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GAELIC STORM July 24 - 8:30pm (Thursday) Doors Open at 7:30pm Tickets: $16.00 $18.00 day of show Available at the Music Mill box office with no service charge, all Ticketmaster outlets, or Charge-By-Phone in Indianapolis at (317) 239-5151 
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Since its inception nearly ten years ago, Gaelic Storm continue to broaden the musical horizons of the Celtic music genre by creating compelling originals and fresh arrangements steeped in Irish traditional melody and acoustic instrumentation combined with their unique blend of world rhythms. Gaelic Storm will release What’s The Rumpus their seventh album in July 2008. The new album captures the contagious energy of Gaelic Storm’s renowned live performances. Channeling the rowdy communal feel of an Irish pub on raucous sing-alongs, driving pipe sets and spirited fiddle tunes. The album was recorded at The Zone recording studio in Austin Texas. Boasting a mini-documentary on Cinemax, six Billboard Chart topping albums, a DVD, and a track on two EA Sports Games, Gaelic Storm has sold out numerous clubs and performing arts centers around the country and have played to thousands of people.  | ||
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MARC COHN WITH SPECIAL GUEST DAVID MCMILLIN July 27 - 8:00pm (Sunday) Doors Open at 7:00pm Tickets: $30.00 $32.00 day of show Available at the Music Mill box office with no service charge, all Ticketmaster outlets, or Charge-By-Phone in Indianapolis at (317) 239-5151
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In the years that preceded the release of his new Decca album Join the Parade, Marc Cohn passed through several life-changing events. These events are what enabled him to reconnect with his songwriting muse, and they are in large part, what make Join the Parade an artistic, insightful and soulful statement. Despite his time away from the recording studio, the acclaimed singer/songwriter, winner of the 1991 Grammy Award for Best New Artist, has continued to perform live and his audiences have remained steadfast. He en-dured the pain of divorce, but in 2002 he married news anchor Elizabeth Vargas. He struggled with writer’s block and sought to break through it with a month-long tour in the summer of 2005. The gigs went great until the night of August 7, 2005. That’s when Marc Cohn was shot in the head during a random attempted carjacking after a concert in Denver. Even though the bullet was lodged near his left temple, Marc never lost consciousness and walked out of the hospital the next day. Three weeks later, while recovering at home in New York from post-traumatic stress disorder, Cohn watched the city of New Orleans destroyed by flooding in the aftermath of Hurri-cane Katrina. Out of all this, and all that came before, comes Join the Parade , a recording that is being called Marc’s most accomplished and compelling album to date. | ||
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SISTER HAZEL August 2 - 9:00pm (Saturday) Doors Open at 8:00pm Tickets: $23.00 Available at the Music Mill box office with no service charge, all Ticketmaster outlets, or Charge-By-Phone in Indianapolis at (317) 239-5151
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For Sister Hazel, it's always been about the music, but over the course of their decade-plus music making career, it has expanded beyond that to incorporate so much more. They've maintained their unerring focus and desire to help, to share, to include, and to grow -- be it through their music or though other means -- all while stretching their musical umbrella to cover what has become a true community. "We love to do so many different things," says Block. "Between writing songs we believe in, the live shows, building a community, expanding our events, and the charity, there's this whole lifestyle that is what Sister Hazel is all about." | ||
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WE ARE SCIENTISTS WITH SPECIAL GUESTS THE OXFORD COLLAPSE (THIS SHOW IS ALL AGES) August 5 - 8:30pm (Tuesday) Doors Open at 7:30pm Tickets: $12.00 $14.00 day of show Available at the Music Mill box office with no service charge, all Ticketmaster outlets, or Charge-By-Phone in Indianapolis at (317) 239-5151
