Join Mile of Music Presents for a special Album Release event with Mile of Music Festival alumni Fort Frances (Chicago) as they release their newest album, ‘The Front Page of The Modern Age.’

Don’t miss this special showcase at Gibson Music Hall. Local favorites Christopher Gold and The New Old Things will kick things off starting at 8:00 p.m.

This is a 21+ event with limited capacity and is a club-style show with limited seating available.

Quick Event Info:
Who: Fort Frances, Christopher Gold and The New Old Things
What: Fort Frances Album Release Party
When: Friday, November 8 at 8:00 p.m. (Doors at 7:30 p.m.)
Where: Gibson Music Hall (Gibson Music Hall – 211 W. College Avenue, Downtown Appleton)

Tickets: $12 in advance, $15 at the door (Tax/fees additional.)
Tickets are $10 for 2019 Music-Makers through 11/7 using a special code sent via email.

This is a 21+ event.

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Yipes! returns to the Fox Valley

 

Free Admission

We celebrate the work of Wayne Shorter for our 12th installment of the Gibson Music Hall Jazz Sessions. Sure to be an exciting night with the width of scope that Wayne has to offer. From playing with Miles Davis, The Jazz Messengers, to Steely Dan, Wayne’s compositions are standard in many sub-genres.

The band features Jason Reisdorf on sax, Matthew Ryan Osowski on keys, Austin Bolden on bass, and some drummer.

First set is at 7 pm, and the the second set is open to any musicians who’d like to come up and jam with the band.

Get your bluegrass on!
FREE ADMISSION!

Ryan Thompson-Guitar
Theodore Vanesky-Banjo
Bobby Burns-Mandolin

Come check out some great local, original music while raising awareness for Snowdrop Foundation WI!

Snowdrop Foundation WI provides scholarships to college bound pediatric cancer patients and survivors while raising awareness and funding for continued research to cure childhood cancer.

60% funds allocated towards cancer research
40% funds allocated towards scholarship program
All funds stay within the state!
96 cents of every dollar is applied towards Snowdrop’s mission

Check out Snowdrop WI
Website: www.snowdropwi.org
FB: www.facebook.com/SnowdropFoundationWI/

October 10th Event Details:
The Royal Blue: 5:30PM
Ike Arumba and the Infidels: 6:30PM
Pudge: 7:30PM
Amelia Ford: between sets of first two bands
(note: all band times are approximate)

Gibson Music Hall – October 10th, starting at 5PM
No cover charge / Free will donations welcome
50/50 Raffle
Light food will be served

Thank you to each of these musicians for their desire to support local non-profit Snowdrop Foundation WI via this event. We are excited for a night of awesome music and friends!

7pm

Hello friends and lovers, especially those in the Appleton/Fox Valley! We are super excited to be making our debut performance along with Slayder Smet and his full band at Gibson Music Hall this October!

Thursday October 3rd to be exact!

*The show is FREE to enter. If you enjoy yourself, we suggest a $5 donation if you feel like supporting the local music scene.

So come on out and bring a friend or three – We can’t wait to see you!

7pm | FREE

Join Meade St. Collectube for a feature performance at Gibson Music Hall! Eenjoy a night of great drinks and original and arranged Jazz!

WIJAM Presents:
Ezra Bell

Thursday, September 19th, 2019
at Gibson Music Hall | Appleton, WI

Doors 8p | Show 9p | 21+
Free Admission | $5 Suggested Donation

Weblinks:
• Website: https://www.ezrabellband.com/
• Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/1nGqKVGfPPiVgxMdx8hYOI
• iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/ezra-bell/852885143
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ezrabellband/

Video Links:
• Fluoridated Water: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1v1ilOBOZqM&t=4s
• Interview and Performance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luWuFBi50h0
• Shady Pines: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gp4DgIQ8C_Q
• Junk Food Chimney: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjpk1mfEY8M

Press Links:
• Vortex Magazine, Concert Review, Portland: https://www.vrtxmag.com/media/photo/ezra-bell-and-motopony-at-mississippi- studios-on-may-26-2018/
• No Depression, Album Review; http://nodepression.com/album-review/portlands-most- impressive-ezra-bell-shares-their-unique-gifts-upcoming-release

Ezra Bell’s first full-length debut features ebullient soul twang, flowing and leaping like the music of a late 60s/early 70s recording of well-trained freaks dabbling in various genres. This Portland band sounds like they effortlessly recorded one of those forgotten-gem “cult albums”, despite it being early 2018.
After three well-received EPs and playing regularly in Portland since 2013, the playfully literate and cheerfully plaintive Benjamin Wuamett and his gaggle of quite fit players, conjure up a festive dusky folk-rock-blues-jazz-R&B-pop vibe that doesn’t smother out the melancholy. These haunted stories include key tracks “Tourists” (“This one is about realizing the game is rigged, but you still have to play; it’s the only game in town”); “Yawning at the Seance (“This one is about the stories we tell ourselves in order to feel like everything is okay”), and “Let Me Do the Talking.” About that last one: “The opening line is a rip-off of something the boxer Jack Johnson said when asked how he managed to so intrigue women. He said ‘eat jellied eels and think distant thoughts.’ I think it’s one of the great travesties (and a telling indictment of our society) of our time that a great man’s name has been usurped by some surfer singing about breakfast.” The glistening, giddy music on these tracks help to document the car-wreck gas-lit lifestyles Wuamett masterfully describes. He displays gleaming shards of a self-depreciative self-awareness but also someone busy getting lost. “The overall theme going into this?” Wuamett answers to what the album is about. “Desperation. A call to arms. A whimper. A declaration that being witty by yourself at 4 AM in a basement, is a poor way to live.” Ezra Bell features Maurice Spencer (bass), Tom Trotter (drums), Aaron Mattison (horns and arrangements), Honora Hildreth (backing vocals and percussion), and Jeremy Asay (keys and guitar) more-than-ably backing up Wuamett’s story-songs and satirical jigs with organic precision.

Press Highlights:
“By listening you can tell this self-titled album is something you need to run and see live. It shivers and shakes. A reason it may be difficult to pin down a description is that the music is more like an action then something you should just sit idly by and describe. This album is running up hills of grass at age 9. It’s the feeling of jumping in the pool without testing it with your toes. It’s those late night drunken stool-swaying sessions with a group of irreplaceable people in your life.”
-Paste Magazine

“Ezra Bell is a West Coast poet of disappearing into appetites. The virtues and vices described on this self-titled release are backed by a tantalizing singalong, early 20th century jazz ensemble vibe, sounding like the musical journaling of a swing musician crawling out of rehab. Wuamett’s lyrics describe a soul dissolved, but the feeling isn’t completely unpleasant.”
-No Depression
“Benjamin Wuamett’s (vocals, guitar) ability to tell stories through song is intimate, riveting and inviting. There’s a sweetness in the somber lyrics that makes you want to dance and sing along with joy—and the crowd did just that!”
-Vortex Magazine