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Greg AckermanPreview

Live music preview: Special Free Week show at Velveeta Room takes place January 2

The Cosmic Clash has successfully produced Free Week events in the past, but this year we wanted to try something

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ReviewScott Rollins

Live music review: Kris Kristofferson and The Strangers at the Golden Nugget

The show was four minutes late, house lights still on and I was waiting outside the door marked with the section I’d secured seats. To my right, on the other side of the hall, were five places to buy beer, wine, or something harder if the spirit took you. My bride and I had crossed the Louisiana border with two of our best friends, who share the same interest in music, politics and nearly everything else.

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Greg AckermanReview

Festival review: Second Saturnalia Festival gets mixed weather, lots of psychedelic music

[ngg src=”galleries” ids=”24″ display=”basic_slideshow”] The second Saturnalia Festival took place last weekend at The Sahara Lounge and neighboring Webberville Baptist

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Greg AckermanReview

Music Festival Review: 10th Utopiafest featured Lukas Nelson, Patty Griffin, STS9

Last weekend’s 10th Annual Utopiafest held for the first time at Reveille Peak Ranch just outside of Burnet saw ideal weather conditions perhaps for the first time in the festival’s history as the event dates moved to their latest time of the year thus far. The limited-attendance festival featured performances by Sound Tribe Sector Nine (STS9), Patty Griffin, Lukas Nelson and John Medeski’s Mad Skillet among other acts that followed in the Americana / Jam band slant the festival bookers lean toward.

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