As anticipation for more live events grows like American jazz trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie’s cheeks when he’s playing, Savannah Jazz is hosting their annual Circle of Friends’ Gig on May 14 in the outdoor garden at Ships of the Sea Maritime Museum. Symbolically, the event serves as a warm-up act for the Savannah Jazz Festival in late September. As a practical matter — foreign as that concept may be from jazz — all proceeds from the night of food, drinks, music, and revelry benefit a quintet of worthy causes. The organization itself and its signature festival, a Savannah Jazz History and Hall of Fame Exhibit, monthly concerts and educational efforts are all supported by a night dubbed “Let’s Swing Again!”
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Supergroup Beachy Head’s debut album takes shape in Savannah
In the midst of a pandemic-driven lockdown, Slowdive’s Christian Savill remembers a friend asking him how he was coping with it all and he replied that he couldn’t really notice any difference. While admittedly, that’s not a healthy state of affairs, he was also deep in putting together a new record that would become the debut album for his new band, Beachy Head.
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Musician excited to share his music with ‘new souls’
Singer and instrumentalist, Pete Henry will play his first ever gig in Savannah, April 16, at Jazz’d Tapas Bar from 7:30 – 11 p.m. Connect Savannah caught up with him on tour to discuss his Savannah debut.
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Savannah Music Festival to make long awaited, modified return
The choice to get out and enjoy live music again is being presented to Savannah locals in the form of smaller “boutique” performances this year as part of the Savannah Music Festival.
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Get Funked Up!
The ethos of Funk You is simple: friends, fun and love. Through their decade-long career, the nine-piece funk and soul outfit from Augusta has developed a comradery that extends even to their national fanbase. Celebrating 10 years together, the group is bringing their characteristic brand of dynamic, syncopated rhythm to Savannah on April 16 at Victory North, doors open at 6 p.m. and the show starts at 7 p.m.
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Ward Davis talks country, metal, dogma and the long road to artistic freedom
The cliché about a specific genre of country music songs being exclusively sad stories of down-and-out regular folks struggling with love, truck, dog and gun troubles is not entirely without merit. The reality, of course, is more complex and fans with a sense of humor can laugh that off knowing the upper echelon of country singer-songwriters capture blue-collar tales with all the grit and detail of well-established storytellers like Bruce Springsteen and Johnny Cash. Ward Davis is one of those artists. He lived the rollercoaster ride of the Nashville machine for 15 years before striking out on his own, and boy, does he have stories to tell. His most recent album “Black Cats and Crows” displays a maturity and confidence honed over years of brief highs and longer lows.
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DOTS spotted in Savannah
As cities began to take the necessary steps to contain the spread of the virus, smaller acts began to experience the changing landscape of live music amid postponements and cancellations. Artists coped with the pandemic in a variety of ways. In Savannah, we saw many bands use the downtime to write and record, while some prioritized solo projects. Others opted for a semi-permanent – we hope – hiatus to reflect and possibly adapt and transform. In the case of Atlanta-based, indie-pop band DOTS, formerly stylized as DOT.S, the pandemic put the brakes on a year that was meant to be spent touring. However, despite the drastic change in plans, DOTS never stopped spinning their wheels.
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The Second Coming
Ty Thompson tells me it’s fun to be ridiculous. As the front man of Reverend Bro Diddley and the Hips, he has almost a religious devotion to music, performance and […]
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It all began with a TV
When John Henderson opened his sports bar in Savannah, he had just three televisions, no kitchen and little knowledge of the industry.
This was 1991, when getting satellite television meant buying what’s now known as the “Big Ugly Dish” and having someone move the dish so it could catch the signal of the channel they wanted to watch.
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Cheating Alethia will set you up
The opening track to Cheating Alethia’s album “Spare Room Panic” might give you the wrong impression. That is, unless, “Intro” didn’t already.
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Irish Everyday of the Week
Starland yard has quickly become a local favorite, rolling out a weekly rotation of food trucks and entertainment since the summer of 2019. And with St. Patrick’s day around the corner, they have zero intentions of slowing down.
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Can’t stop, won’t stop
New Orleans-based pop-punk band Neutral Snap woke up in Savannah in March 2020 and found their world flipped upside down. Mayor Van Johnson had just declared a local state of emergency in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, and cities across the nation were doing the same.
Neutral Snap was in the middle of their 22-date tour for their debut album “Sorry I Passed Out.”
“We said ‘well, I guess we’re going home now,’” guitarist J.P. Brown said.