Green Bay Press-Gazette from Green Bay, Wisconsin • Page 38

Rascal Fbtts wi meet fans from 4-530 171) part of aY100-sponsored appearance before the bancfs 730 pm show Luxemburg. 11X11 (la LIVE Main Street survivors add character Things are shakin', even if they're no longer stirred, on Main Street. The bar district lost the Top Hat Club last month. Darrell Greig's upscale martini and cocktail club at 1139 Main Street, where tickets on sale Saturday for $20. There's no shortage of "grass" at next weekend's Blue-grass Bash 2001 in Cecil.

Blueground Undergrass and Amazing Grass join Sloppy Joe, Burnt Toast Jam, Frogwater, Cool Waters, Old Truck and The Jug Band Aug. 9-11. Tickets start at $20; (920) 432-1045. Fourteen area bands crank it up for the The Razor's (94.7) Shut Up and Rockfest II at 1 p.m. Saturday at Memorial Park in Combined Locks.

Profane, Myopic Son, Simple Machine and others play the all-ages event. Tickets are $5 in advance at The Exclusive Co. and $9.47 at the gates. Not coming up Merle Haggard has canceled his Sept. 13 concert at Pavilion Nights.

Too bad, because it year-old crowd. "Every day is a party," Bruer says. Muldoon's is gone, but in name only Owner Susie Delfosse decided to give her club at 1279 Main St. a new name and an interior facelift. Look for the new Rock City Pub sign to go up this week.

"So many people didn't even know Muldoon's existed," Delfosse said. "It needed character. Right now, I'm painting the walls banana yellow." Delfosse, who had been the sole owner of Muldoon's for the last two years, plans to focus more on marketing Rock City as a live music club. The Blue Cats host an open jam Thursdays, and there's usually music Friday and Saturday nights. The Stokens play the pub Friday.

Cursed? the top shelf-only drinks ran $5 to $7, closed less than a year after opening in November. But don't look for a similar fate for Classics, 1238 Main St. Despite rumors to the contrary, owner Guy Bruer says he has no plans to close. Bruer, who took over ownership of the bar in March, did away with the original KENDRA MEINERT editor Kendra Meinert writes about the area's pop entertainment scene. She can be reached at (920) 431-8347 or mail at kmeinert greenbaypress gazette.com.

ii i Inn i -nun it i i in A if i mm Among the dates on ttie Brown County Veterans Memorial Arena fal slate is a Nov. 9 concert by Kenny Chesney. The 33-year-oW country singer is out on the road this summer opening shows for fellow partner in crime, Tim Mc-Graw, on his "Set This Circus Down" Tour. would've been fun to see the outlaw hip enough to perform with Jewel at the Country Music Association Awards in '99. Still no word on whether Let's hope the death last week of Lynyrd Skynyrd bassist Leon Wilkeson doesn't mean there's some bizarre curse at work at Pavilion Nights.

retro decor and brought back live music on Thursday and Saturday nights as well as the old McSwiggln's tradition of dancing on the bar for his 21- to 40- mance since completing rehab. The Boys, who postponed part of the summer tour so McLean could get clean, originally planned to be back Aug. 7 Haggard Wilkeson The band put Janet Jackson's July 18 concert at the Bradley Center will be rescheduled. It was post Md31 LIVE MUSIC 9 pm-i am (No Cover) Millennium Hungry Hour pm Fri. pm 23 oz.

Tappers $2.00 Rail Mixers House Wines making it the first Pavilion Nights event to sell out the same day tickets went on sale. At the clubs IQ's, 715 S. Broadway, is swapping cover charge for a food donation every Friday in August. Mark Valentine of Finding Tomorrow came up with the idea for playing for food for Paul's Pantry, and owners Bill and Sandy Hickey decided to go with it all month. Get out your canned goods for Finding Tomorrow this Friday; Dig-gstown, Aug.

10; Roadhouse Scholars, Aug. 17; Habanero Jazz Band, Aug. 24; and Tommy The Bluescasters, Aug. 31. Shows start at 9:30 p.m.

in the beer garden. Ed Biebel has a standing Wednesday-night date on the roof at Gallagher's Off Broadway through Aug. 29. Music begins at 7 p.m. Coming up Minneosta-based jam band The Big Wu makes its Green Bay debut with what should be a great gig Sept.

5 at Riverside Ballroom. The Samples open. Tickets are $13 in advance at the Riverside, Ticketmaster and The Exclusive Co. The Backstreet Boys' concert Aug. 24 at the Bradley Center in Milwaukee will be A.J.

McLean's first perfor- Fri. Aug. 3 4 on one of the best shows of the summer June 1 at Oneida Bingo Casino, and while there are other bassists out there, the real loss is that 49-year-old Wilkeson was one of the few remaining original-members, making him integral to the incredible spirit and chemistry of that band. In other post-Pavilion Nights After the Doobie Brothers played there May 17, drummer Michael Hossack was critically injured later in the summer in a motorcycle accident (M.B. Gordy is filling in while he mends).

Zydeco artist "Boozoo" Chavis performed March 27 at the big tent and passed away May 5. Jerry Lee Lewis, who was supposed to play the tent May 5 but suspiciously canceled last-minute, was hospitalized with pneumonia more than a month later. OK, so maybe that last one was just payback. Then again, psychic Sylvia Browne apparently isn't getting any bad vibes about coming back this year, and she would know. Her Sept.

16 appearance sold out Wednesday, but on Tuesday announced they're going to take another two weeks, making the Milwaukee show first up. It's batter up for the Tito Puente Orchestra at 8 p.m. Aug. 25 at Fox Cities Stadium in Grand Chute. The sizzlin' Latin jazz band will headline Music from the Mound, which includes tailgating and choreographed fireworks.

Tickets are $8 box, $5 reserved and $3 grass at (920) 733-4152. Stevie Ray Vaughan's Double Trouble, Charlie Mussel-white and Power of 10 are among the acts booked for the 10th edition of the Big Bull Falls Blues Festival (try saying that fast 10 times) Aug. 17-18 in Wausau. Call (715) 843-0748 for ticket info. Alternative rap-metal outfit Nonpoint is a go for Sept.

2 at Ryan's Ballroom, Combined Locks. Reveille, Darwin's Waiting Room and Switched support. Tickets are $10 at Ticketmaster. Heavy rockers Seven-dust and the hotter Drowning Pool assault Ryan's Sept. 10; poned just hours before show time due to the star's emergency dental surgery.

Deadline for refunds at place of purchase is Aug. 18. Etc. Jamie Laurence is no longer with the KISS-FM (95.9) morning show. WLUK-TV's Rachel Manek has answered the wake-up call with co-host Hodji.

Meanwhile, Champaign, 111., transplant Elwood has settled into the 6-11 p.m. slot. Pat Monahan came off so good on "Who Wants To Be a Millionaire" last week that I went out and bought Train's "Drops of Jupiter" album, which comes with a money-back guarantee from Columbia Records. Too bad movie studios don't make the same offer. After taking a hard-hat tour of the Resch Center last week and getting a brochure for the Weidner Center's new Act One season this week, just one thought: This city is soooo ready for a new arena.

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