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’s hard to imagine a band just coming into their own after 20 years of success, but that’s exactly what makes a true anomaly. This multi-national, Celtic juggernaut grows stronger with each live performance, and as you can imagine, after two decades and over 2000 shows, it is a true force to be reckoned with. With their latest release, Go Climb a Tree, their music has never sounded more representative of themselves as musicians and as live performers.

The band attributes their continued success to their fanatic audience, and it’s a well-diversified crowd for sure. The country-music folks adore the storytelling, the bluegrass-heads love the instrumentals, Celtic fans love their devotion to tradition, and the rockers simply relish the passion they play their instruments with.

The dedication to live shows date all the way back to the mid-1990s, when Gaelic Storm kicked off its career as a pub band in Santa Monica, California. Due to their discovery at the pub, by the end of the decade, the musicians had appeared in the blockbuster film Titanic (where they performed “Irish Party in Third Class”). This laid the groundwork for a career that would eventually find them topping the Billboard World Chart six times, making appearances at mainstream music festivals, and regularly headlining the largest Irish Festivals across the country, all the while gaining a reputation as a genre-bending Irish rock band, whose songs mix Celtic traditions with something uniquely creative.

Show at 7:30, doors open at 6:30pm.

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The Grass Roots are a band hailing from Los Angeles, California, United States who formed in 1965. The band have released 17 albums since their debut in 1966, but are most known for the 35 singles they released between 1966 and 1982.

If you care about the reasons that a band formed, then prepare to be disappointed. The Grass Roots were, at least at the beginning, a pretty naked attempt to cash in on the burgeoning Folk-Rock phenomenon that was sweeping across the United States in the mid-1960s. Dunhill Records put the producer and songwriter duo of Steve Barri and P.F Sloan up to it and one of the songs they demoed, titled “Where Were You When I Needed You”, was demoed by the Sloan himself. This was the track that convinced the label to go through with the project, and the single was sent to several San Francisco based radio stations. The single did reasonable business for the fledgling project and the label, along with Barri and Sloan, began looking for a band that could perform as The Grass Roots full time.

The San Francisco Bay area band The Bedouins were chosen to become The Grass Roots and got off to a good start with a version of Bob Dylan’s “Ballad Of A Thin Man”. It was released as a single and saw them achieve their first airplay on radio stations around Southern California. The band started to generate some serious hype for themselves but kneecapped it before they could capitalize on it by demanding that they release some of their blues-rock influenced original material. Barri and Sloan cut themselves off from the project and it was decided to start over from scratch with a new line-up, even though an album had been released but had not sold very well. However, come 1966, a band called The 13th Floor submitted a demo tape to Dunhill Records, and the producers for the project had found their Grass Roots.

By the summer of 1967, the band had their first top ten single on the Billboard Hot 100 in the form of “Let’s Live For Today” and for the next five years they were one of the most successful Californian acts around, with another two top ten singles coming with 1968’s “Midnight Confessions” and 1971’s “Sooner Or Later”. However, save for 1968’s Gold certified “Golden Grass” they never had as much luck on the album charts, leading to a change of sound around the late 60’s to a more brass heavy, rhythm and blues inflected sound. The band continued to have line-up troubles around this time but their records were selling, having a huge amount of hits during this time.

In 1974, The Grass Roots left their home of Dunhill Records and ever since then, a version of The Grass Roots has toured around playing their extensive back catalogue to a thriving audience. In 1982, they even set a world record for the largest audience ever played to by a rock band, at an Independence Day concert where they performed to over half a million people. Clearly they’re a band doing something right, and even if they formed to cash in on something, they’ve clearly since evolved into a truly great band in their own right, and for that, they come highly recommended to this very day.

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The Rumbles have been one of the most popular and successful bands in the Midwest for nearly 40 years. They continue a full appearance schedule today. Original members of the Rumbles formed in 1963 were Steve Hough, Joe Brunnworth, Bud Phillips and Rich Clayton.

Only Hough remains as a member today. They made their professional debut under the Eddy Haddad Agency in 1964. 1967 brought the hit 45 “Jezebel” which reached #1 in several local markets. Around 1970 psychedelic Music became so popular, attendance at dances declined rapidly and The Rumbles disbanded. In 1979, the group was asked to do a reunion concert in Omaha’s Peony Park. They played together again for the first time in eight years. The dance was such a huge success, the band decided to reform later that year. The lead guitarist position was filled by Lance Hancock because Joe Brunnworth had moved to California.

Eddy Haddad returned as The Rumbles manager and booking agent. He remained with them until he retired in 1985 and Hough took over his duties. Hough, the Bands Drummer, also was lead vocalist and provided background vocals for other members. During their eight-year hiatus, he had a band called “Horse”.

Today, the members of the band in addition to Hough, are Joe Buda, Kris Chelf and Jim Lippincott. The Rumbles continue to draw crowds of rock and roll music lover and have done more street dance gigs than any band in the area during their long, popular career.

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The legendary classic rock band Head East has long set the standard for authentic, full-vocal, goodtime rock harmonies that few bands can equal. Their high-energy shows are filled with superb vocals, flashy guitar work and memorable keyboard melodies that continue to rock audiences of all ages. Their signature song, “NEVER BEEN ANY REASON” with notable chorus “Save my life I’m going down for the last time” has long been considered by many radio stations across the country as “The Rock & Roll National Anthem.” This year Head East will be celebrating their 50th Anniversary by performing most cuts off of their iconic record “Flat As A Pancake”. The band has brought classic arena rock to countless audiences all across North America. According to founding member and keyboardist Roger Boyd, Head East will continue to bring their brand of dance and shout, good-time rock and roll to audiences of all ages for many years to come. “As long as I can lift my synthesizer over my head and the audience goes wild, we’ll keep rockin’ on!”

Their music has been featured in the cult movie classic Dazed and Confused, as well as Sahara and The Education of Charlie Banks, Emmy award winning TV shows Friday Night Lights and That 70s Show. Their newest release (April 2013), Raise A Little Hell, contains several Head East classic party rockers, including their monumental classic ‘There’s Never Been Any Reason (Save My Life),’ along with new, soon-to-be HE classics, that capture all of the excitement, energy and magic of their live shows.

Head East is a 5-piece band consisting of Roger Boyd (keyboards & vocals), Greg Manahan (bass, lead guitar & vocals), Glen Bridger (lead guitar & vocals), Eddy Jones (drums & vocals), and Darren Walker (lead vocals & bass). They have always been one of the friendliest, most approachable, professional bands in rock and roll who are willing to make themselves available at all times for interviews and “meet and greets”.

Head East maintains a close bond with their loyal fans through their official website, YouTube channel, Facebook and Twitter pages, and their official newsletter. The band is popular throughout the world and regularly receives fan correspondence from many nations and from across the United States.