The third and final festival I attended this weekend was the University of Idaho’s Palousafest. (The first and second were the National Lentil Festival, and Northwest Best Brewfest, respectively.) This event is primarily for the university’s incoming freshman and transfer students to see what their new school has to offer in the way of extra-curricular [...]
Saturday night a good friend of mine from college and his band, Paul Banks and the Carousels came to Dallas to play a show at The Cavern on lower Greenville. Lindsay Rae Spurlock opened, followed by Nashville’s The Young Republic. It was a great night with many good friends, old and new, as well as [...]
Sitting in the southbound-backseat, en route to the most anticipated event of the month (if not the year), my mind briefly went back to how I’d ended up there. The saga began over a month before the fateful night that ushered in a fourteen-day-early Christmas celebration. My friend (and personal convert to Andrew Peterson), Mason [...]
Wednesday night, the Granada came through with another wonderful show. Imogen Heap and her friends are so talented and creative. They made music with things most people would think to be childrens’ toys. They played a good show to a packed house (which I’ll blame for the inability to get closer photos). Enjoy.
This week a show came through town that my friend Scott convinced me to attend based on his rave review of one of the band’s (The Low Anthem‘s) live shows. The Low Anthem was indeed able to come through on Scott’s boasts with a strong showing at the Granada this past Wednesday night. Blind Pilot [...]