Topics In Parkersburg WV

Times:Mon. 07:30 p.m. - 10:30 p.m.
Email:Other-events@ohioevenfinder.com
Phone:740-753-1924

Address:
52 Public Square
Nelsonville, OH

Description:
Stuart's Opera House is excited to welcome Old Crow Medicine Show to Nelsonville! These guys normally play much bigger venues, don't miss the chance to see them in our beautiful theater! Old Crow Medicine Show have come full circle playing their own brand of American roots music with a rock and roll attitude. Old Crow Medicine Show (OCMS) have come full circle playing their own brand of American roots music with a rock and roll attitude. The quintet met in New York in 1998 and hit the road, traveling city to city in a van and busking in the streets. They eventually settled for a year in North Carolina, where they ran into a bit of good fortune while playing in front of a local pharmacy to an impressed Doc Watson; the folk icon promptly scheduled the band to play at his MerleFest. Soon after, OCMS relocated to Nashville and found themselves gracing the stage of the Grand Ole Opry, opening for Dolly Parton, touring with Merle Haggard and regularly appearing on NPR's A Prairie Home Companion. They caught the attention of Nettwerk Records in 2003 and signed on to release their debut album O.C.M.S, which they recorded at RCA's legendary Studio B and Woodland Sound Studio with producer/guitarist David Rawlings (Gillian Welch, Robyn Hitchcock) at the helm. O.C.M.S was released in 2004 to critical acclaim; the New Yorker said of the album, "Heartbreaking, plunky ballads and unfastened fiddle tunes charged with youthful vigor," while the Village Voice predicted, "Fame will soon lift her skirt for the band." They continued on releasing two more critically acclaimed and successful albums including their most recent 2008's Tennessee Pusher. OCMS can attribute much of their success to their relentless touring schedule. Between headlining shows and countless festivals (Bonnaroo, Telluride Bluegrass Festival, New Orleans Jazz Festival, etc), the band is constantly on the road and thrives off of their fans and live shows. They have made a name for themselves as energetic performers with an unbridled spirit.

Times:Sat. 08:30 p.m. - 11:30 p.m.
Email:Other-events@ohioevenfinder.com
Phone:740-753-1924

Address:
52 Public Square
Nelsonville, OH

Description:
Join us for the most important night of the year for Stuart's Opera House, our annual Fall Fundraiser! Enjoy an evening with Portland, Oregon's six piece Vagabond Opera. What other performing group could claim to play European Cabaret, Vintage Americana, Balkan Belly Dance, Neo-Classical Opera, Old World Yiddish Theater all in one show? In addition to the concert, you will also be able to purchase tickets for a dinner and drinks before the show. There will also be a silent auction in our lobby featuring great things from area businesses. Bohemian Cabaret ensemble Vagabond Opera is described by the Washington Post as "A band of ceaseless charisma, boundless energy, impeccable musicianship and more than a little touch of both the naughty and exotic." The group delivers passionate offerings of Bohemian cabaret for young and old. Paris hot jazz, gut bucket swing, tangos, Ukrainian folk-punk ballads, klezmer and vigorous originals meet a world of riverboat gambling queens, Turkish belly dancers, and the enigmatic Marlene Dietrich. Vagabond Opera presents the new wave of opera-lusty voices singing in 13 languages and presenting a cabaret of rich musical phrasing, sparkling lyrics and indomitable stage presence, all played with exuberance, skill and a gritty Vagabond edge. The band's lineup features trained operatic tenor and soprano vocals, accordion, tenor saxophone, cello, stand-up bass, and drums. Guest performers often appear with the ensemble. Vagabond Opera has performed all over the USA and in Europe. They have been featured on NPR, in the Washington Post and Jazziz Magazine, and have shared stages and players with Pink Martini, The Decembrists, Al Franken and the Oregon Symphony. Vagabond opera has two full-length albums and will be releasing their third album in the Spring of 2009. This is not your granny's opera, but a visceral artistic ensemble that features powerful instrumental and vocal performances coupled with a highly eclectic and theatrical experience.

