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This page is a Daily Archive of entries for Friday, July 11, 2008 listed from newest to oldest.
Tonight, the U of I's Research Park is about to break out of the stale cubical feel and slip on something a little more exciting. Krannert Center of Performing Arts along with Fox/Atkins Development and the the Illinois Natural History Survey present the first of their three-show series of summer outdoor concerts appropriately named, OUTSIDE at the Research Park, beginning tonight, July 11 at 6:30 p.m. The public venue is located southwest of Assembly Hall on First St. in the Research Park on 1816 S. Oak St. in Champaign. Opening act is Champaign-Urbana's very own John Hoeffleur, of The Beauty Shop, and at 7:30 p.m., hailing from Louisiana, is the demanding presence of Rosie Ledet and the Zydeco Playboys. If you've never heard zydeco music, here's your chance. Don't miss it.
On Saturday, local jammers, Zmick will deliver their ground-up mixture of funk, reggae, jazz, and progressive that would surely move the butts of any patchouli drenched, birkenstock-clad audience. Falling just short of the platonic ideal of when "jam" meets "band."
Interestingly, they are juxtaposed with Santa who will churn out their own brand of local indie-pop laced with pyschedellic underlinings and toweringly piercing vocals. Adding to the indie-pop ambiance will be Tall Tale a piano-driven, female-fronted local quintet, whose soulfull (but gently delivered) vocal inflections become so rythmic at times it's hard not to bob your head a little.
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