ATLRetro

by Melanie Crew
Managing Editor

Shake a tail feather in Retro Atlanta this week! Come see what we’ve found for you!

Monday, May 30

It’s an old-time gothic roots revival at the Masquerade with Lincoln Durham, Kool Kat Caleb Warren & The Gents, the Future Reliks and Eddie Rascal! Get some soul with Brandon Reeves at Blind Willie’s! Swing on by Big Band Night featuring Joe Gransden and his amazing 16-member orchestra at Café 290 every first and third Monday of the month! Skye Paige, “Queen of Slide Guitar” rocks out at the Little Vinyl Lounge! Boogie on down to the Northside Tavern and spend an evening with Lola at her famous Monday Night Northside Jam! And blues on down to Fat Matt’s Rib Shack for a side of Dry White Toast and a plate full ‘o finger lickin’ BBQ!

Tuesday, May 31

The Star Bar delivers a night of retro shenanigans with their Downtown Tuesday Night Dance Party featuring retro-soul, funk, ‘80s, ‘90s and more! The Hollidays dish out a night of soul and rock ‘n’ roll at Blind Willie’s! Jam it up with Joe Gransden and his jazz jam session at Venkman’s every Tuesday! And as always, The Entertainment Crackers get bluesy with their folksy Americana at the Northside Tavern!

Wednesday, June 1

Stomp on down to Blind Willie’s for a night with the Boohoo Ramblers! Jazz it up with The Gordon Vernick Quartet at the Red Light Café! Darwin’s Burgers & Blues gets down and dirty at their Blues Jam hosted by The Cazanovas! It’s Chicken Picken’ Wednesday at Venkman’s, so come on out for a night with Smokey’s Farmland Band! Boogie on down to East Atlanta’s Graveyard Tavern for their Graveyard Swing Night, held the first Wednesday of every month, promising an evening of swingin’ jazz and jive with the Savoy Kings! The Star Bar gets to twangin’ with their Cowboy Karaoke event, featuring live-band old-time country and western tunes with Dry Gulch! Or rock on downstairs to the Little Vinyl Lounge for a night of retro shenanigans with Kool Kat Jeff Clark and Stomp & Stammer’s Rock ‘n’ Roll Trivia at 8pm! Or make your way to the Northside Tavern as Danny ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck fires it up with his rockin’ blues! St. James Live! delivers their Hump Days Blues night, getting classic blues-style every Wednesday! And as always, it’s Ladies Night at Johnny’s Hideaway which plays hits from Sinatra to Madonna for a generally mature crowd.

Thursday, June 2

Kool Kat Rod Hamdallah gets low down with a night of rockin’ garage blues at The Star Bar with Nikki Hill and the Hooten Hallers! Catch Baz Luhrmann’s ROMEO & JULIET (1996) at Atlantic Station’s Movies in Central Park series at 8pm. Take a trip to Margaritaville with Jimmy Buffett & the Coral Reefer Band at the Infinite Energy Center (Gwinnett Center)! It’s Mai Tai Thursday, so surf on down to Trader Vic’s for a helluva beach party! Blues it up with Beverly “Guitar” Watkins at Blind Willie’s! Stagger on over to Noni’s Bar & Deli for their Bitter Heroes event featuring DJ Brian Parris as he gets charmingly morose with a little New-Wave, The Smiths and The Cure! The Northside Tavern gets rockin’ with a little Chicago/Delta blues of The Breeze Kings! The Cody Matlock Band delivers a night of blues at Darwin’s Burgers & Blues in Marietta! Get your boogie on at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack, as Chickenshack featuring Eddie Tigner, delivers some honky-tonk blues! And as always, boogie down at Mary’s, as the East Atlanta venue gets funky with their weekly Disco in the Village.

Friday, June 3

Start the summer festival season off right and make your way to the 2016 Candler Park Music and Food Fest, running through June 4 featuring a rockin’ retro musical lineup with Galactic, the Chris Robinson Brotherhood, The Revivalists, Yonder Mountain String Band, Keller Williams, Grateful Grass, Lee Fields & The Expressions, Great Peacock, Kool Kat Blair Crimmins & The Hookers, King Baby, Webster and more!  The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra gets intergalactic with The Music of David Bowie: A Musical Odyssey at 8pm! Stomp on down to Smith’s Olde Bar for the Hackensaw Boys, Rodeo Twister and Reverend Justin Hylton! Catch a screening of Martin Ritt’s PARIS BLUES (1961) at the Toco Hill-Avis G. Williams Library at 1:30pm! Jazz it up double time with Joe Gransden and Annie Sellick at Eddie’s Attic with two shows! Make your way to Club Famous for Kool Kat VJ Anthony’s Prince: 80s Music Video Dance Night! Get your roots rock and delta blues fix at the Red Light Café with Cody Marlowe & The Dead Flowers and BJ Wilbanks! Get ‘70s mellow at Steve’s Live Music with Red Head Diamond! Nameless Nameless pays tribute to Nirvana at Venkman’s! Blues it up with Beverly “Guitar” Watkins at the Northside Tavern! Lil’ Ed & The Blues Imperials get the blues at Blind Willie’s! Rock out under the dinosaurs at the Fernbank Museum of Natural History’s Martinis and IMAX event with The High Beams! And as always, time-warp it up and get naughty with some uber musically-inclined transsexual aliens at The Plaza Theater as they continue their tradition of screening THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW (1975) every Friday night, featuring the live cast of Lips Down on Dixie at midnight!

