After performing in the Iowa Arts Festival in 2017, singer-songwriter Anaïs Mitchell is back in Iowa City, kicking off her tour with Bonny Light Horseman at the Englert Theatre. Her recently released self-titled album, the first after a decade of work on the Tony Award-winning musical Hadestown, is a quiet, intimate return to a familiar […]
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REVOICED, TikTok’s ‘new fave guy group,’ bring their vocal harmonies to the Coralville Center for the Performing Arts (Updated)
Update: On Thursday night, the Nov. 20 REVOICED concert was canceled. The Coralville Center for the Performing Arts will be providing refunds to ticket-buyers. Anyone with questions about refunds should email the CCPA box office or call 319-248-9370. The Quire of Eastern Iowa will host a concert featuring the vocal ensemble REVOICED at the […]
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Forty years of dreamers: J. Knight celebrates his long-running open mic
Back when The Mill was still around, one of the cultural touchstones most deeply interwoven with its legacy was the Monday night open mics held by musician J. Knight. Countless area musicians started and nurtured their careers there. With COVID-19 and The Mill’s closing, it may have felt like an era was ending. It wasn’t. […]
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Englert Theatre reopens to the public, ‘excited’ for the path forward (VIDEO)
After a long hiatus, the Englert Theatre is once again opening its doors to the public, albeit with strict COVID-19 safety procedures in place. Interim Executive Director John Schickendanz and Board President Carl Brown sat down with Little Village recently to discuss the theater’s current changes and future direction. It’s been a difficult 16 months […]
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Getting to know Iowa (and Midwest music) at Grey Area festival
The last time I went to a music festival was two years and two months ago, AthFest in Athens, Georgia, the town I called home until a few weeks ago. And while I’ve seen live music here and there during the pandemic, I have really missed the festival atmosphere: the food trucks, the ambient music […]
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Blake Shaw gets romantic: 14 songs on his Valentine’s Day playlist
Musician Blake Shaw is a familiar face, and voice, in Iowa City. He’s been performing in town for the past 16 years, more than half his life, and living here for 10 of those. If you frequent the city’s formidable jazz circuit, you might have seen him playing out with the Blake Shaw Quintet, Blake […]
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James Tutson and the Rollback drummer Tyler Carrington offers insight into new album ‘Make You Free’
James Tutson and the Rollback will perform an album release show on Friday, Nov. 15, at 9 p.m. at Big Grove Brewery in Iowa City. There is no cover.
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Sarah Shook & the Disarmers set to unleash mix of punk and honky-tonk at The Mill
Imagine an alternate universe in which Black Flag emerged from the honky-tonks of 1960s Bakersfield instead of the punk scene of late-’70s Los Angeles. That’s the plane of existence inhabited by Sarah Shook & the Disarmers.
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Five questions with: Kev Marcus, of Black Violin
Kev Marcus (Kevin Sylvester) and Wil B (Wilner Baptiste) were just kids when they met in the orchestra room at Dillard High School of the Performing Arts in Fort Lauderdale, Florida (the majority-black magnet school also counts Nonpoint’s Elias Soriano and upcoming Rum Tum Tugger Jason Derulo among its alumni). But what began as a
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Questions for the Moon: Dead Horses come to The Mill
The Dead Horses will open for Joe Pug at The Mill this Friday, Sept. 20. Tickets are $15 in advance; $18 at the door. The duo has been performing together for nearly a decade, two constants in a band that has waxed and waned over those 10 years.
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Going after ‘the crowd that loves to hate’ country radio: Ward Davis plays Wildwood
For over a decade, Ward Davis did his best at playing the role of a Nashville songwriter. Then, somewhere in there, everything changed.
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Gabe’s gears up for a Rebel Rampage of social justice
Rebel Rampage is on a mission to put the political rage back in rock and roll. Rebel Rampage’s show, with special guest drummer Gabe Wallace sitting in for Balfour, at Gabe’s on Aug. 19 is free and open to anyone 19 and older.
