2 thursday, april 23, 2009 The Carrboro Citizen

music calendar spotlight Fletcher Theater: Jake Shimabu- kuro. 8pm, $23-25 General Store Cafe: Victor Murillo. 8:30-11pm Local 506: Valient Thorr. $8/10 Q Shack: Leroy Savage friday may 1 Fletcher Opera Theatre: Tift Merritt. 8pm, $22/$25. The ArtsCenter: South Memphis String Band. 8pm, $16/18 Blue Bayou: Rosie Ledet and the Zydeco Playboys. 9:pm Bynum Front Porch: Sweet By and By Caffe Driade: Corey Hart. 8pm kickin grass Cat’s Cradle: Reverend Hor- Leigh Farm Park ton Heat, Jimmy and The Teasers. Festival for Wildlife 9:30pm, $10 Mammoth returns to Carrboro SATURDAY MAY 2 Fletcher Opera Theater: Tift It’s kind of a strange birthday celebration. Had it survived the Merritt. 8pm consolidation and various net-driven gyrations of the music industry, Mammoth Records would have been 21 this year. It didn’t, of course, General Store Cafe: Whiskey but that hasn’t stopped those associated with this one-time wildly thursday apr 23 saturday apr 25 monday apr 27 Smugglers. 8:30-11pm successful enterprise from at least throwing a party. The ArtsCenter: Ollabelle Blue Bayou: Rootzie, Wells Family Cat’s Cradle: Dinosaur Jr., Mike Local 506: The Love Language, This Saturday, Cat’s Cradle is host to a celebration of the label Blue Bayou: Jaafar. 9pm, Free Band. 9:30pm, $6/8 Watt and The Missingmen. 9pm, The Huguenots, Americans in that was home to The Pressure Boys, Dillon Fence, Squirrel Nut Zip- Cat’s Cradle: Dillon Fence, Jason $24/26 France. 10pm, Free Cat’s Cradle: Manchester pers, Seven Mary Three and many others. Orchestra, Fun, Audrye Sessions, Ross and Thomas Juliano, Katharine The Cave: DS Yancey. 9pm Open Eye Cafe: Chris Chappell, Dillon Fence headlines the show, which also includes Jason Ross and Winston Audio. 8pm, $10/12 Whalen, John Strohm. 9pm, $15/18 Nightlight: Daniel Francis Doyle, Kristina Kidd. 8pm Thomas Juliano of Seven Mary Three; Katharine Whalen, Chris Phil- The Cave: Killer Filler, The Noser- Hiss Golden Messenger, Muscle The Cave: EARLY: Patrick Phelan. Nightlight: Lonnie Walker, Johnny lips and Stu Cole of the Zippers; the Blake Babies’ John Strom and a iders, The Surge!, Atomic Mosqui- Babes. 9:30pm LATE: Hey Penny, Billy Sugarfix Corndawg, Tave Carbone. 10pm, $5 few surprises. Showtime is 8 p.m. and tickets are $15 in advance. tos. 8pm General Store Cafe: Marie Van- tuesday apr 28 Reservoir: Grappling Hook, The The label was originally located on the second floor of Carr Mill Mall, General Store Cafe: The Doc Cat’s Cradle: The Kills, The Hor- derbeck. 7-9pm Travesties, Monsonia with its art department across the street above Nested, in a row of Branch Band. 8:30-11pm rors, Magic Wands. 9pm, $15 Local 506: North Elementary 7” Weaver Street Market (Car- offices that also included Merge Records and Start Booking. Former Release Show, Wembley, Pistolero, Local 506: Auxiliary House, Miid- The Cave: EARLY: Korby Lenker, rboro): Triangle Tuba Quartet. general manager Steve Balcom said the company was “all about The Popular Kids Comedy. 