Times:Fri. 08:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m.
Email:Other-events@ohioevenfinder.com
Phone:740-753-1924

Address:
52 Public Square
Nelsonville, OH

Description:
Get out your dancin' shoes and head down to Stuart's for an evening with one of the finest Cajun bands around, the Savoy Family Cajun Band! The Savoy Family Cajun Band plays honed down, hardcore Cajun music laced with an earthy sensuality. Old tunes have been revived and returned to a new life intensity in their hands. Tickets will go on sale Monday, September 14th at 10:00am. The Savoy Family Cajun Band plays honed down, hard-core Cajun music laced with an earthy sensuality. Though the old tunes have been revived and returned to new life intensity in their hands, the Savoy Family Cajun band doesn't play from a studied angle. The musicians in the band, Marc and Ann Savoy and their sons Joel and Wilson, each hold their own as strong individual group members, making up a tight, intense sound. Marc and Ann, as the Savoy-Doucet Cajun Band, have been performing and recording together since 1977, recording five CDs on the Arhoolie label. They have traveled all over the world, appearing in all the most prestigious venues, such as the Newport Folk Festival, the Berlin Jazz Festival, the Festival at the Smithsonian Institution, the National Geographic Concert Series, even the Queen Elizabeth Hall in London, England, to name a few. Although the Savoy Family Cajun Band insists upon maintaining an acoustic approach to Cajun music the band can hold its own amongst Cajun music lovers everywhere. In fact, the band loves seeing how much power and sound they can get out of just four instruments. Sometimes the group demonstrates the way Cajun music has evolved by demonstrating the early double fiddle - triangle sound or the solo accordion - fiddle sound. Early French ballads are added to the program to show other historic elements prevalent in early southwest Louisiana. Between the songs the Cajun French Ann often briefly translates poetry of the songs so that the feeling can be better understood. Their repertoire is chosen carefully, popular dancehall tunes interspersed with soulful ballads, fiddle or vocal duets, or blues. The songs show the spectrum of Cajun life from sorrow and lost love to nonsense and the joy of dance. The Savoy Family Cajun Band brings the raw energy of the dancehalls of southwest Louisiana to the stage, peppered with humorous and informative anecdotes about life on the Louisiana prairies.

Times:Wed. 07:30 p.m. - 10:00 p.m.
Email:Other-events@ohioevenfinder.com
Phone:740-593-1780

Address:
Ohio University
Athens, OH

Description:
AVENUE Q is Broadway's smash-hit 2004 Tony Award庐 winner for BEST MUSICAL, BEST SCORE, and BEST BOOK. A hilarious show full of heart and hummable tunes, AVENUE Q is about trying to make it in NYC with big dreams and a tiny bank account. Called "one of the funniest shows you're ever likely to see" by Entertainment Weekly, AVENUE Q features a cast of people and puppets who tell the story in a smart, risqu茅, and downright entertaining way. The New Yorker calls it "SUBVERSIVE and UPROARIOUS!" For Mature Audiences Only "Raucous, Wicked & Unsparingly Funny!" - Wall Street Journal

Times:Wed. 07:30 p.m. - 09:30 p.m.
Email:Other-events@ohioevenfinder.com
Phone:740-593-1780

Address:
Ohio University
Athens, OH

Description:
YAMATO was founded by Masa Ogawa in 1993 in Nara, "the land of Yamato" which is said to be the birthplace of Japanese culture. Presently based inAsukaVillage, NaraPrefecture,YAMATO travels all over the world, putting its very souls into the unusual instruments, whose sound stirs the hearts of people everywhere. Its performances are infused with the idea that the drumbeat, like the heartbeat, is the very pulse of life. YAMATO brings a new and youthful vigor to Taiko drumming. It is a never-to-be-forgotten experience, inspiring and intensely physical, with a beat resonating from the delicate tapping of falling rain to explosions of rhythmic exhilaration. "Pure energy meets spiritual high" -The Scotsman