Nine Forty LIVE
Nine Forty Live features artists who are creating innovative, new, and original sounds in multiple genres of music. The theater at the Lawrence Arts Center provides a unique opportunity for audiences to see and hear great music. Building on a strong music scene in downtown Lawrence, Nine Forty Live provides an intimate theater setting for dynamic performers and revels in the contributions of diverse artists in music performance and songwriting.
Chuck Mead & His Grassy Knoll Boys
Saturday, May 5
Doors open at 7 p.m. | Show starts at 7:30 p.m.
Tickets $20
Advance tickets available at Love Garden and the Arts Center
This show will open with a 35-minute documentary about the making of the album Back at the Quonset Hut.
Ramseur Records released Back At The Quonset Hut by Chuck Mead and his Grassy Knoll Boys in February 2012. This is the first classic country album recorded at Nashville's historic Quonset Hut in almost 30 years and features four members of Music Row's 1960s A-Team and classic country songs.
After leading several popular ‘80s cult bands in and around his hometown of Lawrence, Kansas, Chuck Mead landed on Nashville’s Lower Broadway where he co-founded the famed ‘90s Alternative Country quintet BR549. The band’s seven albums, three Grammy nominations and the Country Music Association Award for Best Overseas Touring Act would connect authentic American Roots music with millions of fans worldwide. With BR on hiatus, Chuck formed The Hillbilly All-Stars featuring members of The Mavericks, co-produced popular tribute albums to Johnny Cash and Waylon Jennings, guest-lectured at Vanderbilt University, and became a staff writer at one of Nashville’s top song publishers. In 2009, he released his acclaimed solo debut album, Journeyman’s Wager, and toured clubs, concert halls and international Rock, Country, and Rockabilly festivals with his band, The Grassy Knoll Boys.
As music director for the Broadway smash Million Dollar Quartet, Chuck began crafting the music arrangements during the show’s original Daytona and Seattle workshop productions, supervised the musical performances for its 2008 Chicago opening, created new music material for the show’s Tony-winning Broadway run, produced the original cast album, and oversaw the music for its smash 2011 premiere at London’s Noël Coward Theatre.
Chuck’s new album, Back At The Quonset Hut, was recorded at Nashville’s legendary Quonset Hut Studio where Patsy Cline, George Jones, Merle Haggard Roger Miller, Loretta Lynn, Johnny Cash, and more cut some of country’s greatest tracks. Produced by original BR549 producer Mike Janas and with the participation of students from Belmont University’s College of Entertainment and Music Business, the album of classic covers features surviving members of Music Row’s original ‘A Team’ studio musicians as well as guest appearances by Old Crow Medicine Show, Elizabeth Cook, Jamie Johnson, and Bobby Bare. “It’s been incredibly liberating to do all these things I’ve never done before,” Chuck says. “I’ve already gone from the bars of Lower Broadway in Nashville to the Broadway stage, and the upcoming album is one of the most unique and rewarding projects I’ve ever been a part of. I’m looking forward to where it all brings me next.”
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Past Shows
HOSPITAL SHIPS
With Heartscape Landbreak
Saturday, March 17
Doors open at 7 p.m. | Show starts at 7:30 p.m.
Cash bar
Tickets
$10 | advance tickets available at Love Garden and the Arts Center
Hospital Ships is led by Jordan Geiger, a ten year veteran of the Lawrence music scene (formerly of Minus Story, Shearwater, Old Canes, and the Appleseed Cast,) and features a revolving lineup of local heroes. Last year they released Lonely Twin, their second album on Graveface Records. They have toured the U.S. and Europe, recorded an Austin City Limits Satellite Set, played an NPR Tiny Desk Concert, appeared on the Huffington Post, and slept on many floors in support of the record. On March 17, they will play Lonely Twin in its entirety live for the first time. During a recent appearance on Central Standard on KCUR, they described their sound as "Simon and Garfunkel and the Flaming Lips filtered through the eyes of two Midwestern hicks." The album features a 60s pop and folk sound with lots of vocal harmonies and fuzz guitars.
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Heartscape Landbreak is the project of Taylor Holenbeck, a native Kansan known by his involvement in many bands in Lawrence, including Colony Collapse, Hospital Ships, The Appleseed Cast, and Old Canes. During the Nine Forty Live concert, Taylor will be playing songs from his forthcoming E.P., Long Live the Dead, which uses an expansive rock sound to focus on the beauty and decline of the natural world, and life on the prairie.
THE DANNY POUND REVUE
Featuring
Matt Suggs
Suzannah Johannes
Arthur Dodge
Danny pound and some of his exquisitely talented friends play and sing for you. Subdue the winter blues with music from Danny, Matt Suggs, Susannah Johannes and Arthur Dodge. Leave politics and worldly concerns at home and bring your sense of humor!
Saturday, January 21, 2012
Doors open at 7 p.m. | Show starts at 7:30 p.m.
Cash bar
Tickets
$10 | advance tickets available at Love Garden and the Arts Center
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TRUCKSTOP HONEYMOON CD RELEASE CONCERT
with Tyler Gregory
Friday, February 10, 2012
Truckstop Honeymoon play tough, funny, hi-octane songs about interstates, pinball arcades and true love. Katie Euliss pounds a doghouse bass while Mike West punishes a banjo mercilessly. Together they charm festival crowds and drive roadhouse drinkers to the dance-floor. Since hurricane Katrina washed them out of New Orleans, Truckstop Honeymoon have traveled to the ends of the Earth and back, performing in Australia, Holland, Germany, Britain and throughout the US. Their music tells a story so honest and strange you know they didn’t make it up.
Hailing from the rolling hills of Kansas, Tyler Gregory can regularly be found busking on city streets with steam-powered melodies bouncing off the street-side architecture. Gregory's mix of blues and roots music howls with a sense of passion and freedom.
Doors open at 7 p.m. | Show starts at 7:30 p.m.
Cash bar
Tickets
$10 | advance tickets available at Love Garden and the Arts Center
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