****SPECIAL SHOW****

Doors 4pm, Music 8pm

Guitar-Slinger CHRIS DUARTE! Don’t miss a couple of blistering sets by this guitar master!

www.thechrisduartegroup.com

Tickets: $13 advance, $17 day of show

Tickets on sale now at Abilene, Record Archive, and online at https://abilene.showare.com/

4pm till Midnight

Drink Specials and Cool Tunes All Night Long!

$5 Moscow Mules Every Tuesday

Every Tuesday is “Tall Boy Tuesday!”

16oz PBR Tall Boys only $3…or 2 for $5!

Doors 7pm, Music 8:30pm

The oft-requested return of hot soul/R&B/Motown band MITTY & THE FOLLOWERS! Don’t miss Mitty Moore, Steve Lyons, Jeff Hobbs and Sammy G, as they get you dancin’ all night long!
Plus...It's Lenny Polizzi's Birthday Bash!

https://www.facebook.com/Mitty-The-Followers-240382002641469/

Cover: $5

Doors 3pm, Music 9:30pm

THE GREGORY STREET VAGABONDS

Jazz and Swing…especially from the 1930’s and 1940’s. Think Lindy Hop dancing..and more.

www.facebook.com/GregoryStreetVagabonds

Cover: $5

Doors 3pm, Music 6pm

Happy Hour with great drink specials, free munchies and the return to Abilene of THE ANGLE!

Check this out...THE ANGLE is providing everyone with free hot dogs on the grill!!! Great music and a bite to eat!!! Such a deal!!!

The Angle is a 5-piece band performing homegrown original music…songs that were born in a barn in Upstate New York…an acoustic/electric mix that leaves you wanting to hear more.

Check out the original rock sounds of Rick Palumbo, Scott Schipper, Scott Stevenson, Tom McTamity and Chris Zolellick

www.facebook.com/The-Angle-1439706646286180

Doors 4:00pm, Music 8:45pm

Alyssa and Doug Graham have spent nearly their entire lives exploring music together. Friends since she was 7 and he was 9, they became a couple in their teens, then husband and wife. Somewhere along the way, they also became The Grahams, a dynamic Americana duo who've married their love of adventure with a desire to build on foundations laid by their musical predecessors. Their first song-crafting expedition, along the Mississippi's Great River Road, became their 2013 debut, Riverman's Daughter. For its follow-up, they rode the rails - and wound up recording not only a studio album, but a documentary and live album on the move and in venues from Sun Studio to Amtrak's famed City of New Orleans train.

Their new long-player, the explosive and aptly named Glory Bound, was helmed by Grammy nominated producer Wes Sharon (John Fullbright, Parker Millsap) at his 115 Recording studio in Norman, Oklahoma, and will be released on May 19. Recording in Oklahoma holds special significance for a couple raised as Dylan-loving New York City suburban kids who spent weekends strumming campfire songs in the Adirondacks. Like many Dylan fans, they traced their way back to his greatest inspiration.

http://www.thegrahamsmusic.net/

Super Low Dough Show! $6 at the door

****SPECIAL SHOW****

Doors 4pm, Music 8:30pm

SEAN ROWE - We are the elders of our minds,” sings Sean Rowe on “Gas Station Rose, the track that ushers in his fourth album, New Lore, with plaintive plucks of guitar and steady drips of piano that fall in like rain. It’s a sparse and beautiful moment, anchored by Rowe’s unparalleled voice-so full of gravely soul, aged and edged by years on the road, as a father and husband, as a creative force always looking for the next rhyme. And, so integral to the man that he is, one that is constantly absorbing nature. It wasn’t the easiest journey to get to the ten vulnerable songs that comprise New Lore (out April 7th)-it took a label change, a trip to Memphis and some support from unexpected places-but what resulted is a road map for a gentle heart in modern times, in a world where the best oracle isn’t within a computer, but within ourselves.

Though Rowe has often made his hometown of Troy, New York and its surrounding areas his creative base, New Lore brought a new environment, and a new producer. Appropriate to his love of folk-blues legends like Howlin’ Wolf, he ventured to Sam Phillips Recording studio in Memphis to work with Matt Ross-Spang (Jason Isbell, Margo Price). They tapped into the history of the legendary space to hone a sound that is at once rich and stark, putting Rowe’s deep and dynamic rage at the forefront. Because if high notes can shatter windows, Rowe’s low and guttural ones can meld sand into glass.

