The short answer to “What’s up with ear X-tacy?” is that owner John Timmons has two more months at his current location before he has to do something: move, close or renegotiate the current lease, which, he said, is too much for him to pay. The problems he’s facing are the familiar ones: the economy [...]
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The Kentucky Speedway has announced that there will be big-name country music concerts as part of the June 12 and Sept. 4 race tickets. Sawyer Brown will take the concert stage on June 12 before the NASCAR Nationwide Series “Meijer 300 presented by Ritz.” Diamond Rio will perform Sept. 4. Tickets will go [...] More acts have been added to the HullabaLOU lineup. In addition to Dierks Bentley, Blood, Sweat & Tears, Ben Folds, Train and The Avett Brothers, Justin Moore, Tonic, Rick Bartlett’s Rockin’ Soul Revival, Exile, Green River Ordinance, Brigid Kaelin, Hazel Miller, J.D. Shelburne, Stealing Angels and Louisville’s own Villebillies have also made the list. [...] Some of The 2010 Kentucky State Fair’s Main Stage line-up has been released: Sugarland, Thursday, August 19 and Rascal Flatts on Sunday, August 29. Comedian Jeff Dunham will be there on August 21. Ticket info to be released later. Hank Jr. will be at Freedom Hall on April 3, with Eric Church and The Grascals opening. Presale for the concert starts at 10 p.m. Thursday. Tamara Ikenburg at the C-J tells us this: “Go to www.ticketmaster.com and use the password ROWDY10. Tickets go on sale to the general public at 10 a.m. Saturday and [...] Chilton Searcy Price, writer of “You Belong To Me” and “Slow Poke,” died in Louisville on Thursday, January 14. Price was a violinist with the Louisville Orchestra who later worked as a music librarian at WAVE radio during the 1940s. She was discovered by Louisville band leader Pee Wee King and his partner Redd Stewart, [...] Matt Kinder, a.k.a. The Parade Schedule, was interviewed by Mat Herron in this week’s LEO. It’s a story to help plug his new CD, Seeds to be Planted, Trees to be Cut. The Parade Schedule plays the 930 Room on Friday. It’s a free show. While we’re at it, here’s Herron’s picks for the week. Also, there’s [...] J. L. Puckett has a phoner with Randy Houser and Jamey Johnson. The pair are coming to the Louisville Palace on Thursday as part of the “CMT on Tour” show. A blog called Visit Me in Music City has a post about a Pee Wee King and His Golden West Cowboys 6-CD release, complete with a track list (!) and a link to downloads. Pee Wee would not like the fact that it can be dl’ed for free. Churchill Downs has announced a major festival, HullabaLOU, set for July 23-25, 2010, featuring 65 acts from every genre of music. With the corporate clout available from Churchill Downs, this should be a festival that will work and be well-run. Beginning December 4, 2009 at 12:00 p.m. EST, tickets go on sale at www.hullabaloufest.com. [...] |
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