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Here we are having fun at the Bucktown Revue at the RME. The next Bucktown Revue will be 7 p.m. Friday, Oct. 17, in the RME Performance Hall. The October show will feature Just 4 Fun, an old-time and bluegrass band; the contemporary acoustic music of Embassy; Steve Couch's musical humor; poet Dave McMillen; and more antics from the Brer Bucktown Traveling Tent Show Dramatic society.
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If you get a chance tune into WOC or some of the Clear Channel stations today or tomorrow. Ace reporter Phil Roberts did a story about the Bucktown Review kicking off Friday at the RME.
Check out an excerpt from the interview. (Thanks, Phil!)
We’re getting ready for another rousing season of fake radio programs.
Well, they’re not really fake. They are programs, they are recorded, and they are broadcast via the World Wide Web -- thus neatly sidestepping networks, syndicators, program directors, and all of those little details. (Also side-stepping profits, but why worry about a little think like money.)
Perform, record, mix and put it up on iTunes. Nothing to it.
This year’s show will be at the River Music Experience in downtown Davenport. The RME is the former Peterson Harned Von Maur department store, 129 Main Street, Davenport, Iowa. The facility has been refurbished to have a new lease of life -- which is appropriate, because some of us in the show have been similarly refurbished and made ready for another trot around the track.
The show features folk music, humor and poetry. The guests for the first program include Quad-Cities poet laureate Dale Haake; hammered dulcimer player Linda Shoesmith and Reg Shoesmith; storyteller Steve Marriott; jazz singer Lionel Marcoux and pianist Margaret Skinner; and Irish dancer Katie Davis.
All that for $7 at 7 p.m. this Friday -- Sept. 26. Doors open at 6:30.
The show is brought to you by the same people who performed last year’s edition, The River City Radio Hour. Mr. Scott Tunnicliff continues as MC, and the Barley House Band will similarly extend their acclaimed run as the show’s house orchestra.
The Bucktown Revue will continue monthly through April. For more info, check out the Bucktown Revue’s website, www.bucktownrevue.com.
As a little bonus, here are the rough mixes to two selections off The Barley House Band’s new CD, “The Strand.”
The Barley House Band returns to the annual Riverssance Festival of Fine Arts in Lindsey Park, Village of East Davenport.
The band will perform on the main stage from noon to 1:30 Saturday, Sept. 20.
MidCoast
Fine Arts 21st annual Riverssance Festival of Fine Arts is 10 a.m.-6
p.m. Saturday and 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Sunday in Lindsay Park, E. River Drive
and Mound St., Davenport. The festival features artists from across the
nation, music, food, wine tasting, and a children's art activities
tent.
Admission is $3; free for ages 11 and under. Call (563) 386-7013 for details.
