LOCAL CONCERT ALERT (Marconi Meets World) & A New Video!!

Let's kick off a new week at the SMS with another news post, and while we do have a new live concert video to round things out with, it's mostly devoted to a LOCAL CONCERT ALERT attached to a huge community festival taking place next month! Here's what you should know!

Local acoustic hard rock quartet The Wyld Stallyns will be among the stacked & diverse lineup of musical entertainment at the Marconi Meets World festival taking place outside of The Marconi Cultural Events Center at 450 Albert Street West from Thursday, July 21st to Saturday, July 23rd! Announced back in March with the first lineup details following last month, Marconi Meets World is a special three day event to help expand cultural heritage in the Jamestown area and community, in collaboration with the Missanabie Cree First Nation and the local Elettra Marconi & Guglielmo Marconi Societies, and it looks like The Marconi Club is going all out to make this a big deal! The schedule calls for Thursday the 21st to be focused around cultural celebrations, Friday the 22nd on indigenous celebrations, and Saturday the 23rd on an Italian festival, and there will be vendors, refreshments, and family friendly activites throughout.

What we don't have yet is a full schedule for the bands, but unlike the Northern Vibe Festival last year, organizers have detailed some of the daily lineups. Three out of town touring acts will make up the indigenous celebration lineup on July 22nd, including former Junkhouse/Blackie & The Rodeo Kings frontman Tom Wilson (who plays blues & folk rock solo), Juno winning Toronto folk band Digging Roots, and Sudbury/Toronto roots/folk artist Mimi O'Bonsawin. The Italian fest on July 23rd will be headlined by local pop rock cover band The Killer Hooks alongside Brampton pianist/accordionist Carmen Spada and veteran local classic rock duo Frankly Speaking. The remaining local acts are allegedly playing on the all-local Thursday lineup or on Saturday, not Friday, but dates are largely not out yet. However, Wyld Stallyns singer/guitarist Rob Speers confirmed to me in a Facebook conversation that they will be playing on Thursday the 21st, so we know that much!

Other local acts playing on Thursday or Saturday include country musician Brendan Hodgson, instrumental folk rock trio The Dynowaves, acoustic roots/reggae band Unorganized Township, online page-less folk/indie band All The Tired Horses (featuring Treble Charger's Bill Priddle with Id Iota alumni), and new local indie duo Sainte Marie. We will let you know when full daily itineraries for those days publically turn up! Due to increased local sponsorship, ticket prices have dropped for Marconi Meets World compared to when they first went on sale, and they now run for $17.18 (for one day's admission to the kids zone only), $22.52 (daily general admission for students or seniors with ID), $27.87 (daily general admission for anyone aged 19-59), and a full three day pass for $108.82 (it costs more because you'll also get a festival t-shirt, lanyard, and other goodies.)

Buy your tickets online at this link, and inquire within about availability at The Marconi Club proper or at the door. This obviously all ages festival has daily start times of 10:00 AM, musical artist timeslots to be confirmed. Sounds like a very ambitious and well planned festival, and with so much re-opening and either returning or debuting anew this summer with pandemic restrictions largely ending, hopefully Marconi Meets World is a huge hit! The Stallyns are really the only hard rock respite scheduled, but their sound and cover selection should appeal to many attendees on July 21st, no matter who else is playing that day! Visit the official Facebook event page for full and continuing festival details!

Finally for today, here's one more new video from new local acoustic hard rock duo Short & Sweet's debut set at the Parabol concert at Soo Blaster last week, as uploaded to frontman Cory Murchison's YouTube channel on Friday! This time, he and Kyle covered Seether's "Save Today", which effectively translates to this live format, buoyed by Cory's strong vocals, so fans of his local band work should take to this cover! Give it a look below!

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