Dorothy

May 1st
May 1st
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Dorothy

Projecting a full-bodied voice with every inch of her being, Dorothy Martin kindles a spark of hope into a flame as bright as the sun itself. The Budapest, Hungary-born maverick singer, songwriter, performer, and frontwoman of the Los Angeles-based eponymous band DOROTHY brings gusto, grit, and glory back to hard rock, exuding superstar-size confidence coupled with the quiet resolve of an old school Western anti-hero. She has unassumingly blazed her own trail with sold out tours, major collaborations, and over 1 billion streams already in the rearview. DOROTHY arrived with the force of a hurricane back in 2016, serving up the full-length debut ROCKISDEAD. Surging on DSPs, “Raise Hell” reeled in over 85 million Spotify streams followed by “Wicked Ones” with 77 million Spotify streams. The band organically attracted a diehard global fanbase with 28 Day in the Valley [2018] and Gifts From The Holy Ghost [2022]. KERRANG! hailed the latter as “a hot-blooded rock ‘n’ roll record through and through,” and RIFF raved, “Holy Ghost serves as a triumphant battle cry and a return to form.” Perhaps, Outburn put it best, “it’s her most bombastic and gloriously, victorious rock and roll work yet.” Simultaneously, the singer took flight as the rare dynamo equally at home on a track with Slash and Nita Strauss of Alice Cooper or Staind and Scott Stapp of Creed. She even notably dueted with Stapp at the Grand Ole Opry. However, her vision really catches fire on the group’s fourth full-length album, The Way [Roc Nation], introduced by the single “Tombstone Town” [feat. Slash].

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Super Diamond

June 6
June 6
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Super Diamond

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Super Diamond

SUPER DIAMOND - The Neil Diamond Tribute

An uncanny tribute to beloved master singer/songwriter/performer, American pop icon Neil Diamond – Super Diamond has appeared on The Late Show with David Letterman, CNN, VH1, Fox News, and Comedy Central, and has been featured in publications such as Rolling Stone Magazine, The New York Times, and the San Francisco Chronicle For three decades, San Francisco’s Super Diamond has become one of the most popular live shows at major nightclubs, theaters, ballrooms, festivals, and public events throughout the United States. Super Diamond delivers a glittering, powerful show that performs Neil Diamond‘s hits with a rock edge and unrestrained enthusiasm. It is pure entertainment—classic music combined with fun, energy, and passion! Neil Diamond (the man himself) has sung his songs on stage with Super Diamond at their shows.

Don’t let anyone tell you Neil Diamond doesn’t “ROCK!” 

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Christone “Kingfish” Ingram & Samantha Fish

May 22
May 22
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Kingfish

Christone “Kingfish” Ingram & Samantha Fish

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Kingfish Samantha Fish

Christone “Kingfish” Ingram

Hailed by Rolling Stone as “a rare 21st century guitar hero and the undisputed future of the blues,”  Christone Kingfish Ingram stands at the crossroads of history and innovation, channeling the spirit of the  Delta while boldly reimagining what comes next. Now, with his new album, Hard Road, Kingfish looks  back at his extraordinary GRAMMY® Award-winning journey thus far by lighting out for previously  unexplored musical territory, infusing his signature sound with a genre-blurring approach fraught with  creative urgency and heretofore untapped emotional range. 

Executive Produced by Ingram and Ric Whitney for Kingfish’s newly minted Red Zero Records with  production by Patrick “Guitar Boy” Hayes, Nick Goldston, and longtime collaborator Tom Hambridge, Hard Road is Ingram’s most sophisticated and musically ambitious collection yet, one which renews the  long tradition of the blues by welding it to multiple strains of contemporary Black music. Songs like  “Nothin’ But Your Love” and the fiery “Voodoo Charm” see Kingfish effortlessly uniting classic blues licks with hard rock, no-holds-barred funk, soulful pop, and velvety R&B, all with resounding immediacy and  astounding eloquence. With each album, Kingfish has upped his already prodigious game, not only in his  breathtaking guitar playing but in the increasing strength of his deeply personal songcraft and vocals  marked by a depth of expression well beyond his 26 years. 

“I feel like this is one of the first times people will be seeing me outside of just the blues thing,” Kingfish  says. “ I’ve always wanted to do music that showcases my voice and my songwriting as well as my  guitar playing. And I feel like this is the first album that showcases this approach.” 

