Upcoming events

An evening with The Homewreckers acoustic and stripped down.

For more information, contact Mike Fitzsimmons at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

Vintage Vibe rocking the patio at Failoni's!

For more information, contact Amy Sampo at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

http://failonis.com

The very best by one of Ireland's best writers, Translations, set in the fictional Northern Irish village of Baile Beag, tells of the historical attempt to subdue the Irish people through suppression of their native tongue. It is a timeless story which is at once heartbreaking, heartwarming, frustrating and funny, as we see cultures collide yet love, hope and truth live on.  

It arises from and speaks to the universally common language of ‘heart’ which can bridge all divides.

For more information, contact Dennis Corcoran at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

http://blackmirrortheatre.com

STL Free Jazz Collective presents an evening of exciting spontaneous jazz. Plus, poets are invited to "sit-in" with us - just sign up via FaceBook or come to the event! Musicians are Jerome Dubz Williams, Baba Mike Nelson, Gary Sykes, Paul Steinbeck and Jim Hegarty.

For more information, contact Jim Hegarty at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

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The Columbia, Missouri-based quartet is anchored by the intrepid songwriting of Violet Vonder Haar and enriched by the creative energy of her musical counterparts. A variety of influences that include Local Natives, Ani DiFranco, Land Of Talk, Brandi Carlile, St. Vincent and more, Violet and the Undercurrents tell seasoned stories with resplendent melodies and bold accents. Their freshness and familiarity beckons audiences to join them at the river — the source of their creative, replenishing energy.

The University Theatre at Saint Louis University will close its 2018-19 season with the 2012 retelling of Godspell at The Grandel, 3610 Grandel Square. The musical, based on the gospel of St. Matthew, will feature new arrangements and contemporary references as it takes us on a rousing journey through the parables of Jesus and is directed by Stephanie Tennill. Performances take place April 25 - 28 with Thursday through Saturday shows at 8pm and the Sunday matinee at 2pm. Tickets are available through www.metrotix.com or 314.534-1111 or at the door.

For more information, contact Meme Wolff at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

The Quebe Sisters

Fully Seated

4/27/19

$20/25 DOS

200 Seated capacity

Doors 7, show 8

For more information, contact Steve Pohlman at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

https://www.facebook.com/events/2074833979230971/

Vinyl Williams

https://vinylwilliams.bandcamp.com

The rare history of harmonious pop music imbued in Vinyl Williams’s Opal LP is finally coming to the conscious surface in the warped form of a transcendental hyper-coaster, combining sunshine pop, afrobeat, and progressive rock into a dense emanation of sonic optics. The California native has attuned his sound palette to the cosmic quintessence – opalescent tones that harmonize chaos, synchronizing a global family of celestial harmonies into a macrocosmic epicenter. 

Out of such came 10 tracks of incessantly lush pop songs that can be used to intangibly dress your dream palace. It was recorded almost exclusively by Lionel Williams at Non Plus Ultra (all ages venue / studio in LA he’s involved in) with the exception of Gal Lazer (ex-drummer of Yonatan Gat) playing hand drums on Aphelion, and Ian Gibbs (Williams’s long time musical partner) overdubbing guitar & synth on several tracks. Through the process of recording individual tracks onto a VHS camcorder, as well as using handheld cassette devices, the fluttery lo-fi guitar & synth sounds became architecturalized by hi-fi drum sounds, keeping the warbly rollercoaster somehow on track. 

Active since 2007, the group have toured extensively with Toro y Moi, Unknown Mortal Orchestra, Mount Kimbie, This Will Destroy You, Temples, among others.

730pm - doors

8pm - show

$10 adv / $12 dos

All Ages

For more information, contact Luc Michalski at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

https://www.facebook.com/events/646702062431752/

Another US premiere from Upstream Theater, in co-production with Stages Repertory Theatre of Houston. Directed by Kenn McLaughlin. Tim Price's SALT, ROOT AND ROE is a poetic masterwork about the nature of change, the comfort of home, and the eternal bond of love, set against the mythical backdrop of the Pembrokeshire coast in western Wales. The play centers on identical twins Iola and Anest, who are very devoted to each other. Ageing fast, and with the time they have together more fragile by the day, they arrive at a desperate decision. Word of this reaches Anest’s daughter Menna, who rushes to her long-abandoned childhood home where her own ideas of love and compromise are tested to the limit. In spite of its somber themes, the play is light, textured and at times very funny—and in the words of one reviewer “like a pebble picked from a Pembrokeshire beach… something to take home and reflect over, something that evokes a smell of the sea..”

