Lily Detaeye, a 20-year-old singer/songwriter from Des Moines, is currently a Junior at the University of Iowa and doubles as a musician at Station One Records in Des Moines. She’s been touring the midwest all summer, and will hit her second home, Iowa City, on June 8th. She’ll perform at the Yacht Club at 9 p.m. Tickets are $7. […]
Chicago native Fiona Grey is excited to be back in the Midwest. She’s bounced between Los Angeles and Chicago for several years now, and her music career is based in LA. But, “I still consider myself a Midwestern girl,” she said in a recent conversation with Little Village. Grey’s current tour brings her through Iowa City on Thursday, Nov. 30 with a 7 p.m. show at the Yacht Club. Tickets are $8. […]
Tonight at the Yacht Club, two unlikely concepts will intertwine. Choreographer Angelia Mahaney (you may have seen her work as the grad student coordinator on Mission Creek Festival’s SciFi CoLab) has brought together a slate of electronic musicians and a team of dancers from the University of Iowa for an evening of performance. […]
Electro-indie band Enemy Planes take the stage at the Yacht Club Saturday, Aug. 9 alongside indie rockers the Fuss and Obelisks. Music starts at 9 p.m. and $6 gets you in the door. […]
MER’s Music Showcase Iowa City Yacht Club — Thursday, April 13 at 8 p.m. Nashville round-robin jams are designed to bring together a mixed bag of musicians, converging local flavors with those of out-of-towners. The result is a night of musical potpourri. In this style of the communal, Chicago-based MER, an independent musician who’s supported […]
Seventh Annual Comedy for Charity Showcase Iowa City Yacht Club — Saturday, Sept. 24 at 6 p.m. Since 2009, Iowa City comedians have come together for a cause. This year’s Comedy for Charity benefit will raise donations and funds for winter coats and clothing for those in need through the Minnesota-based charity Coats of Kindness. […]
Hot Tang, with Maiden Mars and Oudenhoven Yacht Club — Saturday, Apr. 23 at 7 p.m. Summer comes early this year, with an all-ages record release party from Hot Tang, self-described as “Iowa City’s only poolhaus band.” They will release a vinyl 7” this weekend and celebrate with a show at the Yacht Club on […]
Adia Victoria with Crystal City and Brooks Strause & The Gory Details Yacht Club — Wed., Apr. 6 at 8 p.m. A change in plans can often open up opportunities. For Adia Victoria, moving back to the South pushed her to start focusing on her songwriting and learning guitar. Nashville proved to be a fertile […]
Groovement, with The Maytags The Yacht Club — Friday, Feb. 12 at 10 p.m. The members of the Maytags — Dustin Smith, Andy Poppen, Tim Sanders, Nick Leo, Ben Chappell, Daniel Kreipke, Sam Mogerman — have been playing together off-and-on, in various iterations, for years, and you can tell. The tight, hot, soul-rock sounds on […]
Yacht Club 13th Anniversary Celebration Yacht Club — Saturday, Jan. 23 at 4 p.m Iowa City’s own Yacht Club (13 S. Linn St.) turns thirteen this year and will celebrate with a ten-hour, six band party on Jan. 23. In a press release, the club’s owner and talent buyer, Scott Kading, wrote, “This is something […]
New Year’s Eve is just around the corner… and you’re still looking for plans? Well, look no further: Paris Je T’aime FilmScene — 4 p.m. $22 Bonne année! Join your fellow Francophiles for the third-annual Parisian NYE celebration at FilmScene. Countdown en français with champagne, pâtisserie and a livestream from the Eiffel Tower, followed by […]
Comedian Brooks Wheelan The Yacht Club — Monday, Dec. 28 at 10 p.m. ($3 door charge) Stand-up comedian and former SNL cast member Brooks Wheelan, an Iowa native, is snowed in after returning to Iowa for the holidays. The good news? The University of Iowa alum announced earlier today on Twitter that — given his […]