The Bright Light Social Hour is an American rock band from Austin, Texas. Born out of a university art-rock collective, The Bright Light Social Hour has evolved into an unabashedly wide-screen rock group, melding fists-up rock and roll with muscular funk, soul, and psychedelia. The band recently swept the 29th Annual Austin Music Awards during SXSW 2011 with an unprecedented 6 wins, including Band of the Year, Album of the Year and Song of the Year ("Detroit").
Bobby Bare Jr. will return to the beloved Village Idiot in Maumee, Ohio on Saturday, May 7th. If you have never seen BBJ live, now is your chance to catch him in a tight space that offers up some neighborhood flavor. He has developed a local following that will surely turn out in numbers to watch him tear it up again.
Hoots and Hellmouth will be thunderin' through Maumee, Ohio with a tour stop at The Village Idiot on Monday, February 1st. Gonna be lots of foot stompin' fun...don't miss it. H&H will be fresh off there appearance at the Ann Arbor Folk Festival on Friday, January 29th.
Witnessed a hell of a local show as Justin Townes Earle tore up The Village Idiot in Maumee, Ohio last Thursday (8/27). I managed to get some decent video...more to come.
Hoots and Hellmouth will be bringing their live act to The Village Idiot in Maumee, Ohio on September 12th of this very year. These guys TEAR IT UP...so get out there & support "alternative energy" sources. You won't be disappointed!
Mark August 27th, 2009 as the day, critically-acclaimed, singer songwriter Justin Townes Earle (son of Steve Earle)is rolling into town to play The Village Idiot in Maumee, Ohio. He is sure to be a force in the Alt-Country arena for a long time to come. He will be appearing fresh on the heels of The Big Surprise Tour, an amazing outing that places him on a bill with Old Crow Medicine Show, Gillian Welch & David Rawlings and The Felice Brothers...impressive company!
From Bloodshot Records: Within the first song on Justin Townes Earle’s second album Midnight At the Movies, you just know you’re hearing something special, that you are party to the unknown and exhilarating paths being explored by an artist on the creative ascendancy. Midnight At The Movies displays an adeptness and musical sophistication of remarkable, organic breadth and is as lyrically sharp as a lover’s tongue as she is walking out the door.
If you didn’t look at the songwriting credits, you’d swear the songs were penned on the stoop of a one-pump filling station in dust bowl era Oklahoma, the smoke-filled song and dream factories of Tin Pan Alley, or at the back door of Tootsie’s Orchid Lounge in Nashville. Justin effortlessly taps the romanticism imbued in the beaten-soled travelogues and mythos of Woody Guthrie; the lounging around a campfire at a work camp and the edgy angst of a wintry Minneapolis (yeah, just try to get that mandolin line from the cover of the ‘Mats’ “Can’t Hardly Wait” out of your head.)
As we approach the 4th of July, what could be more patriotic than good thoughts about These United States?...and here is a truly good thought...It looks like they will be returning to the area! The Village Idiot in Maumee to be exact...on August 20th.
These United States will be playing at The Village Idiot in Maumee, OH on April 6th. I don't know much about these guys...but I like what I am hearing (Thanks, Eric for the tip). Check these fellers out! C'mon northwestern Ohioans...we gotta do our part to support this good stuff when it comes to town.
