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Youth Open Mic at Claybank Health & Wellness, Olney IL

Youth Open Mic at Claybank Health & Wellness, Olney IL

Saturday, August 27 @ 12:00PM — 2:00PMSat, Aug 27 @ 12:00PM — 2:00PM

Claybank Health & Wellness, 228 E. Main Street, Olney, IL

Calling all young local musical talent! We're having a special youth open mic at Claybank Health & Wellness in Olney!! - Performers 20 & under welcome - Adult accompanists welcome - Microphone and instrument pickup/speaker provided Prepare 2-3 songs, and make a plan to stick around to support & enjoy all the other performers! Signup for 10-15 min time slots by contacting Bill Passalacqua (emcee) at possmusicworks@gmail.com or please contact Poss Music Works via Facebook.

Preference will be given to those playing instruments live, not using recordings/backing tracks.

Poss Music Works, NFP, is a 501(c)3 nonprofit with a mission to bring and foster music and culture to the Downstate Illinois area, with Effingham, IL as ground zero. We present music festivals and one-off music shows featuring national and regional original music touring acts. Poss Music Works aims to instill an interest in, and love of, great Americana music in the regions youth. All of our festivals offer free admission to patrons 15 and under. We provide youth open mics around the region and we are attempting to partner with communities to present ‘youth music shows’ featuring young performers, for young patrons in a family friendly, alcohol free environment.

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Summer Sundown Music Festival 2022

Summer Sundown Music Festival 2022

Friday, September 9 @ 3:30PM — Sunday, September 11 @ 8:00PMFri, Sep 9 @ 3:30PM — Sun, Sep 11 @ 8:00PM

The Stage @ Lake Sara, 8724 E Marine Rd, Effingham, IL

Summer Sundown Music Festival 2022 is set to present 3 days of local rock, soul, country, folk, and Americana on the banks of beautiful Lake Sara, just outside of Effingham, IL - Fri., Sep. 9 to Sun., Sep. 11, 2022. Don't miss the FREE Thursday night pre-party on Sep. 8th. Celebrate the waning days of summer with the musicians and music lovers of the Central/Southern Illinois music scene. We have curated a festival that brings together the hard-working men and women who make music throughout these cornfields...and beyond. On top of that, we will present some pretty dang amazing artists from across North America to play alongside our local talent.

$70 Advance Weekend Passes on sale now

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Mary Gauthier with special guest Jaimee Harris at the Loft at Village Wine

Mary Gauthier with special guest Jaimee Harris at the Loft at Village Wine

Thursday, September 15 @ 7:30PMThu, Sep 15 @ 7:30PM

The Loft at Village Wine, 109 S Banker St, Effingham, IL

Poss Music Works presents songwriter Mary Gauthier with special guest Jaimee Harris in the Loft at Village Wine!. Don't miss this special night of two stellar songwriters, in a small venue perfect for their brand of raw emotion and power. Doors 7pm, Show starts 7:30pm. Tickets on sale $25 in advance or $30 at the door.

