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Runnin' down a dream

"When all my dreams come true," goes one of Grace Adele's best tunes, "there'll be nothing to do ... but just to love you." It starts off as a dreamy ballad, but soon kicks into a galloping amalgam of Western Swing, bluegrass and rooty–toot vaudeville–style music.

June 26, 2012 | By Bill DeYoung Connect Savannah | Calendar+Scene


Martina McBride to perform on post July 4

Country singer Martina McBride, who rose to stardom in the late 1990s and has sold more than 14 million albums, will highlight the Independence Day concert on Fort Stewart.

June 25, 2012 | Staff report | Calendar+Scene


Ugly Radio Rebellion, Brandon Nelson McCoy

UGLY RADIO REBELLION At 10 p.m. Saturday, June 23 Wormhole Bar, 2307 Bull St. If you take a moment to do the math, Ugly Radio Rebellion performs about 20 shows per year. We know this because 2012 marks the band's 10th anniversary, and this Wormhole date is a milestone: Show #200. It's something of a boutique band - URR plays, exclusively, the music of the late rock/jazz/eccentrico composer Frank Zappa. "There's two main types of ...

June 19, 2012 | By Bill DeYoung Connect Savannah | Calendar+Scene


The Age of Aquarium

The fourth studio album from Raleigh's hard-living rock 'n' roll heroes, American Aquarium, is in the can and ready to be unleashed. Burn.Flicker.Die, produced by former Drive-By Trucker Jason Isbell, will likely be the one to inject singer/songwriter B.J. Barham and his electric North Carolina cowboys into the rich and fast-moving bloodstream that is Americana in America.

June 19, 2012 | By Bill DeYoung Connect Savannah | Calendar+Scene


Wrestling with laughter

Comedian Greg Warren has been on a Savannah stage just once before. In February 2011, he performed at the Johnny Mercer Theatre with the "John Boy and Billy No Collar Comedy Tour," a spinoff of the popular syndicated redneck radio show.

June 19, 2012 | By Bill DeYoung Connect Savannah | Calendar+Scene


The sauce boss

After close to two decades as the go-to guy for gut-grilling fusion of gritty blues and witty rhymes, singer, rapper and guitarist Garrett Dutton - known to you and me as G. Love - went all the way back to his roots with the 2011 album Fixin' to Die.

June 13, 2012 | By Bill DeYoung Connect Savannah | Calendar+Scene


Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Star & Micey/Carolina Story

DIRTY DOZEN BRASS BAND At 9 p.m. Thursday, June 14 (doors at 8 p.m.) Live Wire Music Hall, 307 W. River St. Tickets $13 advance, $15 day of show Here's how Gregory Davis, who's been playing trumpet in this New Orleans party band for 35 years, explains the DDBB musical philosophy: "It ends up being like a pot of gumbo - you drop in a little okra, drop in a little shrimp, you drop in ...

June 13, 2012 | By Bill DeYoung | Calendar+Scene


Savannah eyes younger, more affluent visitors

SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) - Savannah tourism officials say recent numbers show that the average visitor for trips to the Georgia city is younger and that spending is up.

June 11, 2012 | AP | Calendar+Scene


Photographers explore the South in High exhibition

ATLANTA (AP) - Atlanta's High Museum of Art invited three photographers to present their views of the American South, and the results - including slices of urban life, rural portraits and eroding marshlands - will be on display starting this weekend.

June 11, 2012 | By Kate Brumback AP | Calendar+Scene


Ben Prestage and the District Attorneys

BEN PRESTAGE At 8 p.m. Thursday, June 7 Huc-a-Poos, 1213 U.S. 80, Tybee Island Back in Martin County, Florida, where I lived before moving to Savannah four years ago, we used to go out to hear Ben Prestage all the time. "I grew up in rural Florida, on a 14-mile-long dirt road, near the headwaters of the Everglades," he says in his online biography. "It was 7 miles either direction to the nearest paved road, ...

June 06, 2012 | By Bill DeYoung Connect Savannah | Calendar+Scene


UGA Performing Arts Center announces 2012-2013 season

UGA Performing Arts Center announces 2012-2013 season Athens, Ga. – The University of Georgia Performing Arts Center has announced the roster of artists for the 2012-2013 season. In making the announcement, Performing Arts Center Director George C. Foreman said, "This will be a year filled with incomparable performances, a truly magical season and one of the best in our 17-year history." One of the highlights of the 2012-2013 line-up will be a performance by world-renowned ...

May 31, 2012 | Special to Connect | Calendar+Scene


Mark your calendar: Georgia Music Awards

Created just this year by the "full service entertainment company" O Ent., Inc., the Georgia Music Awards will honor "emerging talent" through public voting and a big awards show in Atlanta – June 16 at the Buckhead Theatre.

May 30, 2012 | By Bill DeYoung Connect Savannah | Calendar+Scene


Amazing Grace

If there's any mojo left in the music business, this will become the year of Grace Potter and the Nocturnals.

May 30, 2012 | By Bill DeYoung Connect Savannah | Calendar+Scene


5 questions: John Brown's Body

Like a smooth, organic java blend, John Brown's Body starts with the basics – in this case, Jamaican reggae music. Then the band adds ingredients – a dash of funk, a few liberal squeezes of rhythm 'n' blues, pop flourishes and some shaved electronica – and before you know it you're still savoring smooth, aromatic reggae, but it has a slightly more pungent kick.

May 23, 2012 | By Bill DeYoung Connect Savannah | Calendar+Scene


The Band Perry, Boston, Sugarland to perform

Valdosta, GA – Wild Adventures Theme Park (WA) kicks off the summer Wednesday, May 23 with two new interactive animal shows and 13 all-star concert performances, in addition to 40 thrill rides and over a million gallons of fun in Splash Island Water Park. Endless summer thrills and affordable family fun close to home begin May 23 and continue every day through August 5. In addition, WA celebrates Memorial Day Weekend with The Band Perry ...

May 22, 2012 | Special to Connect | Calendar+Scene


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SCAD grad show; Summer Solstice

California's groove-heavy Greyboy Allstars will headline SCAD's "New Alumni Concert" Friday, May 31 in Forsyth Park. The jazz/funk band, formed 10 years ago by DJ Andreas Stevens and tenor sax player Karl ...

May 16, 2013 | By Bill DeYoung Connect Savannah | Calendar+Scene


'Swamp ghosts' in theme park exhibit

This summer, two "swamp ghosts" will vacation at Wild Adventures Theme Park.

May 15, 2013 | Special to Connect | Calendar+Scene


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