Saturday, February 6, 2010

First Feb weekend - pt 2

So here's some Saturday picks ...

Winterfolk XXII, the annual fundraiser for the Sisters of the Road Cafe is at the Aladdin Theater tonight and feature Peter Yarrow ... 8 pm, $30

The Blasters and the Memphis Radio Kings are at Dante's celebrating the venue's 10th anniversary ... 9:30 pm, $18

St Vincent will be doing two shows at the Doug Fir that includes an all-ages show at 5 pm. Annie Clark is a gifted guitarist, singer and songwriter who makes some adventurous and beautiful music ...5 pm, $15 and 9 pm, $17

Fan of guitarists who play with a hunk of metal or glass on their finger? The show for you tonight is The Sultans of Slide at the Cascade Bar & Grill in Vancouver. Franck “Paris Slim” Goldwasser, Bob Shoemaker, Alan Hagar and Chris Miller are some of the area's best at the technique - and there will be two full performances beginning at 8:30 ... $10

Critically acclaimed band of young string players, The Bee Eaters, will be at The Woods. And they'll be joined by local guitarist Scott Law for what should shape up to be a really excellent night of music. Check this band out.  ... 9 pm, $15

3 comments:

Jim Friscia said...

Oh and two more -

Lloyd Jones is at the Candlelight and over at Biddys it's Root Jack and The Low Road ...

JD said...

Who is in the Blasters these days, just Phil not Dave Alvin ??

Jim Friscia said...

Yep ... it's Phil's band .... think it keeps them from killing each other. Brothers ... gotta love em.