Mary Gauthier, on songwriting: “Writing helps me sort out confusion, untangle powerful emotions, and ward off desperation. It helps me navigate the powerful emotional weather systems of life.”– Mary Gauthier, Saved by a Song: The Art and Healing Power of Songwriting As she has so eloquently accomplished over the past 25 years, acclaimed singer-songwriter Mary Gauthier has used her art once again to traverse the uncharted waters of the past few years. “I’m the kind of songwriter who writes what I see in the world right now,” she affirms. Thankfully, amid dark storms of pandemic loss, she found and followed the beacon of new love: Her gift to us, the powerful Dark Enough to See the Stars, collects ten sparkling jewels of Gauthier songcraft reflecting both love and loss. Her eleventh album, Dark Enough to See the Stars, follows the profound antidote to trauma, Rifles & Rosary Beads, her 2018 collaborative work with wounded Iraq war veterans. It garnered a Grammy nomination for Best Folk Album, as well as a nomination for Album of the Year by the Americana Music Association. Publication of her first book, the illuminating Saved by a Song: The Art and Healing Power of Songwriting, in 2021, brought her more praise. Brandi Carlile has said, “Mary’s songwriting speaks to the tender aspects of our humanness. We need her voice in times like these more than we ever have.” The Associated Press called Gauthier “one of the best songwriters of her generation.” Gauthier’s early work, which began at 35, reflected her newfound sobriety, delving into events from a troubled life, which persisted after she became a renowned chef in Boston. Dark Enough to See the Stars returns Gauthier to the scintillating confessional mode on such albums as her breakthrough release, 2005’s Mercy Now, as well as such ear worms as the hook-laden “Drag Queens in Limousines.” In addition to crafting instantly memorable songs, Gauthier has never shied away from difficult self-exploration, as with 2010’s The Foundling, on which she explored the repercussions of her adoption from a New Orleans orphanage and subsequent search for her birth mother. On Dark Enough to See the Stars, she mourns recent devastating losses: the deaths of John Prine, David Olney, Nanci Griffith, and her beloved friend Betsy. But she also sings open-heartedly of love. All ten tracks prove Gauthier’s belief, as stated in Saved by a Song, that “songs can bring us a deep understanding of each other and ourselves and open the heart to love.” Deep emotion resonates throughout Dark Enough to See the Stars. “It kicks off with three love songs,” says Gauthier. “Somewhere along the work I’ve done in therapy through art and 32 years of recovery, I’ve somehow stabilized enough to be in a relationship that works – and I want to express that in these songs.” The joyous triad – the catchy “Fall Apart World,” the lilting ballad “Amsterdam,” and gospel-tinged “Thank God for You” – each punctuated with Danny Mitchell’s evocative keyboards – comes alive with poetic imagery. “Thank God for You” contrasts her former life – “another junkie jonesing on a Greyhound bus” – with the state of grace she’s found. Lush instrumentation perfectly underpins the anthemic “Fall Apart World,” which Gauthier calls “adult music.” While on a writing sojourn in Key West, she explains, “It’s understanding that things come together and things fall apart. The awareness of that is an opportunity for gratitude. Right now, I’m looking out the window – and I can’t believe I get to be here! I don’t take it for granted for one millisecond!” Gauthier’s partner, Jaimee Harris, who sings harmony throughout the album, co-wrote the paean to one of Gauthier’s favorite cities. “I have a long history with Amsterdam,” Gauthier recounts. “My first record deal was on a Dutch label, and I tour there regularly, and much of Mercy Now was written at my favorite hotel there.” A canceled flight to Denmark landed Gauthier and Harris in Amsterdam for an unexpected three days during the pandemic. “To return to that hotel and be able to share that with the person I love and show her the city…,” Gauthier pauses. “It’s complicated – because all around the edges was the pandemic. But you’ve got to express your joy – a joy that’s not free from pain. There’s grief all around us, but there’s this ability to still love and still be aware that the sky is beautiful and the hand that I’m holding is filled with love…” The album’s bittersweet title track, “Dark Enough to See the Stars,” cowritten with Beth Nielsen Chapman, resonates with that very same emotion. “When things get really hard and the walls are closing in and it starts to get dark, you realize what really matters,” Gauthier says. “And what really matters, of course, is love. Even though my friend Betsy is gone, I get to hold on to her love. And I get to hold on to the love that John Prine showed me, and Nanci Griffith and David Olney. It occurred to me while working on the title track that love didn’t die with them. That was a gift that was given to me that I get to keep.” As on the memory-rich track, “The Meadow,” Fats Kaplin’s haunting pedal steel guitar expresses the sonics of fleeting time, a theme Gauthier explores on one of the first songs written for the album, back in 2019. After performing in Albany, New York, the solitary troubadour found herself yearning for her newly discovered soulmate’s “candlestick fingers on my skin”: The poignant “About Time” documents that lonesome highway, while the singalong waltz “Truckers and Troubadours” acknowledges musical vagabonds’ kinship with long-haulers; in fact, Gauthier and co-writer Darden Smith collaborated with Paul “Long Haul” Marhoefer on the ear-catching lyrics. “Paul said that when Darden and I get together and start talking,” says Gauthier, “we sound like two truck drivers.” Finally, Dark Enough to See the Stars bids farewell to Gauthier’s tragically departed friends: “Where Are You Now” paints an autumnal picture of the trails where she and Betsy roamed; “How Could You Be Gone” expresses in detail the disbelief inherent in our goodbyes; and “Til I See You Again” offers a prayer “to all those I hope to reunite with,” says Gauthier. As throughout Dark Enough to See the Stars, all three compositions exemplify Mary Gauthier’s songwriting brilliance: They offer beauty in sorrow, healing in loss, and a perspective only an artist of uncommon generosity can give. Thank God for Mary Gauthier.

