CALENDAR
thursday, oct. 2
Veggie Lunch. Ecumenical Christian Ministries, 11:30 a.m., all ages, FREE.
Tea at Three. Kansas Union Lobby, 3 to 4 p.m., all ages, FREE, www.suaevents.com.
The Lost Trailers.
Beaumont Club, 8 p.m., all ages, $13, www.thelosttrailers.com.
DebateWatch. Kansas Union, Big 12 Room, 8 p.m., all ages, FREE.
Bounce Live. The Jackpot,
9 p.m., 18+, $3.
Baby Birds Don't Drink Milk/Joy Wants
Eternity. The Replay
Lounge, 10 p.m., 21+,
$2, www.myspace.com/
babybirdsdontdrinkmilk.
Elsenhower Organ
Duet/Fiat. The Brick, 10
p.m., 21+, $5-$7.
Mindcontroll/
Sudan Relief Benefit.
Eighth Street Tap Room, 10 p.m., p1+,$3.
Mindcontroll/
Baiowolf/A Blank Face
Murder. The Gaslight
Tavern, 10 p.m., 21+, $3.
Sudan Relief Benefit.
Eighth Stree Tap Room, 10 p.m., $21, + $3.
That Damn Sasquatch.
The Jazzhaus, 10 p.m., 21+,
$3.
Z-sonic/Leo/Souls
Stutter. Davey's Uptown,
10 p.m., 21+, $6.
friday, oct. 3
FREE PLAY at The Replay. The Replay Lounge,
3 p.m. to 6 p.m., all ages, FREE.
Get Down Town.
Downtown Lawrence, 4 p.m.
all ages. FREE.
Harvest of Arts Film Festival. The Granada, 7 p.m., all ages, FREE.
Hitchcock Horror Classic Film Series: Rear Window. Lawrence Public Library, 7 p.m., all ages, FREE.
Film: Get Smart. Kansas Union: 8 p.m., all ages, $2, www.sueeevents.com.
Keith Anderson. Voodoo
Lounge, B p.m., 21+, $20-$40,
keith.earthman.com
Left on Northwood/
Times New Roman/
The Sky is Falling/The
Thirty. The Bottleneck, 9
p.m. all ages, $3-$5.
Patties, Pong and PBR.
Nice Cafe. 9 p.m., all ages,
FREE.
Friday Nights @ Liquid.
Liquid, 9.30 p.m. to 2 a.m., 18+
$5-$8.
Sellout. The Jazzhaus, 10 p.m, 21+, $6.
Young Livers. The Brick,
10 p.m., 21+, $5-$7.
Cosmic Bowling. Kansas Union, Jaybowl, 10 p.m., all ages, FREE.
Iron Guts Kelly /KTP.
The Replay Lounge, 10 p.m.
21+, $3.99, www.irongutskelly.com
saturday, oct. 4
Downtown Lawrence Farmers' Market. Eighth and New Hampshire Streets, 7 a.m. to 11 a.m., all ages, FREE. www.lawrencefarmersmarket.com.
Roots n' Blues n' BBQ Festival. Downtown Columbia,Mo., 1 a.m., all ages, FREE.
The Becoming. Beaumont Club, 6 p.m., all ages, $10, www wearethebecoming.com.
Badfish: A Tribute to Sublime. The Crossroads KC, 7:30 p.m., all ages, $16.
Ardys/Bradford. The Gaslight Tavern, 7 p.m., all ages, $3.
REVOLUTION: Sweat.
Dance. Rock and Roll.
Lied Center; 7:30 p.m., all ages,
$20-$50.
Jesse Williams/
Leftmore. Solidarity!
Revolutionary Center and
Radical Library. 8 p.m., all ages.
$3-$5.
Film: Get Smart. Kansas Union, 8 p.m., all ages, $2, www.suaeevents.com.
Paw. The Bottleneck, 8 p.m., 18+,$5-$10.
Imperative Reaction/
Aesthetic Perfection/
The God Project. The
Jackpot, 9 p.m., 18+, $13-
$15, www.myspace.com/
imperativereaction.
Shebangs. The Gaslight Tavern, 10 p.m., 21+, $3.
The Afterhours/
Jeff/Vida. The Replay Lounge, 6 p.m., all ages, $3.
**LAWRENCE OP**
Lawrence Community
Theater, 2:30 p.m., all ages,
$14-$20.
sunday, oct. 5
"All Shook Up."
Sara Evans, Midland Theater; 8 p.m., all ages, $25-$45.
Hip Hop and Hot Wings. The Peanut, 9 p.m., 21+,$2.
