Tupelo Announces Six New Shows

The Bodeans will play two shows at the Londonderry music hall in September.

Marc Fortier, Patch Staff

Posted Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 9:57 pm ET

We have SIX new Londonderry shows to announce this week!

May 17 KEYSTONE REVISITED: The music of Jerry Garcia and Merl Saunders performed by Tony Saunders, Bill Vitt, Jeff Pevar, and Steve Abramson.This is a great show for the real “dead heads” out there. Keystone Revisited was bought together because of the huge demand from fans to hear more music from the originators of the so-called “Jam Band”. When Merl Saunders and Jerry Garcia got together it was pure magic. They were in these groups; Merl Saunders and Jerry Garcia, Reconstruction, and Legion Of Mary, which were at the forefront of the jam band era. What better way to pay homage to these legendary players than by having BILL VITT who played with Merl and Jerry, TONY SAUNDERS, the son of Merl, who started playing with them when he was 18 and continued to play with them both doing other projects, JEFF PEVAR who played with Phil Lesh and Friends, and STEVE ABRAMSON who played keyboards and was lead vocalist of Philadelphia based Jam Band Living Earth in the 1980's.Keystone Revisited plays the songs that Merl and Jerry made famous including “After Midnight”, “The Night They Drove Ol Dixie Down”, “Expressway to Your Heart”, “The Harder They Come” along with many more of the songs that made them famous. Keystone Revisited has even written and recorded a few new songs that are with the same heart such as “These Troubled Times” and “It’s A Love Thing”. LISTEN

June 8 BASTINADO with opening/closing sets by DJ Shar4: I guarantee you have never seen anything like this! Bastinado is an electronic dance music (EDM) duo that fuses the most cutting-edge piece of European musical technology, the Reactable Live with the ancient sounds of the didgeridoo. Featuring Josh Harris on Reactable Live and Joseph B. Carringer on didgeridoo, Bastinado’s live shows are made up of all original music that is arranged “on the fly”, and presented in a continuous mix setting.Reactable Live is a musical instrument with a revolutionary new interface that turns music into a tangible and visual experience. It uses photonics to create a luminous and visually interactive performance surface. The instrument is played through the interaction of three-dimensional objects called “pucks” and their virtual panels and sliders.The unique combination of real-time music and video which creates the base of the Reactable Live which has been internationally acclaimed and received several worldwide awards such as the Prix Ars Electronica Golden Nica, two D&AD Yellow Pencil Award for “Digital Installations” and “Environmental Design”, among many others. WATCH/LISTEN

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July 12 ALBERT CUMMINGS: Breaking every cliché associated with the blues while producing some of the most powerful music of the 21st century comes as natural to Albert Cummings as swinging a hammer while constructing one of his award-winning custom built homes. The Massachusetts native learned the requisite three chords on the guitar from his father, but then switched to playing banjo at age 12 and became a fan of bluegrass music. Like everything he tackles, he threw himself headlong into the pursuit, going to festivals and winning several picking contests in high school. Before graduating he heard the early recordings of Stevie Ray Vaughan, however, and was floored by the virtuosity. While in college in 1987 he saw Vaughan perform and he returned to the guitar with a new outlook and resolve. He had another tradition to live up to first, however, and he studied the building trade in order to follow his family into the home building business. Not until he was 27, an age when other musicians were either already established or had long ago put their dream aside for the realities of life, did Albert finally decide to go for it. LISTEN

Sept 21 & Sept 22 THE BODEANS: Twenty five years after their T-Bone Burnett produced debut Love & Hope & Sex & Dreams led them to win a Rolling Stone reader’s poll as "Best New American Band," The BoDeans are still rocking and harmonizing gracefully, touring the U.S. regularly and exposing the kids of their longtime steadfast fans to real, heartfelt and trend-free music. Best known for their mid-90’s Billboard Top 20 hit anthem "Closer To Free," which became the theme song for Fox's "Party Of Five," Kurt Neumann (vocals and electric guitar) is still focused on, "writing songs that bring good things to the world." The new album, Indigo Dreams, is a salute to the working man – his dreams, his desires, his love, his responsibilities, his ethos. LISTEN

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Nov 10 ANDY MCKEE: Andy McKee’s acoustic guitar can approximate the polyrhythmic interplay of a percussion ensemble, the harmonic sweep of a string section, the dazzling runs of a bluegrass doghouse bass-and-banjo duo, and virtually anything else his pastoral compositions and tasteful covers require. In 9 years and 5 records he’s written an oeuvre that globally inspires and intrigues music fans. His robust 200 dates-a-year tour itinerary—often spanning domestic rural to the exotically remote, from Arizona to Zimbabwe and everything in between—and his fans-first commitment, make him a worldwide ambassador for a new era in acoustic virtuosity. Andy’s imaginative and masterful approach to the instrument is helping to redefine our conception of acoustic guitar.Recently he’s garnered plum exposure playing with Prince in sold out arena shows in Australia as a featured soloist and special guest member of Prince’s extraordinary live band. He has toured two different continents with Dream Theater (where he played to 10,000 in Mexico City and to tens of thousands in South Korea, Thailand, China and Japan) and with one of his hero’s, Eric Johnson (who made a rare acoustic showing on the Guitar Masters Tour), where he’s been able to share his unique artistry with a wide and diverse audience.Fans of sophisticated holiday music had the opportunity to hear Andy on Josh Groban’s Grammy-nominated, multi-platinum Christmas album, Noël. In December 2008 Andy was awarded Acoustic Guitar Magazine’s esteemed worldwide silver medal award for his fingerstyle approach. But most fans first exposure to Andy’s guitartistry has been through his youtube presence; the Topeka Kansas native’s 150 million cumulative youtube views puts him in the top 3 most viewed subjects on the site’s storied 7-year history. Youtube, and video culture in general, tends to have a shtick-based popularity where humorous and superficial images tend to attract the most attention. That a guy with just an acoustic guitar and no fancy camera work or special effects could resonate with that many people is inspiring in that it showed there is a powerful and widespread hunger for pure and progressive musicianship. LISTEN/WATCH

OUR NEW HAMPSHIRE SCHEDULE

2013

Feb 7 Savoy Brown (Rock)

Feb 8 Kathleen Edwards (Pop)

Feb 9 Gandalf Murphy & the Slambovian Circus of Dreams SOLD OUT

Feb 10 Tupelo New Artist Showcase SOLD OUT

Feb 14 Liz Longley SOLD OUT

Feb 15 Comedy Night (John Turco, Graig Murphy & Jody Sloane)

Feb 16 Steve Blunt - noon (Children's Show)

Feb 16 Karen Grenier (Folk)

Feb 21 Steve Kimock (Rock)

Feb 22 Max Creek (Rock)