January’s lengthy checklist of notable live shows and different space occasions continues, with Sarasota’s largest performing arts corridor Van Wezel having a busy week for reside music particularly. Amongst these visiting the Rock & Roll Corridor of Fame-inducted vocal group nonetheless that includes its founding frontman, a Grammy-winning singer-songwriter performing their hottest album, and one other Grammy-winning act celebrating 5 many years collectively.
Even some space festivals not solely centered on music will deliver noteworthy performers to city this week. These embrace a seafood pageant with a Juno Award-winning blues artist amongst its free, three-day reside music lineup, and the returning Manatee County Truthful that includes a Grammy-nominated bluegrass group amongst its essential stage leisure. Listed here are this week’s highlights. Occasion particulars are topic to vary.
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Punta Gorda Seafood & Music Competition
The regionally primarily based Paragon Competition hosted its first seafood and music pageant in Punta Gorda for the brand new yr, that includes three days of meals, drink and free reside music. Notable performers embrace Crystal Shawanda, a Canadian-born nation singer-turned-blues musician who gained the Greatest Blues Album Juno Award (Canada’s equal of the Grammys) for 2020’s “Church Home Blues,” enjoying Saturday. She’ll be joined by different blues artists akin to Memphis Lightning and Sean Chambers and native favorites together with Kettle of Fish and 22N. 4-10 pm Friday, 11 am-10 pm Saturday, 11 am-6 pm Sunday; Laishley Park, 120 Laishley Court docket, Punta Gorda; free admission; 941-487-8061; paragonfestivals. com
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Frankie Valli and the 4 Seasons
A busy week of live shows at Van Wezel kicks off with famed vocal group Frankie Valli and the 4 Seasons. Notching No. 1 hits all through the Sixties and ’70s with songs akin to “Sherry,” “Huge Women Do not Cry,” “Stroll Like a Man” and “December, 1963 (Oh, What a Evening),” the group was inducted into the Rock & Rock Corridor of Fame in 1990. The 88-year-old Valli and the 4 Seasons had been launched to a brand new era of followers with the Tony-winning Broadway musical “Jersey Boys,” primarily based on their life story, and its 2014 movie adaptation directed by Clint Eastwood. 7 p.m. Sundays; Van Wezel Performing Arts Corridor, 777 N. Tamiami Path, Sarasota; $122-$137; 941-263-6799; vanwezel.org
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Nellie McKay
Singer-songwriter and actress Nellie McKay will make her return to Fogartyville this Sunday. McKay made an enormous splash along with her 2004 debut “Get Away from Me,” mixing pop, jazz and rock and incomes rave evaluations from shops together with Leisure Weekly and The Guardian, and has launched quite a few albums since. Her wide-ranging profession additionally consists of roles within the 2006 Tony-nominated Broadway revival of “The Threepenny Opera” and the 2007 Hilary Swank/Gerard Butler romance “PS I Love You,” additionally contributing music to the movie, amongst her numerous soundtrack appearances . 6 pm doorways, 7 pm present Sundays; Fogartyville Group Media and Arts Heart, 525 Kumquat Court docket, Sarasota; $32, $28 members, $16 college students ages 13 and up; 941-894-6469; fogartyville.org
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Cornell Gunter’s Coasters, The Drifters and The Platters
Van Wezel will welcome the music of three different Corridor of Fame-inducted vocal teams this week with the triple invoice of Cornell Gunter’s Coasters, The Drifters and The Platters. Do not count on any authentic band members, after many years of lineup adjustments and deaths, however do count on to listen to their basic songs. These embrace “Yakety Yak” and “Down in Mexico” for the Coasters, “Beneath the Boardwalk” and “Save the Final Dance for Me” for the Drifters, and “Solely You (and You Alone)” and “Smoke Will get in Your Eyes” for the Platters. 7:30 p.m. Mondays; Van Wezel Performing Arts Corridor, 777 N. Tamiami Path, Sarasota; $32-$67; 941-263-6799; vanwezel.org
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Judy Collins performing ‘Wildflowers’
Judy Collins will revisit her 1967 full-length “Wildflowers” with this present that includes the singer-songwriter performing the album, supported by a 27-piece orchestra, together with different songs from her decades-spanning profession. That includes her Grammy-winning Greatest People Efficiency, High 10 rendition of the Joni Mitchell basic “Each Sides Now” in addition to a number of Leonard Cohen-penned songs, “Wildflowers” stays Collins’ highest-charting album thus far, reaching No. 5 on the Billboard 200. But the 83-year-old Collins remains to be going robust, only recently incomes a Greatest People Album Grammy nomination for 2022’s “Spellbound,” her first-ever album of all authentic materials. 7:30 pm Wednesdays; Van Wezel Performing Arts Corridor, 777 N. Tamiami Path, Sarasota; $27-$72; 941-263-6799; vanwezel.org
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America
Rounding out Van Wezel’s busy week of live shows is pop-rock act America, celebrating 5 many years as a gaggle. The band rose to fame within the Nineteen Seventies with earworms akin to their Grammy-nominated No. 1 hit “A Horse with No Title” (with the group profitable the Greatest New Artist Grammy that very same yr), “Sister Golden Hair” and “Ventura Freeway.” Nonetheless that includes founding members Dewey Bunnell and Gerry Beckley, America has continued to launch new music into the 2000s and ’10s, together with 2007’s “Right here & Now,” which noticed the group collaborating with and overlaying youthful artists akin to My Morning Jacket and Nada Surf . 7:30 pm Thursday, Jan. 19; Van Wezel Performing Arts Corridor, 777 N. Tamiami Path, Sarasota; $67-$102; 941-263-6799; vanwezel.org
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Dailey & Vincent
Together with halfway rides and fried meals, the Manatee County Truthful will provide reside music, most notably bluegrass group Dailey & Vincent. That includes singers and multi-instrumentalists Jamie Dailey, previously of Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver, and Darrin Vincent, previously of Ricky Skaggs and Kentucky Thunder, Dailey & Vincent have gained 13 Worldwide Bluegrass Music Affiliation Awards and earned three Grammy nominations. Different performers will embrace Grammy-nominated up to date Christian artist Rhett Walker (Sunday), country-pop band Rockland Street (Friday-Saturday) and bluegrass group Hwy 41 South (Wednesday.) 7:30 pm Thursday; Manatee County Fairgrounds, 1402 14th Ave. W., Palmetto; $10 adults, $6 army with lively standing ID/ages 6-12, free ages 5 and below (admission), $10 parking; 941-722-1639; manateecountyfair.com
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The Blue Eyed Bettys
Additionally returning to Fogartyville this week are “indie-folk popgrass” band The Blue Eyed Bettys. Banjo participant Daniel Emond, guitarist Ben Mackel and fiddler Sarah Hund (who shares singing duties) are respectively primarily based in Brooklyn, Asheville and “in all places else,” however met doing a play collectively at Sarasota’s Florida Studio Theatre. The group’s releases embrace 2017’s “Discover My Manner Out Quickly” and 2016’s “Coated Up,” that includes bluegrass-tinged renditions of songs together with the Beatles’ “I’ve Simply Seen a Face” and “Why Do not We Do It within the Street?” 6 pm doorways, 7 pm present Thursdays; Fogartyville Group Media and Arts Heart, 525 Kumquat Court docket, Sarasota; $22, $18 members, $11 college students ages 13 and up; 941-894-6469; fogartyville.org
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