Tuesday, May 29, 2012

Groovacious News: Gigi Love - live in concert, Thursday night!


CEDAR CITY, UTAH
MUSIC CALENDAR for the week of May 28, 2012
From the desk of Tim Groove
GROOVACIOUS/GROOVEFEST AMERICAN MUSIC FESTIVAL
173 N. 100 W. Cedar City, Utah 84720
435-867-9800

View daily Groovacious updates on Facebook and if you are interested in other happenings around town – please take a look at the Cedar City Brian Head Tourism Bureau’s calendar at http://www.scenicsouthernutah.com/calendar/

The Groovacious Top Dozen - our Best Sellers for May 21 - May 26, 2012:
1- Slash “Apocalyptic Love”
2- Norah Jones “Little Broken Hearts”
3- John Mayer “Born and Raised”
4- Tenacious D “Rize of the Fenix”
5- Jack White “Blunderbuss”
6- Tedeschi Trucks Band “Live - Everybody’s Talkin”
7- The Cult “Choice of Weapon”
8- Beach House “Bloom”
9- Santigold “Master of My Make-Believe”
10- Godsmack “Live & Inspired”
11- Hot Water Music “Exister”
12- Ellie Goulding “Bright Lights”

Coming up soon -------------------
Saturday, June 9: MARTY WARBURTON BAND at Groovacious.
Tuesday, June 19: Groovefest “LitFest – The Energy of Words” at Braun Books.
Wednesday, June 20: Groovefest Campfire Concert in the Canyon at the Southwest Wildlife Foundation of Utah fire pit.
Thursday, June 21: Groovefest Kick-off Show at The Grind Coffeehouse.


Here’s what we found happening for this week ---------------------------------


Tuesday, May 29, all day: NEW RELEASE DAY AT GROOVACIOUS! Here are this week’s highlights: ATLANTA RHYTHM SECTION, BACHMAN & TURNER, RORY BLOCK, WADE BOWEN, FOR TODAY, FOREIGNER, MELODY GARDOT, KING TUFF, MILLENCOLIN, PUBLIC IMAGE LTD., SCISSOR SISTERS, EDWARD SHARPE & THE MAGNETIC ZEROS, SIGUR ROS, REGINA SPEKTOR, SUN KIL MOON, IAN TYSON, THE WALKMEN. As usual, many of these titles are arriving on vinyl.

Wednesday, May 29, 8:00PM: Open Mic Night at Groovacious! FREE - sign-ups at 7:30; music, spoken word, comedy, dance etc. Participants are selected at random and limited to 2 songs each or about ten minutes. Groovacious is Cedar City’s only record store and one the most unique and complete in the western region and located at 173 North 100 West, Cedar City, Utah 435-867-9800. www.groovacious.com

Thursday, May 31, 7:30PM: GIGI LOVE returns to Groovacious at 173 N. 100 W. in Cedar City. Admission is just $5.oo at the door. Call 435-867-9800 for more info.

About Gigi:
Whether armed with an electric guitar or her worn acoustic, Gigi Love leaves an indelible imprint vocally, while juggling blues and rock with country and folk. Close on the heels of her hero, the great Bonnie Raitt, Love's influences include Lucinda Williams, Emmylou Harris, Joni Mitchell, Shawn Colvin, and Neil Young.

Like Willie Nelson, Gram Parsons and Townes Van Zandt, she earned her honky-tonk chops in Texas. At the age of seven, Love began performing and playing guitar. By 12, she was filling venues with names such as Johnny High's Country Music Review in Ft. Worth, and the Grapevine and Stevenville Opry Houses in Texas.

While at Southern Utah University, she founded the Gigi Love Band and played regionally throughout the west. After hearing her play one night, a rep from Yellow Moon Records backed her for her first album, Scorpio Rising (1997), which sold more than 5,000 copies regionally, before she had national distribution through the Orchard. Her second album Coyote Bones (2000) is a beautiful example of her rousing acoustic performance style. Love's third album, Turning to Gold was released in January 2005. Her newest recording Cosmic Tales of the West features her band The Hearts of Gold and was released May 18th 2008. After her Olympic performance a promotion company for Mountain Dew added Love to their college compilation CD-the Six Pack. This promotion is sent out to over 300 college radio stations. For the past two years she has been touring with her sponsorship from Mountain Dew. Love is now living in Durango, Colorado and touring on the Mountain Dew College Circuit tour, while gearing up for the 2012-2013 festival season with a 4 piece band. www.gigilove.com

