Concert to raise money for Red Cross
Six local bands will rock the Bluebird on Thursday evening to raise money for Indiana flood victims.
Six local bands will rock the Bluebird on Thursday evening to raise money for Indiana flood victims.
Sixty-two artists came together from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. today during the 28th annual Arts Fair on the Square. SLIDESHOW: Taste of Bloomington & Arts Fair 2008
Locally owned restaurants shined at this year’s Taste of Bloomington. More than 7,300 people came to Showers Common for the event, a record turnout, the event’s co-director Talisha Coppock, said. The event showcased Bloomington restaurants, wineries, breweries and live music.
Psychedelic music is a beast with many heads, a fact made clear by the varied acts who played June 18 at Bear’s Place. Making one last tour stop in Bloomington before heading to psych-heaven festival Terrastock, all of the acts shared a penchant for both psychedelic and folk music.
Close to 10,000 art enthusiasts walked the streets of downtown Bloomington on Saturday during the 28th annual Arts Fair on the Square. The fair, which took place outside the Monroe County Courthouse from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., offered space for 62 different artists to display and sell art.
Sixty-two different artists will line the streets outside the Monroe County courthouse from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. this Saturday during the 28th annual Arts Fair on the Square.
Finch’s Brasserie welcomed California winemaker Mac McDonald to its grand opening celebration Monday night. McDonald, who owns and operates Vision Cellars in California, told stories to patrons about his life and wine business between four different food courses.
This new album and surprisingly new outlook could actually keep them relevant for years to come, something no “Blue Album” or “Pinkerton” fan could have ever expected. But please, no more “Beverly Hills.”
For Tommy Brown, the leader of the seven-piece bluegrass act Tommy Brown & County Line Grass, there’s really only one way to play bluegrass – the old time way. The way Bill Monroe and the Stanley Brothers played it when they brought the genre to the fore in the ’40s and ’50s.
Camp S.O.U.L, sponsored by IU’s Office of Community and Schools Partnerships, brought together underrepresented high school students from around Indiana to participate in a five-day camp, which ended in the performance. The sixth annual summer music program focused on the historical, theoretical and performance dimensions of African American music and culture, according to a press release.
This year’s festival starts Saturday and runs through June 21. It features 50 bands including J.D. Crowe and the New South and the legendary Dr. Ralph Stanley and the Clinch Mountain Boys. Stanley is a bluegrass hall of famer and has enjoyed mainstream success in recent years with his song, “O Death” appearing on the “O Brother, Where Art Thou?” soundtrack.
The IU Summer Music Festival begins June 15, touting an impressive lineup of performers from around the world. With more than 40 performances scheduled through Aug. 9, this year’s festival will present Bloomington with world-class orchestra, jazz, opera, a capella and chamber music all summer long.
The quartet’s Sunday night performance at the Bluebird Nightclub was the Quartet’s first ever in Bloomington. Washburn praised the audience as “the best we’ve ever played for” and joked that any ethnomusicologists in the crowd should meet the band afterwards.
Could it be that MTV has finally seen the error of its ways? After years of ignoring the music portion of their name, the network might be taking a step forward.
Wrong Way, a Sublime tribute band out of Athens, Ga., brought all the energy needed and then some to the Bluebird Saturday night, and the crowd was there to push them along the whole way.
The last time you saw someone twisting a balloon into a dog or sword, you probably thought it was an impressive party trick. Maybe you were about 8 years old. But the documentary “TWISTED: A Balloonamentary” shows balloon artists invest a whole lot more than childish amusement into those fancy pieces of latex.
So I knew going into the Bluebird on Friday night that the Dave Matthews Tribute Band was not going to be the same. Apparently, everyone else in Bloomington knew it too and decided to sit this one out.
Festivals, theater featured in this week's Around the Arts
BALTIMORE – For one night, at least, tattoos – and the living canvases that carry them – took their place alongside Rembrandt, Matisse and Picasso.
The IU Art Museum is one of five nationwide recipients of a chairman’s “sizable” grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities for Picturing America, IU Art Museum curator Edward Maxedon said.