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Tunes In The 'Hood Tonight

Tommy James and the Shondells perform tonight at the legendary Surf Ballroom in Clear Lake. Tickets are $35 at the door, which open at 7:00. 641-357-6151

Foreigner is gigging tonight at the Franklin County Fair in Hampton; info and online tickets at http://www.franklincountyfair.com/. 

The Whisky Prophets play tonight starting at 8:00 at FION Barra Wine Bar in downtown Mason City. Great local band, excellent, intimate venue.  

Tunes Everywhere Tonight!

There's live music all over North Iowa today and tonight! Here's the rundown:

Paul Weitzel and The Hats play the lunchtime gig at the Mason City Public Library today from 11:00 am-2:00 pm. Also in Mason City, it's Friday Night Live!

 

In Clear Lake tonight, the Blue Band plays at 7:00 at the Tiki Bar, with Dueling Pianos at 7:30 at The Landing; in Charles City, Milk and Honey plays for Party In The Park. In Forest City, Acoustic Rapport and the Tree Town Sliders play as part of the Puckerbrush Days celebration, and in Hampton, country star John Michael Montgomery plays the grandstand show at 8:30 as part of the Franklin County Fair.   

Can Ya Help An Organization Out?

Want to help with a fun community event? Main Street Mason City is looking for some volunteers for Friday Night Live, this coming Friday, July 15. Still needed are a few people for the beer tent, and for setup and teardown of barricades and stage. Reply or message MSMC on Facebook if you can help out, and please share this info! ‪#‎MainStreetMasonCity‬

The 12th annual Bicycle Blues & BBQ festival in Clear Lake starts at 5:00 pm tomorrow evening, with three blues bands and a variety of barbecue vendors in Clear Lake’s City Park. On Saturday, there's bicycle racing, more barbecue and blues and, new this year, the brew fest. Twin Cities-based band Armadillo Jump, described as a dance band, starts the music tomorrow night,  followed by The Blue Rooster, a polished rockabilly, alternative country and smooth south Texas soul band.

Friday night’s headliner, Tweed Funk,  features horn-fueled, Memphis-flavored blues, roots and soul. This Milwaukee six-piece soul-blues revue is fronted by Joseph “Smokey” Holman, who recorded under Curtis Mayfield in the early 70s, and has been on the cover of Big City Rhythm & Blues Magazine, as well as on Elwood’s Bluesmobile, Dan Aykroyd’s radio show.

Bike racing begins Saturday morning, with a seven-mile time trial starting and ending at Lions Field north of Highway 18. Barbecue and criterium races begin at 11:00 am from City Park, and continue all day, with a break at 2:30 pm for free races for kids under 10.
The Brews on the Beach craft beer festival is 1-4 p.m. on North Lakeview Drive, with VIP event at noon; general admission tickets are $30. Tunes resume at 8:30 pm with Kansas City-based Nick Schnebelen Band. A veteran of the family blues band Trampled Under Foot, in 2008, he won the Albert King Award for best guitarist at the International Blues Challenge.
Also on Saturday, there's  a workshop on the construction of the Diddley Bow, an influential single-stringed American instrument, at 2 pm, and an acoustic blues class is at 4.

The weekend ends with Sunday’s road race at 10 a.m. and awards at 3 p.m.