Award-Winners, an Iconic Songwriter & Head-Turning Newcomers Deliver Remarkable Music
BY B.J. HUCHTEMANN
June offers plenty of opportunities to head outdoors for music. Summer Arts Fest has great music on their big stage June 5, 6 and 7, including Mike Zito & The Wheel at 7 p.m. Friday, June 5. Music Saturday, June 6, includes Moreland & Arbuckle (5 p.m.) and Chubby Carrier & The Bayou Swamp Band (7 p.m.). See the full schedule at summerarts.org/music.
Playing With Fire
Playing With Fire (PWF) offers three big, free outdoor concerts this summer: June 18, June 25 and July 2. Concerts are at Midtown Crossing in the space that is also home to Jazz on the Green. Seating in the park opens at 5 p.m. and music begins at 5:30 p.m. For all the details and more artist information see playingwithfireomaha.net.
The gospel-steel of The Campbell Brothers highlights the June 18 show. The Campbell Brothers were a major influence on Robert Randolph. The band is one of the best and most influential gospel-steel acts around. They combine pedal-steel and lap-steel guitar in a traditional gospel style that has been part of certain Pentecostal churches' worship services for over 60 years. National Public Radio called The Campbell Brothers' music “every bit as earth-shattering as [Robert] Johnson's music was in the '30s. It's a soul stirring blend of gospel and the power and volume of electric blues and rock, a sound as hot as brimstone that kicks holy butt.” Listen up at campbellbrothers.com.
Also performing June 18 are Nashville soul/R&B band Markey Blue and BluesEd's Voodoo Vinyl.
Playing With Fire's lineup for Thursday, June 25, marks the return of Paul DesLauriers, who has been seen at PWF events with Dawn Tyler Watson. DesLauriers hits Omaha with his own band and special guests including Anwar Khurshid and Angel Forrest with Denis Coulombe. BluesEd's Dilemma opens.
Thursday, July 2, PWF presents the return of blues-rock guitarist Albert Cummingsalong with Boogie Boys and BluesEd's Us & Them. Cummings is a popular guitarist who has played PWF events and Thursday blues club matinees. He's just completed a new recording for Blind Pig Records. See albertcummings.com.
Playing With Fire (PWF) offers three big, free outdoor concerts this summer: June 18, June 25 and July 2. Concerts are at Midtown Crossing in the space that is also home to Jazz on the Green. Seating in the park opens at 5 p.m. and music begins at 5:30 p.m. For all the details and more artist information see playingwithfireomaha.net.
The gospel-steel of The Campbell Brothers highlights the June 18 show. The Campbell Brothers were a major influence on Robert Randolph. The band is one of the best and most influential gospel-steel acts around. They combine pedal-steel and lap-steel guitar in a traditional gospel style that has been part of certain Pentecostal churches' worship services for over 60 years. National Public Radio called The Campbell Brothers' music “every bit as earth-shattering as [Robert] Johnson's music was in the '30s. It's a soul stirring blend of gospel and the power and volume of electric blues and rock, a sound as hot as brimstone that kicks holy butt.” Listen up at campbellbrothers.com.
Also performing June 18 are Nashville soul/R&B band Markey Blue and BluesEd's Voodoo Vinyl.
Playing With Fire's lineup for Thursday, June 25, marks the return of Paul DesLauriers, who has been seen at PWF events with Dawn Tyler Watson. DesLauriers hits Omaha with his own band and special guests including Anwar Khurshid and Angel Forrest with Denis Coulombe. BluesEd's Dilemma opens.
Thursday, July 2, PWF presents the return of blues-rock guitarist Albert Cummingsalong with Boogie Boys and BluesEd's Us & Them. Cummings is a popular guitarist who has played PWF events and Thursday blues club matinees. He's just completed a new recording for Blind Pig Records. See albertcummings.com.
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