What a week of shows! Here is where I would go if I wasn't going to be silently meditating in my apartment all week...(just joking, I've seen 209 shows in 2006 and still going strong!)

Wednesday August 2:

Whitebread Picnic & Fatty Lumpkin @ The Green Elephant - Come out to jam with some Widespread Panic tunes and then Grapevine's own Fatty Lumpkin throws down to close the night! Anyone who was at last week's Widespread Panic afterparty knows what I am talking about. These guys are good. I've put this up before, but here is a video of them playing Go Funk Yourself:

Thursday August 3:

Sorta & Dave Little @ Bend Studio - This is Chris Holt's first show as an official member of Sorta. When the Dallas Observer Music Award winning "Best Act Overall" adds the 2 time defending Musician of the Year, its must see material.

Fishing For Comets (8pm), Travis Hopper (9pm), Porter Davis (10pm) & Marcus Rubio (11pm) @ Club Dada - Fishing For Comets (DOMA best Folk/Acoustic 2005 & 2006) kicks off their tour of duty as Club Dada's Artist in Residence for August! Here is video of FFC playing "Finer Stutterings" from Standard & Pours recently:

Ned Lane @ Cretia's on McKinney - This still is my favorite weekly event. Cas Haley and Travis Brink sit with acoustic guitars (and sometimes a bass and a conga drum) and cover lots of great reggae (Marley, Sublime), bluegrass (Monroe, Dylan), and even rap (Eminem). Here is a song they played with Jonathan Pearce (Sax) who sits in regularly with Cas & Travis:



You will also probably get to hear some of Cas's original Woodbelly material, seen below with the full band:



Friday August 4:

Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers with Trey Anastasio @ Smirnoff - enough said. (I'll be there)

The Whigs, Red Monroe & Voot Cha Index @ Gypsy Tea Room - each of these bands has come very highly recommended and I would love to check them out! If not for the Tom/Trey show & the Club Dada lineup, I would be at this one. (Contrary to popular belief, I can only be in one place at a time.)

Hard Nights Day, Millicent Friendly, Escort Service & Chemistry Set @ Club Dada - 4 local favorites...if I wasn't seeing Tom Petty & Trey Anastasio, I would be at this one!

Rhythm, Woodbelly, 3 am Live & Not Called Common @ Curtain Club - check out this video of Woodbelly playing Stevie Wonder's Living For The City with Derrick of 3 am Live:

Saturday August 5 - OLOSPO, The Enormous Magic Verb & Kunek @ Hailey's in Denton! If you've read anything I've written, you know I'll be making the drive up 35 for this one! Fronted by Chris Holt (DOMA Musician of the Year 2005, 2006 & Instrumentalist of the Year 2006), this is a rock show you dont want to miss! This is their last show until the August 18th Granada Anniversary show. Here are Wishful Sinking & Slither from CD World in Addison last Saturday afternoon:

Sunday August 6:

Rebirth Brass Band @ Gypsy Tea Room - A New Orleans institution, they put on great live shows. Last year, they had hometown fav, Erykah Badu on stage with them!

Dallas Portal @ Lakewood Bar & Grill - A collection of DFW are jambands get together to throw down on a Sunday evening around 8pm. Last week, at the first ever Dallas event (they have been going on in Austin for a little while), both Fatty Lumpkin guitar players were there along with most of A Partial Freakout with some UNT Jazz students thrown in for good measure.

I have had this week circled on my calendar for some time now its finally here!

Have fun! Be safe! See you there!