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Brooklyn-based indie rock trio We Are Scientists formed in 2000 around the talents of guitarist/lead vocalist Keith Murray, bass player Chris Cain, and drummer Michael Tapper. After building a small but devoted following through their epic live shows and a series of three self-released EPs, the group signed with Virgin Records. Their major-label debut, With Love and Squalor, was released in early 2006. In 2008, the group -- which was now just the duo of Cain and Murray -- put out their second full-length, also on Virgin, entitled Brain Thrust Mastery. | ||
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ROBERT CRAY August 11 - 8:30pm (Monday) Doors Open at 7:30pm Tickets: $27.00 Available at the Music Mill box office with no service charge, all Ticketmaster outlets, or Charge-By-Phone in Indianapolis at (317) 239-5151
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Robert Cray is an American blues musician, legendary guitar player, and singer and Grammy Award winner. The Robert Cray Band formed in 1974 in Eugene, Oregon. Throughout his illustrious career Cray has become one of the most sought after guitarists among aficionados and his peers having toured with the likes of Eric Clapton and Stevie Ray Vaughn and recorded with John Lee Hooker, Albert Collins and Johnny Copeland. In the film Animal House, Cray appears as the bass player in Otis Day and the Knights. The latest release from the Robert Cray Band is Live From Across the Pond. | ||
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CAN YOU ROCK? INDY'S BEST LIVE BAND KARAOKE CONTEST August 18 - 8:00pm (Monday) Doors Open at 7:00pm Cover: $5.00 at door |
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Indianapolis wants to know….Can You Rock????? Can You Rock? is a search for Indy’s premier vocalists! Karaoke singers? Test your skills and see if you have what it takes to perform in front of a live, high-energy band comprised of top-notch musicians from two of the most demanded groups in the city… Zanna-Doo! and The Flying Toasters. Choose from a vast catalogue of songs and get ready to compete every Sunday thru May @ The Moondog Tavern for amazing prizes, great fun, and maybe even a chance for stardom! Band Members* Include: Michael Read…keys, vocals / Zanna-Doo! & Ribs-n-Bone Phillip Powers…drums / Zanna-Doo! & Ribs-n-Bone Jason Hayes…lead vocals, guitar / The Flying Toasters Orvis Kirkman…lead guitar, vocals / The Flying Toasters Chris Brown…bass guitar, vocals / The Flying Toasters Bill Hayes...M.C., vocals / The Flying Toasters | ||
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STEVE LUKATHER August 20 - 8:30pm (Wednesday) Doors Open at 7:30pm Tickets: $25.00 Available at the Music Mill box office with no service charge, all Ticketmaster outlets, or Charge-By-Phone in Indianapolis at (317) 239-5151
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Steven Lee Lukather stands atop the world of music recently voted #1 guitarist worldwide in over 40 countries at VoteNumber1.com. Not too bad for the Los Angeles born and bred talent inspired by the Beatles and then onward to the likes of Jimi Hendrix, Jeff Back, Steely Dan and Miles Davis to name a few. Steve Lukather segways the rock and roll hall of famer's performing on many chart topping tracks and holding a few Grammy's of his own as a songwriter, arranger and multi Grammy awarded winner and 30 milion plus sales as a worldwide solo artist and with the all encompassing respected ToTo. Steve Lukather's guitar solo's are quinessential among musicians, music fans and people that understand heart in music. Biographies of artist and their accomplished catalog are sometimes favored to embelish the artist, but there is nothing favored here and in matching the guitar playing and unforgettable sound of Steve Lukather. How about respected by artist piers like Brian May, Jeff Beck, Larry Carlton, David Gilmour, Paul McCartney, Alice Cooper, Paul Rodgers, John Wetton and Meatloaf to name an endless few. | ||
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SEVEN MARY THREE WITH SPECIAL GUESTS 650NORTH August 22 - 9:00pm (Friday) Doors Open at 8:00pm Tickets: $20.00 $22.00 day of show Available at the Music Mill box office with no service charge, all Ticketmaster outlets, or Charge-By-Phone in Indianapolis at (317) 239-5151
