The Jack Grace Band, Thursday, June 10, Avo’s, $10
Jack Grace is a singer-songwriter-guitarist who started his first band in Boulder and went on to become a New York City country rocker. He’s also been an actor and a devotee of the Beatles and Neil Young, and songs come to him in dreams. He’s known as a genre-buster who shines as a live performer and can make you laugh and cry at the same time. One of the band’s recent stops was Austin for SXSW, and Jerry Lee Lewis is a fan of theirs. Their whiskey-centric album, Drinking Songs for Lovers, is about the trials and tribulations of the average drinking man.Hot Buttered Rum, Sunday June 13, Mishawaka, $18
If you haven’t seen them before, this five-piece acoustic-gone-electric jamming combination known as “High Altitude Bluegrass” is well worth the trip up the canyon. And if you have seen them before, you know why. This band has evolved a lot over the years – it’s a story of an acoustic string band evolving into a force that is louder, more powerful, and even more creative than it was before. A new lineup includes drummer Matt Butler (who recently wooed Hodi’s audience by conducting the Everyone Orchestra). Butler joins Aaron Redner (fiddle and mandolin), Bryan Horne (upright bass), Nat Keefe (guitar), and Erik Yates (banjo, guitar, woodwinds, and resophonic guitar) on their newest album, Limbs Akimbo. These guys do not disappoint.
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