Golden Curls Album Release Show
Holy Posers
Adult Fur
This Show Has Been Canceled
LOOPRAT
dj hal greens
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UPDATE (11/12): The Gripsweats are no longer able to perform. The Deep Fried Five will be playing in their place. All current ticket sales will be honored.
The Gripsweats are coming to OB on 11/16 to bring us some real Southern style soul and funk! They're joined by our friends LOOPRAT and DJ Hal Greens.
River City Opry: November Edition
The Hunter Hamilton Group
Daniel C. Roth
Caroline Steinkamp
Jake Auston
School of Rock Kirkwood
Rick Wagner Bluegrass Exoerience
Sean Conway
The Rainy Day Joggers (Tony Compton & Friends)
The best way to spend a Sunday afternoon in St. Louis! We will have the fire pit lit and the coffee on!
Al Holliday's "Christmas in America" Album Release
Linus & Lucy Can't Turn You Loose
Christmas in America
Silver & Gold
Good King Wenceslas
Merry Christmas from the Family
Santa Claus Wants some Lovin'
Please Come Home for Christmas
God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
O Little Town of Bethlehem
Go Tell it on the Mountain
Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
Bonus track:
Deportee (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos)
$5 from every "Christmas in America" CD we sell this season is going to RAICES, who provides free legal aid to refugees and migrants currently detained at the border. To help get the message out about this, the album will feature a bonus track - our cover of the all-too-relevant Woody Guthrie tune, "Deportee".
Doors at 7
Show at 8
ALL AGES (minor surcharge applies)
ONLY $10 ADV / $15 D.O.S
"The ideals of America and the spirit of Christmas are both stories we are told when we are children and both things we think are still very much worth believing in.
However, in our year of 2019, at the border, we have seen grotesque human rights violations and intentional child separations, along with a sickening outbreak of hate crimes and preventable gun violence.
This season, we will be donating $5 from every Christmas in America CD sale directly to R.A.I.C.E.S, an organization that provides resources to immigrants in need including free legal representation to migrants and refugees detained at the border.
To help spread the message of our project, our brand new full-length Christmas album will feature a bonus track: a soulful cover of the all-too-relevant Woody Guthrie song, “Deportee”. From our house to yours: Here’s lookin’ towards celebrating Christmas in America. Here’s to 2020."
The Main Squeeze
North 41
The Main Squeeze are coming to the OB! Advance tickets are $14, $17 dos. All ages.
The Main Squeeze, with deep musical roots sprouted in the Midwest, have scored their lives at each twist and curve. While starting out as a party band at Indiana University, their forthcoming April 28th release “Without a Sound” illustrates their increasing musical maturity and creativity inspired by their new home in Los Angeles.
If maturity comes with experience, “Without a Sound” reflects this. The Main Squeeze has spent several years building their foundation since being championed by producer Randy Jackson: they have played Red Rocks; shared the stage with The Roots, Aloe Blacc, Jane’s Addiction, Umphrey’s McGee, and Trombone Shorty; and performed at music festivals like Bonnaroo, Electric Forest, Summer Camp, and High Sierra.
The Main Squeeze is a blend of soul and hip-hop, funk with rock. They know their sound is “soulful, powerful, and unique” (Newman). Rolling Stone agrees in their recent critique of a live show: “Lead singer Corey Frye’s powerfully soulful vocals forms the foundation of an energetic set.”
These underpinnings are important yet The Main Squeeze’s true focus will always be to “strive to reach people” through their beat loving heart in their music. “We are devoted to making great music for people to get lost in and to feel real emotion and love, and also to dance and enjoy life. And it’s only just the beginning” (Newman). Billboard believes they have touched on this goal: “Funk runs deep in their DNA. Dare you not to two-step.”
The beats on “Without A Sound” are plentiful and it is balanced with emotion, a mix of vocals, and instrumentation of the band. Their vibe is simultaneously timeless and futuristic as they are inspired by the greats, yet have found a way to infuse their own genius into the mix.
The Main Squeeze appeals to your head, heart and body.
