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CommentsBlue Wave
The September and October concert lineup is heavy on the blues legends and jazz wizards. And Soulja Boy.
When quality concerts come to Springfield, they tend to come in waves. This fall, that wave is primarily a single color: blue. Here are the shows you should buy tickets for right now.
Seether @ The Shrine Mosque
September 17, $36
Tickets at Kaleidoscope, Stick It In Your Ear, Vintage Stock, Metrotix locations and metrotix.com
With no Rock Fest scheduled this year, Q102 fans are left starving for a solid nu-metal act to see live. The Shrine once again delivers.
Soulja Boy @ The Ozark Empire Fairgrounds
Sept. 26, $27-$75
Tickets available at Kaleidoscope, Stick It In Your Ear and Eye Candy
Let’s be honest. A solid portion of the audience in attendance will probably be underage and waiting their chance to do this decade’s version of the Macarena for “Crank ’Dat.” That said, this is a huge show for Springfield considering the limited number of Top 40 concerts we’ve had come to our neck of the woods.
Joe Bonamassa @ The Gillioz Theatre
October 3, $25-$45
Tickets at The Gillioz, Metrotix locations and metrotix.com
And if you can’t make to Branson for BB King (keep reading) but still in need of some solid blues guitar, The Gillioz has got you covered.
Dave Brubeck Quartet @ Juanita K. Hammons Hall for the Performing Arts
October 5, $23-$43.
Tickets at Missouri State and hammonshall.com
Yes, that’s right. The jazz icon who brought us tunes like the ever-popular “Take Five” and the mesmerizing “Blue Ronda a la Turk” is coming back to Springfield. Considering the man’s most famous record, Time Out, was released almost 50 years ago, it’s a wonder he can even stand—much less grace our stage and keep the music coming. Point is, don’t miss this.
BB King @ Branson’s Welk Resort Theater
October 5, $39.50-$69.50
Tickets at the Welk Resort Theater and online (including welkbranson.com)
It looks like we have schedule conflict on our hands. What’s it going to be? Do you stay in Springfield to see one of the great jazz composers of the 20th century, or do you opt for the man who taught a generation what it meant for a wide-bodied Gibson guitar to sing the blues? This one will cost you a little more, not to mention gas, but, while Dave Brubeck is brilliant, BB King is a household name.
Mt. Eerie, Julie Doiron, Calm Down It’s Monday @ Randy Bacon Gallery
October 25, $9
Tickets at Randy Bacon Art Gallery
This is the Springfield lo-fi fan’s wet dream of the fall. Phil Elverum’s birth child and identity crisis, Mt. Eerie, is finally going to make it to Springfield. He had a show lined up last fall, but that tour had to be canceled due to a family crisis. Well, he’s coming back and bringing friends—friends like Canadian folk sweetheart Julie Doiron.
