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The HomeGrown Bar is excited to present our first Saturday Night Live Music February 10th at 7pm. Join us in welcoming The Green Lotus Band to our stage! This local band plays a range of music from Classic Rock, to Blues-Rock-Funk, and original compositions. The music is free. The HomeGrown Bar is located inside HomeGrown Bowl (formally Carson Lanes), at 4600 Snyder Ave, Carson City. We look forward to seeing you tomorrow!

Canyon White, Singer Songwriter extraordinaire, winner of many awards, will be performing her unique soulful original tunes off of her 4 albums plus many covers that you know and love on Saturday evening, February 10th beginning at 7pm at Polecat Tavern.

Musician, guitar teacher, and podcast host Eric Stangeland will be featured this week on The Brother Dan Show. A featured performer at Wild River Grille’s (Reno) summer patio concert series, Stangeland will join the host for an interview and musical performance at Bank Saloon in Carson City on Monday, Nov. 21.

Singer/songwriter Karrie O’Neill will be featured this Monday on The Brother Dan Show, which streams live on Facebook from Bank Saloon in Carson City Mondays at 5pm. Hailing from Spokane, WA, O’Neill has located to Reno after a four-year stay in Maui, and is finding lots of opportunities to perform here in Northern Nevada.

Singer/songwriter Nick Aliberti will be featured on The Brother Dan Show, live from the Bank Saloon in Carson City, on Monday, April 25. Local audiences will recognize Kingwhistler from a number of local appearances including the annual Levitt Amp Concert Series in Carson City.

Guitar virtuoso Mick Valentino will be featured on the April 4 episode of The Brother Dan Show, live from the Bank Saloon in Carson City.

Guitar virtuoso Mick Valentino will be featured on the April 4 episode of The Brother Dan Show, live from the Bank Saloon in Carson City.

Local singer/songwriter Canyon White will be the featured guest on The Brother Dan Show on March 21. The show streams every week, LIVE from the Bank Saloon in Carson City, and features music and interviews with a variety of local and regional musicians.

This week, The Brother Dan Show welcomes singer/songwriter Spike McGuire to the Bank Saloon in Carson City. This is an opportunity for the local community to get to know this local musician, who not only tours internationally, but promotes other singer/songwriters through Loud As Folk, a monthly songwriter series that he founded in 2011, plus he is the front man of local band Six Mile Station.

Streaming live every Monday from The Bank Saloon in Carson City, this week The Brother Dan Show welcomes multi-instrumentalist Doug Sandall on Feb. 28.
Local audiences 21 years of age are invited to attend the show in person from 4:30-6:30pm, (while enjoying free munchies from show sponsor and local restaurant Mangia Tutto) and online audiences can watch the show from 5:00-6:00pm.

Students returned to the Pioneer High School campus Tuesday and found the new CZJ Recording Studio, which was installed over the summer.

The entire project was the dream of PHS student, Zaca U. He shared his idea for Pioneer to have a sound recording studio for students to exercise their creative musical talents.

Acoustic music at its finest, live and spontaneous. Join Brother Dan as he performs from his repertoire of over 1,000 cover tunes and occasional original music.

Join the fun, make requests, and sing along as this Carson City musician shows why he's a mainstay in Northern Nevada entertainment.

March 20th 7pm to 10pm
Washoe Camp Saloon
3155 Eastlake Blvd
New Washoe City, NV
(775) 470-8128

For more information: www.washoecamp.com
or www.brotherdanpalmer.com

A big hello Carson City as we head into Monday, June 10, 2019. The first day of the work week will be a warm one, with highs in the upper 80s, according to weather forecasters. Looking ahead we have art showings, a talk about geothermal energy and live music lined up at A to Zen. Enjoy the day!

A musical treat arrives at A To Zen in Carson City on Monday, June 10 with two solo sets of exceptional musicians: Brother Dan Palmer of Carson City and Kazoo Studios of Oakland, Calif.

Dan Palmer is best classified as an upbeat, observant singing songwriter specializing in Modern Americana music. Often compared to artists as diverse as John Mayer, Maroon 5, James Taylor, David Wilcox, Dan Fogelberg, Todd Snider, Dave Mason, and Harry Chapin.

As we head into a jam-packed Memorial Day weekend, activities and events around Carson City on Friday will help set the mood for what promises to be a tremendous few days ahead. Festivities include the opening day of the Rockin’ Rib Fest at Carson City's Casino Fandango, the planting of American flags on the graves of our fallen veterans at Lone Mountain Cemetery, a weekly open mic night at A to Zen, laughs at the Carson Comedy Club, live music and more.

