The Artist (formerly known as Prince)
Saturday, Sept. 27, The Gorge
This is what it sounds like when Prince performs live.
Oh, oh, oooh my God! I want to seeeee hiiim! Oooooooooh MY GOD!
As The Artist gyrates his hips against the top of his grand piano, repeat and increase volume: Oh my God!
"We weren't a grunge band when grunge was popular," says Dickie Barrett, lead singer for the Mighty Mighty Bosstones.
It's clear he's proud of his band's 12-year history, 12 years of sticking to its own sound and paving the way for a new era of ska music - music that combines the jumpin' Jamaican rhythm with giant chunks of punk.
There have been many followers in the Bosstones' wake, but none with this eight-piece band's pizazz - heavy with Barrett's cement voice and frisky with a three-piece horn section.
1. SanCyre Hruby, a sufferer of Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease, practices with her new band in Spokane recently. Photo by Sandra Bancroft-Billings/The Spokesman-Review
2. Hruby (foreground) with members of her band: Heather Sanstorm (left0 and Char Getchell.
3. SanCyre Hruby practices with fellow members of the band Fur Burger. Photo by Sandra Bancroft-Billings/The Spokesman-Review
The fall concert season brings several Christian bands to Spokane and North Idaho for concerts.
Christafari, a Christian reggae band, kicks off a string of five shows when the band performs at Pines Baptist Church Saturday.
Spokane band Upside joins them on stage.
Christafari played at the 1996 summer Olympics and has toured with big-name Christian acts such as dcTalk, Geoff Moore and The Distance.
The Mayfield Four, from left: Marty Meisner, Myles Kennedy, Craig Johnson and Zia Uddin. The Spokane band is getting ready to start cutting a new CD. Photo by Torsten Kjellstrand/The Spokesman-Review
Live
Saturday, Sept. 13, the Gorge
When Live took the stage at the Gorge Saturday night, they did so with about half the crowd, half the security guards and half the volume of Rage Against the Machine the night before.
But what Live lacked in punch it nearly made up for in intimacy.
Singer and lead soul-searcher Ed Kowalczyk led the rock quartet through a set laden with mystical and metaphysical probing.
1. Far left: Singer Adam Duritz of Counting Crows rocks his world.
2. Left: The Wallflowers peform as opening act for Counting Crows. For a story on the band, see page D7.
When it comes to laying his life out for all to see, Jakob Dylan is quite the opposite of Adam Duritz.
Dylan, singer/songwriter for the Wallflowers and son of folk legend Bob Dylan, has been notoriously tightlipped when it comes to speaking of his private life - especially that part that involves his very private father.
Few could blame a guy whose family has been constantly under the spotlight since his birth and well before.
1. Liz Berlin of Rusted Root plays percussion during a recent concert. The band mixes layers of instrumentation for its rootsy sound. Photo by Ken Settle
2. Carlos Santana during a performance in Spokane's Opera House. He remains one of rock's innovators. Photo by Dan Pelle/The Spokesman-Review