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Seven Mary Three’s day&nightdriving, their sixth album (and first for the Bellum/ICON label), represents a return to the band’s original motivation – to make music for themselves, unbound by expectations or constraints. The group, founded by\ singer/songwriter Jason Ross while a student at the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, VA, released Churn in 1994, an album they recorded in the basement. The single, “Cumbersome,” picked up local radio airplay, leading to a deal with Mammoth Records, and a platinum-plus major-label debut in American Standard, for which they rerecorded most of the songs on Churn. That instant success was both a blessing and a curse, according to Ross. “We were under a microscope right away,” he explains. “We hadn’t even decided on who we were and we were already being identified as this grunge-rock band.” If Jason Ross is a grunge singer/songwriter, then so are Bruce Springsteen, Tom Petty, Richard Buckner and Sam Beam of Iron & Wine. . On day&nightdriving, produced by Brian Paulson (Wilco, Son Volt, Beck, Uncle Tupelo and Slint’s influential cult classic Spiderland) Ross delivers a compelling set of songs that lives up to its dichotomous title. | ||
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DAVE BARNES August 29 - 9:00pm (Friday) Doors Open at 8:00pm Tickets: $15.00 $17.00 day of show Available at the Music Mill box office with no service charge, all Ticketmaster outlets, or Charge-By-Phone in Indianapolis at (317) 239-5151
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Dave Barnes is a singer-songwriter from Nashville, Tennessee who on April 1 will release his next album, Me and You and The World. Like many of his contemporaries, Marc Broussard and Jon McLaughlin, Barnes is a road warrior and quickly gaining a loyal following everywhere he goes. Where is Barnes taking listeners? Judging by a spin of his latest, Me and You and the World, just about anywhere. The Steely Dan jazz-pop of “Someday.” The Blind Boys of Alabama-style gospel of “Carry Me Through.” The lighters-in-the-air sing-along chorus of “When A Heart Breaks.” The crowd favorite and first single, “Until You.” Or, perhaps, the delicate, cello-laced ballad of “On A Night Like This.” It’s all here. Born in South Carolina, Barnes grew up in rural Mississippi, first gravitating to the hip-hop popular with his classmates (first CD: Young MC), then latching on to the soul, blues and soulful rock favored by his Jackson-born mother and Clarksdale-born father. “We listened to so much Motown and old school R&B. That was just completely normal for Dad, growing up in that world. He’s told me so many stories of being in Clarksdale, going down to the City Hall and seeing these amazing bands playing.” Newly arrived in Nashville, armed with just his acoustic guitar, Barnes gravitated to the folk scene. After playing his fair share of solo acoustic shows, though, Dave made has way back to his roots, and found himself looking for music with both depth and groove. This lead Barnes to embrace Stevie Wonder, Steely Dan and seemingly everything in between. “I’ve been on a massive Toto kick lately,” he shares, gleefully, just after communicating his affection for Phil Collins’ melodies in Invisible Touch-era Genesis. | ||
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MIKE BIRBIGLIA September 10 - 8:00pm (Wednesday) Doors Open at 7:00pm Tickets: $25.00 Available at the Music Mill box office with no service charge, all Ticketmaster outlets, or Charge-By-Phone in Indianapolis at (317) 239-5151
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Comedian Mike Birbiglia achieved comedy cult status in 2006 with the nationwide release of his Comedy Central CD, Two Drink Mike, and the accompanying Comedy Central sponsored Medium Man on Campus college tour. For the past several years, Mike has toured the country honing the act that made him one of the youngest comedians to ever appear on The Late Show with David Letterman and popularized the phrase “Cracker Please” as well as the renaming of George Bush as “Whiffle Ball Tony.” Mike has also toured supporting the CD Sleepwalk With Me and appeared on Comedy Central’s National Tour: Mike Birbiglia’s Secret Public Tour. Mike is a talk show regular and the star of two Comedy Central Presents specials, but what has truly galvanized his fan base is his “Secret Public Journal,” a weekly blog that he emails to thirty thousand fans and broadcasts to millions on the nationallysyndicated Bob & Tom Radio Show. Cosby, have truly defined Birbiglia’s public persona. | ||
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INDIGENOUS September 11 - 8:30pm (Thursday) Doors Open at 7:30pm Tickets: $15.00 Available at the Music Mill box office with no service charge, all Ticketmaster outlets, or Charge-By-Phone in Indianapolis at (317) 239-5151
