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Tealights

The Woodruff Arts Center is booking younger local musicians to perform in Sifly Piazza every Thursday night throughout the month of June. These free “Nights on the Piazza” shows will kick off at 5 p.m. and three young local acts will play until around 8 p.m.

The first of the series starts tomorrow night (Thurs., June 4) with performances by Nerdkween (5:30 p.m.), Tealights (6:30 p.m.) and Hope For Agoldensummer (7:30 p.m.).

“This is something I’ve wanted to see happen for a long time because I feel like there are a lot of people my age (28) who are very interested in art/music, but don’t see the Arts Center as some place they want to go,” says WAC’s Strategic Communications Manager, Kathleen Covington. “We hope by giving them an introduction with the free concerts, they will see that there really is a lot here that they would enjoy.”

The schedule for the rest of June’s Nights on the Piazza series:

June 11 Patty Mack & the Mo White Quartet (5:30 p.m.) Noot d’Noot (6:30 p.m.) Soulphonics & Ruby Velle (7:30 June 11th – Patty Mack & the Mo White Quartet (5:30) Noot d’Noot (6:30) Soulphonics & Ruby Velle (7:30 p.m.).

June 18 Heather Luttrell (5:30 p.m.) Tin Cup Prophette (6:30 p.m.) Venice is Sinking (7:30 p.m.).

June 25 Sound Detour (5:30 p.m.) Marry a Thief (6:30 p.m.) Winter Sounds (7:30 p.m.).

(Photo by Bartram Nason)

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By Chris Hassiotis

In a studio in Athens in March, Liz Durrett sat still on a couch. She held a notebook and listened. Musicians recording on her new album clattered, spoke, joked and cooed over a friend’s baby attending the recording session. Violins looped and curlicued from the other room. Durrett’s voice came clear through the speakers, while she sat on the couch and paid attention.

“It sounds really clean,” she said. Eric Bachmann, the former Archers of Loaf frontman in town from North Carolina to produce Durrett’s new album, leaned back from his computer, turned around and said, “Oh, don’t worry, we’re gonna dirty this up.”

That’s one of the main appeals of Durrett’s music – its balance between the ethereal and the terrestrial, drawing from both the sacred and the profane and firmly rooted in Southern Gothic traditions.

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Liz Durrett plays with Hope For Agoldensummer and Tin Cup Prophette at the Earl  tomorrow (Thurs., Sept. 18) at 9 p.m.

(Photo by Bill McCormick)

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I rolled up to Lenny’s Bar at 7:30 p.m. yesterday, excited for what promised to be a great show. The bar was closed.

“Shit,” I murmured and turned to my boyfriend/chauffeur. “Are you sure it was Lenny’s?”

“I thought so,” he replied. So had I.

As luck or fate (or their combined power, fuck) would have it, neither of us had our cell phones. We decided, since we had no idea what to do or where to go, to head to Java Monkey for some beer and poetry.

At Java Monkey, standing behind some friends while the bard on stage shouted rhythmically about No Child Left Behind, it dawned on me. Eddie’s Attic. I knew it was one of those two-syllable-apostrophe-S-name thingies.

BF and I walked the minute-and-a-half to Eddie’s Attic, climbed inside and grabbed some barstools. It was 8:30, one hour after the show had started, and Claire & Bain’s Maple Yum-Yum — the entire reason for the journey — had not started their set yet.

Claire & Bain’s Maple Yum-Yum disbanded six years ago (”back when gas was 96 cents a gallon,” Bain says) and returned to Eddie’s Attic last night for an onstage reunion. They hinted that it would not be the last.

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COLD SWEAT AND A WARM PBR: Judi Chicago gets loose at Criminal Records’ National Record Day celebration. See more photos below.

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