$25 advance / $30 at the door

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Sep23

Tom Petty Night feat. Greg Klyma & the Surviving Members

Friday, September 23 @ 7:30PMFri, Sep 23 @ 7:30PM

Whistle Stop Saloon, 118 N 2nd St, Altamont, IL

Join us for a night of Tom Petty Featuring Greg Klyma & the Surviving Members at the A1 Liquors stage at Lake Sara

Doors open 7:30, show starts: 8:30 Tickets $15 adv/$20 door (plus cc fees)

Greg Klyma is an American songwriter, leaning hard on the influences of old school country and rock music. Some of his faves include Tom Petty, Steve Earle, Bon Scott-era AC/DC, and Willie Nelson. If lyrics and melody take center stage in your musical world, welcome home!

For close to 30 years now, Greg has made my living playing music. Early on, that meant relentless touring. He now does a lot of live streaming on Twitch.

As a writer and storyteller, he loves connecting with his listeners and invites you to join the journey.

https://klyma.com/

Tickets $15 adv/$20 door (plus cc fees)

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Little Grassy Get Down

Little Grassy Get Down

Friday, October 7 @ 7:00PM — Sunday, October 9 @ 7:00PMFri, Oct 7 @ 7:00PM — Sun, Oct 9 @ 7:00PM

Touch of Nature Outdoor Education Center, 1206 Touch of Nature Road, Makanda, IL

The Little Grassy Get Down at SIU Touch of Nature Environmental Center in Makanda, IL is a family=-friendly music festival featuring mostly original acoustic Americana music from around the Midwest. The event takes place from October 7-9, 2022, and will feature The Wood Box Gang, Chicago Farmer and the Fieldnotes, the Burney Sisters, One Way Traffic, Miles Over Mountains, Miss Jenny and the Howdy Boys, The People V Hugh DeNeal, Taylor Steele and the Love Preachers, Carter and Connelly, Wil and Robert and much more.

Options range from a VIP weekend getaway to festival day passes - kids under 15 are free with a paying adult.

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Moccasin Creek Festival 2023

Moccasin Creek Festival 2023

Thursday, June 22, 2023 @ 1:00PM — Sunday, June 25, 2023 @ 5:00PMThu, Jun 22, 2023 @ 1:00PM — Sun, Jun 25, 2023 @ 5:00PM

The Stage @ Lake Sara, 8724 E Marine Rd, Effingham, IL

Hey Early Birds -- you can score a 2023 Weekend Pass - but only if you hurry!!

We are releasing a flight of only 100 tickets at the old price -- buy now, or buy 'em when prices are higher!

https://www.simpletix.com/.../moccasin-creek-festival...

Weekend Pass (4 days) Moccasin Creek Festival June 22-25, 2023 Lake Sara - Effingham IL $90

$90 Early Bird Weekend Passes. Only 100 Available.

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