Latest Yr’s Eve is sort of here, and together with all the opposite local celebrations going down Saturday, there will probably be multiple live shows in our area that evening, where live music lovers can close out 2022 and welcome 2023.
Live shows proceed the very next afternoon on Latest Yr’s Day and extend through the remainder of the week, as a number of the top venues in Sarasota, Manatee and Charlotte counties kick off their live music lineups for what is going to hopefully be one other 12 months chock-full of noteworthy shows in our area. Listed here are this week’s highlights. Event details are subject to vary. Comfortable Latest Yr!
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Tail Light Insurrection
Pub folk act Tail Light Insurrection will play a Latest Yr’s Eve show at considered one of the highest pubs in our area, McCabe’s Irish Pub in downtown Bradenton. The Kenosha, Wisconsin act blends roots music genres including Irish, Slavic, Canadian and American folk, and instruments including acoustic guitar, keyboard and accordion, right into a sound paying homage to Tom Waits and The Pogues. Suburban Wasteland and Swamp Rats may even perform. 7 p.m. Saturday; McCabe’s Irish Pub, 302 Old Foremost St., Sarasota; 941-896-3126
Ray Fuller and the Bluesrockers
Bradenton restaurant and blues venue Cottonmouth closes out the brand new 12 months with a concert by Ray Fuller and the Bluesrockers, who’ll then play a Sarasota County show at Englewoods on Dearborn a number of days later. Hailing from Ohio, Fuller formed his band in 1974 and remains to be going strong nearly 50 years later, most recently releasing 2019’s “Pay the Price.” Cannot make either show? Fuller will play yet one more local show Jan. 8 at Sarasota’s Big Top Brewing Company. 8 p.m. Saturday; Cottonmouth Southern Soul Kitchen, 1114 twelfth St. W., Bradenton; $15, $40 four-top table; 941-243-3735; facebook.com/cottonmouthsoul; 6 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 5; Englewoods on Dearborn, 362 W. Dearborn St., Englewood; $7; 941-475-7501; englewoodsondearborn.com
Ben Prestage
For its first musical act of the brand new 12 months, Punta Gorda Irish pub and venue Celtic Ray will feature self-described “Deep South swamp music” performer Ben Prestage on Latest Yr’s Day. The multi-instrumentalist grew up in rural Florida before later living in Memphis, where he learned tips on how to play drums concurrently while singing and performing other instruments as a street performer, a one-man-band setup he’d bring back to the Sunshine State. A favourite of the Florida blues circuit, he’s also developed a national and even international following, touring Europe prior to now. 2 p.m. Sunday; Celtic Ray Public House, 145 E. Marion Ave., Punta Gorda; 941-916-9115; celticray.net
Crystal Shawanda Band
Englewoods on Dearborn’s live music lineup this week may even include blues singer-songwriter Crystal Shawanda. Hailing from Canada, Shawanda initially rose to prominence as a rustic musician within the late ’00s before switching to the blues, including this 12 months’s album “Midnight Blues.” Shawanda has won two Juno Awards, Canada’s equivalent of the Grammys, including Blues Album of the Yr for 2020’s “Church House Blues,” and earned multiple other nominations including Indigenous Music Album, Country Recording and Latest Artist of the Yr. 6 p.m. Wednesday; Englewoods on Dearborn, 362 W. Dearborn St., Englewood; $7; 941-475-7501; englewoodsondearborn.com
Chris Dingman
Fogartyville’s 2023 live music calendar will kick off with vibraphonist and composer Chris Dingman, performing a concert billed by the venue as “healing music for the brand new 12 months.” Dingman has been spotlighted by outlets resembling the Latest York Times, which described his music as “fetching, hypnotizing patterns,” and NPR, which featured him on this system “Piano Jazz: Rising Stars.” Dingman’s Fogartyville show will probably be co-presented by Sarasota-based arts nonprofit Modern Marimba. 6 p.m. doors, 7 p.m. show Thursday; Fogartyville Community Media and Arts Center, 525 Kumquat Court, Sarasota; $24, $20 members, $12 students ages 13 and up; 941-894-6469; fogartyville.org
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