LOCAL CONCERT ALERTS (Bone Yard, The Nostalgic Band, And Tarnished), Weekend Concert Previews, And More!!

With the Northern Vibe Festival previewed yesterday, let's dive into this weekend's local concert previews within Sault Ste. Marie city limit(s), and as luck would have it, the last weekend of August is mostly comprised of SHORT NOTICE LOCAL CONCERT ALERTS as far as heavier-leaning acts go, plus a new video of one of the bands in question. To avoid pushing the new Saturday nighter below to another day-of preview, this preview post is slightly longer than normal, so hopefully everything is covered, and with all of that said, here's what you should know!

Sault Michigan metal band Tarnished will return to The Merchants Bar for one night only TONIGHT! Apologies for the short notice, the band only announced this show via their Facebook page yesterday, and The Merch scarcely advertise shows booked there online. TONIGHT's concert will be Tarnished's first at the West Spruce Street nightclub in just over a month, and will be their third since their lineup split in two earlier this month, though no word on which guitarist & bassist will join Alex & Josh TONIGHT (for reference, last week's shows in Rudyard and Cedarville featured guests Chris Hubbard and Mike East). Remember too that Tarnished started off with Alex & Josh playing two man acoustic gigs, so if all else failed, they could fall back on that. TONIGHT'S gig at The Merch has a 9:00 PM start time, 21+ age limit, and no cover charge. See above for more details, and here's Tarnished live!

Next up, let's head across to Sault Ontario, where local classic metal cover trio The Nostalgic Band will take the stage at Jay's Piston Broke Pub TONIGHT & TOMORROW NIGHT! Again, apologies for the short notice, these shows were only announced via their Facebook event page on Tuesday. Last seen at Reggie's two weeks ago, TONIGHT & TOMORROW'S Jay's dates will be Tym, Dutch, and Chet's first shows at the former Reggie's West in almost a month. Hopefully their old school metal and hard rock covers get another strong reaction this weekend! TONIGHT & TOMORROW'S concerts have 9:30 PM start times, 19+ age limits, and no cover charges. See above for more details, and for a preview, here's a new video featuring The Nostalgic Band live! This was shot for bassist Randy "Dutch" Vanderploeg's YouTube channel Randy's Rides, and it features footage from two gigs, so what should you know?

Shot on July 27th & 28th, the video features Randy heading to and playing at Jay's on the 27th, and we get under a minute of their cover of Ratt's "Round & Round", preceded by footage of them setting up at the venue. That show was a one-nighter due to a private gig in "the bush" at a local resort's customer appreciation day, and we see the ride up for that and footage of Dutch exploring the area. If you recall their (sadly) deleted video of them covering Deep Purple's "Highway Star" at a private gig, then you will like that this was that gig, and the footage returns here.... partially, as the beginning of a montage of clips from their set that night. I wish that they'd have left the full "Highway Star" video on Facebook (even with the zooming), but it's neat getting full context as to that gig, and the voyage is as fun as the destination! Check it out below, and don't miss The Nostalgic Band back at Jay's  Piston Broke Pub TONIGHT & TOMORROW!

Also newly announced for this weekend, local southern hard rock trio Bone Yard will return to Gateway Casino TOMORROW NIGHT for an acoustic gig! Apologies again for the short notice, the band only announced this show on their Facebook page on Wednesday, and at press time, the casino has not acknowledged live entertainment for this weekend on social media. This will be Bone Yard's first stop at the casino since June in a show that was also unplugged, despite initial venue advertising that it was for The Bearded Lounge, their Warren-less acoustic side project. I don't know if this is an intentional choice to switch things up again, or if they've quietly retired The Bearded Lounge in lieu of keeping the Bone Yard name for all gigs and to include Warren in them, but note that The Bearded Lounge did plug the Dragonfly Run (which Bone Yard headlined) on Facebook in July.

If The Bearded Lounge's active status is clarified, we'll let you know, but if you like them, you'll obviously like Bone Yard unplugged TOMORROW NIGHT! Expect an 8:00 PM start time, 19+ age limit, and no cover charge at Gateway Casino for this one-nighter. Visit the above links for more details, and here's Bone Yard live and unplugged!

We'll close today's weekend concert previews with a show that did have advance notice, as Nostalgic Band frontman Tym Morrison will play the last advertised show of his summer series at The Mike Case Memorial Stage outside of The Trading Post TONIGHT! This is the seventh Friday evening gig of the year for Tym at the outdoor stage way down Great Northern Road, and while there's no listed bookings for September, his series there last year did continue into September for a couple of weeks. We'll let you know when/if he publically extends things again, but the Mike Case stage is definitely seasonal and closes before October. As has usually been the case this summer, Tym's show tonight does precede his Jay's show with The Nostalgic Band TONIGHT, so he'll zip to the west end post-show for more classic/hard rock cover action! Beforehand, he's on at 7:00 PM with no cover or age limit.

Weather-wise, 9&10 News is calling for mostly cloudy weather in the 18° range with light rain likely in the second half of the show. Tym's show here two weeks ago was cancelled due to rain, and while the forecast tonight is better than what Northern Vibe attendees are expecting an hour east, be prepared just in case. Visit the official Facebook event page for more details, whether this is his 2023 finale here or not, and here's Tym live at The Mike Case Stage earlier this year!

That's all for today, but stay tuned for more news and notes on the site this weekend! Thanks everyone!