With Special Guest GIRL BLUE! - Girl Blue is the brain child and alter ego of singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Arielle O’Keefe. She debuted her first recorded release on October 5, 2106 with an EP titled I Am Not A Star, introducing a new sound that blends raw soul and rock with keen pop songwriting sensibilities.

www.seanrowe.net

www.girlbluemusic.com

Tickets: $12 advance, $15 day of show

Tickets on sale now at Abilene, Record Archive and online at https://abilene.showare.com/

Doors 4pm, Music 7:30pm
(please note, new earlier time!)

With a Little Help from My Friends….The Beatles Unplugged….and featuring DON CHRISTIANO with Special Guests: RAY PAUL

www.facebook.com/donchristiano

Also…starting at 6pm- $5 Moscow Mules Every Tuesday! And Every Tuesday is “Tall Boy Tuesday!” 16oz PBR Tall Boys only $3..or..2 for $5!!!

Cover: $3

Doors 7:00pm, Music 9:00pm

Join Greg, Todd Bradley, Alex Coté and Alex Patrick in celebrating the release of Greg’s new instrumental disc,  “Travelin’ Guitar.”

Greg will have the new disc available for purchase at the show.

www.gregtownson.com

Cover: $6

Doors 3:00pm, Music 9:15pm

The return of C’EST BON CAJUN DANCE BAND!

"This is not subtle music. It's revved up both musically and rhythmically with a load of energy and stamina. The ladies of C'est Bon traded off vocals over the pump of the button accordion...It was passionate, immediate, sexy and cool.” - Frank DeBlase, music critic at City Newspaper, Rochester NY

Do not miss this hard-rockin’, foot-stompin, girl-powered Cajun dancehall troupe!!!

www.facebook.com/cestboncajunband

Cover: $7

Doors 3:00pm, Music 6:00pm

"The LA outfit has been around for fewer than five years, though listening to their music, you might think your vinyl-junkie friend picked one of their records out of a pile next to Fleetwood Mac and Hendrix. They have a classic Southern grit that makes you crave a sweet tea. They have defined their sound with a bluesy twang on guitar, driving thump on bass, and a soulful Southern vocal in singer Natalie Meadors." ~LA Music Blog

www.valleyqueenmusic.com/

Drinks Specials and Cool Tunes All Night Long!

Doors 4pm, Music 8pm

Come watch and experience the dress rehearsal for the huge 50th Anniversary of Jimi Hendrix’s “Are You Experienced?” show, taking place at Anthology, Friday, May 12th.

https://www.facebook.com/events/1130143863780302/

No cover charge!

Doors 4pm, Music 8pm

Come watch and experience the dress rehearsal for the huge 50th Anniversary of Jimi Hendrix’s “Are You Experienced?” show, taking place at Anthology, Friday, May 12th.

https://www.facebook.com/events/1130143863780302/

No cover charge!

****SPECIAL SHOW****

Doors 7pm, Music 8pm

The Penthouse at One East Avenue, Rochester, NY 14604

“Abilene on the Road” proudly presents singer-songwriter CHRIS TRAPPER! Chris Trapper began his career as the front man for late-90’s alternative rock band The Push Stars (Capital Records). With four CD releases and several high profile national tours-including  a run with Matchbox Twenty-The Push Stars served to establish Chris as an authentic talent.

As a singer-songwriter, Chris is most known for his original song “This Time,” the #1 selling song on the Grammy-nominate soundtrack for the film August Rush (Robin Williams, Jonathan Rhys Meyers/Warner Bros Pictures). His music can best be described as lyrically driven root-pop with a knack for telling everyday stories. The New York Times has called his work “classic pop perfection.”

With special guest from Syracuse, New York BEA!

www.christrapper.com

www.beabeabea.com

Tickets: $22 advance, $25 day of show

Tickets on sale now atAbilene, Record Archive and online at https://abilene.showare.com/

Doors 3pm, Music 9:45pm

Don’t miss the “Rust Belt Brass Sound” of

THE BUFFALO BRASS MACHINE

NOLA second line, bop and horn influence r&b

www.facebook.com/thebuffalobrassmachine

Cover:  $7

Doors 3pm, Music 7pm

A solo vehicle for singer/songwriter and ex-Cadillac Sky frontman Bryan Simpson, the Whistles & the Bells specialize in an evocative blend of Southern folk, gritty alt-country, and indie gospel, invoking names like Wovenhand, Jason Isbell, Mount Moriah, and Blitzen Trapper. The long-gestating project began percolating shortly after Simpson abruptly left the popular alt-bluegrass ensemble Cadillac Sky in 2010 to spend more time exploring his faith. As Simpson began examining his inner-self through songwriting, he chose to launch a new project using the name the Whistles & the Bells, referring to the noisemakers on a train that warn people of what's coming down the track. After a few days of sessions with a handful of handpicked guest musicians produced by Grammy winner Vance Powell (Jack White, Chris Thile, Jars of Clay), Simpson had the framework for the debut album from the Whistles & the Bells. Simpson self-released the album in the Nashville area in 2014, and New West struck a deal to give it a nationwide reissue that appeared in August 2015.

www.thewhistlesandthebells.com

Open at 4:00pm

Great Drink Specials and Cool Tunes All Night Long!

