Spreading
Athens, Ga. jam band Widespread Panic release a new DVD titled Widespread Panic’s Earth to Atlanta on Nov. 14 – a follow-up to their new studio album, Earth to America (Sanctuary), which hit the street this summer. The DVD was produced from a live simulcast shown nationwide on May 9 from the Fox Theatre in Atlanta. The band returns to Charleston for a big show at the North Charleston Coliseum on Fri. Oct. 13 (tickets are available for $30). Check www.widespreadpanic.com and www.coliseumpac.com for more.
Badonkadonk/Believin’
Keep an eye out for two upcoming gigs at the Colonial Center in Columbia. Local country radio station WEZL presents the Gain-sponsored CMT Tour 2006 – featuring country singers Trace “Honky Tonk Badonkadonk” Adkins, Billy Currington, and Jason Aldean – at the Colonial Center on Sat. Oct. 7. Tickets are $39.50. The big Def Leppard and Journey rock show, presented by VH1 Classic and produced by Live Nation (www.livenation.com), happens on Thurs. Nov. 2. Leppard recently released their 12th studio album, Yeah, featuring renditions of classics by David Bowie, The Kinks, T. Rex, Blondie, Thin Lizzy, and others. Journey’s recent single “Remember Me” topped the Billboard rock charts last year. Tickets are $77, $57, and $41.50. Tickets for both shows are available at the Colonial Center Box Office, online at www.thecolonialcenter.com, by phone at 1-866-4SC-TIXX, and at Piggly Wiggly locations.
Dizzy Jazz Festival
This year, the S.C. Jazz Festival, set for Oct. 20-21 in the upstate town of Cheraw, celebrates the career of native son and jazz trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie, a post-swing pioneer who composed, recorded, and collaborated with the greats of the be-bop era and beyond. The festival coincides with the 89th anniversary of the late jazz legend’s birth and showcases an art form pioneered by Gillespie. The main act is The Mike Longo Trio, comprised of former Dizzy Gillespie band members (one might hear a rendition of such Dizzy tunes as “Salt Peanuts,” “Hot House,” or “Night in Tunisia”). The festival’s “Bebop Series” will include free concerts at the Dizzy Gillespie Home Site Park and the Theatre on the Green. For more info, contact the Cheraw Arts Commission at 843-537-8422 or visit www.cheraw.com. –T. Ballard Lesemann
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