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Rockin
for Hunger
Palace
Theatre, Thursday
Drag those acid-washed jeans from the deep recesses of your
dresser. Tonight (Thursday), the ’80s rise again—and this
time, for a good cause. Jovi, the self-dubbed “Ultimate Bon
Jovi Tribute Show,” have joined forces with the Wicked 80s
(who have staked their claim as “New England’s #1 tribute
band to the 80s hair bands”) on a Rockin for Hunger tour through
the Northeast. All proceeds from the tour are donated to the
area’s local food banks. In Albany, where the power ballads
will help fund the Regional Food Bank of Northeastern New
York, the Saratoga-based Bed Spins will jump in the fray.
The band’s Myspace page declares them “the hottest cover band
in New York State.” We smell the cover/tribute band feud of
the century brewing. If, instead of firing up your Aqua Net,
you’re still wondering why a bevy of grown men would dedicate
themselves to impersonating hair bands, just “Blame it on
the Love of Rock and Roll.” (March 19, PM, $, 19 Clinton
Ave., Albany, 465-4663)
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Keller
Williams
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Keller
Williams
The
Egg, Friday
Thanks to the boom of looping and sampling technology, there
are now loads of musicians out there doing the one-man-band
thing. We could name about a dozen off the top of our heads.
We’ll spare you the gratuitous display of short-term memory,
but one of the first names that comes to mind is Keller Williams.
Dude brings a whole rock outfit’s worth of instruments onstage
every night and creates a part-improvisational, always-impressive
display of musicianship. That display is captured nicely on
Williams’ new Live disc; if you want to see it all
go down in person, get to the Egg tomorrow (Friday). (March
20, 8 PM, $30, Empire State Plaza, Albany, 473-1845)
Pete
Francis and Barefoot Truth
Revolution
Hall, Friday
That Pete Francis is one restless dude. He put the pedal to
the metal with Dispatch for years, playing hundreds of shows
and selling thousands and thousands of tickets. He went solo
a few years back and recently dropped the well-regarded Iron
Sea and the Cavalry CD. Now the singer-songwriter is back
on the road in a touring collaboration with roots-rockers
Barefoot Truth, the young band who got a big profile boost
last fall as part of a gig attached to the presidential debates
in New York. Together, Francis and Barefoot Truth rock through
their own material, as well as dipping into the Dispatch catalog.
(March 20, PM, $, 425 River St., Troy, 274-0553)
Dave
Rowe Trio
Eighth
Step/GE Theatre at Proctors, Saturday
Dave Rowe grew up basked in folk music; his father is the
late Tom Rowe of Maine’s legendary Schooner Fare, and the
two performed together for nearly a decade. After the multi-instrumentalist
lost his father to cancer in 2004, he scoured Maine looking
for high-energy musicians who would create an all-new folk
configuration. Rowe found Kevin O’Reilly, an electric bassist
with a rock background, and fiddler Eric Howe. The three formed
a high-energy, neo-Celtic “newgrass” band headed by Rowe on
guitar, mandolin, banjo, bass, and vocals. Howe recently bowed
out of the trio, but introduced Eric McDonald, a Boston-based
mandolin player who quickly became the third musketeer. According
to the Boston Globe, the resulting music rings with
“youthful zest, pulsing melodicism, and pedal-to-the-metal
energy.” (March 21, 7:30 PM, $21, 432 State St., Schenectady,
346-6204)
Cassandra
Wilson
The
Egg, Sunday
Some things are worth waiting for, and a performance by Grammy-winning
jazz vocalist Cassandra Wilson at the Egg is certainly one
of them. The concert originally was scheduled for Feb. 8;
this time it’s for real, and Wilson will bring the full triple
threat with her voice, guitar and piano playing. If you thought
that scat was something biologists studied and jazzband instructors
made a fool of themselves demonstrating, then Wilson will
be more than glad to offer an exhibition of the human voice’s
full potential as a musical instrument. (March 22, 7:30
PM, $34.50, Empire Plaza, Albany, 473-1845)
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Professor
Louie and the Crowmatix
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Tomorrow
(Friday) at TJ’s Flight Line Tavern in Glenville,
catch the Organiks and Joe Roy Jackson
(6 PM, $10, 399-8401). . . . Get rocked with Blackcat
Elliot Friday at Positively 4th Street (9
PM, $5, 687-0064). . . . Local composer Oded
Ben-Ami celebrates the release of his new
CD, Beyond, this Saturday afternoon at
the Niskayuna Public Library (3 PM, Free, 386-2249).
. . . The Ramblin Jug Stompers and the
M Shanghai String Band team up for a punctuation-free
night of roots-rock and old-time porch tunes at
the Ale House on Saturday (9 PM, $15, 272-9740).
. . . Also on Saturday, Professor Louie and
the Crowmatix return to the area for a show
at the Linda (8 PM, $15, $10 students, 465-5233
ext. 4). . . . Saturday brings multi-instrumentalist
and composer Terry Dame’s Electric Junkyard
Gamelan back to Time & Space Limited in
Hudson (8 PM $10, 822-8448). . . . On the meditative
side of things—really!—experience the healing
sounds of Rich Goodhart at the Octagon
Barn in Delanson on Saturday (7:30 PM, $20, 895-2950).
. . . Canadian singer-songwriter Garnet Rogers
at Caffe Lena on Sunday (7 PM, $18, 583-0022).
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