A native son of Clarksdale, Mississippi — the de-facto Ground Zero for the Delta blues, just a stone’s  throw from the fabled crossroads where Robert Johnson made his fateful deal with the devil — Kingfish’s  six-string prowess first turned heads when he was still but a teenager. Though steeped in the tones of  B.B. King, Albert King, and Buddy Guy, what set Ingram apart was how he expanded the form, blending  in funk, soul, rock, pop, and jazz to create what has proven an evolving body of work that has drawn  accolades, acclaim, and honors from all corners of the globe. 2019’s debut album, Kingfish,  topped Billboard’s “Blues Albums” for an incredible 91 weeks and earned him his first GRAMMY® Award  nomination, plus three Blues Music Awards, including “Album of the Year.” Kingfish followed up with  2021’s 662, titled after his hometown MS area code, which won both the GRAMMY® Award and Blues  Music Award for “Best Contemporary Blues Album.” In 2023, the incendiary Live In London received yet  another GRAMMY® Award nomination as well as his second Blues Music Award for “Album of the Year”  and third consecutive triumph in the “Best Contemporary Blues Album.” 

Samantha Fish

One of the most formidable guitarists of her generation, Samantha Fish deals in her own unmatched brand of bravado, bringing both mind-blowing power and extraordinary emotionality to everything she creates. Since first introducing the world to her larger-than-life talent, the multi-award-winning festival headliner has built a triumphant career whose latest milestones include earning a Grammy nomination for Death Wish Blues (her 2023 collaboration with rocker Jesse Dayton) and opening for The Rolling Stones on their final 2024 U.S. tour date. On her new album Paper Doll, Fish offers up nine powerhouse songs that hit with an unstoppable force, each delivered with an exquisite dose of illuminating insight, soul-soothing empathy, and—above all—newly heightened clarity of vision. “It’s taken me years to finally find my voice in a studio setting,” Fish admits. “But with this record I took everything I had, and slammed it right on the table.”   

Fish’s first-ever album recorded with her touring band, Paper Doll takes its title from the first song the Kansas City-bred musician penned for the LP: a raw yet reflective battle cry that perfectly encapsulates the album’s spirit of unapologetic defiance. “That song’s a feminist anthem in a way—but then again, every song’s a feminist anthem when you’re a woman writing from your own experience,” says Fish. “It’s about rebelling against other people’s expectations of who you’re supposed to be, which feels pretty relevant for the times we’re living in right now.” 

Recorded at The Orb in Austin and Savannah Studios in L.A., Paper Doll marks the latest entry in an uncompromising and endlessly adventurous catalog that’s found her working with luminaries like Jon Spencer of Jon Spencer Blues Explosion as well as Luther Dickinson (co-founder of North Mississippi Allstars and former member of the Black Crowes). This time around, Fish reunited with Detroit garage-rock icon Bobby Harlow, who also produced her 2017 LP Chills & Fever. “When I look back on Chills & Fever I realize that Bobby was pushing me into some cool and dangerous places, but at that phase in my life I was holding back a bit,” she says. “Now I’m at a point where I’m ready to give people something totally unexpected, something that breaks the pop formula and really takes its time to tell a story with the guitar playing.”

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DEVO

June 13
June 13
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Mutate Don’t Stagnate

DEVO

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Mutate Don’t Stagnate

In 1973, out of the remnants of late ’60s political activism and the rising post-punk music climate, the seminal band DEVO was born. The formative lineup consisted of two sets of brothers—Mark and Bob Mothersbaugh, and Gerald and Bob Casale—along with drummer Alan Myers, all hailing from Akron, Ohio

The band’s prophetic message of “Devolution” and their strikingly original fusion of electronics and punk made them a singular influence throughout the ’80s and into the ’90s. DEVO began when Mark Mothersbaugh and Gerald Casale met as students at Kent State University and began exchanging ideas about art and music. 

Deeply influenced by the Vietnam War, campus protests, and the tragic Kent State shootings of May 1970, the duo started making films and writing songs that would evolve into a wholly unique performance style. Their art-meets-music ethos quickly propelled them into the spotlight as one of the most high-profile acts in the New Wave movement, earning them a fervent cult following that included David Bowie, Iggy Pop, and Neil Young.

In 1978, after an impromptu endorsement at Max’s Kansas City where David Bowie declared them “the band of the future,” DEVO was whisked off to Germany. There, Brian Eno—along with Bowie’s collaboration—produced their debut album Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are DEVO!. The record caught the attention of both critics and the industry, helping the band build a devoted following. It wasn’t until their third album, Freedom of Choice—produced by Bob Margouleff and featuring the double-platinum single Whip It—that DEVO became a worldwide phenomenon.

