Frank Dove, who led some of El Paso's top country bands — and bars — will be remembered with a jam session from 4-8 p.m. Aug. 14 at the Edge of Texas.
Dove led bands such as the Country Tones and Sundowners, and backed the likes of Willie Nelson and Tom T. Hall when they used to pass through town. He also owned the Melody Ranch, Red Dog Saloon and Cabaret, back when country was a big part of the cultural fabric here.
Dove was 77 when he died of kidney cancer on May 8.
Sweetwater, Tim Thompson and others will play the jam. A PA system, amps and trap set will be set up for other musicians who'd like to pay tribute the way Dove would have liked it — musically.
In other concert news:
• No word on any local or area shows by El Paso-based folk singer-songwriter Tom Russell when his tour in support of forthcoming album, "Mesabi," but you can hear him the music Russell composed for "Two Lane Blacktop" director Monte Hellman's first film in 21 years when "Road to Nowhere" shows at Mesilla's Fountain Theatre at 1:30 p.m. July 30, part of its CineMatinee series.
"(Tom's) song 'Touch of Evil' moved me so much I used it as an example of emotion in my directing class at CalArts," Hellman has said. "When I was preparing my movie, 'Road to Nowhere,' Tom was the only composer/singer I considered."
The soundtrack includes the title cut and "Roll the Credits," which are featured on the new "Mesabi" CD.
• Explosions in the Sky, the Texas instrumental band that cut new album "Take Care, Take Care, Take Care" at Tornillo's Sonic Ranch, will play a free show with Twin Sister in Marfa's Viscaino Park on Sept. 15.
It's being presented by Ballroom Marfa, which just got a $250,000 grant from the NEA to turn the park into a combination outdoor concert and movie space.
• Our own musical adventurer, guitarist Dan Lambert, still touting his sterling "Double Drum Trio" album (also cut at Sonic Ranch), liked doing a show with singer Laura Tate Goldman so much last spring that he's doing another.
Lambert's trio will team up at 6:30 p.m. July 28 at the Magic Pan.
It's a dinner show, with dinner served first, then the performance.
Cost is $34.95 and includes a dinner of salad, stuffed flank steak with marinara sauce, rice pilaf, veggies and taramisu.
Call 581.2121 for reservations.
• LA singer-songwriter Rich McCulley will play a free, acoustic show at 6 p.m. July 21 at the Riviera (great potato tachos and machaca there).
His "Forget It All Again" was featured on "Grey's Anatomy," and he's cowritten other songs featured on shows such as "Cold Case," "Men in Trees" and "Cathouse."
He's going to be here, by the way, to meet the family of his wife, Anna Maria Rosales. The couple's son was born in April.
• Pitbull, who'll be at the Don Oct. 15 with Enrique Iglesias (just saw him again in "Once Upon a Time in Mexico:), is among the performances on Univision's 8th annual "Premios Juventud" youth awards show airing live at 6 p.m. our time on July 21.
Prince Royce, who's also on the Iglesias bill, also will appear, along with Ne-Yo, Daddy Yankee, Ricky Martin, Wisin y Yandel, Fanny Lu and Reik.
• Houston's Manichean plays the Tequila Garage Bar at 9 p.m. July 22. They'll be joined by Las Cruces' Lawrence Tenorio and El Paso's Jamie Hernandez and Eddie Tarin Band.
It's free for 21 and over, $5 for 18-20, at the door.
• Cruces bluegrass singer-musician Steve Smith will play a benefit for NM State's KRWG TV and radio stations at 7 p.m. July 23 at the Rio Grande Theatre.
He'll be joined by Chris Sanders, fiddler Nate Lee, guitarist Tim May and banjo player Bill Evans.
Tickets are $15 in advance, $20 at the door; $7.50 in advance, $10 door for 12 and under.
• The Museums and Cultural Affairs Department's Dancing in the City series continues this weekend with local rockabilly cats Hillside Gamblers performing at 8 p.m. July 23 in the Arts Festival Plaza.
As always, they'll be preceded at 7 p.m. by a dance lesson.