Born In The USA: 35th Anniversary Show
"Tonksgiving 2019" with Ha Ha Tonka
The Spring Standards
An Evening with The Bottle Rockets
Formed nearly 30 years ago, the Bottle Rockets helped forge a now-popular subgenre—small-town, middle-class, Midwest American roots rock—part right-to-the-gut poetry, part rock ‘n’ roll, all truth. Bit Logic is a different sort of album for the St. Louis natives and shows them at their most self-aware, self-challenging, and socially alert.
Jeremiah Johnson Presents Guitar Madness 2019
Craig Straubinger
Rich McDonough
Guitar Madness 2019 comes to the OB December 6th, 2019! Jeremiah Johnson Presents the 2019 version of Guitar Madness with special guests Rich McDonough and Craig Straubinger! Doors 7pm, show 8pm. Advance tickets are $15.
Steve Forbert
Steve Forbert comes to the OB December 7th, 2019 for a special seated show. Advance tickets are $25, $30 day of show. Doors 7pm, music at 8pm.
Big City Cat – My Life in Folk-Rock, singer/songwriter Steve Forbert’s exceptional new memoir co-written with Therese Boyd, allows him ample opportunity to candidly reflect on those specific circumstances that first brought him to the public eye.
Originally conceived as a stage play and screen treatment, it finds him documenting his early adventures in the big city while pursuing his quest to make music. Sharing reflections and journals he kept at the time, he weaves an absorbing narrative that fully documents the trials, travails and triumphs that would eventually play out over the course of his prolific 40 year career.
The book is accompanied by its own soundtrack as well, an A+ new album entitled The Magic Tree that offers a series of songs gleaned from previously recorded acoustic demos, overdubbed with new backing tracks and fleshed out as a series of songs that ring with the verve and vitality that Forbert’s fans have always come to expect. Consistently upbeat and optimistic, they convey a firm sense that age ought not diminish a lust for living. Then again, that’s been Forbert’s mantra for quite some time, honoring his past while plowing his way towards the future.
Beth Bombara w/ Essential Knots
Essential Knots
“I wasn’t writing a new record -- at least, I didn’t think I was at the time,” she admits. Looking to step back and clear her head after a long bout of touring, the rock & roll-influenced Americana artist nestled herself in the Rocky Mountains in a remote cabin. The cabin’s name? Evergreen. She spent time wandering through acres and acres of untouched forest around the cabin, up and down craggy rocks that felt nothing like her native Michigan nor her adopted home of St. Louis. Almost by accident, songs for her sixth album began to take root.
“I’m starting to realize, that’s just what I do. I write songs. You know how trees exhale oxygen? They don’t think too hard about oxygen...it’s just a byproduct of their existence. Well, songs are a byproduct of my existence. I’ve already exhaled these songs, but maybe they’re a needed breath for someone else. And the idea that even one other person needs them is what fulfills me.”
Although based in Missouri, Bombara has spent much of her adulthood on the road, carving out her own award-winning mix of vintage folk and electric roots-rock. She’s been a solo artist, a bandleader, and an occasional side musician for other artists. With Evergreen, Bombara resumes her role as the leader of an amplified Americana band. These songs were largely written on the run -- in friend’s basements, during soundchecks, and on the road -- while Bombara and company toured the country in support of her 2017 release, Map and No Direction.
Chris Knight
Old 97's Holiday Hoopla
Featuring CASEYMAGIC (DIY PUNK ROCK MAGICIAN)
& a special solo acoustic set by RHETT MILLER
12/14/19
$30 adv GA Standing room / $ 35 DOS
There are a limited number of Seated Balcony tickets available at $40
Doors 7 Show 8
Marshall Crenshaw
Greg Koch
Big Mike Aguirre
The Hooten Hallers
tortuga
Ryne watts
Middle Class Fashion
Mental Health America Benefit Show
Phi
Prom Kings
Dogtown Athletic Club
Mental Health America Benefit Show at Off Broadway
Ft. The Public, Phi, Prom Kings, Dogtown Athletic Club
All Ages ($3 minor surcharge)
Alvin Youngblood Hart's Muscle Theory
12/26/19
Alvin Youngblood Hart's Muscle Theory
$25 ADV
The cosmic American love child of Howlin Wolf and Link Wray…
Known as a “musician’s musician,” Alvin Youngblood Hart’s praises have been sung by everyone from Bob Dylan to guitar gods Eric Clapton & Mick Taylor.
