Craft Music: Songs in the Summer
2024 Bell’s Beer Garden Summer Concert SeriesFor tickets to this performance click here Bruce Uchimura, Conductor Guest Vocalist, To Be Announced Craft Music is heading to the Beer Garden for the first time! Locally sourced from the bar to the stage, Craft Music features entertaining, casual, and truly eccentric flavor profiles. It’s a concert experience you’ll want to sample again and again. Craft Music: Songs in the Summer pairs jazz, pop, and show tunes from the Great American Songbook with hits from the Broadway stage. Didn’t get tickets for the sold-out Craft Music: Great American Songbook performance on May 22? Join us for Songs in the Summer! Must be 21 years or older to attend this performance. GET TICKETS FOR THIS IN-PERSON CONCERT $10 College Student Tickets can be purchased with a valid student ID on the day of the performance at the venue’s ticketing window or purchased in person at the Epic Center’s Community Box Office. College Student Tickets are intended for students 18 years or older and can be purchased individually. Under 18 Tickets can be purchased at any time for children who will be accompanied by a guardian. These can be purchased at any time with an adult ticket. Bell’s Eccentric Cafe requires all children under the age of 18 to be accompanied by a parent or guardian. By purchasing tickets, you agree to these requirements. For tickets to this performance click here
Craft Music | Anthems: Rock, Pop & More
21+ and over seated performanceTickets sold here Bruce Uchimura, Conductor KSO Artists in Residence ABOUT THE CONCERT These fast-to-sell-out concerts with a pint-sized symphony are a great way to celebrate making it halfway through the workweek! Each concert features musical flavors that pair well with your favorite Bell’s brew. On tap at this concert are rock and pop anthems!
Craft Music In The Beer Garden!
21+ and over seated performanceTickets sold here Bruce Uchimura, Conductor KSO Artists in Residence ABOUT THE CONCERT These fast-to-sell-out concerts with a pint-sized symphony are a great way to celebrate making it halfway through the workweek! Each concert features musical flavors that pair well with your favorite Bell’s brew. Craft Music soaks up the sunshine in the Bell’s Brewery beer garden!
Craft Music: Opera
21+ and over seated performanceTickets sold here Bruce Uchimura, Conductor KSO Artists in Residence ABOUT THE CONCERT These fast-to-sell-out concerts with a pint-sized symphony are a great way to celebrate making it halfway through the workweek! Each concert features musical flavors that pair well with your favorite Bell’s brew. On tap at this concert are favorites straight from the opera stage!
Craft Music: Tangos
21+ and over seated performanceTickets sold here Bruce Uchimura, Conductor KSO Artists in Residence ABOUT THE CONCERT These fast-to-sell-out concerts with a pint-sized symphony are a great way to celebrate making it halfway through the workweek! Each concert features musical flavors that pair well with your favorite Bell’s brew. On tap at this concert is the fiery flare of tango!
Tommy Prine w/ Theo Kandel
This is a 18+ event with standing room only Tommy Prine’s debut album This Far South (released 6/23/23) is not only a long-awaited introduction but a testimony toPrine’s 20s and the loss, love, and growth that has defined them. Co-produced by a close friend and kindred musical spirit, Ruston Kelly, and beloved Nashville engineer and producer, Gena Johnson, the album is rich and dynamic from cathartic jams to nostalgic storytelling.”I feel like I’ve learned more about myself in the last year and a half than I ever have in my life,” Prine says. “And I thinkthat speaks a lot to doing something that I’m passionate about. I love and respect the craft. Just hitting the road and doing what so many people before me have done and will continue to do, it’s really resonated with me. I think it has transformed me into the person that I am meant to be.”
