Sunday 5/8/11 – Sunday 5/22/11
Now that everyone has recovered from Cinco De Mayo with a couple Bloody Marys and a $3 Mimo from Caps. We can really get into May. Other then Mother’s Day happening on Sunday May 8th. This month is Music Month in New Zealand. So why not celebrate it state side in true Bellingham style! Make sure to head out to some of the awesome shows coming up (a few great ideas below), pick up a What’s Up! and snag a new album from a local record store!
Thursday 5/12/11 – Pan Pan, Bill Lohse – The Ridge Wine Bar
“Like their namesake, Pan Pan conjures whimsy, the wilderness, and the quiet swell of subtle emotions with a simple flourish of horn set above piano rumble. The solo project of Bellingham’s Sarah Jerns, Pan Pan is Morricone by way of Beirut, a suggestive mix of cinema and exuberant release. Spare percussion underpins Jerns’ wandering trumpet. Her piano skips through a field-recorded dream. Horns catch your hair and buoy traveling spirits. It’s an abduction of your senses, a permission slip for wild abandon. Listen.”
Full Calendar: www.facebook.com
Also, if you haven’t had your music fix head to the Wild Buffalo and check out Curren$y. Click here for more info and tickets.
Friday 5/13/11 – Zorbatron, Shit Machine (Album Release), Party Thighs – The Shakedown
It all started as a background thought while on tour several years ago that soon became an obsession, but the songs in his head were radically different than what would fit in his current ensemble. Beau Boyd realized that if he was going to get these songs out, he would need to do it himself… (check out the full article here)
More Info: shakedownbellingham.com
Saturday 5/14/11 – Sierra Leone’s Refugee All Stars – Wild Buffalo
“Sitting in a dusty refugee camp in Guinea in 2004, Reuben M. Koroma, the founder of Sierra Leone’s Refugee All Stars, could not have imagined what the near future would hold for him and the members of his band. In just six whirlwind years, the group has gone from being unknown musicians languishing in various refugee camps to being the subject of an acclaimed documentary film, touring the world to support a critically revered album, appearing on the Oprah Winfrey Show, and sharing the stage and studio with Aerosmith and other international stars. Sierra Leone’s Refugee All Stars have risen like a phoenix out of the ashes of war and enflamed the passions of fans across the globe with their uplifting songs of hope, faith and joy.”
More Info: www.facebook.com
Tickets: www.brownpapertickets.com
If you want something a little harder head to The Shakedown and check out Kowalski and Witchburn. More info here.
Monday 5/16/2011 – ReignCity & Conquest Present… CunninLynguists, Homeboy Sandman, ToneDeff, Blue Sky Black Death – Wild Buffalo
“There has never been an anomaly in hip-hop quite like the southern trio CunninLynguists. Sampling genres from psych-rock to blues, New Romantic to polka, they have been musically compared to UGK and Atmosphere in the same breath. They have toured and shared stages with Kanye West and Aesop Rock to equal success. They have produced for Lil’ Scrappy as well as KRS-One. They have crafted songs with international soul superstar Cee-Lo Greenand politically charged indie-favorite Immortal Technique on the same album.”
More Info: www.facebook.com
Tickets: www.brownpapertickets.com
Saturday 5/21/11 – David Allan Coe – Wild Buffalo
“A life-long renegade, singer/songwriter David Allan Coe is one of the most colorful and unpredictable characters in country music history. One of the pioneering artists of the outlaw country movement of the ’70s, he hasn’t had many big hits — only three of his singles hit the Top Ten — but he has been among the biggest cult figures in country music throughout his career.”
Tickets: holdmyticket.com
