Local music this week: spooky sets and Halloweekend house shows
“Halloweekend” is almost here! Here are all the places to enjoy your favorite music over the holiday weekend. Put on your costumes and get ready to party.
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“Halloweekend” is almost here! Here are all the places to enjoy your favorite music over the holiday weekend. Put on your costumes and get ready to party.
Comedian Pete Holmes will perform five shows at The Comedy Attic to celebrate the venue’s 15th anniversary this week. On Oct. 26, the venue will donate all admission costs to the local non-profit organization Cancer Support Community of South-Central Indiana.
Ben Wasserman, an NYC-based comedian, is performing Live After Death, a “part comedy, part group therapy” show, at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 24 at the Allen Funeral Home and Crematory in the southern side of Bloomington. The comic has been touring funeral homes and cemeteries since September, joking about death.
Glad Rags, Chicago psychedelic disco synth pop band, will perform Oct. 25 at The Bishop Bar. They’ll be joined by Bloomington rock bands The Matriarch and SYZYGY. Doors will open at 7 p.m. and the show will begin at 8 p.m. Tickets are available for $10 to audience members ages 18 and up. Spooky Halloween attire is encouraged.
A regal count in classical dress swaggers onto stage, posing in a floral archway. He smugly smirks, slyly adjusting the shades on his head, framed with a powdered wig — a comedy of farcical love is underway at the Musical Arts Center.
The Jacobs School of Music will present a recital with a new, state-of-the-art technologically innovative piano from instrument manufacturers Steinway & Sons at 7 p.m. Oct. 18 in Ford-Crawford Hall. There will also be a guest performance by acclaimed alumnus Jeremy Denk.
A theater building rivaling the Metropolitan Opera, three performance halls, more than three dozen ensembles and over a thousand performances a year — yes that’s all at the Jacobs School of Music.
The Jacobs School of Music will present a faculty and guest recital featuring professor of music, Atar Arad and celebrated Jacobs alumni Yuval Gotlibovich, Duncan Steele, Melia Watras and Rose Wollman.
The ballerina stands still on the stage of the Musical Arts Center, her chest imperceptibly rising from the pas de deux she performed. Her pale pink and white tutu, beset with sequins, sparkles under the stage lights and as the strings began to play, she glides — effortlessly, a symbol of beauty and grace found throughout “Fall Ballet.”
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I committed the worst “party foul” of the Bloomington hardcore scene: I arrived to the show 20 minutes late. I missed the opening band, Situational Hazard, at the Antumbra Room show last Friday night. I parked the car, mourned quickly and rushed inside to catch the rest of the show.
The Lotus Education & Arts Foundation will transform downtown Bloomington later this month, hosting the 30th annual Lotus Festival from Sept. 28 - Oct. 1. The festival celebrates and explores the diversity of the world’s cultures through music, art and fun for all ages.
The Jacobs School of Music will present a concert band performance conducted by visiting professor Marcellus Brown, assistant professor of music Tiffany Galus and wind conducting doctoral candidate Esther Tupper.
As the overture plays, silhouettes dance across a large panel of intricately decorated windows before giving way to a jubilant ball in full swing. As the guests dance and drink, so too is the audience invited into the fast and hilarious world of “The Merry Widow.”
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Walking into the glow of the stage lights at the Musical Arts Center, the sounds of soft jazz only grew louder, revealing a live band tucked into the corner of a set from “The Merry Widow.” Patrons enjoyed the music with drinks and appetizers all while admiring the dark nightclub set, adorned with flourishes of gold and silver— all creating a magical evening at the MAC Gala.
Bloomington locals and IU students gathered for free live music and hot air balloon rides at 7 p.m. Thursday evening in Dunn Meadow during the fifth annual Lotus in the Meadow outdoor concert. IU Late Nite and the Indiana Memorial Union partnered with the Lotus Festival to host the event.
The first thing I sensed at the beginning of Metal Night was not the sound of instruments tuning or vocalists screaming, but rather the smell of fresh burgers on the side of the road. The Reef, a local house show venue, had hired a burger stand to work their second Metal Night. The show consisted of a lineup of four Indiana-based bands that fit into the metal spectrum. My friend, Alex Pirowski, grabbed a burger and a Baja Blast from the stand as we entered the backyard.
On Dec. 10, 2021, over 50 people flooded a basement two blocks south of campus. Even with people crammed inches away from vocalists Ollie Grcich and Lucas Hallal, people were listening through open windows from the yard outside.