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Posted on 5/21/2013
One of the three large Beale Street Music Festival Stages
The fun continued for the Concert Blast staff at the Beale Street Music Festival for Day Two coverage on Saturday May 4th. On this day we covered ZZ Top, The Black Keys, Patti Smith, Jerry Lee Lewis, Dwight Yoakam, and Gavin DeGraw. Saturday started on a great note as we have always started for many years… sleeping in late and getting a late lunch at the world’s famous barbeque ribs restaurant, Charlie Vergos’ Rendezvous! They have sponsored our Saturday coverage for years and this year they asked us to return next year. We thank both sponsors that helped make these trips possible, Rendezvous and The Best Around Food Concessions! Check out the podcast and/or read the following blog on our Saturday adventures!
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Posted on 5/14/2013
Beale Street Music Festival Crowd
One of the first topics Concert Blast covered on our very first show was the discussion of Tom Thompson’s trip to Memphis as he attended the Beale Street Music Festival in May of 2005. Every year since, Concert Blast has covered the three day music festival and have enjoyed every one of them. This is part one of a three part series of what happened in Memphis, TN at Tom Lee Park during the first weekend in Memphis In May. Special thanks to the Memphis In May staff for inviting us every year to cover this event and for making us feel very welcomed!
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Posted on 5/9/2013
For those Broadway musical lovers, the Tennessee Performing Arts Center in Nashville, TN, will host one of the best and most popular performances as the Broadway tour of The Lion King stops for an extensive engagement from May 7th through June 2nd, 2013. Read the press release and make sure to purchase your tickets to see this spectacular tour. https://patron.tpac.org/events/detail/lion-king-tpac
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Posted on 4/28/2013
On Saturday April 20th, 2013, Record Store Day was celebrated throughout the world to continue to bring awareness that vinyl records still exist and to bring them to turntables everywhere… well, for those who still have turntables. One of our Concert Blast friends and guest blogger, Terri Gibson, spent her day at Jack White‘s Third Man Records in Nashville, TN to celebrate this annual event. Check out Terri’s blog and be sure to make plans to attend next year’s Record Store Day!
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Posted on 4/16/2013
NASHVILLE – The worldwide party musical, ROCK OF AGES, will bring a little Sunset Strip to Music City for a limited engagement of three performances at the Tennessee Performing Arts Center’s Andrew Jackson Hall on April 19-20. Tickets are on sale now at www.tpac.org, by phone at (615) 782-4040, and at the TPAC Box Office, 505 Deaderick Street, in downtown Nashville. For group sales, call (615) 782-4060.
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Posted on 3/29/2013
It’s that time of the year… The concert season begins and the bills are adding up. We want to extend a plea to our listeners, readers, and viewers to help us out with our expenses by joining in on donating to our our Concert Blast Pledge Drive.
Last year we created a Kickstarter Campaign to help cover our trip to Memphis as we covered the Memphis in May Beale Street Music Festival. This year we want to raise enough funds for the entire year and decided to create our own Concert Blast Pledge Drive by handling all the details and setting up ways to donate to our Paypal account. Please consider helping us with our bills of the internet, recording equipment, traveling, and various other expenses. We have a video explaining the pledge so please continue reading to see the gifts we are willing to give to you by donating to our cause… THANK YOU from Concert Blast! Mike Arnold, Brian Hasbrook, and Tom Thompson.
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Posted 3/27/2013
Nashville based rockers 3 Doors Down announced they will be performing a rare acoustic performance in Nashville, TN at the historic War Memorial Auditorium on may 4, 2013. This concert will be a benefit for The Better Life Foundation. Tickets are now on sale. Continue to read the official press release.
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Posted on 3/15/2013
Nashville TN’s TPAC (Tennessee Performing Arts Center) will welcome the Broadway musical, Flashdance to it’s stage March 19th-24. The popular movie from the 80′s will come alive again in a musical featuring dances and songs from the classic movie along with new ones. Tickets for this limited, one-week engagement start at $15 and are on sale now at www.tpac.org, by phone at (615) 782-4040, and at the TPAC Box Office, 505 Deaderick Street, in downtown Nashville. Group orders of 10 or more may be placed by calling (615) 782-4060. Read the official press release and get your tickets to see this spectacular performance.
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Posted on 2/28/2013
Tom Keifer In Concert - Nashville, TN
Tom Keifer, the front man for the hard rock – big hair band from the 80s, Cinderella, performed in Nashville, TN at the popular live music club, 3rd and Lindsley as a stop on his tour to promote his upcoming solo project. Concert Blast was invited to review the show so Mike Arnold and Brian Hasbrook were more than pleased to head to one of their favorite Nashville, TN night spots to review the concert. Tom Keifer and his Nashville musician friends put on a show that thrilled the over sold-out crowd consisting mainly of Cinderella fans. Read Mike Arnold’s concert review as he steps through Tom’s set list.
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Rick Springfield In Concert - Nashville, TN - Wildhorse Saloon
Posted on 2/25/2013
It was that time of the year again when lovers exchange gifts and/or cards and Rick Springfield rolls into Nashville, TN for his annual Wildhorse Saloon Valentine’s Day performance. Rick Springfield has made a habit to perform in Nashville this time every year, as he told us, “Because the chicks are hot!” Let me say that the 63 year young Rick Springfield is also on fire with his rock n’ roll (and at times hard rock) performance. Rick Springfield put on a 90 minute set consisting of his hits from the 80s, his favorite cover songs, as well as many tunes from his latest album, “Songs for the End of the World“. Rick said the world didn’t end in December 2012 like some predicted, but if it would have, his new album would have been a great soundtrack for it. Enjoy our blog concert review written by Mike Arnold and Mike’s podcast recorded from the Wildhorse Saloon in Nashville, TN.
