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Live Around Town

This afternoon I was looking online for info about 81 Mulberry (a band from Chapel Hill that I filmed when they opened for the Grifters in Knoxville in 1996), and I found several episodes of "Live Around Town" (a live music public access TV show from Chapel Hill in the mid-1990s). Several of the bands that were featured in the episodes were familiar to me, and others weren't...but it is an interesting bit of local music history.

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Let's Active 40th Anniversary Concert Event with Mitch Easter

On November 4, 2021 in Winston-Salem, NC, The Ramkat and MUSE Winston-Salem (“Museum of Understanding, Storytelling and Engagement”) presented a "Let's Active 40th Anniversary Concert Event with Mitch Easter" celebrating the influential band's 1981 debut.

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Checking in with Evan Dando During the Pandemic

Evan Dando played a solo acoustic set at the Masonic Lodge at Hollywood Forever in Los Angeles, CA, on October 7, 2021. According to setlist.fm, it was his first solo show in more than two years.

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Jerry Finley, of Two Pound Planet (née Urban Edge) and The Breakfast Club, dies of COVID-19

A week ago Two Pound Planet announced via their Facebook page and  Kickstarter page that their drummer, Jerry Finley, had passed away after a short illness, surrounded by his family.

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Mark Erelli in Ann Arbor (April 2009)

Last Friday night we went to see Mark Erelli (Wikipedia) in concert in Ann Arbor, MI.  It was part of the Green Wood Coffee House Series at the "North Campus of First United Methodist Church." 

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Shellac in Pontiac on 15 Sep 08

A week ago I went to see Shellac play at the Crofoot in Pontiac, MI.  I actually had a couple of tickets (that my mother-in-law picked up for me), but couldn't find anyone to go with me (Prentice was on his honeymoon and no one from Nashville could make the trip). 

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Evan Dando at Tower

Below are some photos taken when Lisa, James, and I went to the Evan Dando in-store at Tower in March of 1994. Here's a related story.

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Iron & Wine at the Royal Oak Music Theatre 18 Apr 08

Last Friday Lisa and I dropped the kids off at her parents house and then headed to the Royal Oak Music Theatre to catch Califone and Iron & Wine.

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