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Jason Mraz

June 5
June 5
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Jason Mraz

Jason Mraz

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Jason Mraz

Still Yours Tour with Special Guest Gregory Page

With stylistic nods toward folk, jam band music, hip-hop, and soft rock, and with equal parts cheeky humor and earnest sincerity, Jason Mraz's breezy melodic pop is often synonymous with the beachfronts of his adopted home state of California. Mraz first came to the public's attention with "The Remedy (Don't Worry)" from his 2002 debut, Waiting for My Rocket to Come, and by the time he achieved global success with 2008's international Top Ten charting "I'm Yours" -- a Grammy nominee for Song of the Year -- Mraz was already one of the more prominent singer/songwriters of the era. He took home two Grammy Awards in 2010 -- for "Make It Mine" (Best Male Pop Vocal Performance) and "Lucky" (Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals, with Colbie Caillat) -- both, like "I'm Yours," from 2008's sleek We Sing. We Dance. We Steal Things., which reached number three on the Billboard 200. He had another smash single with 2012's "I Won't Give Up" from that year's '70s soul-infused Love Is a Four Letter Word, a U.S. number two. While "I Won't Give. Up" proved to be his final Top 40 outing, Mraz went on to chart highly with albums of upbeat, seduction-preoccupied pop throughout the decade, including 2014's Yes! (number two, U.S. and Canada) and 2018's Know. (number nine and ten, respectively). This period also included a Broadway turn in Sara Bareilles' musical Waitress. As a recording artist, Mraz continued down a path of positivity into the 2020s with long-players like 2023's disco-inflected Mystical Magical Rhythmical Radical Ride.

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Dark Star Orchestra

March 7
March 7
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Dark Star  Orchestra

Dark Star Orchestra

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Dark Star Orchestra

Performing to critical acclaim for nearly 30 years and over 3300 shows, Dark Star Orchestra continues the Grateful Dead live concert experience. The seven-piece band performs shows based on actual Grateful Dead set lists from their 30 years of touring, or creates unique sets from the Dead’s extensive catalog. This approach allows fans both young and old to share in the experience while offering a continually evolving
artistic outlet within this musical canon.

Dark Star Orchestra offers much more than just the sound of the Grateful Dead—they truly encapsulate the energy and experience. It’s about that sense of familiarity and contagious energy that creates the complete concert experience fans expect.

The band has featured guest performances from six original Grateful Dead members: Phil Lesh, Bob Weir, Bill Kreutzmann, Mickey Hart, Donna Jean Godchaux-MacKay, Vince Welnick, and Tom Constanten, plus longtime Dead soundman Dan Healy. Other notable guests have included Mike Gordon and Jon Fishman of Phish, Warren Haynes, Steve Kimock, and many more.

“For us it’s a chance to recreate some of the magic that was created for us over the years,” explains keyboardist and vocalist Rob Barraco. “We offer a sort of historical perspective at what it might have been like to go to a show in 1985, 1978 or whenever. Even for Deadheads who can say they’ve been to a hundred shows in the 90s, we offer something they never got to see live.”

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Candlebox

February 27
February 27
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Candlebox
Can’t Quit You Tour

Candlebox

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Candlebox

Can’t Quit You Tour

Emerging from Seattle’s burgeoning mid-1990s grunge scene, Candlebox quickly found mainstream success with their deep, lyrically-driven melodies and big radio hooks. Power anthems like “Far Begin” and “You,” from their debut, self-titled album exploded onto the charts propelling the album to sell more than four million copies worldwide. Blazing full steam ahead with new U.S. and international tour dates and an upcoming release on the horizon, these iconic rockers have no plans of slowing down any time soon. And to the legions of fans who have followed their long and illustrious career, that’s music to their ears.