MCAD also plans to take part in National Dance Day on July 30 with a choreographed group dance at 7 p.m. It will be filmed and submitted to TV's "So You Think You Can Dance," whose exec producer and judge Nigel Lythgoe (of "American Idol" fame) instigated the national celebration.
Salsa band Havana Son will headline that night, the last in this year's expanded and second annual series.
Shundo Dance Studio will choreograph the group dance.
Admission to Dancing with the City events is $6 per person $10 per couple, and includes a dance lessons.
Call 541.4481 or go to elpasoartsandculture.org with questions.
• MCAD's Music Under the Stars series continues, btw, with San Francisco's Rupa and the April Fishes, who toss in elements of Latino, African American, Pacific islander and Asian music.
They'll perform a free concert at 7:30 p.m. July 24 at the Chamizal National Memorial.
Remember: no alcohol is allowed (which has hurt attendance this year).
• Joy Zalkind, a flutist for the El Paso Symphony Orchestra, is putting together a recital for July 31 that will raise money for the Alzheimer's Association.
Zalkind, whose grandmother suffered from Alzheimer's, will be part of a team that will raise money for the association for the Sept. 4 Run to Remember in NYC, a 9/11 10th anniversary event,
The concert is at 4 p.m. July 31 at St. Mark's Church, 5005 Love Road.
It's a freebie, but donations will be accepted.
She'll be joined by EPSO violist Mary Ellis Moran, double bassist Brianna Goldberg and bassoonist Cara Luffey, Juarez Symphony trombonist Albert Licon and Las Cruces Symphony flutist Katie Tomicek.
The program will includes pieces by the likes of Bach, Beethoven and Mendelssohn and the premiere of a piece called "Diversions," for flute and trombone, by Howard Buss.
• Malena Cano's Teatro de El Paso will perform the Charles Laurence comedy "Mi Amiga La Gorda (My Fat Friend)" at 7 p.m. July 29-30 at the Chamizal National Memorial Theater.
She'll play Vicki, the title character. The cast also includes Carlos E. Ayub, who is directing, Claudio Gonzalez and Gerardo Valles.
Admission is free. Doors open at 6:30 p.m.
• Las Cruces filmmaker Charlie Minn, whose Juarez doc "8 Murders a Day" has been making the rounds, will have one final set of shows of his "A Nightmare in Las Cruces," about the notorious bowling alley massacre there, at 7 and 9 p.m. July 23 and 2 and 4 p.m. July 24 at the Fellini Film Cafe.
Lions Gate has picked up the film, he said.
He'll do a Q-and-A after each show.
Admission is $5, with a $5 minimum required on food or drinks.
• Dave Koz, who'll return with the latest edition of his Christmas show on Dec. 18 at the Plaza Theatre, recently released his video for "This Guy's in Love With You," a cover of the Herb Alpert classic that appears on Koz's "Hello Tomorrow" album.
It features an appearance by Alpert and a "love mob," in support of what the openly gay saxophonist calls "marriage equality."
You can watch it at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alJMniahEIc.
• Ronnie Wood recently told London's Daily Standard that the Rolling Stones are planning what Pollstar described as a "series of events" to mark their 50th anniversary next year, including a show at London's Hyde Park.
They played to an estimated 500,000 there in 1969, shortly after founding member Brian Jones' death. It was Mick Taylor's first show with the band. Wood replaced Taylor in 1975.
"We'll try to recapture the old camaraderie. I know Keith is fully supportive, as are the rest of the Stones," he is quoted as saying. "We'll see what we can do as a unit. Playing Hyde Park would be fabulous."
Mick Jagger's busy with his new supergroup, SuperHeavy, whose musical polyglot of a debut album comes out Sept. 20. He's be coy (surprise) about touring. Keith Richards has said he's working on new music with drummer Steve Jordan and his sideband, the X-Pensive Winos, all of which could be out before the big 5-0.
There's a fun interview with Stones sideman and Lubbock legend Bobby Keys, btw, in the May/June issue of Lone Star Music magazine (just got my copy).
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