Saturday, June 4

Geek it up Burly-Q style with a night of smokin’ hot Kool Kittens as Hearts A’Blaze presents The Glamour Geek Preview at the Shakespeare Tavern featuring Kool Kat Talloolah Love, Candi LeCoeur, Tippy Tapage, Kool Kat Roula Roulette, Kool Kat Persephone Phoenix, Kool Kat Ursula Undress and more! Freak it up at the Highland Inn Ballroom Lounge as Sweet Auburn BBQ presents Atlanta Tattoo Fest 2016 featuring sideshow shenanigans with Captain & Maybelle and live music with Blood on the Harp! Make your way to the two-day Virginia Highlands Summerfest featuring live music by Donna Hopkins, Liz Brasher, Southern Culture on the Skids, Roger Clyne & Peacemakers and more! Twang it up with Dolly Parton at the Infinite Energy Center (Gwinnett Center)! Celebrate 30 years of honkytonkin’ with Slim Chance & The Convicts at Kavarna! Glam it up with Jerome Newton & The Band Who Fell to Earth performing The Songs of Bowie at Aisle 5! Make your way to Terminal West as ATL Collective presents Radiohead’s OK COMPUTER! Make your way to Club Famous for Kool Kat VJ Anthony’s Prince: 80s Music Video Dance Night! Bluegrass it up with the Todd Prussin Experience at the Red Light Café! Make your way to the Fox Theatre for Garrison Keillor and “A Prairie Home Companion.” Funk it up at Venkman’s with Frosted Orange! Make your way to the Landmark Midtown Art Cinema for their Studio Ghibli series, featuring a screening of Hayao Miyazaki’s PRINCESS MONONOKE (1999) at 1pm! Catch 10,000 Maniacs at the Buckhead Theatre! Rock out with Michelle Malone at Steve’s Live Music! Boogie on down to The Basement for Heyday’s ‘80s Dance Party! Folk it up with John Gorka at the Red Clay Theatre! Twist on down to the Earl Smith Strand Theatre for The Sock Hops! Darwin’s Burgers & Blues delivers a  night of rockin’ blues with Joel Da Silva & Midnight Howl! Get bluesy with Bill Sheffield at the Northside Tavern! Blues it up with John Nemeth at Blind Willie’s! St. James Live! delivers their Tribute to the Legends night every Saturday night! And as always, DJ Romeo Cologne transforms the sensationally seedy Clermont Lounge into a ’70s disco/funk inferno late into the wee hours of the night.

Sunday, June 5

Make your way to the Landmark Midtown Art Cinema for their Studio Ghibli series, featuring a screening of Hayao Miyazaki’s PRINCESS MONONOKE (1999) at 1pm! It’s Day 2 of the Virginia Highlands Summerfest, so come on out to catch City Mouse, Stephen Kellogg and the Dirty Dozen Brass Band! Make your way to Atlanta Symphony Hall for a night with Cyndi Lauper! And get sweet and low down blues-style at the Northside Tavern with Uncle Sugar!

Ongoing

MacGillivey Freeman’s 2013 documentary, NATIONAL PARK ADVENTURE, commemorating the U.S. National Park Service’s 100th anniversary at the Fernbank Museum’s IMAX screens through June 16!

The Michael C. Carlos Museum presents their “Doorway to an Enlightened World” exhibit, running through Nov. 27!

Blast-Off Burlesque geeks it up with a night of adults-only trivia at the Euclid Avenue Yacht Club, every Monday at 8:30pm! (On hiatus as of May 16 until further notice)

Union EAV rocks out with their Punk Rock Karaoke ATL, and every last Tuesday of the month!

Geek it up at My Parents’ Basement with their weekly Tuesday night Nerd Trivia at 8pm!

Nerd Film Mafia screenings at the Diesel Filling Station following NerdCore Trivia, every last Tuesday of the month!

The Plaza Theater Time-Warps it up as they screen, THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW (1975) every Friday night, featuring the live cast of Lips Down on Dixie at midnight!

Every first and third Mondays are Big Band Nights at Café 290, featuring Joe Gransden and his amazing 16-piece orchestra playing jazz and swing standards in the tradition of The Glen Miller Orchestra and other legendary groups.  Second and fourth Mondays are Bumpin the Mango, ‘The groove that makes you want to move!’

Every first Wednesday is the Graveyard Tavern’s Graveyard Swing Night, featuring the swingin’ jazz and boogie-woogie sounds of the Savoy Kings!

If you have a suggestion for a future event that should be included in This Week in Retro Atlanta or see something we missed, please email us at atlretro@gmail.com.