Coming off a terrific turnout for last Friday's terrifically entertaining rock-folk-blues band, Slow Children Playing, Hailey's Sun Valley Brewing Company restaurant and bar is continuing their tradition of offering an eclectic assortment of wonderful Valleywide and visiting musicians -- usually with no cover charges, either -- starting this Thursday (Jan. 14th) at 7pm, with the J. Ward Band. Jason Ward (who also plays in the band RyeBender) and his brother, Chris, will perform a colorful collage of folk, Americana and alt-country music.
On Friday (Jan. 15th), the Boise-based duet, Hillfolk Noir, whose MySpace page has some verrry entertaining musical selections posted there:
http://www.myspace.com/hillfolknoir offers an immensely-engaging original mix of junkerdash, swing, swamp rat blues and deathfolk music that's bound to make you smile and sway in equal measure.
On Saturday (Jan. 16th), local fave, Allnite Diner -- a slightly different take on the ever-popular Hickory Blue/Craig Meyers Blues Band -- continues the musical excellence tradition there at the Brewery with their own brand of blues, folk and c&w music.
The following Thursday (Jan. 21) sees the return of Seattle sensation, an McFeron, with another immensely energetic and engaging local fave, The Damphools, playing on Saturday (Jan. 23).
Tuesday Jan. 26th sees the SV Brewing Company debut of the superb, highly-sought-after Austin, Texas band, Wisebird, whose MySpace page http://www.myspace.com/wisebird likewise has a number of terrific sample music selections to see and/or listen to.
Friday January 29th is sure to be a verrrry memorable one as well, when the radically revamped -- and amplified -- local band, FourStroke Bus (www.fourstrokebus.com: Lisa and Wade Port, Ken Martin, Chris Clarke and Cory Ballentine), return to the acclaimed Hailey bar-restaurant for some more foot-stomping, dance-inspiring musical
fun ... easily one of the SV Brewing Company's most consistent crowd pleasers there -- as they likewise always are at The Wicked Spud, Whiskey's and Papa Hemi's Hideaway. (Type "John Pluntze" into the SVO search engine here to read my Sept. 9. 2009 rave review of their incessantly dazzling, soulful and soaring music.)
Also on Friday, Jan. 29th, the acclaimed local band, Up a Creek, will perform in the afternoon there at the Sun Valley Brewing Company (noon-3pm), as part of a special apres "Ski the Rails"-oriented get-together there at the Hailey establishment.
Most of the bands listed above have good quality performance footage posted at their respective MySpace and/or Facebook pages.
For more information on any of the January performances listed above, call the bar-restaurant at 788-0805. To get on their mailing list alerting you to future musical performances there at the Brewery, contact svb@sunvalleybrewery.com.
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Questions or comments regarding this "Harmonic Convergence" article can be sent to John at: WriteStuffIdaho@gmail.com And to read any of John's previous writeups on the local music scene here -- which
include raves on local faves Cow Says Mooo, Art Wallace, Molly and Josiah Venter and, of course, FourStroke Bus -- simply type "John Pluntze" into the SVO search engine here.
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