{"id":2444251,"date":"2019-05-16T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-16T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/?p=305768"},"modified":"2019-05-16T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-05-16T06:00:00","slug":"piecing-together-belly-ups-summer-lineup-so-far","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/piecing-together-belly-ups-summer-lineup-so-far\/","title":{"rendered":"Piecing together Belly Up\u2019s summer lineup (so far)"},"content":{"rendered":"
The Record Company<\/strong>
Anna Stonehouse\/The Aspen Times<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Back in February, the Aspen Music Festival and School dropped its summer calendar and sent classical music fans scurrying to study hundreds of artist names, composers, themes and symphonies. Likewise, Jazz Aspen released its full 10-artist JAS Caf\u00e9 summer lineup in March.<\/p>\n

Belly Up, like most music clubs, trickles its seasonal lineup out piece meal and surprises us e-mail blasts and social media posts that offer jolts of anticipation; sometimes they just quietly add a name to their online calendar and put tickets on sale.<\/p>\n

By this point in mid-May, though. you can start planning out your summer shows and stacking up your tickets. As experience shows, there will be more big names added to the docket and there will be some true surprise (like the Chainsmokers secret show<\/a> last June). But this is how it\u2019s shaping up so far:<\/p>\n

The first big show of the season will be The Record Company, headlining on June 8. The Los Angeles trio played a few under-the-radar gigs at Belly Up in recent years. But they truly won over local music fans last summer at the Jazz Aspen Snowmass Labor Day Experience when they shared Sunday\u2019s main stage bill with Gary Clark, Jr. and Zac Brown Band in what ended up being \u2013 unexpectedly \u2013 one of the most talked-about sets of the big weekend.<\/p>\n

The two splashiest announcements so far: the brilliant former Rilo Kiley singer Jenny Lewis who just released the new solo album \u201cOn the Line\u201d and will headline July 10 and the superstar pop singer Norah Jones, whose July 18 show sold out almost immediately when tickets went on sale this winter.<\/p>\n

Another early sell-out: Band of Horses\u2019 return on Saturday, July 20 with alt-country singer Nikki Lane opening.<\/p>\n

During the new downtown version of the Jazz Aspen Snowmass June Experience, the club is hosting two of the festival\u2019s biggest shows with two set each by a pair of music legends: Booker T. Jones on June 21 and Taj Mahal on June 22.<\/p>\n

Mavis Staples, following a well-received Belly Up debut during the ski season, returns on July 17 (at $55 to see the Staples Singers legend, this might be the deal of the summer).<\/p>\n

A slew of returning local favorites are on the calendar like Michael Franti (June 4), Long Beach Dub Allstars (june 120, the Austin indie-pop duo Wild Child (June 20) and roots rockers Jamestown Revival (June 30), with the throwback sounds of Lake Street Dive (July 6) and New Orleans jam band Galactic (July 11) and he always-incendiary blues rock duo Black Pistol Fire (July 26).<\/p>\n

And, of course, there\u2019s already some reggae on the bill: The Wailers are back in the club on June 26; Toots and the Maytals on July 25 and Stephen Marley on Aug. 24.<\/p>\n

Feel-good electronic duo Louis the Child \u2013 hot off of their X Games shows here in January \u2013 will be back in the club for a Friday night show on July 12. The next night, July 13, the orchestral pop hybrid Pink Martini rolls in.<\/p>\n

While most of July\u2019s weekend shows are already announced, August\u2019s \u2013 at press time \u2013 are still wide open. Two major acts are scheduled so far for the month: two nights of Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue (Aug. 8-9) and Amos Lee (Aug. 31).<\/p>\n

The club has also started to fill in some of its stand-up comedy dates, with Kevin Nealon booked for June 23 and (sigh) Denver\u2019s T.J. Miller on Aug. 7.<\/p>\n

Further out, we\u2019ve already got one reason to start craving autumn and leaf-peeping season: Gary Clark, Jr. is coming back Sept. 17.<\/p>\n

atravers@aspentimes.com<\/a><\/p>\n

via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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