****SPECIAL SHOW****

The Arbor Loft, 17 Pitkin Street, Rochester, NY 14607

Doors 6:30pm, Music 8pm

“Abilene on the Road” proudly presents Dave Alvin, Grammy Award winning singer songwriter and self described “barroom guitarist, is widely considered to be one of the pivotal founders of the current Americana music scene. A fourth generation Californian, Dave Alvin grew up in Downey, California as the local landscape quickly evolved from orange groves and dairy farms to tract homes and freeways. Since forming the highly influential roots rock/R+B band The Blasters, with his brother Phil in 1979, and throughout his long and critically acclaimed solo career, Dave Alvin has mixed his varied musical and literary influences into his own unique, updated version of traditional American music. Combining elements of blues, folk, R+B, rockabilly, Bakersfield country and garage rock and roll with lyrical inspiration from local writers and poets like Raymond Chandler, Gerald Locklin and Charles Bukowski, Alvin says that his songs are just like California. A big, messy melting pot. Dave Alvin's songs have been recorded by a who's who of contemporary roots artists from Los Lobos, Little Milton, Robert Earl Keen, Marshal Crenshaw and Joe Ely to Dwight Yoakam, James McMurtry, Buckwheat Zydeco, Alejandro Escovedo and X. His songs have also been featured in many movies and television shows including Justified, The Sopranos, True Blood, The Wire, Six Feet Under, Crybaby, Miss Congeniality and From Dusk To Dawn.

www.davealvin.net

www.sarahborges.com

Tickets: $25 advance, $30 day of show

Tickets on sale now at Abilene, Record Archive and online at https://abilene.showare.com/

The Sixth Installment…Of An Intimate Evening with blues great..and soon to be member of the Rochester Music Hall of Fame
JOE BEARD
And his special guest…STEVE LYONS
Do not miss this special night of music.


www.facebook.com/joebeardblues

www.facebook.com/steve.lyons.75

Special thanks to our friends,  Doug Camp and Cicero Ryland, Jr., true music fans.

Cover: $5

Doors 7pm, Music 8:30pm

THE PHIL MARSHALL BAND - From his days with Colorblind James Experience to his playing with Annie Wells and Lalaland, Phil Marshall has been one of Rochester’s most innovative guitarists. Don’t miss this show with Special Guests

www.facebook.com/scatterbed

Cover: $5

Doors 3pm, Music 9:45pm

The return to Abilene of THREE CHORD MONTE! A full night of blues and rock served up by Earl Repp on guitar and vocals, Mark Downey on guitar and vocals, Gary Yanni on drums, Tom Mooney on bass and Eric Paley on keyboards.

www.facebook.com/Three-Chord-Monte-198389187186498

Cover: $5

Doors 3pm, Music 6pm

Happy Hour featuring free munchies, drink specials…and live music featuring the return of

THE TRAGEDY BROTHERS

Influenced by The Stones, The Dead, The Band, Dylan, Merle Haggard and John Prine, you will like the sounds of The Tragedy Brothers! Check out the new lineup!   

www.facebook.com/TragedyBrothers

Doors 4pm, Music 8:30pm

From the salvaged sounds of American juke joints, back porches, honky tonks and rock clubs, The Suitcase Junket conjures an entirely new sound in his new, essential rock collection, Pile Driver. 

"Now this is the shit I'm talking about, Jack. The Suitcase Junket is a lo-fi, low-tuned, low-down blast of end-times folk blues. It's crude; it's magnificent. With a stage set-up that resembles a junkyard foley stage or Fred Sanford's living room, The Suitcase Junket — one man band leader Matt Lorenz — incants and intones like a cross between Hound Dog Taylor and a Tuvan throat singer who has swallowed a bird. Take the singer-songwriter idiom, give it a low grade fever and a guitar and this is what you get. Captivating, mesmerizing, and gone ... real gone." -- Frank De Blase,  Rochester (NY) City Newspaper