Mr. Hart was born in Oakland CA in 1963 to a family of post WWII Mississippi transplants. ,After a couple false starts ,he began to play the guitar, in earnest, in 1977.
“By that time, it had become an obsessive competition among us teenage boys. The guitar was the video game of our day”, Hart says.
The Hart family was never one to stay put. Spending his formative years on the West Coast, in the Midwest and the Mid-South surely influenced Alvin’s wide ranging musical perspective.
“It really taught me to appreciate MUSIC for what it was ….not because it was this or that genre. I have a great disdain for genre segregation. I try to avoid that practice”.
Along with his 40 years of playing comes a nuts and bolts passion for the hardware of the trade.
“I’ve been a guitar tinker since day one. I can recall my parents buying me a new guitar, and I would have every screw out of it by bedtime”.
Hart is also an electronics technician, a talent he picked up after 7 years active duty in the U.S. Coast Guard. His knack for quick thinking repairs on the road has earned him nicknames such as, The Garage Guerrilla or The Rock N Roll MacGyver from fellow musicians.
After two decades on the road ,Alvin continues to delight audiences worldwide, whether as a solo performer or with the eternally rockin’ Alvin Youngblood Hart’s Muscle Theory…The multi award winner always delivers.
“When I was a 15 year old kid in my room , I would never believe that I would someday play legendary venues like the Hollywood Bowl or Royal Albert Hall. You couldn’t have told me that I’d be in the studio with Taj Mahal, or play onstage with the Allman Bros. Band and members of Thin Lizzy. Some days, it’s a dream job…”
Pokey LaFarge Night 1
Nick Africano
Seated sections are SOLD OUT. All remaining tickets are Standing Room Only.
Adv tickets $25
"Pokey LaFarge is a musician. He is a storyteller. He is a feeler of feelings. He is a narrator of the messy, unkempt American experience. He sits, he watches, he writes. Everything that’s worth happening happens in his songs. Like the long line of writers and performers he descends from, music isn’t something Pokey does - it’s something he is...
The songs on Pokey’s transformative new album MANIC REVELATIONS demand your attention. Here, you get the feeling this man is constantly reshuffling the deck in favor of some outcome or other. Each chord, each riff shades the stories he sets up in his lyrics. But make no mistake - no matter how the cards lay, he is searching for the purest truth; he loves laying in the muck. Whatever it takes to serve the song. He wouldn’t know what to do if his life were any other way..."
Pokey LaFarge Night 2
Nick Africano
Seated tickets are SOLD OUT.
All remaining tickets are Standing Room only.
"Pokey LaFarge is a musician. He is a storyteller. He is a feeler of feelings. He is a narrator of the messy, unkempt American experience. He sits, he watches, he writes. Everything that’s worth happening happens in his songs. Like the long line of writers and performers he descends from, music isn’t something Pokey does - it’s something he is...
The songs on Pokey’s transformative new album MANIC REVELATIONS demand your attention. Here, you get the feeling this man is constantly reshuffling the deck in favor of some outcome or other. Each chord, each riff shades the stories he sets up in his lyrics. But make no mistake - no matter how the cards lay, he is searching for the purest truth; he loves laying in the muck. Whatever it takes to serve the song. He wouldn’t know what to do if his life were any other way..."
William Elliott Whitmore
southwest watson sweethearts
Voodoo Grateful Dead New Year's Eve
Voodoo Grateful Dead! Sean Canan’s Voodoo Players are back for another NYE at Off Broadway. Advance tickets are $15, $20 day of show. Patio opens at 7pm, venue doors at 8pm, music at 9pm. All ages with a $3 minor surcharge. Under 18 must be with an adult.