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A.J. Croce Presents CROCE PLAYS CROCE

April 11
April 11
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Croce Plays Croce

A.J. Croce Presents CROCE PLAYS CROCE

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Croce Plays Croce

After 50 years and more than 50 million records sold, Jim Croce’s legacy as an iconic singer/songwriter is firmly cemented. A.J. Croce, a Billboard charting singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and performer, returns this fall, bringing Jim’s classic songs to the stage with his “Croce Plays Croce 50th Anniversary Tour.” After 10 studio albums and 30 years of touring the world establishing his own career, in the early 2000’s, A.J. taught himself guitar and several of his father’s (Jim’s) classics. The fan response from dropping in a song or two like “Operator” in his own show was astounding and deeply emotional. He then debuted a concert that celebrated the legacy of his father’s songs, stories and music; as well as his own. The show featured two generations of Croce music and many songs by other artists which connect father and son as performers. Throughout the past seven years, A.J.’s “Croce Plays Croce” tour has sold out performing arts centers across America. In 2022, in celebration of the 50th anniversary of Jim’s breakthrough album, You Don’t Mess Around With Jim, A.J. honored the memory of his father with a fall tour featuring a seven piece ensemble and a multimedia production.

A.J. is hitting the road again this year in celebration of two of Jim Croce’s legendary albums, 1973’s Life and Times, and his final release, I Got A Name; in addition to songs from You Don’t Mess Around With Jim. The much-anticipated fall performances, “Croce Plays Croce 50th Anniversary Tour,” commences on October 27, coinciding with the October 13 release of The Definitive Croce collection, and includes performances at historic venues like New York City’s Town Hall and Detroit’s Royal Oak Music Theatre. The tour will continue over the next year from coast to coast. The “Croce Plays Croce 50th Anniversary” show features a legendary band including drummer Gary Mallaber (Van Morrison/Steve Miller Band), bassist/singer David Barard (Dr. John), and guitarist/violinist James Pennebaker (Delbert McClinton); accompanied by background singers Jackie Wilson and Katrice Donaldson. The shows will also feature a moving multi-media presentation and will include all of Jim’s chart-topping hits, as well as many deep cuts.

Over the past three decades, A.J. Croce has established his reputation as a piano player and vocal stylist who pulls from a host of musical traditions and anti-heroes — part New Orleans, part juke joint, part soul. From his 10 studio albums, it’s clear that he holds an abiding love for all types of musical genres: Blues, Soul, Pop, Jazz, and Rock n’ Roll. A virtuosic piano player, Croce toured with B.B. King and Ray Charles before reaching the age of 21, and over his career, he has performed with a wide range of musicians, from Willie Nelson to the Neville Brothers, to Béla Fleck and Ry Cooder. A.J. has also co-written songs with such formidable tunesmiths as Leon Russell, Dan Penn, Robert Earl Keen, and multi-Grammy winner Gary Nicholson. His albums have all charted on an impressive array of charts: Top 40, Blues, Americana, Jazz, College, and Radio 1. The Nashville-based singer/songwriter has landed 22 singles on a variety of Top 20 charts. His songwriting and style has evolved from Jazz & Blues on his debut and sophomore albums, to the roots-rock of the more recent collaborative recordings like Cantos with Ben Harper, Twelve Tales with Allen Toussaint, and Just Like Medicine with Vince Gill.

After many years of resisting numerous offers to perform Jim’s music, A.J. began mixing a few of Jim’s songs into his regular tour performances. The key to making it work was not simply covering the songs, but bringing his own style and flair to them, infusing a fresh, spontaneous excitement. Last year, he released his latest single, “So Much Fun,” and the national television show, CBS Sunday Morning, featured a well-told story of A.J. and his father on Father’s Day.

On the first “Croce plays Croce” tour, A.J. discovered a fascinating phenomenon. “People often come in thinking the show will be a quiet, nostalgic, precious display of my father’s songs – but it’s not precious at all. We give them a really energetic, live show. The audience expects one thing, but by the time they leave, they realize they got something completely different -- and they leave not only with a new perspective on Jim, but as fans of mine as well.”

The two Jim Croce albums that turn 50 in 2023 are Life and Times, originally released in January of 1973, delivering Billboard’s Hot 100 #1 single, “Bad, Bad Leroy Brown,” and I Got A Name, his final studio album with the title song being released a week after his tragic plane crash on September 20, 1973. The album also featured the smash hit ballad, “I’ll Have to Say I Love You In A Song,” and “Workin’ At The Car Wash Blues.” By December of 1973, both albums charted on Billboard at #1 and #2 on the album chart (a feat not repeated by an artist until the late 80s with Guns N’ Roses). All three Jim Croce albums are being released this fall by BMG as a box set titled the aforementioned The Definitive Croce, as well as individually in a 50th Anniversary special edition vinyl, CD and Dolby Atmos format. The 50th Anniversary show will include songs from You Don’t Mess Around With Jim, which spent 93 weeks on the charts. Jim’s records continue to be incorporated into pop culture with unique film and television placements in Quentin Tarantino’s “Django Unchained,” “Stranger Things,” an Apple Siri commercial, “Fast and Furious”; and with “Time in a Bottle,” in “X-Men: Days of Future Past.”

