Thursday May 8
Blue Horn Lounge: Modena
Cat’s Cradle: The Casualties, Krum Bums, Antagonizers, No Revolution
The Cave: Early: Tim Krekel Late: McCauliffe Brothers
General Store Café:
Club Boheme
Local 506: The Physics of Meaning, Filthybird, Tiny Meteors
Nightlight: Monsonia, Algebra of Need, Hazerai
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Thursday April 24

ArtsCenter: Ruthie Foster 8:30pm
Blue Horn Lounge: The Breaks
Cat’s Cradle: Abbey Road Live! 9pm $12
The Cave: Early: Jake Winstrom Late Sweet-Tooth Simpleton w/ Twilighter
General Store Café: Bo Lankenau & Friends 8:30pm
Local 506: Tapes ‘N Tapes, White Denim, DJ Robin Chen 10pm $12

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Thursday April 17

Blue Horn Lounge: Blue Concept 9pm
Cat’s Cradle: Will Hoge, Leslie 9:30pm $10
The Cave: Early: Zach & Craig Late: Josh Thompson w/ Bill West
General Store Café: The Tony Galiani Band 8:30pm
Local 506: Hundred Air, Shakermaker, Wembley 9:30pm

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Thursday April 10

The ArtsCenter: Shelby Lynne 8:30pm $27
Blue Horn Lounge: Windy City Slim & Ken Yow 10pm
Cat’s Cradle: Between The Buried and Me, Lye By Mistake, Giant, Knives Exchanging Hands 7pm $14
The Cave: Early: John Amos Late: Spider Bags, Turpentine Brothers, Limes $5
General Store Café: Jazz with Club Boheme 8:30pm
Local 506: Murder By Death, O’Death, Thunderlip, Kiss Kiss 8:30pm $12
Nightlight: Dark Inside the Sun, Projexorcism, Cab Caligari 9:30pm

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Thursday March 27

Blue Horn Lounge: John Craige 10pm
Cat’s Cradle: Badfish, Scotty Don’t, High And Mighties. 8pm. $18
The Cave: EARLY: Shame Train LATE: Atlantic Crossing, $5
General Store Café: Jazz with Bo Lankenau 8pm
Local 506: The Moaners, Bellafew, Bibis Ellison. 9pm
Nightlight: Remora, M Coast, Diplomat, Keith John Adams. 9:30pm. $6
Reservoir: Thunderlip, Young Livers, Worn In Red

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Thursday March 20

Blue Horn Lounge: Blake Tedder. 10pm
Cat’s Cradle: Ingrid Michaelson, Bob Schneider, Cary Brothers, Joshua Radin, AM, Chris Denny. 7:30pm. Sold out.
The Cave: Early: The Woos. Late: Hege V, Hwyl, $5.
Local 506: Dub Trio, Foreign Islands, Grappling Hook. 9pm. $8
Nightlight: Icarus Himself, The Nothing Noise, The Men. 9:30pm

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Thursday March 13

Blue Horn Lounge: Paleface. 10pm
The Cave: Early: Davis Stillson. Late: Town Mountain, $5
General Store Café: Club Boheme. 8pm
Local 506: Pulsoptional, Phon, Craig Hilton. 9pm. $6

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Cat’s Cradle will host a benefit for the Woods Charter School Music Department on Friday, March 14. Playing are Hobex, Great Big Gone and Lynn Blakey & Ecki Heins. Doors open at 8 and admission is $10.

Thursday March 6

Blue Horn Lounge: Mark Wells & Jill Christensen. 10pm
Cat’s Cradle: Matt Costa with Jonathan Rice. 9:30pm. $12
Cave: Early: Brandon Herndon & John Pardue. Late: Moontaxi.
Local 506: Say Hi, The Big Sleep, The Nothing Noise. 9pm. $8
Mansion 462: The cliff Wallace Group. 8pm

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Thursday Feb 21

• Blue Bayou Club: Delta Drift. 8:30pm
• Blue Horn Lounge: Bill West. 10pm
• Cat’s Cradle: Melissa Ferrick Trio. 9pm. $16
• The Cave: Early: 3 Feet Up. Late: Sol Driven Train.
• General Store Café: Tony Galiani Band. 8pm
• Local 506: International Pop Overthrow Festival: Down By Avalon; The Love Willows; Love Jones; Airspace; Midnite Sun; We Know, Plato; Brett Harris; SNMNMNM. 7:30pm. $8
• Nightlight: Love Language (Solo), Heads on Sticks, Monologue Bombs. 9pm. $5

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Thursday Feb 14

• Blue Bayou Club: Lucy Summer & Bo Lankenau. 8:30pm
• Blue Horn Lounge: Paleface. 10pm
• Cat’s Cradle: Young Neil and the Damage Done, Heart of Glass. 9pm. $8
• The Cave: Early: Davis Stillson. Late: Dirty Little Heaters, The Pneurotics, Virgo 9. $5
• General Store Café: Club Boheme. 8pm
• Local 506: Tripp, Jason Adamo, Luego, Jeff Crawford. 9:30pm. Price TBA.

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Thursday Jan 24

• Blue Horn Lounge: Bill West. 10pm
• Cat’s Cradle: Virginia Coalition, Brooks Wood Band. 8:30pm. $12
• The Cave: Left On Cates, Modena, Expire.
• General Store Café: Bo Lankenau & Friends. 8pm
• Local 506: Max Indian, Jeff Crawford, Brother Henry. 9:30pm. $6

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Thursday Jan 17

• Blue Horn Lounge: Tokyo Rosenthal. 10pm
• The Cave: Early: Chris Freeman. Late: Kings of Prussia w/ The Houstons.
• General Store Café: Tony Galiani Band. 8pm
• Local 506: Yeasayer, MGMT. 9pm. $10 More »

Thursday Jan 10

• Blue Horn Lounge: Mark Wells & Jill Christensen. 10pm
• The Cave: Early: Blaine Ziglar
• General Store Café: Club Boheme. 8pm More »

Allan Friedman has the right moves as he leads the Women’s Voice Chorus to its first concert under his direction. Photo by Valarie Schwartz.

By Valarie Schwartz

It was not as an interloper that I sang during the first rehearsal of the Women’s Voices Chorus on Sept. 3. Being amidst them seemed like a good way to learn how accepting the women were going to be of their new director, Allan Friedman — the first man involved with the 15-year-old institution founded by Mary Lycan, the only director the chorus had ever had.

Silly me.

In order to sit among them and sing the music, I had to audition for Friedman, which proved a good introduction to his easy and easing style.

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