branch Tea Bazaar. (Caution: My band is also playing there tonight.) Tomorrow night five—count ’em!—SXSW-bound bands play: No Brainer, Kill You in the Face, Tereu Tereu, Carol Bui and Big Troubles. A long night, yes, but a good one to learn about some new music.
What are you doing this weekend?