For more information, contact Coach S. at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

https://upstreamtheater.org/content/see-play

Colin Blair has been fiddling around St. Louis for many years now. His group The Root Diggers has brought traditional fiddle music to many venues, festivals and Barn dances across the Midwest. His love for the fiddle and the music within is obvious. He specializes in Ozark and Appalachian styles.

Alena Wheeler is a founding member of The Root Diggers who is currently playing with The New Missouri Fox Hunters. She has extensive fiddle and violin knowledge that has taken her all over the country to perform and compete. Alena hails from Baltimore, and has a vast knowledge of east coast styles and repertoire. 

Robert Ryan is a traditional Irish fiddler from London, who grew up immersed in the thriving Irish musical community of that city. Robert was encouraged to learn the tin whistle from a young age, and took up the fiddle at the age of eight, learning from the great Clare fiddler Brendan Mulkere. He has recently moved to St Louis, where he performs and teaches.

Alyssa Avery has been playing violin for two decades, ten years professionally. Ms. Avery graduated from Webster University with a Bachelor’s in Music, with emphasis on Jazz Performance. She has become known as one of the most versatile violinists in the area. She regularly performs  with a klezmer band, jazz ensembles, in pit orchestras, while also touring nationally with her folk trio Mt. Thelonious. She teaches fiddle classes at the Folk School as well as keeps a private lesson studio. She is also one of the founders of the St. Louis String Collective, a nonprofit dedicated to promote creative, multi-genre string instrument playing through education and performance.

For more information, contact Michael Holtz at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

http://www.thefocalpoint.org

Enjoy “Southern Roadhouse Hospitality” while listening to All Roostered Up play a mix of rock, folk, blues, reggae and jammery. Hwy 61 Roadhouse is a Memphis and New Orleans dining experience in Webster Groves. Laissez le bon temps roulez, “Let the good times roll”

For more information, contact Coach S. at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

http://www.hwy61roadhouse.com

Soft Kill

https://anopendoor.bandcamp.com/

Portland, Oregon’s SOFT KILL, ripped through 2016 with their first release on Profound Lore Records ‘Choke’, the follow up to 2015’s ‘Heresy’ became the band’s most acclaimed LP to date and saw the band on a constant touring cycle in support of it through North America and Europe as demand for the band was on a constant upswing. SOFT KILL now return with the triumphant follow up full length Savior to be released by Profound Lore Records on 5/11/18, bringing their unique blend of gloom, laced with pop charm and flawless song writing that transcends the post punk genre.

The writing for Savior was sparked while returning from tour, frontman Tobias Grave’s wife began to bleed out in the van, at eight months pregnant they were in the middle of nowhere on the side of the road far from a medical facility. The band raced through the night landing at the emergency room of UC Davis Trauma Center in Sacramento where surgery was performed to save both the mother and unborn child. Although the surgery went well, baby Dominick’s lung collapsed on his second day of life causing him to flat line. Grave was forced to standby and watch as the doctors and nurses struggled to keep his newborn child alive with blood transfusions, breathing and feeding tubes. As days turned into weeks, stranded far from home, standing vigil, he purchased a guitar, borrowed a bass from a friend and began to write songs that eventually would become the core of Savior. Grave wrote songs about losing his son, his battle with drug addiction, the many tragedies that came along with that life, and the empty space suspended between mourning and celebration, life and death.

With Savior, recorded/mixed in Kingsize Sudios in Los Angeles and produced by Benjamin Greenberg (Uniform, The Men, Algiers) SOFT KILL have matured into a powerhouse, effortlessly combining genres, always with Grave’s powerful, raw emotional storytelling where we see a person come to grips with their own reflection as seen in the eyes of their dying son. From the pop perfection of “Trying Not to Die” to the swelling and crushing guitars on “Hard Candy” to the unrelenting dirge of “Bunny Room”, Savior is a creative tour de force. Drawing from a diverse musical palette, Savior is influenced by early U2, Gun Club, The Replacements and a requiem to Tom Petty.

+ TBA

830pm - doors

9pm - show

$10 at the door 

All Ages

For more information, contact Matt Stuttler at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

https://www.facebook.com/events/284472239113569/

‪Announcing O.N.G.2 ‬

‪Saturday, April 27‬

? Tickets: https://ong.gg‬

At #BIOTA‬ (location revealed with ticket purchase)

DJ sets by GRRL, DJ Taye (Teklife), Failed Shape, Biota DJs (Eske, Jake Leech, Namatamago), Tj/Maxx (Tj Hughes, Maxwell Foley)

‬Artworks by Tj Hughes, Maxwell Foley, Ann Johnson, Sam Fox School students + works created at Breakerspace.