THE MARTIN SEXTON ABBEY ROAD SHOW
This is a 18 seated show 17 and under admitted with a parent or guardian Martin Sexton puts his signature style on his rendition of this iconic Beatles album combining what Rolling Stone calls his “soul-marinated voice” with his inventive guitar prowess. We are all invited to Come Together to experience these brilliant songs celebrated in such a compelling reimagined way. Martin Sexton Abbey Road Show VIP ticket: – preferred seating – post-show Meet & Greet – Exclusive Martin Sexton Abbey Road Show souvenir keychain of unreleased recordings
Cole Chaney w/ Tony Logue and the 184
This is a 18+ event with standing room only 17 and under admitted with a parent or guardian Originally from Boyd County, KY, Chaney has since relocated to Lexington and is sure to be the next big thing coming out of Kentucky. At only 21 years old, Chaney’s catalog may be small, but he already boasts an absolute masterpiece of an album in which he proves wise beyond his years. Mercy, his debut album released in 2021, is a 12-song showcase of Eastern Kentucky, blue collar anthems highlighted by Chaney’s deft lyricism and storytelling. An unknown musician prior to the album’s release, Chaney has since experienced a meteoric rise in popularity and has quickly amassed a growing and dedicated fan base, already thirsty for new music. -Whiskey Riff
Font
This is a 18+ event with standing room only Austin quintet Font — Thom Waddill (guitar/synth/vocals), Jack Owens (drums), Anthony Laurence (guitar/synth/sampler), Logan Wagner (percussion/sampler), and Roman Parnell (bass/synth) — announce their debut album, Strange Burden, to be released July 12th via Acrophase Records, and present its blistering and irresistibly dancy lead single “Hey Kekulé.” Strange Burden shows Font both translating the intensity of their live shows into the studio and polishing the surfaces of their music to juxtapose and dislocate genres with a quick-footed, nearly pop-art sensibility. Leading up to the album’s release, Font will support Yard Act throughout the west coast. Font create driving music of sampled stabs, dance beats, and euphoric choruses. As drummers Owens and Wagner lock into a co-constructed groove, Parnell’s bass bridges the kinetic back line to multi-instrumentalist and environment-shaper Laurence. From this density emerge frontman Waddill’s associative lyrics and electric-shock dance. They chose their name because it’s the archaic word for “fountain”; it implies both an abundance and the receptacle that holds it. To watch the band is to experience a tension of excess and containment as each member pulls the music into something that transcends its starting terms. In creating Strange Burden, the band referred increasingly to Talking Heads’ writing process with Brian Eno for Remain in Light, where the rhythm section would lay down grooves and loops for Eno and Byrne to later structure and write over. The first real flash of success with this process came with “Hey Kekulé,” the blistering and irresistibly dancy lead single for Strange Burden, which was a big step forward for the band and how it could live and grow together as an organism.
Desmond Jones w/ Flexadecibel
This is a 18 and over event with standing room only Desmond Jones is a five-piece rock band from Grand Rapids, Michigan. Their original music is centered around melodic guitar riffs, funky bass lines, groovy drumbeats, and a big ole’ pile of saxophone. Desmond Jones puts on exciting and high-energy shows with a high level of musicianship and skillful improvisation. Each show, set list, and song is different from night to night. The group takes influence from Frank Zappa, Grateful Dead, The Beatles, Mingus, Phish, The Band, and Led Zeppelin to name a few. Since 2012, the group has played 800+ shows across the country and has shared the stage with bands like Pigeons Playing Ping Pong, Papadosio, Ripe, Joe Russo’s Almost Dead, EOTO, Here Come the Mummies, Aqueous, Mungion, Dopapod, Nth Power, Kick the Cat, Joe Hertler, Eggy, and many more. Desmond Jones has released two EPs and four full length studio albums available on all major platforms. The band is touring in 2023 and hitting every diner along the way. – 2023 Performing artist, The Midwest House (SXSW) – 2022 “Best Original Band” Revue West MI (Best of the West) – 2019 “Album of the Year” Listener’s Choice WYCE Jammies (Hello, Helou)
