LOCAL CONCERT ALERTS (Go Skate Day & Project 906), Weekend Concert Previews, And More!!

Before we begin today's post, I wanted to apologize for a missed concert, as local acoustic hard rock trio The Wyld Stallyns played at The Whiskey Barrel on Gore Street last Friday, which was announced last Thursday on their Facebook page but slipped us by entirely for our weekend concert previews. I profusely apologize, but hopefully it was a great show, and we will work harder not to miss future Stallyns shows there! Now, today's post features this weekend's (few) hard rock concert previews, new video finds, and leading off, LOCAL CONCERT ALERTS for later this month!

Tidal Records will host their seventh annual Go Skateboarding Day festivities on Friday, June 21st at Queen Elizabeth Park outside of the John Rhodes Center, and for a fifth straight year, local bands are on the docket! As finally revealed on their Facebook page this morning, local skateboarders can come down to the skatepark next Friday for skateboarding demonstrations, vendors, refreshments, and more family friendly entertainment as usual, so if you're a past Go Skate Day participant or new to the event, you may want to circle this on your calendars! Musically speaking, this outdoor concert event (presumably back atop the half pipe) has a mostly different lineup from last year, as is usually the case, but online page-less local punk quartet The Cover-Up will join The Din as just the second band to play in consecutive years. Next week, they'll be joined by headlining funk/hard rock quartet The Elements, Distillers tribute band Coral Fang, and surf rock instrumentalists The Dynowaves, all in their Go Skate Day debuts.

Solid lineup of punk and alternative sounds that should provide an ideal soundtrack for the skate action, and hopefully the weather holds out for everything! This FREE & ALL AGES event takes place at a special 4:00 PM start time next Friday, and (Choose) Maxx Entertainment will apparently be handling sound for the day. Another fun lineup of music and extreme sports is just over a week away, so don't miss out on all of the action next week, and visit the above links for more details on next week's events!

Next up, let's take a detour to Michigan's Eastern Upper Peninsula, as local blues/hard rock quartet Project 906 have announced just their third public show of the year, which will see them return to The Strongs Tavern in nearby Eckerman on Saturday, June 29th! This concert was first announced on their Facebook page on Monday, where the band acknowledged their public hiatus since their last shows in February, blaming it on personal life matters (i.e. new houses, babies, and jobs for their members), but they do have some openings for shows this summer. In a somewhat unusual move, the guys revealed four Fridays in June (including next Friday) & August, plus Sunday, August 25th that they're looking to get shows booked on, and to contact them if you can help set anything up. Hopefully they get some concerts scheduled, it's been too long, but in the interim, they will be back at The Strongs Tavern in a couple of weeks, so you know where to go if you've missed Project 906 over the spring!

The Strongs show on June 29th will be a 10:00 PM affair with no announced cover charge and a 21+ age limit. It's great to see that Dustin, Joe, Billy, and Tommy are still active with the band, but alas, personal lives can throw a wrench into any band's plans, even if they're all positive. At least we'll be seeing Project 906 in a couple of weeks, and see above for more details!

Also today, here's our preview of (surprisingly) this weekend's only publically announced hard rock shows in the Soo area, barring any late notice confirmations, as Sault Ontario hard rock singer/guitarist Tym Morrison will continue his long-term arrangement at Gliss Restaurant with solo acoustic concerts TOMORROW & SATURDAY! No nighttime shows elsewhere this weekend, so if you want to take in Tym's prolific and proficient brand of classic and hard rock covers, you'll need to come by the Spring Street restaurant around dinner time over these two days. With Tym's well tested and fan approved sound, this should be another solid weekend of live entertainment, so don't miss out tomorrow or on Saturday! As usual for Tym's Gliss shows, expect 6:00 PM start times, no cover charges, and no age limits, but remember that this is a formal sit-down restaurant, not a nightclub. Visit the official Facebook event page for more details, and here's Tym live!



Finally for today, here's three belateds video hyping up Sunday's Anvil concert at Soo Blaster, and I apologize for these being late, Facebook videos can fly under the radar very easily, especially from sources you don't expect. Soo Blaster's Facebook page posted three videos to hype the Anvil show up last month, confirming the promotional involvement of Thunder Bay's Loffredo & Associates in the process, with the first video being a commercial for Anvil's local and Thunder Bay shows, as set to videos of vintage and modern Anvil, plus teasing a contest to win tickets. The third video is totally devoted to the Soo show, serving as a commercial for just Sunday night's festivities, as set to the "Badass Rock 'N Roll" music video. Tucked in between is the video embedded below, which features an audio recording of Anvil frontman Steve "Lips" Kudlow hyping up the concert, oddly over top of a photo of Lars Ulrich. Short but to the point, hopefully this helped get some tickets sold, and give all three a look above and below!



That's all for today, but stay tuned for a new news post of some kind tomorrow! Thanks everyone!