More Weekend Concert Previews, Plus New Live Concert Videos!!

Better to get the rest of this weekend's concert previews on the site early given that all involve a show tonight, so those make up the majority of today's post, alongside some new live concert videos from earlier this month! For previews of this weekend's Cory Marks/Silent 9, Generations, and Nostalgic Band concerts, visit yesterday's post below this one. Here's what (else) you should know for the weekend!

We'll resume our previews with Nostalgic Band frontman Tym Morrison's acoustic concert at The Mike Case Memorial Stage outside of The Trading Post TONIGHT! One week removed from a similarly busy weekend for both the band and by himself, tonight's previously announced unplugged matinee will be his third gig at the outdoor stage at 1332 Great Northern Road in this year's weekly summer series there, with this show again preceding a Nostalgic Band show elsewhere, this time a short notice stop at Jay's Piston Broke Pub TONIGHT (as previewed in last night's post). Hopefully fans of Tym's well produced acoustic show and vast setlist get a strong performance tonight before he heads to the west end to keep on rocking! This evening's acoustic matinee has a 7:00 PM start time, no age limit, and no cover, and 9&10 News is calling for sunny weather in the 18° range. Click here for more details, and here's Tym live!

Next up, let's cross the border to Sault Michigan, where local classic metal/hard rock quartet Tarnished will rock The Merchants Bar for one night only TONIGHT! Fresh off of their Cedarville gig this past week, this will be Tarnished's first stop at The Merch (at 108 Spruce Street West) since rocking that same venue for their St. Patrick's Day bash in March. It's always nice to see Tarnished take to the stage in the Soo, and hopefully tonight's show has all the heavy originals and covers you need! If you can't make this one, they'll be back in town at The Rapids Lounge in two weeks. Expect a 9:00 PM start time, 21+ age limit, and no cover charge for tonight, and for a preview, here's some videos from their concert at Snow's Bar & Grill last week, courtesy of the venue's Facebook page! Like they did for Project 906 on Saturday, an uncredited staffer had the (sadly vertical) camera rolling for three live-streams, so what can you see then?

The videos include covers of Creedence Clearwater Revival's "Proud Mary" (with frontman Alex Traynor just singing and not playing guitar), Ratt's "Round & Round" (if obscured by fans on the floor), and as embedded below, Quiet Riot's "Cum On Feel The Noize". The guys sound good on these covers, which are strongly played with clear enthusiasm, and while I wouldn't have filmed these vertically, at least the band is in frame consistently (the "Round & Round" video acknowledged, but you do want fans engaged!) Give Tarnished's new videos a look above and below, and don't miss them at The Merch tonight!

Barring any further late notice show announcements, our hard rock concert previews end this week back in Sault Ontario, as local classic/hard rock cover quartet Soundcheck will return to Shooters Downstairs Lounge for concerts TOMORROW & SATURDAY NIGHT! The band has not confirmed these shows on their Facebook page at press time, but the venue did via their own Facebook event pages (linked here & here) well in advance, thankfully! This will be Soundcheck's first public date since returning to Goulais River's Community Days two weeks ago (they did not play at Rotaryfest), and their first at Shooters since a one-nighter last month. Interesting how Soundcheck aren't playing all that far away from tonight's Cory Marks show at The Machine Shop, featuring the debuting Silent 9 (featuring ex-bassist Paul Belair, and current bassist Jim Michaud's old Obsession bandmates Jess Amadio & Steve Porco) as the local openers.

Assuming that all goes well for Silent 9, the commonality between the two bands will become less of a novelty as time goes on, but the membership of both bands is absolutely noted! As for Soundcheck at Shooters, expect a 19+ age limit, no cover charge, and a 9:00 PM start time. Visit the above links for more details, and here's Soundcheck live!

We'll close today with another band that surprisingly did not play at Rotaryfest last week, namely local southern hard rock trio Bone Yard! They are on the road for Sudbury gigs this weekend, and don't have a currently announced local concert booked for another three weeks, but we do have some newer concert videos of theirs to check out, courtesy of their Poutine Feast gig at the Ermatinger Clergue National Historic Site on Canada Day. An uncredited representative of the band live-streamed four videos from this outdoor gig to their Facebook page, where Greg, Alex, and Warren were filmed covering Dire Straits' "Sultans of Swing", The Beatles' "Come Together", Dr. Hook & The Medicine Show's "The Cover of 'Rolling Stone'", and as embedded below, Lynyrd Skynyrd's "Simple Man". Alas, all four of these were shot vertically, but at least the filmer used zoom often, and the guys sound pretty good on all four covers!

The videos do give a good look at the Poutine Feast stage setup for 2023, and while not overly specific to the festival/Canada Day, it looks more than capable for the bands, and they had a good vantage point of the Old Stone House based on Greg's picture from the stage! Give Bone Yard's Poutine Feast videos a watch above and below!

That's all for today, but stay tuned for more Rotaryfest fallout on the site next! Thanks everyone!