Quick: It’s the last full weekend in October and how is your fantasy football team doing?! Yeah, we know. Yikes. Anyway, the month is going out with a bang as perhaps the best slate of live music to come to town in October is ready to rock and roll all the way through the next three days. As we’re sure you’re all sick of hearing by now, Karen Jonas, she of playlist-to-the-right fame, is bringing a guitar player and presumably some tunes to Cafe Nola this evening. Not only is it during Cafe Nola’s anniversary week, meaning there is no cover charge, but it is also The Event Some Of Us Have Been Looking Forward To All Week. As in, someone in a tie will be there. Drinking. Alone. Moving on, elsewhere, we have banjo icon Bela Fleck coming to town on Saturday, and yes, there is still time to enter our ticket giveaway (we’ll be in touch tomorrow morning if you’re the lucky winner). Mary Black is saying goodbye to a decorated and impressive career on her last-call tour that hits the Weinberg tonight. Southern Culture On The Skids will be eating some of Larry’s delicious gumbo over in Shepherdstown (and as someone who has shared said gumbo with said band, you might want to head over to West Virginia before making it back to check out Ms. Jonas this evening). Prophets Of The Abstract Truth will bring a nice helping of jazz to Ayse on Friday. Shane Gamble returns to Champion. Phil Kominski, one of the nicest, greatest guys around, will be taking The Cellar Door stage on Saturday night, which also happens to be the same night the third Last Saturdays hip-hop event will go down at Church Street Pub. And then, of course, there is a band called Bag Of Humans. We’ll be virtually impossible to miss around town through the next three days, so if you’re rocking and rolling your way through Frederick, come on up and say hello. We might always look angry, but that’s only true … let’s say … 89 percent of the time. Promise. And to all a good night.
THURSDAY
Who: Clearspring
Where: Beans In The Belfry
When: 7 p.m.
Who: Rick Windon, Rick Ricker
Where: The Hill Chapel
When: 7:30 p.m.
Who: Jazz Jam
Where: Jekyll & Hyde Restaurant & Tavern
When: 7:30 p.m.
Who: Open Mic
Where: Blue Sky Bar And Grill
When: 8 p.m.
Who: Open Mic
Where: Bushwallers
When: Sign-up begins at 9 p.m., play begins at 10 p.m.
Who: Karen Jonas
Where: Cafe Nola
When: 9:30 p.m.
Who: Mary Black
Where: The Weinberg Center
When: 8 p.m.
Who: Southern Culture On The Skids, Atomic Mosquitos
Where: The Opera House, Shepherdstown
When: 8 p.m.
Who: Bluegrass Jam
Where: The Reunion
When: 8 p.m.
Who: Mitch Morril
Where: Ayse Meze Lounge
When: 6 p.m.
FRIDAY
Who: DAPP
Where: Cafe Nola
When: 9:30 p.m.
Who: Inner County Crank
Where: Cafe 611
When: 9 p.m.
Who: Vienna Boys Choir
Where: The Weinberg Center
When: 8 p.m.
Who: Sam Biskin & Friends
Where: The Frederick Coffee Company
When: 8 p.m.
Who: Cumberland Valley Duo with Fran Tucker
Where: Beans In The Belfry
When: 7 p.m.
Who: Prophets Of The Abstract Truth
Where: Ayse Meze Lounge
When: 8 p.m.
Who: Craig Donovan, Mike Lewis
Where: The Reunion
When: 8 p.m.
Who: Secondhand Ramblers
Where: Bushwallers
When: 10 p.m.
Who: Donnie Wood
Where: JR’s Sports Bar
When: 7 p.m.
Who: Andy Carignan
Where: The Main Cup
When: 8:30 p.m.
Who: John Zahn Band
Where: Hard Times Cafe
When: 9 p.m.
Who: Southern Charm
Where: Blue Sky Bar And Grill
When: 9 p.m.
Who: Rise
Where: Champion Billiards
When: 9 p.m.
SATURDAY
Who: The Tonehounds
Where: Cafe Nola
When: 9:30 p.m.
Who: Cyrenic, Marzy Maddox, Hejira, Bag Of Humans
Where: Cafe 611
When: 7 p.m.
Who: Secondhand Ramblers
Where: JoJo’s Tap House
When: 9 p.m.
Who: Phil Kominski
Where: The Cellar Door
When: 10 p.m.
Who: Bela Fleck, Abigail Washburn
Where: The Weinberg Center
When: 8 p.m.
Who: Halloween Bash with West By God, Ruckus Revival
Where: The Opera House, Shepherdstown
When: 9 p.m.
Who: Maxx Honn and Friends
Where: Beans In The Belfry
When: 7 p.m.
Who: Girl On Top Band
Where: Jekyll & Hyde Restaurant & Tavern
When: 8:30 p.m.
Who: Blues Vultures
Where: Cactus Flats
When: 8:30 p.m.
Who: C-9
Where: The Main Cup
When: 8:30 p.m.
Who: Apex Rex
Where: Hard Times Cafe
When: 9 p.m.
Who: Due Process
Where: Blue Sky Bar And Grill
When: 9 p.m.
Who: Shane Gamble
Where: Champion Billiards
When: 9 p.m.
Who: Jack Z & The Meteors
Where: Olde Towne Tavern
When: 10 p.m.
Who: Dan McGuire Group
Where: Bushwallers
When: 10 p.m.
Who: Last Saturdays Hip-Hop Night featuring Sean Toure, Jay Berd, Upgrade, CM Lugo, DJ Blaze Daily and Artistry Music Group
Where: The Church Street Pub
When: 9 p.m.
Who: Pete Looney
Where: The Frederick Coffee Company
When: 8 p.m.
Who: Craig Rosendale
Where: Ayse Meze Lounge
When: 7 p.m.
Who: Frank Davis and Bobby Flurie
Where: The Reunion
When: 8 p.m.