Panda Circus/
Oreaganomics/Joseph
Post. The Replay Lounge, 10
p.m., 21+, $2 www.myspace.
com/josephpost.
monday, oct. 6
My Children My
Bride/For The Fallen
Dreams/American Me/
Hester prynne/Gangsta
with Cagguins. The
Jackpot, 7 p.m., all ages, $10.
myspace.com/mcmb
America's Best Dance Crew Live. Midland Theater: 7:30 p.m..all ages, $35-$45.40, www.myspace.comlabdseason2.
Justin Nozuka/Gabe Dixon Band. The Bottleneck, 8 p.m., all ages, $11-$13.
Dollar Bowling. Royal
Crest Bowling Lanes, 9 p.m.-1
a.m., all ages, $1.
Elektro Nekro Gothic.
Davey's Uptown, 10 p.m., 21+,
FREE.
Izzy Cox. Davey's Uptown,
7:30 p.m., all ages. $5. www.
myspace.com/izzycox.
tuesday,oct.7
Citizen Cope, Midland Theater; 8 p.m., all ages. $25-$50. www.citizencope.com.
Tuesday Night Folk Concerts. Signs of Life, 7:30 p.m., all ages, FREE.
Tuesday Nite Swing.
Kansas Union 8 p.m.- 11 p.m., all ages, FREE.
"Uprising". Solidarity! Revolutionary Center and Radical Library 8 p.m., all ages, $1.
Soul Gold Easy. The Brick
10 p.m., 21+, $5-$7.
Lawrence Originals
wednesday, oct. 8
Food Festival, South Park,
5 p.m. to 8 p.m., all ages.
Trivia Bingo. Johnny's Tavern, 8 p.m. to 10 p.m., all ages, $1.
Merle Haggard. Midland Theater: 8 p.m., all ages, $45-$65.
Mammoth Life/
Mammuth Life/
Transmittens/Kite
Tails. The jackpot, 9 p.m.
18+ $5-$7. www.myspace.com/
officialmammothfile.
Daleria/Brainbrow/
David Hasselhoff on
Acid. The Gaslight Tavern, 10 p.m., 21+,$3.
Meet Flower/Power
Master. The Replay Lunge,
10 p.m., 21+, $2.
venues
Abe & Jake's Landing
8 E. Sixth St.
(785) 841-5855
The Bottleneck
737 New Hampshire St.
(785) 841-5483
The Brick
1727 McGee St.
Kansas City, Mo.
(816) 421-1634
Fatso's
1016 Massachusetts St.
Lawrence
(785) 865-4055
The Granada
1020 Massachusetts St.
Lawrence
(785) 842-1390
Midland Theater
1228 Main St.
Kansas City, Mo.
(816) 471-9703
The Peanut
5000 Main St.
Kansas City, Mo.
(816) 753-9499
The Record Bar
1020 Westport Rd Kansas City, Mo. (816) 753-5207
The Replay Lounge
946 Massachusetts St.
Lawrence
(785) 749-7676
always been something I was willing to admit.
editor's note
My dad plays in a bluegrass band.
That hasn't
Back in my younger years, when all my friends' parents listened to cool bands like U2, The Beatles and REM, I was embarrassed by the songs laden with twangy fiddle and harmonica riffs that my played during car rides, his shelves full of records and CDs by no name. quirk-looking bluegrass acts.
His band would practice in our
I could never shake the feeling that liking blue music made him seem a little Deliverance. A little not like the hip dad I needed him to be.
basement every couple weeks, and the music would float up through the vents into my bedroom. No matter how loudly I played my Mariah Carey cassettes, I could never quite drown out the frantic picking of the guitar; the staccato cluck of the banjo, the low croon of the upright bass.
I made sure never to have friends over when dad's band was practicing. A friend once saw my dad's guitar in our living room and excitedly asked who it belonged to. I lied and said it was my brother's, and that of course he used it to play songs by whatever the emo band du jour was.
The zenith of my dad's bluegrass calendar comes every September with the Walnut Valley Festival in Winfield, Kan.
For the past 31 years, my dad has escaped south to Winfield for the festival, a Mecca for bluegrass enthusiasts around the world.
Winfield is my dad's heaven. He sleeps in a tent, eats his meals from a cooler, and spends every moment surrounded by the sounds of bluegrass.
-Megan Hirt, editor
I have never been to Winfield. But I can picture the crowds of people, the outdoor stages, the sunlight on faded September grass. And I picture my dad there—a little younger, a little more at home—picking his guitar. Happy.
Check out Brianna's story on page 6 about the Walnut Valley Festival and how this five-day bluegrass extravaganza is actually a popular destination for college students and music lovers of all kinds.
I guess my dad was hip all along.
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Reale Roth
Play Brianne Pfannenstiel, Derek Zarda
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