Heart Like a Wheel: A Tribute to Linda Ronstadt
sam golden
Beth Bombara
Yola
Amythyst Kiah
Spotify presale begins Tuesday 10am thru Thursday at midnight.
Public on sale at 10am Friday September 20th.
Midge Ure
No Thunder
Midge Ure returns to North Americas intimate venue circuit with his open and honest, Songs,
Questions and Answers Tour 2020.
Direct from the hugely successful UK leg of the tour Midge will be playing alongside multi
instrumental musician Tony Solis, performing acoustic versions of his catalogue and taking
questions, and maybe the odd song request, from the audience.
There is plenty to talk about too while covering a 40 year professional career, Ultravox, Solo work,
Band Aid, Live Aid, his Orchestrated album from 2017….and anything YOU the audience can think
of to ask him!
This is as close as you can possibly get to the man, his life and his music. An event as real, honest,
uplifting and poignant as his songs.
Jamo Presents: Morgan Heritage
1.31.20
Doors at 7, Show at 8
$25 ADV, $30 DOS
Limited number of reserved seated seats available for $40
Grateful for innumerable achievements, awards and honors such as a GRAMMY win and nomination for Best Reggae Album, Gramps, Peetah and Mr Mojo are the holy trinity comprising the Iconic culturally driven family band Morgan Heritage that has bridged continents and styles of Reggae with their latest offering. Their brand new album ‘LOYALTY’ was created across several continents and completed in an unorthodox fashion with the three brothers all in different locations - Mojo in Kenya focusing on the group’s philanthropic efforts, Gramps traveling the world healing people with the Masya CBD products created by his wife Dr Annabelle Manalo and Peetah in Miami anchoring the production. This meant utilising technology to bring them together in one studio to orchestrate the finishing touches to their new masterpiece. ‘LOYALTY’ is the trio’s twelvth studio album and is set for release August 2019 on their CTBC Music Group (Cool To Be Conscious Music Group) label.
Morgan Heritage are known worldwide for their riveting stage presence and exciting showmanship, so it is no surprise that the Royal Family of Reggae will trek globally from Africa to Europe, North to South America and beyond during 2019 and 2020. The itinerary not only embodies the group’s global citizenship but is a testament to the siblings embrace of unifying cultures that is prominent in their music, with the brothers stating: “The new album showcases the universal state of Reggae and Jamaican music today. Our music is not one dimensional and we’re not loyal to one dimension of the music, rather we’re loyal to our genre.”
Kody West & Colby Cooper
Colby Cooper
Too Many Zoos
Birocratic
Too Many Zoos come to the Off Broadway on Feb 7th, 2020. Advance tickets are $18, $20 day of show. All ages show with a $3 minor surcharge at the door. Under 18 must be with an adult (21+). Venue doors open at 7pm. Music starts at 8 with BIROCRATIC.
SLLAW in Space
Music at 8pm
Bout at 9pm
$10 at the door. Bring CA$H for Bribes and Belle of the Brawl. All money raised to support St. Louis Queer+ Support Helpline and their mission to provide free, confidential, and identity-affirming emotional support, resources, and referrals. For the St. Louis LGBTQIA+ community, by the community.
Accessibility:
Wheelchair access is available at the entrance of the bar - please let us know if you need any assistance!
SLLAW requests that attendees try to go fragrance-free if possible, so spectators with allergies and sensitives to chemical/fragrances can experience the show without exposure to potentially harmful substances. SLLAW throwdowns do get loud and the show itself can be a lil wild and overwhelming for some – feel free to step away and be a part of the show at a distance or in a way that makes you feel safe and comfortable. Our hosts are on mic and provide play by play of the wrestlers’ performance and antics so that those with visual-impairments (or simply those who don’t wish to be all up in the action) can still experience the show.
Snow Tire Concert Series Presents: William Clark Green
Flatland Cavalry
Polica
Wilsen
