(Updated at 9:16 PM) After a brief return to regular posts on the SMS yesterday, we are temporarily back in the concert preview grind today as there are a couple of mid-week hard rock shows to take note of! The backlog of recent stories will still get a bit of relief via some band link updates, but here's what you should know for your concert-going plans!
As recently usual, local acoustic hard rock musician Tym Morrison will (weather permitting) play another solo concert TOMORROW at The Mike Case Memorial Stage at The Trading Post as part of his summer season arrangement there! These Wednesday evening gigs seem to be going well for the prolific singer/guitarist, and hopefully Tym has lots more unplugged classic and hard rock favourites in store! Yes, I am well aware of Tym's Shooters shows later this month, we'll have more on those in this weekend's concert previews. Tomorrow's concert has a 7:00 PM start time, no cover charge, and no age limit, but be advised that 9&10 News is calling for light rain tomorrow during showtime. If the forecast is accurate, the thunderstorms will cease beforehand, but the rain alone may put the brakes on things. For now, visit the official Facebook event page for more details, and here's Tym live!
Next up, local funk/hard rock band The Wyld Stallyns will perform at the huge Marconi Meets World festival outside of The Marconi Cultural Events Center at 450 Albert Street West THIS THURSDAY! Of course, Marconi Meets World will unite multiple cultures for themed days of live entertainment, cultural heritage, and family activities this weekend, so be sure to visit the official Facebook page for full details on the daily events! The Stallyns will be the only hard rock-leaning band this year, and they're certainly no stranger to outdoor festival events in 2022, so hopefully Christina, Rob, Jesse, and Derek (and Alex?) have a good & rocking show on Thursday! As you can see in the schedule, The Wyld Stallyns are the openers at 5:15 PM on the Tenaris Main Stage, where musical performers will exclusively play (the Culture Stage is for cultural & indigenous performers). Artists include headlining country musician Brendan Hodgson at 9:15 PM, ...
...folk/roots band Unorganized Township at 8:00 PM, and new indie/blues rock cover trio All The Tired Horses at 6:30 PM, with Friday and Saturday's lineups themed around First Nations and Italian cultures and having music lineups in kind (also, Thursday's top two acts will pull double duty on other nights). Note that surf rock trio The Dynowaves were originally supposed to play at 9:15 PM with Brendan later (and on Friday too), but they were knocked out for the same health-related issue that forced them out of Rotaryfest. Tickets were once on sale for Marconi Meets World, but due to increased community support & sponsorship, the festival is now FREE for all attendees all weekend long, so definitely keep everything in mind extra now that tickets are not required!. Yes, this is ALL AGES, and Thursday's events start at 2:00 PM, earlier still on later days.
Weather-wise (as this is an outdoor event, the main stage is beside the Marconi Club proper), 9&10 News is currently calling for mostly sunny weather in the 22° range but that is two days out, so keep tabs on the forecast just in case. Marconi Meets World sounds extremely ambitious, but a weekend full of family entertainment and cultural awareness should be a winner for many, especially if weather behaves itself, so don't miss out on all of the action, including The Stallyns and crew on Thursday, and visit the above links for more complete details! Here's The Wyld Stallyns live!
Finally, we have a couple of Sault Ontario bands to move to our inactive band
links, both featuring local metal guitarist Brendan
Christie, namely his classic metal quartet Late & Loud and his progressive metal duo Kraken Mara. Both bands have passed our one year inactivity threshold, Late & Loud since releasing their "Late & Legends" score album in April 2021, and Kraken Mara since posting their EPs on their website
in the early summer of last year (they look like they're on sale but
neither progresses past entering an e-mail address). After being active
off & on from 2010-2014 (with a further reunion gig in 2019), Late
& Loud's members launched the Dungeons & Dragons podcast Late & Legends
in 2020, whose score compositions by Brendan & Jonathan Tiberi led
to the aforementioned new album, and while a follow-up is certainly
possible, there's been no public hints that a second Late &
Loud/Legends album is in the works.
As for Kraken Mara, their
original run from 2015-2018 was curtailed when Brendan left to work
overseas. They came back in 2021 with ambitious plans and new videos
towards two EPs named "Press Start" & "Game Over", but social
media updates were never plentiful even then, despite the EPs seemingly
being done. Hopefully both bands resurface when the time is right, both
are too talented to not get more from eventually, but best of luck to
Brendan, Jonathan, Benn, Josh, and Jake no matter what! That's all for today, but stay tuned for some long-awaited Rotaryfest fallout & videos tomorrow! Thanks everyone!
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, notFriday, 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!
As recently usual, local acoustic hard rock musician Tym Morrison will (weather permitting) play another solo concert TOMORROW at The Mike Case Memorial Stage at The Trading Post as part of his summer season arrangement there! These Wednesday evening gigs seem to be going well for the prolific singer/guitarist, and hopefully Tym has lots more unplugged classic and hard rock favourites in store! Yes, I am well aware of Tym's Shooters shows later this month, we'll have more on those in this weekend's concert previews. Tomorrow's concert has a 7:00 PM start time, no cover charge, and no age limit, but be advised that 9&10 News is calling for light rain tomorrow during showtime. If the forecast is accurate, the thunderstorms will cease beforehand, but the rain alone may put the brakes on things. For now, visit the official Facebook event page for more details, and here's Tym live!