9pm, $5 town Dickens, Filthybird, Bull City. Angel Snow Carrboro,” which was a much sleepier little town back then, with no 9pm, $8 5:30-7pm Q Shack: The Vintage Blue Band Local 506: Gliss, The Takeover UK, Weaver Street Market, Cradle or other signature landmarks. Nightlight: Monsonia, Jews and House of Fools. 9pm, $8 saturday may 2 The Station: Big Fat Gap Band With success, the company grew and moved into the old Broad Catholics, Death Came Down the Moun- Regency Park: Kings of Leon. Blue Bayou: Rhonda Robicheaux Street Coffee building. It outgrew that as well, and had handfuls of friday apr 24 tain. 10pm 7:30pm Band. 9:30pm offices scattered around the downtown. Reservoir: Goodbye, Titan, The Last Blue Bayou: The Nighthawks. Cat’s Cradle: Cursive, Man Man. When the label shut down in 2000, Balcom and art director Lane Track, Bicycle Day wednesday apr 29 9:30pm 9:15pm, $16 Wurster opened up The Splinter Group, a Durham-based advertising Cat’s Cradle: Alesana, Drop Cat’s Cradle: Mogwai, The Twi- Stewart Theatre: Habib Koite. Chapel Hill Bible Church: and marketing firm, which recently moved back to Carrboro. Dead Gorgeous, Fear Before, I Set light Sad. 9:15pm, $18 8pm Women’s Voices Chorus. 2pm, My Friends On Fire, Fall From Grace. “Moving back here has been incredible,” Balcom said. “We’ve always felt $15/adults, $5 students The Cave: EARLY: Wooden sunday apr 26 9pm, $13/15 a part of this community and are proud to again be based in Carrboro. Toothe. LATE: Wild Wild Geese, Fletcher Opera Theatre: The What’s changed? Well, the food is better (thank you, Neal’s Deli, among The Cave: EARLY: Old 86. $5 The Cave: EARLY: Michael Wag- Goodnight Loving General Assembly Chorus. 2pm, others), there are more local businesses, and the same DIY spirit.” LATE: The Spinns, Pinche Gringo, ner, Stephanie Nilles. LATE: John 7:30pm General Store Cafe: Tommy Dirty Little Heaters. $5 Harrison, The Rev. John DeLore, Edwards and Friends. 8:30-11pm Cats Cradle: Battle of the Bands: Our Horse Jethro. $5 General Store Cafe: Southpaw. Local 506: Starfucker, Guidance Mysti Mayhem, The Shakedown, Local 506: Quintron and Miss 8:30-11pm Mai-Funk, and more. 4pm, $8/10 Counselor. 9pm, $8 Pussycat, Psychedelic Horseshit. Halifax Mall: Wedlock. 7am- Open Eye Cafe: Lastwatch, Oscar Holy Trinity Lutheran Church: 9:30pm, $10 5:30pm, Free Piedmont Youth Orchestra. 5pm Begat. 8pm thursday apr 30 Jordan Lake: Vintage Blue, Love House (410 East Frank- Local 506: Jeff Hanson, Kaiser The ArtsCenter: The Bobs with Coyote Ridge, Williamson Bros., lin): Music on the Porch with Cartel, Chris Koza. 9pm, $8 Bob Malone No Strings Attached, Sweet Potato Leigh Farm Park: The Festi- Local 506: Kevin Devine, Miniature Heather McEntire, Adam Price, Eric Pie, BlueGrass Experience with val For Wildlife with Old 86, Mel Tigers, Brian Bonz. 8pm, $10/12 Weaver Street Market (Car- Blue Bayou: Lisa Kyle and Friends Roehrig and Lee Waters. Presented rboro): Chris Reynolds Swing Tommy Edwards, Carolina Junction. Melton and the Wicked Mojos, Sacred Grounds Coffeehouse: by the Center for the Study of the N’Jazz. 11am-1pm The Cave: EARLY: Union County. 11am-7pm Kickin Grass, John Howie Jr and The 2nd Stage. 7:30-9:30pm American South LATE: Doombunny Rosewood Bluff, Cyril Lance Band

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