LOCAL CONCERT ALERTS (Bone Yard) & Weekend Concert Previews!!

After a few lean weekends for concerts, we have a decent amount of hard rock shows to take in this weekend in Sault Ontario, including SHORT NOTICE LOCAL CONCERT ALERTS, so here's what you should know!

Local southern hard rock trio Bone Yard will return to the stage with concerts at Jay's Piston Broke Pub TOMORROW & SATURDAY NIGHT! Apologies for the short notice, the band only announced these shows on their Facebook page on Monday. While technically last seen filling in as hosts of the Thursday jam night at the same venue last week (Soundcheck sat it out due to external commitments for bassist Jim Michaud), these will be Bone Yard's first traditional concerts since their Sudbury road trip late last month, and first local non-jam night dates since rocking Jay's over St. Patrick's Day weekend. Given that Greg, Alex, and Warren have been working on original material in studio all month, could the fruits of that labour be shown off TOMORROW and/or SATURDAY NIGHT? In any event, official Bone Yard t-shirts will be on sale, as will their famed "Bone Yard shot" for you potent potable fans.

As usual for concerts at the former Reggie's West, Bone Yard are on TOMORROW & SATURDAY NIGHT at 9:00 PM with no cover charges and 19+ age limits. Should be a good time for fans of hard rocking classic and southern rock covers, so don't miss out, and here's Bone Yard live!

Next up, we'll move to concerts that had advance notice before this week, starting with local hard rock singer/guitarist Tym Morrison's return to Tazzi's Cafe & Restaurant TOMORROW NIGHT! Tym had made his debut there on St. Patrick's Day, followed by a publically unannounced (at least online) encore the following night, and clearly things went well at the intimate Queen Street East venue last month for him to get a call to return this month! I have no clue if Tym will play there on Saturday again, we'll let you know if something is announced in time to mention it here. Hopefully his unplugged but well presented brand of hard & classic rock covers find another receptive audience tomorrow! This show has an 8:00 PM start time, a 19+ age limit, and no cover, and will likely be the same if he is re-booked on Saturday. See above for more details, keep his acoustic cover attack in mind tomorrow, and here's Tym live at Tazzi's last month!

Further down Queen Street East, if you take a turn left onto Dennis Street, you can also get some live music action TOMORROW NIGHT courtesy of local funk/hard rock cover sextet The Wyld Stallyns at Shooters Downstairs Lounge! Arguably a warm-up gig for their upcoming appearance at the Festival of Beer next month, this is their first publically advertised concert since headlining at Shooters for another one-nighter last month. Hopefully Christina, Rob, Jesse, Alex, Derek, and Josh deliver a fun night of hard rock and more varied covers for downtown fans, as we've come to expect from The Stallyns time and time again! A one-nighter due to or resulting in pop rock band L!me's show there on Saturday night, tomorrow's festivities are at 9:00 PM with no cover charge and a 19+ age limit. Don't bypass this show for some entertaining cover action, so see above for more details, and here are The Wyld Stallyns live!

Finally, let's bookend things with another cover classic/hard rock band playing TOMORROW & SATURDAY NIGHT, namely the debuting Double Down at Reggie's Place! As you may know, this is the new band featuring ex-Griphook frontman Joel Syrette, former Mustang Heart guitarist Adam King, and former Bone Yard/Mojo bandmates Brad Stephen & Ric Datson on bass and drums (interesting that half of Bone Yard's 2013-2022 lineup are playing at each of the past/present Reggie's nightclubs this weekend!). Talented lineup on paper, and their early hints about Double Down's setlist point to an entertaining and very often heavy set that will call to mind Griphook and That's Chester in scope, so it should be interesting to see how they do with this downtown doubleheader this weekend! Expect 9:00 PM start times, no cover charges, and 19+ age limits. See above for more details, and we'll let you know when/if videos from this weekend surface!

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