Thursday, May 31 – Saturday, June 2, 7:30PM: Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, presented by Cedar Valley Community Theatre in the Heritage Theater at105 N. 100 E. i Cedar City. Admission is $8.00 for adults and $5.00 for children. Tickets can be purchased online at www.cedartheatre.org or at Braun Books. For further information call 435-586-6407.
Friday, June 1, 9:00PM: THE FLESHSTRETCHERS at Toadz at 432 N. 100 W. in Cedar City. 435-867-8988.   www.clubtoadz.com
Saturday, June 2, 9:00PM: K9 ECLIPSE at Mike’s Tavern at 90 W. Hoover in Cedar City.
435-867-5990  www.MikesTavernCC.com

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The Groovefest American Music Festival is an important part of Cedar City - wouldn't you like to say you were a part of making it happen? The festival dates are June 19th through the 24th.
Musical acts coming to this year’s “Best Of” show:
CHICAGO AFROBEAT PROJECT (2008)
TRAVELER (2010)
TODD WOLFE (2008)
ANTIOQUIA (2011)
JACKSTRAW (2003)
THRIFT STORE COWBOYS (2007)
HYMN FOR HER (2011)
SISTER WIVES (2005)
PETE ANDERSON (2005)
BASTARD SONS OF JOHNNY CASH (2005)
TREVOR GREEN (2010)
KATE MACLEOD (2007)
SHAWN ROHLF & THE BUSKERS (2004)
JOHN BATDORF (2010)
CLAUDIA RUSSELL & BRUCE KAPLAN (2005)
NICOLE CAMPBELL (2004)
NOWHERE MAN & A WHISKEY GIRL (2008)
KARYN WHITTEMORE (2005)
… and this is just the main stage!!
Please support and thank this years Groovefest supporters! More info at www.groovefestutah.com
Here is the list so far:
"Gold Guitar" Presenters $800+: Cedar City, Brian Head Tourism Bureau, Southern Utah University, The Grind Coffeehouse, Samco Building, Cedar City Daily News, Hughes and Associates, Braun Books, Blue Sky Recycling, Cherry Creek Radio, Groovacious, Camp Creek Trees, Independent Publishing Company, Southwest Applied Technology College, Kolob Sound, KSUU Power 91.1, Iron County Today, Comfort Inn Holiday Inn Express. "Silver Saxophone" Underwriters $400+: Frontier Homestead State Park, Cedar City Arts Council, Mike's Tavern, Toadz, JB Framing, Cedar City Art's Festival, Artisans Art Gallery, Cedar City Theatre, Dailey Builders, Marsha Bloom, Hunters Portable Toilets, True Colors  Screen Printing, Best Western Town & Country Inn, Robison Rentals. St. Jude’s Episcopal Church, Go To Printing, Bradshaw Chevrolet Buick, KUER 90.1, Red Acre Farm/CSA, Quality Inn. "Bronze Banjo" Sponsors $200+: Pura Vida College of Massage Therapy, Vickie Sorensen's Nature Works, R. Scott Phillips, Smead Manufacturing Co., Mosdell Sanitation, Sunshine Nutrition, Muddy Boots, Bill Byrnes, Lael Langston, The Tire Company, Funder Welding, Lin's Marketplace, Gunjah The Bead Forest, Crystal Inn, Judy Lindsay – Coldwell Banker, The Yoga Shop, Hunter-Cowan, Marty Warburton Band, Home Girls, Honoring Bob Goldsmith, The Joke’s On You Comics, Ahern Rentals, Permanent Expressions, Bill Morrison, The Utah Shakespeare Festival, Convergys. “Magnesium Mandolin” Contributors $100+: The Wizz, Bulloch Drug, State Bank of Southern Utah, Sigma Tau Delta, Pizanos Pizzeria, Cedar Post Pawn, M&D Foodtown, The Music Barn/Hamburger Patty's, Barber J’s, The Market Grill, Cedar City Handyman LLC, Cedar Music Store & Studio, Studio West Photography, Iron County Lodging Association, Kendal Gubler, Dixie-Leavitt Agency, Ogden’s Flooring & Design, Jim & Jeanine Howells, Intersearch, Cedar City Downtown Retail Alliance, Ponderosa Dutch Oven Catering Peace, Love & Ice Cream, Diane & Barrie Strachan, Paula Bell.
Please, make sure you tell them "thanks" - we can't do it without them!

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