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Posted On 2/12/2013
ARRIVES IN NASHVILLE FEBRUARY 19-24
AT THE TENNESSEE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER
NASHVILLE – TRACES, the acclaimed show by the Montreal-based troupe 7 Fingers, arrives at the Tennessee Performing Arts Center’s Andrew Jackson Hall for eight performances on February 19-24.
Tickets start at $15 and are on sale now by visiting www.tpac.org, calling (615) 782-4040, and visiting the TPAC Box Office, 505 Deaderick Street, in downtown Nashville. For groups of 10 or more, call (615) 782-4060.
New York City’s most acclaimed and groundbreaking circus, TRACES strips away everything you thought you knew about the Big Top and fuses the traditions of circus with the energy of street performance to create an explosive display of emotion and physicality set to the music of Radiohead, VAST, Blackalicious, and more.
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Posted on 1/06/2013
TPAC (Tennessee Performing Arts Center), the Nashville, TN venue that brings us concerts and Touring Broadway Plays/Musicals continue with their 2012/2013 Broadway season as they host the touring Broadway Musical from the Steven Spielberg hit movie with the same name, “Catch Me If You Can“. You can catch this musical on the young life of Frank Abagnale Jr. Tickets are on sale now at www.tpac.org . Please read the press release below for more information.
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Posted on 12/27/2012
The Who returned to Nashville for the first time in many decades. In fact the last time The Who performed in Middle Tennessee was when they had the original lineup including Keith Moon and John Entwistle. That was “The Who By Numbers” tour in the mid 1970’s. Today there are only two original members still living and they are still performing with the energy level and playing ability they’ve always had, even though Roger Daltrey and Pete Townshend are now in their late 60s. The Who is currently on tour celebrating the anniversary of the Quadrophenia album. Brian Hasbrook and Mike Arnold were looking forward to seeing The Who again, but preferred a greatest hits show instead of a album concept show. Enjoy Mike Arnold’s concert review of The Who in Nashville, TN.
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Posted on 12/18/2012
Aerosmith In Concert - Steven Tyler and Joe Perry - Photo From www.Aerosmith.com
Aerosmith returned to Nashville, TN to thrill classic rock audiences once again. Aerosmith has been a tour regular to Nashville, but it has been a while since the “Bad Boys From Boston” had performed in the Music City. While Mike Arnold and Brian Hasbrook were out of town, our guest blogger friend Josh Jackson, took it on himself to fill in for us (Thanks Josh!). Enjoy Josh Jackson’s Aerosmith Concert Review from Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena on 12/13/2012.
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Posted on 12/03/2012
Bon Jovi
BON JOVI – BECAUSE WE CAN – THE TOUR
ANNOUNCES U.S. DATES FROM COAST TO COAST
As Bon Jovi gears up for a monumental year, the all-American rock icons have announced the first set of U.S. dates, taking them from coast to coast on their “BON JOVI Because We Can – The Tour.” The tour will kick off in Uncasville, CT on February 9, treating fans to one-night-only performances in U.S. arenas nationwide, plus multiple stadium shows including a two-night stand at MetLife Stadium in the band’s home state of New Jersey.
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Posted on 11/14/2012
Styx In Concert - Nashville, TN
Styx made their return to Nashville, TN to perform another concert at the historic Ryman Auditorium. We really didn’t know who enjoyed this show more, the fans or Tommy Shaw getting to perform on the former Grand Ole Opry stage again. This show was mostly a greatest hits concert with a few of the older FM album cuts thrown in for fun (as it should be). Enjoy Mike Arnold’s concert review as he takes you through the set list to describe Styx’s Nashville concert.
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Presidential Campaign Rally
Posted on 11/08/2012
Written by Mike Arnold
Here in the United States of America we just had another election and this time it was to elect the Chief Executive, also known as The President of the United Sates of America. During this election President Obama was re-elected to be the chief of the free world again, but to get there he had some help from some of the top artists in the music industry.
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Posted on 10/22/2012
Elvis - The King of Las Vegas
Written by Mike Arnold
Back in the late 1960s Elvis Presley started a trend in Las Vegas that still continues today, rock music at casinos. This trend seemed to work for the casino business, although I personally never understood the mix. If you are visiting a casino, it seems to me that music would be the last thing on your mind, unless you are celebrating a huge payoff! If I wanted to attend a concert at a casino, gambling would be the last thing on my mind, but I’m not a gambler.
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Posted On 9/30/2012
Grand Funk Railroad In Concert - Don Brewer
It was Saturday, August 25th, when Grand Funk Railroad returned to Nashville, TN to perform once again for the umpteenth time. Grand Funk hasn’t performed in Nashville since early in this century, but in the past they have thrilled their fans with concerts many times. With Mark Farner out of the picture these days, Max Carl on guitar /vocals and former KISS lead guitarist Bruce Kulick has filled the gap, and have done it very well. Mike Arnold, with special guest host, Concert Blast #1 fan, Vivian Johnson, were on hand to review this concert song by song and supply many live clips of this night for the podcast. Enjoy this Concert Review (audio podcast and written blog) and the special sing along at the end of the podcast with the original Concert Blast staff and GFR’s original drummer, Don Brewer!
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Posted 9/7/2012
Train In Concert - Pat Monahan - Nashville, TN
Train returned to Nashville, TN to perform another one of their memorable concerts… at least they tried before Mother Nature stepped in. Train performed about fifty minutes of their California 37 Tour set before they were ordered to leave the stage and say goodbye to their 5,000 plus SRO Train fans. Mike Arnold, Brian Hasbrook, and Tom Thompson of Concert Blast were on hand to capture the live experience through a concert review podcast with lots of live clips while the fun lasted. Enjoy listening to our podcast with lots of live clips and/or reading the written blog concert review!
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