“He deploys his oddball, lo-fi but forceful sound in the service of well-conveived, engaging songs with literate and interesting lyrics.” The Suitcase Junket is much more than a curiosity or a novelty act, he’s a serious artist who shouts and winks at us at the same time, and has deep things to say to an open mind.” ~Seattle Post Intelligencer

“He’s an in-the-moment multi-instrumentalist, a true one-man band, carefully connecting and arranging unique objects around himself so that he’s a singer, guitarist, drummer and percussionist all at once~Daily Hampshire Gazette

www.thesuitcasejunket.com

Tickets: $12 advance, $15 day of show

Tickets on sale now at Abilene, Record Archive and online at https://abilene.showare.com/

Doors 4pm, Music 8:30pm

Blues guitarist JIMMY THACKERY & THE DRIVERS! Jimmy Thackery is one of the few blues guitarists who learned firsthand from the masters of the blues, not off a blues record or dvd. Though most associate Jimmy with his 15 years as the co-founder of the Nighthawks, he ended his time with them in 1987. Since then, Jimmy has been on the road as a solo musician for 15 years doing nearly 300 shows a year proving each night that he is still the guitar powerhouse in the blues.

Thackery has lived the life of a true road warrior; he’s absorbed the artistic lessons of life and filtered them into his guitar playing and songwriting. To get where he is today, Jimmy has journeyed a highway of life filled with a series of twists and turns. He met all the right people and they have had a permanent influence on him.

www.jimmythackery.com

Tickets: $20 advance, $25 day of show

Tickets on sale now at Abilene, Record Archive and online at https://abilene.showare.com/

****SPECIAL SHOW****
Live at The Penthouse at One East Avenue

Doors 7pm, Music 8pm

“Abilene on the Road” and Rochester Events present KINKY FRIEDMAN with Special Guest BRIAN MOLNAR

The slightly unorthodox Texas version of Will Rogers and Mark Twain, makes a rare Rochester appearance. Kinky is a country singer, songwriter, novelist, humorist,  and politician who styles himself in the mold of popular American satirists. 

Kinky is known for his satiric songs such as, “They Ain’t Makin’ Jews Like Jesus Anymore,” “Asshole from El Paso,” “I’m The Loneliest Man I Ever Met,” and many, many more classics.

www.kinkyfriedman.com

www.brianmolnar.com

www.facebook.com/abileneontheroad

www.rochesterevents.com

www.facebook.com/thepenthouseatoneeastavenue

Tickets: $25 advance, $30 day of show

Tickets on sale now at Abilene, Record Archive and online at www.abilene.showare.com

Doors 4pm, Music 7pm

Solo fingerstyle guitarist KINLOCH NELSON - Kinloch Nelson performs a synthesis of folk, jazz, classical, rock, American popular music, and original compositions. His programs run from J.S. Bach to John B. Sebastian and may include references to Miles Davis, Franz Schubert, John Fahey, Leo Kottke, The Ventures, Flatt and Scruggs, and the occasional TV theme.

www.kinlochnelson.com

No Cover Charge

Doors 7pm, Music 9:30pm

From Romeo, Michigan, LIBBY DeCAMP!
Libby DeCamp makes dusty folk and roots-inspired music with a fine-tuned edge. With Special Guests…Rochester roots faves THE LONELY ONES!

www.libbydecamp.com

www.facebook.com/thelonelyonesmusic

Cover: $6

***SPECIAL SHOW****
JCC Hart Theatre, 1200 Edgewood Avenue, Brighton, NY 14618

Doors 7pm, Music 8pm

“Abilene on the Road” proudly presents
EILEN JEWELL with Special Guest MISS TESS

Honesty, confidence, and respect permeate Eilen Jewell’s music, dating back to her self-released Boundary County album in 2006. Since then, the Boise native has recorded five studio albums for Signature Sounds with her road-tested touring band, and two more as a member of the Boston-based gospel-charged Sacred Shakers (also on Signature Sounds), which includes that well-oiled band at its core. Her latest, Sundown Over Ghost Town, is a masterful culmination of Jewell’s work to date.

As hard as it is to categorize Jewell’s music-terms like alt-country, roots-rock, country-noir, and Americana get used a lot-it’s even harder not to become thoroughly enraptured by the singer/songwriter’s powerful versatility, musical stories, and images. And that gorgeous voice makes you feel like she’s singing just for you, out on the breezy back porch or by a crackling campfire. She does so much, so well. 

www.eilenjewell.com

www.facebook.com/abileneontheroad

www.jccrochester.org

Tickets: $23 advance, $27 day of show

Tickets on sale now at Abilene, Record Archive and online at https://abilene.showare.com/