LOCAL CONCERT ALERTS (Sparrow Blue & Tym Morrison), New Videos, And More!!

Before we begin today's post, I wanted to apologize for missing Sault Michigan hard rock cover quartet Rhythm & Brews' return to The Rapids Lounge at the Soo's Kewadin Casino branch this past Friday & Saturday in our weekend concert previews. Three weeks removed from their last shows at The Rapids Lounge, these were not announced on the band's Facebook page, and I only heard about them via members' personal Facebook pages after the fact. I am 100% positive that they were not advertised for this past weekend on Kewadin's entertainment page, so they may truly have been short notice, but apologies regardless! I'd have covered them had they gotten any public advance notice, but hopefully they were hits!

Now, let's pause our Rotaryfest fallout briefly to look at some other recent news updates, starting with LOCAL CONCERT ALERTS, one on SHORT NOTICE, as Sault Ontario hard rock singer/guitarist Tym Morrison will bring his acoustic solo act to Jay's Piston Broke Pub for the first time THIS WEDNESDAY NIGHT! Apologies for the short notice, the venue only announced that Tym was playing on WEDNESDAY via their Facebook page earlier today. Starting on July 5th, the former Reggie's West began hosting "matinee" concerts at 6:00 PM on both Mondays & Wednesdays to coincide with chicken wing nights, with a different acoustic-leaning performer playing on these evenings to coincide with the promotion (if you are so inclined, wings at Jay's are 85¢ each). In fact, this series started on Wednesday the 5th with Bone Yard frontman Greg Simpson in his first unplugged solo gig since the pandemic began!

I do apologize for missing that on here too, which would have been fun for Bone Yard fans, but this conceit of mid-week evening concerts during Jay's wing nights is very new to me. Country veteran Leslie Cook has owned Mondays so far, while last Wednesday had Soundcheck's Cameron Oliver in a joint country set with Matt Tarantini. THIS WEDNESDAY will see Tym rock out on a familiar night if you recall his Mike Case Stage shows last summer. Hopefully this is a good, if late notice, primer for The Nostalgic Band's debut there next weekend! Expect a 19+ age limit and no cover charge for this 6:00 PM affair. See above for more details, and here's Tym live!

Next up, here's a new show with plenty of advance notice, as St. Albert, Alberta hard rock sextet Sparrow Blue will make their local concert debut on Tuesday, September 12th when they rock Soo Blaster! Sparrow Blue's classic rock-inspired brand of "real thick rock 'n roll" has helped them cross genre lines and attract some strong notices to date, and with their obvious talents, they should turn heads in a couple of months! Local support will come by way of two bands who are certainly no strangers to each other in 2023, namely indie rock quartet Man Feelings and hard/alternative rock quintet Handsome Sandwich, and their devoted fanbases should hopefully come out for this one despite the somewhat unfortunate Tuesday night scheduling! This stop on Sparrow Blue's Outta The Nest Tour has $10 advance tickets at this link and a $15 door charge, while a 7:00 PM start time is advertised, and expect a 19+ age limit. See above for more details!

Let's leap back to Sault Michigan now for some new videos from local blues/hard rock quartet Project 906's show at Snow's Bar & Grill in nearby Cedarville from this past Saturday! These were filmed by a venue staffer and live-streamed to the bar's Facebook page, and while they did the same for Tarnished on Friday night, we're saving those for this weekend's concert previews. The videos confirm that Brian Duford (who guested with 906 when they last played in Cedarville) was back behind the drumkit on Saturday, though if it was due to another conflicting Fake Chow gig for Jason VanLuven, then that band did not publically plug it on their Facebook page. The videos feature Project 906 & Brian covering Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble's "Pride & Joy" and, as embedded below, The Allman Brothers Band's "Soulshine". Sadly, these are both vertically shot, but at least everyone is in frame for the duration!

Everyone sounds good on these covers that do more justice to the blues rock side of Project 906's cover range (at least neither of these is "What If" again!), and vertical aspect ratio aside, the quality is really strong for the video proper. Check these out above & below, and stay tuned for more concert videos from Snow's later this week!

We'll close today with a Sault Ontario video that has slipped us by in our recent coverage of local concert videos shot for Christopher Paci's YouTube channel, mainly because it was uploaded as a "Shorts" video and therefore wasn't lumped with the rest. This comes from the Dayglo Abortions/Random Killing concert at Soo Blaster in May, with Chris posting this brief vertical clip of attendees moshing during Random Killing's co-headlining set. Mosh pits are best experienced in widescreen, but it is fun seeing so many punk fans making noise in the pit for such a big show, and hopefully everyone survived intact! Check it out for yourselves below!

That's all for now, but we'll resume our fallout from Rotaryfest on the site next! Thanks everyone!