The “Croce Plays Croce” shows have renewed interest in Jim Croce and garnered praise for A.J: “I think they come as a Jim Croce fan but leave as fans of mine. That’s something that has also made this whole experience really amazing.”

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The My Generation Tour

March 15
March 15
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My Generation Tour

The My Generation Tour

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My Generation Tour

Starring The Lovin’ Spoonful, The Hollies Greatest Hits starring Terry Sylvester, and Gary Lewis and The Playboys
Pathfinder Productions’ presents the launch of The MY GENERATION Tour starring The Lovin’ Spoonful, The Hollies Greatest Hits starring Terry Sylvester, and Gary Lewis and The Playboys. “This good-time spectacular celebrates the time of our lives with all three acts performing with their own full bands spanning the golden singles-era of pop music, from 1965 to 1975. This was the magic time where hit singles ruled the charts and won our hearts,” producer Jim Della Croce exclaims. Original member and co-founder of The Lovin’ Spoonful, Steve Boone, will appear on select dates.* Terry Sylvester, who famously replaced Graham Nash after he left The Hollies, will perform along with famed pop legend Gary Lewis. “This show is the baby-boomer bucket list must see event of the year, a hip trip back to the era that defined our generation,” he concludes.

The MY GENERATION TOUR stars the bands whose sounds swept across the airwaves at homes in our rooms and on the beach with our transistor radios. The music drove us into the record stores to grasp the singles we loved and play them until the grooves wore out. Between The Lovin’ Spoonful, The Hollies, and Gary Lewis and The Playboys, the charts exploded every week with a new tune that captivated our rock and roll souls. Nearly 30 hits will explode throughout this two-hour celebration: “Daydream,” “Do You Believe in Magic,” “This Diamond Ring,” “Carrie Anne,” “Long Cool Woman (in a Black Dress), “Count Me In,” “He Ain’t Heavy, He’s My Brother,” “Summer in the City,” “She’s Just My Style,” “You Didn’t Have to Be So Nice,” “On a Carousel,” “Sure Gonna Miss Her” and “The Air that I Breathe.”

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Billy F Gibbons and the BFG Band

February 20
February 20
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Billy F Gibbons

Billy F Gibbons and the BFG Band

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Billy F Gibbons and the BFG Band

With his signature beard and African headgear, Billy F Gibbons is instantly recognizable and best known as the centerpiece of ZZ Top.

BFG is widely regarded as one of the world’s finest guitarists working in the blues-rock idiom. The sound originates from the uncanny knack to squeeze unheard of sounds out of the electric guitar with the blues, pop, R&B, country, gospel, western, hillbilly and West Africa.  That BFG down ‘n dirty growl is unmistakable heard on such hits as “La Grange,” “Sharp Dressed Man” and “Cheap Sunglasses”.

Billy F Gibbons is much more than an iconic guitar slinger with a monumental length of chin whiskers... He’s an internationally recognized collector of guitars and cars, noted in the best-selling book, Rock + Roll Gearhead. 
Beyond guitars and cars, Gibbons has a renowned collection of African art, with an abiding interest in both the paranormal and cutting-edge technology.

Billy’s solo album releases, the Afro-Cuban flavored “Perfectamundo", the bluesy, "The Big Bad Blues”, and the hard rockin, “Hardware”  all represent what he refers to as the “Three T’s”: Tone, Taste and Tenacity.  BFG is truly a highly regarded Renaissance man.

Chris “Whipper” Layton holds his remarkable standings as the drummer for Stevie Ray Vaughn & Double Trouble, along with “The Arc Angels” band, guitarist Kenny Shepherd, and now marking the cornerstone backbeat with Billy F Gibbons and "The BFG’s".

Mike 'The Drifter' Flanigin is a shining light of the Texas Blues scene.  A master of the Hammond B3 organ, known for his collaborations with Texas guitar legends Billy F Gibbons & Jimmie Vaughan, Flanigin is infamously known throughout the Austin Blues scene.  Flanigin has done n’ played ‘em all…from juke joints, Texas and beer joints, to Madison Square Garden and beyond.

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