Notable Shows Stories

Furthur Marvin Sands Performing Arts Center “CMAC”, Canadaigua, NY 7/26/11 Visual Setlist

For a write-up on how to read and interpret visual setlists, click on over here.2011-07-26Marvin Sands Performing Arts Center Canadaigua, NYOne: The Golden Road (To Unlimited Devotion), Beat It On Down The Line, The Promised Land, Tons Of Steel, Dark Hollow, They Love Each Other, Train In Vain, Big Railroad BluesTwo: Truckin',...

Symphony Sunday: My Morning Jacket / Chicago Youth Orchestra @ Lollapalooza 8/5/07

There is something special when the worlds of rock and classical music collide. After months of preparation, the end products are only performed a handful of times, creating something truly unique for the lucky attendees. The Barn will feature a different rock / symphony fusion weekly over the next several weeks in a new feature: Symphony...

Stevie Ray Vaughan @ Chicago Blues Fest 6/7/85: Stream and Download

It's Blues Fest Friday here in Chicago. Here's a Retro Jamming feature that will take you back aways. We're going way back to Blues Fest 1985 to hang with Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble. Just a reminder of the top shelf talent that will be on display this weekend and every June on the most...

Symphony Sunday: Trey Anastasio and the Baltimore Symphony 5/21/09 Stream and Download

There is something special when the worlds of rock and classical music collide. After months of preparation, the end products are only performed a handful of times, creating something truly unique for the lucky attendees. The Barn will feature a different rock / symphony fusion weekly over the next several weeks in a new feature: Symphony...

Paul Simon @ The Vic - Chicago 5/16/2011: Stream and Download

Class act. That's basically sums up Paul Simon these days. Hitting the road this spring behind the strong new album, So Beautiful, So What, he mixes up great newer tunes with classics from all throughout his storied career. The two Chicago shows in May were tough tickets, especially the gig at the intimate Vic Theatre....

Symphony Sunday: The Doors Edition

There is something special when the worlds of rock and classical music collide. After months of preparation, the end products are only performed a handful of times, creating something truly unique for the lucky attendees. The Barn will feature a different rock / symphony fusion weekly over the next several weeks in a new feature: Symphony...

Symphony Sunday: MMW with a 25 Piece Orchestra, Holmdel, NJ 8/11/97 Stream and Download

There is something special when the worlds of rock and classical music collide. After months of preparation, the end products are only performed a handful of times, creating something truly unique for the lucky attendees. The Barn will feature a different rock / symphony fusion weekly over the next several weeks in a new feature: Symphony...

Symphony Sunday: Bob Weir’s First Fusion in Marin 5/7/2011 Stream and Download

There is something special when the worlds of rock and classical music collide. After months of preparation, the end products are only performed a handful of times, creating something truly unique for the lucky attendees. The Barn will feature a different rock / symphony fusion weekly over the next several weeks in a new feature: Symphony...

Jerry Garcia Band @ Keystone 1/31/81: Stream and Download

How would you like it if somebody took a recording of your first month on the job, and posted it to the web? We're not trying to be mean, we're just excited about our upcoming event, and think this is genuinely awesome.Consider the circumstance: a 27 year old Melvin Seals, an organist "straight out of...

The Radiators Say Goodbye To Chicago: Stream, Download and Video

With all sorts of incredible reports rolling in from the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival over the weekend, we've got to reflect on how lucky we are to have the good folks at Fitzgerald's bringing a little bit of NOLA home to us. This past winter, the final chapter of a small, but significant...