American Music Festival Preview

ilentertainer | June 28, 2006

American Music Festival
FitzGerald’s, Berwyn
Friday, June 30 through Monday, July 3, 2006

Yes, the annual extravaganza returns with real American celebratin’ in the Side Bar, main music room, and outside. Bring the kids (and a designated driver), or hire a babysitter and stumble on over!

Tickets are mainly $25, though there are early-bird and kid discounts, and times vary, so we’ll point you here http://fitzgeraldsnightclub.com/AMF/AMF.htm so you can sort out your logistics. But for your pleasure, we have reprinted the entire schedule.

Friday, June 30th, Outdoors:
5:00 Jeff & Vida
5:30 Lost Bayou Ramblers (1st set)
7:00 Lost Bayou Ramblers (2nd set)
8:30 CJ Chenier & The Red Hot Louisiana Band
10:30 Marcia Ball Band

Indoors:
6:00 Wrinkle Neck Mules
7:45 Jimmy LaFave
9:45 Walter â€œWolfmanâ€ Washington
11:30 Brave Combo (1st set)
1:00 a.m. Brave Combo (2nd set)

Saturday, July 1st, Outdoors:
2:00 Anne Harris
3:00 Deacon Rubin & The Victory Travelers with The Announted Choir Of Chicago
4:45 Heartsfield
6:30 Tributosaurus (The Byrds)
8:30 Jimmy LaFave
10:30 The Blasters with Gene Taylor

Indoors:
2:15 Nicholas Tremulis
3:30 Jon Langford’s Ship & Pilot
5:00 Paul Cebar & The Milwaukeeans
6:30Switchback
8:00 Kevin Gordon Band
9:30 Pat McLaughlin
11:30 Marcia Ball Band

Sunday, July 2nd, Outdoors:
2:00 John Bany’s Men of Note with Eric Schneider
4:00 John Burnett Orchestra with Byron Strippling (1st set)
5:30 John Burnett Orchestra with Byron Strippling (2nd set)
7:00 Ronnie Baker Brooks
8:45 Webb Wilder
10:30 Terrence Simien & The Zydeco Experience

Indoors:
2:30 Chatham County Line
4:00 Chevere
6:30 Chatham County Line (2nd set)
7:45 Jon Dee Graham
9:30 Sonny Landreth
11:30 The Blasters with Gene Taylor

Monday, July 3rd, Outdoors:
5:00 The Terrence Simien Family Show
7:00 Dale Watson
9:00 Bill Kirchen w/ Sarah Brown & Lisa Pankratz
10:30 John Mooney & Bluesiana

Indoors:
5:00 Devil in a Woodpile
6:15 Eric Lindell
7:45 Jon Dee Graham
9:30 Famous Potatoes Reunion w/ Michael McDermott
11:30 Dave Alvin & The Guilty Men

— Steve Forstneger

Category: Stage Buzz, Weekly