Here’s an events lineup of what's happening around the Carson City region for the 2019 Memorial Day weekend. More events will be added as information becomes available.

Friday, May 24

Celtic mandolin master MARLA FIBISH,and guitarist, BRUCE VICTOR, join forces with Marin County's Irish fiddle virtuoso SUZUKI CADY. With elegant performances of intimate songs and intricate Celtic tunes, NOCTAMBULE remains a Brewery Arts Center favorite since the beginning of the Celtic Music Series.

The Brewery Arts Center, Carson City’s premiere epicenter for the arts since 1975 announced Tuesday the return of Big Bad VooDoo Daddy and its Wild & Swingin’ Holiday Party that will be featured at Casino Fandango’s new Grand Ballroom on Dec. 4.

Celebrating the arts and the region's most talented vocalists, the Brewery Art Center will feature "Evening with the Divas” billed as a once in a lifetime event, this Saturday in Carson City.

The Brewery Arts Center, Carson City’s premiere epicenter for the arts since 1975, is thrilled to announce its newest fundraiser, "Evening with the Divas," a once in a lifetime event.

Everyone get ready for the Ninth Annual Concert Under the Stars, a benefit for The Greenhouse Project, with headliner The Family Stone and featuring Lydia Pense and Cold Blood on Wednesday, July 12 at the Brewery Arts Center, 449 W. King Street in downtown Carson City.

Three of the premier Celtic harpers in the world take you on a dramatic musical journey deep into the myths, magic and fabled history of this most captivating instrument to close out this season’s Celtic Series at the Brewery Arts Center, this Saturday May 13, 7 p.m. in the BAC’s MHJ Black Box Theater at 411 West King Street.

Suspect Terrane performs an entertaining eclectic spectrum of acoustic music, drawing on the influences of bluegrass, western swing, folk, and rock, and pulling it all together with rich vocal harmonies. They will be at the Brewery Arts Center MHJ Black Box Theater, on Saturday, April 29 at 7 p.m.

The Mile High Jazz Band Association will hold a two-part jazz workshop/masterclass on Tuesday, February 28, at Carson Middle School, 1140 W. King Street. The afternoon session, from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m., is for student jazz musicians. The evening session, from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m., is for advanced through professional level musicians.

The Carson City Symphony, directed by David Bugli, presents its first concert of 2017 on Sunday, Feb. 26 at 4 p.m. with a “Celebrations Old & New" concert at the Carson City Community Center's Bob Boldrick Theater, 851 E. William St. in Carson City.

Born in Pittsburgh, PA., the second eldest child of Joseph Patrick McGuire Jr. and Sylvia Francis May, Joe spent his early childhood in and around that area, moving often due to his Father’s work.

In 1964, at the age of 13, he and his family moved to Carson City, the Capital of Nevada. It was there, playing in the school band, that Joe had discovered a love of music that would become the muse that he would follow the rest of his life.

Carson City has had the pleasure of welcoming Rowan brothers, Lorin and Chris over the years as they’ve played at Cafe at Adele’s. This year is no different, but with one exception: In addition to opening Concert Under the Stars, A Benefit For The Greenhouse Project, Thursday, July 14, The Rowans also play at 6:30 p.m., Wednesday, July 13, on the veranda.

The Brewery Arts Center (BAC) in downtown Carson City will be hosting a free summer concert series this year, sponsored by the Mortimer and Mimi Levitt Foundation.

Through the efforts of the BAC, Carson City was one of 15 cities nationwide awarded the concert series for 2016.

The Levitt AMP Carson City Music Series kicks off June 4 and will run every Saturday evening through August 6 with live music starting at 7 p.m. along Minnesota Street next to the BAC. The 10-week music series will include one Friday night show on June 17.

The concert series is free and open to the public.

Local musical duo, In Stride, will play and sing a variety of traditional and original music pieces at Comma Coffee from noon to 2 pm Oct. 8. Mountain dulcimers, electric mandolin, recorders and more.

The Jazz & Beyond - Carson City Music Festival concludes with nine events on Saturday, August 22, and four events on Sunday August 23.

Saturday events are:

Music in the Market – Barbara Baxter - 8:30 a.m.-1:00 p.m. at Third & Curry St. Farmer's Market. Barbara Baxter sings soul-laced jazz with Jimmy Vermilion on piano.