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Indigenous is an American blues-rock group that came to prominence in the late 1990s. The band originally consisted of two brothers, Mato Nanji (vocals and guitar, b. 1974), Pte (bass guitar), along with their sister, Wanbdi (drums, vocals), and their cousin, Horse (percussion). Their music is heavily influenced by guitarist Stevie Ray Vaughan, as well as Jimi Hendrix and Carlos Santana. Mato Nanji's style and skill has drawn comparisons to each of these guitarists. The band has also shared the stage with artists of varying musical genres such as B.B. King, Santana, Bonnie Raitt, Joan Baez, the Indigo Girls, Jackson Browne, Dave Matthews Band, and Los Lonely Boys. The band has headlined its own tours several times. The Nakota Nation members grew up on South Dakota's Yankton Indian Reservation, where their father, Greg Zephier became a spokesperson for Native American rights. A musician in his own right during the 60s and '70s, Zephier provided his children with records from blues musicians such as B.B. King, Buddy Guy, and Freddie King, and taught them to play their respective instruments. The family started touring together, and soon the children were performing on their own. | ||
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GREAT BIG SEA September 14 - 8:00pm (Sunday) Doors Open at 7:00pm Tickets: $30.00 Available at the Music Mill box office with no service charge, all Ticketmaster outlets, or Charge-By-Phone in Indianapolis at (317) 239-5151
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Great Big Sea is a bastard. Forged from the loins of Figgy Duff and Ryan’s Fancy, GBS found its feet on the unforgiving streets of St. John’s, and stood their ground when others faltered. When asked about their unlikely success, founding member Bob Hallett is typically candid: “We weren’t the best musicians in town,” he says, “we just wanted it more. We were driven by a bloody-minded need to succeed and we were rewarded for our bleeding.” The band dragged themselves out of the city’s infamous bars to release their Warner debut Up in the spring of 1995. Relentless touring and a raucous live show quickly propelled the record to platinum. Their next effort Play enjoyed even bigger success and the band moved its show into hockey stadiums across the nation. The US labels took notice and GBS was subsequently signed to Sire by Seymour Stein (Madonna/Talking Heads), who unleashed the band on an unsuspecting American public. Accolades and a solid cult following ensued. “We are showmen and we live and die by our trade,” offers electrified lead singer Alan Doyle. “I am drawn to the light and I was born to burn”. Born and raised in ‘the far east of the western world’, the lads have traversed the globe, all the while wearing their hometown on their sleeves. “Our music is of Newfoundland,” explains McCann. “It would be impossible to do what we do if we were from anywhere else. Our songs come from the sea and the cliffs and the rocks and all the other natural beauties our country provides. Without her we simply couldn’t exist.” | ||
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ABIGAIL WASHBURN & SPARROW QUARTET FEATURING BÉLA FLECK WITH CASEY DRIESSEN & BEN SOLLEE September 17 - 8:30pm (Wednesday) Doors Open at 7:30pm Tickets: $25.00 Available at the Music Mill box office with no service charge, all Ticketmaster outlets, or Charge-By-Phone in Indianapolis at (317) 239-5151
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Abigail Washburn never set out to be a songwriter or a recording artist. So when she found herself on stage in a smoke filled Beijing club playing her banjo and singing old time Appalachian mountain music in Chinese to a packed house, she was as surprised as anyone. “During my Freshman year at Colorado College, I joined a summer program trip to China,” Washburn recalled. “It had a profound effect on me. I discovered a Chinese culture that was so deep and ancient; it changed my perspective on America.” She entered the Chris Austin Songwriting Contest at MerleFest and won second place for “Rockabye Dixie.” Nettwerk Records A&R met her in a coffee shop, prompted her to finish a demo and within months signed her to a recording contract. Fall of 2004 she merged her love of China with her new career in American roots music by arranging a small group of good friends and bluegrass pros for a mini-tour of China. “I did ten days with the band and a couple of solo dates,” Washburn said. “The audience was mostly Chinese at the Universities and mainly ex-pats at the bars. We played American folk songs, and original material in both Chinese and English, and it seemed to go over well. At this point, I’m caught between two cultures, but I like being a bridge. I want to keep going to China and living a creative existence. I want to learn more about Chinese folk traditions, so I can integrate them into my music and continue to be a part of the development of a more universal language.” | ||