++PART 1: BREAKERSPACE++

From 1:00 PM to 6:00 PM Breakerspace invades Biota to create works for the show. All works must be completed by 6:00 PM to be considered for inclusion into the show. Music begins at 9:00 PM. The club location will be revealed once tickets are purchased at https://breakerspaces.org

++PART 2: O.N.G.2++

9:00 PM show begins with b2b sets from Tj/Maxx (Tj Hughes and Maxwell Foley debut sets)

10:00 PM Failed Shape assaults you with deep-fried hardcore

https://soundcloud.com/user-72969244/albums (debut live performance)

10:45 PM Rising from Chicago's Teklife, DJ Taye

https://soundcloud.com/djtaye

11:45 PM GRRL 

https://nts.live/shows/grrl

12:45 AM Biota DJs (Ekse, Jake Leech, Namatamago)

Support from Red Bull, Fabricatorz Foundation, 4 Hands, Breakerspace, Oui.Gallery, Artifaq.io

#biota ‪#ong2‬

For more information, contact Jake Leech at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

The Gaslight Squares are a traditional jazz band based in St. Louis, Missouri.

For more information, contact John Barr at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

https://www.thefriscostl.com/music-events

A traditional crawfish boil with all of the fixings! Limited amount of tickets available.

For more information, contact Ben Polcyn at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

The traditional landscape painting often contains a horizon line, recognizable landforms, and an idealized representation of Nature. Looking deeper, the historic use of the landscape mirrors the inner-state of that society's relationship to the political, religious, economic, and natural world around it. "Layered Place" invites viewers to reevaluate their definition of landscape, and consider the multiple "layers" of the multi-faceted modern landscape. This group exhibit delves into humanity's tumultuous relationship with Nature, visual metaphors for Place, social and cultural identity, family heritage, and way-finding. 

The exhibition includes work by St. Louis-based artists Jenna Bauer, Meghan Grubb, Song Park, Mandy Pedigo, Allana Ross, John Sarra, and Jon Young, and is curated by Charis Norell.

The exhibition will be up FEBRUARY 9 - APRIL 30

GALLERY HOURS ARE WEEKDAYS FROM 9AM - 6PM

For more information, contact April Parviz at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

https://www.intersectstl.org/gallery/

Are you ready for the next step in becoming a changemaker in your own community? Would you like to learn how to apply permaculture to your own life and your community? 

Permaculture examines the interconnectedness of living systems on earth and how we can observe and interact with these systems in ways that increase the health and well being of all life on earth.

Crystal Stevens of Grow Create Inspire presents a 72-hour Permaculture Design Course. The course will run one weekend per month for 6 months. 

The cost is $950

Scholarships are available.

The course will cover:

Introduction to Permaculture

Permaculture Ethics and Principles

The Local Ecosystem, Design, The Home System, zones, and sector analysis, Water, Soil Science, Soil Building, and Soil Health, ecosystems, Food Forests and Cultivated Ecologies, Gardening and regenerative agriculture,

Land access, land grants, and community gardens. and more.

Each participant will create a Permaculture Design Project.

Attendance of all weekends is required for the certificate.

To register: email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

http://www.growcreateinspire.com

In its fourth year, Celebrating Art for Senior Engagement takes place April 18-28 in venues across St. Louis. CASEfest is the premier and only area-wide festival dedicated to art and seniors in the region. More than 50 events, including lectures, art shows, performances, theater, and classes will take place at dozens of venues across St. Louis during the 10-day event. CASEfest offers opportunities for senior involvement in the arts and encourages increased quality of life experiences. Find out when and where events are taking place online at www.maturityanditsmuse.org/calendar/.

For more information, contact Lynn Hamilton at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

A weekend of art and learning. Classes include weaving, silk painting, polymer clay, wire wrapping, felting, dying, and much more!

For more information, contact Barbara Rogers at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

http://turningofthetide.org

Come party like it's 2015 and celebrate 4 years of good vibes + cat cuddles with Philomena + Ruth!

Sunday, April 28

11 am - 5 pm

>> FEATURING <<

Live music by River Kittens and Beth Bombara

Treats by Pie Hard Pizza & Custard Co.

More info to come!

For more information, contact Courtney Adams at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

https://www.facebook.com/events/641853006266661/?ti=ia