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STEPHEN KELLOGG & THE SIXERS October 23 - 8:30pm (Thursday) Doors Open at 7:30pm Tickets: $15.00 Available at the Music Mill box office with no service charge, all Ticketmaster outlets, or Charge-By-Phone in Indianapolis at (317) 239-5151
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Stephen Kellogg & the Sixers is a Massachusetts’ trio made up of two distinct parts. In one corner stands the unmistakably jubilant personality of rock-n-roll’s The Sixers; in the other sits an authentic American songwriter in a period of profound growth. Rising triumphantly in the center is a band whose music is the perfect marriage of the two. Live, the Sixers - Keith “Goose” Karlson (bass/keys) and Brian “Boots” Factor (drums) - play together like brothers, effortlessly sharing the stage and the spotlight. Honed over hundreds of gigs across the country, the Sixers shows are vivid celebrations of camaraderie and friendship. “There is a realization in the band,” says Kellogg, “that this is a journey. It's not just an end result. What you have is what you make of every day.” For the past five years, Kellogg & the Sixers have toured nonstop, some years clocking in close to 300 shows. They’ve shared the stage with such notable and diverse artists as Guster, James Brown, Jason Mraz, Kathleen Edwards, Carbon Leaf, Mike Doughty, Josh Ritter, George Thorogood and Hanson. The future for Stephen Kellogg & the Sixers looks brighter than ever. Their broadening base of dedicated followers: teenagers covering their binders and MySpace profiles with “SK6ERS” and their parents re-discovering how rock ‘n roll can speak to them, deeply, through the words and music of Stephen Kellogg & the Sixers, will continue to find what they’ve been searching for – a growing musical legacy of a life honestly and actively lived. | ||
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DAN TYMINSKI BAND October 24 - 9:00pm (Friday) Doors Open at 8:00pm Tickets: $26.00 $28.00 day of show Available at the Music Mill box office with no service charge, all Ticketmaster outlets, or Charge-By-Phone in Indianapolis at (317) 239-5151
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Dynamic on stage, down to earth off stage, Dan Tyminski has the voice, instrumental chops, and charisma to be counted among the most recognizable and popular male vocalists on today’s bluegrass and country music scenes. Yet his demeanor – low-key and laconically sly – ensures that all the accolades are the product of his own innate gifts. Since 1994, his ace instrumental skill (mainly on guitar, but also on mandolin) and burnished, soulful tenor singing has been a key component of Alison Krauss and Union Station, arguably the most visible and successful bluegrass band in the modern era. Prior to that, he rose to national prominence as a member of bluegrass favorite, the Lonesome River Band. With Union Station on hiatus for most of 2008, Tyminski has formed a new incarnation of the Dan Tyminski Band, with whom he recorded a new album, "Wheels," released June 17th. This new edition includes longtime Union Station associate Barry Bales (bass), former Union Station and Mountain Heart member Adam Steffey (mandolin), sideman extraordinaire Ron Stewart (banjo, fiddle), and newcomer Justin Moses (fiddle, dobro). In 2000, Tyminski stepped further into the popular conscience as the singing voice of George Clooney in the Coen Brothers’ Odyssean farce O Brother, Where Art Thou? In addition to being a pivotal element in the plot of the film, his powerful rendition of the Stanley Brothers’ version of “Man of Constant Sorrow” became a surprise hit single – firing off a popular renaissance in bluegrass in the process. The song was given the CMA Single of the Year award, an IBMA award for Song of the Year (the album was also named the Album of the Year), and a Grammy award for Country Collaboration with Vocals. The album received the Grammy for Album of the Year – a rare achievement for a soundtrack project. | ||