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Tedeschi Trucks Band's increasingly successful Wheels of Soul tour returns to the road in 2019, for one of the most anticipated concert events of the summer. Kicking-off June 29th in the Grammy-winning group's hometown of Jacksonville, Florida, the 5th annual amphitheater run welcomes special guests Blackberry Smoke and Shovels & Rope. The five-week slate of 24 shows includes another two-night stand at Colorado's Red Rocks, following 8 straight sell-out performances at the renowned venue, and includes a stop in St. Louis at the Fabulous Fox Theatre on Tuesday, July 30 at 7:00 p.m.

Treat yourself this Halloween season to tickets to the new musical play 'Dracula: Finding of a Shadow' playing Thursday, October 25th through Today, October 31st at the Wow Cafe Theater (59-61 East 4th St.)

Treat yourself this Halloween season to tickets to the new musical play 'Dracula: Finding of a Shadow' playing Today, October 25th through Wednesday, October 31st at the Wow Cafe Theater (59-61 East 4th St.)

Blackberry Smoke's rendition of Tom Petty's “You Got Lucky,” featuring Amanda Shires, recently premiered at Rolling Stone Country. Available today in honor of Petty's birthday tomorrow, Rolling Stone Country describes the song as a “…a moving tribute…”

Treat yourself this Halloween season to tickets to the new musical play 'Dracula: Finding of a Shadow' playing Thursday, October 25th through Wednesday, October 31st at the Wow Cafe Theater (59-61 East 4th St.)

Blackberry Smoke's new acoustic version of “Medicate My Mind” is premiering today. Stream/share HERE and watch the song's video HERE. The track comes from the band's new EP, The Southern Ground Sessions, which will be released October 26 and is now available for pre-order.

Afflicted with Ataxic Cerebral Palsy that required nine major surgeries before he hit his teens, Reggie Codrington has a mother, Joyce Codrington, who used to exercise him four times a day. Now she is the one in pain and when her son learned that the antioxidants in cherries can help reduce pain and inflammation, he brought her some. It worked. She began to feel better and her discomfort eased. That's the inspiration behind “Cherry Sweet,” the joyous first single from the urban-jazz saxophonist's “Against The Odds” album from M.A.N.D.A.T.E. Records.    

Veteran keyboardist David Garfield entered the year with a single in the Billboard Top 10 (“Go Home”) before announcing the details of his ambitious recording project, “Outside the Box.” The multidisc, multi-genre series of albums trickling out over a multi-year span features high-wattage assemblages of Grammy winners, legends, hit-makers and prominent musicians including members of the Zac Brown Band, Steely Dan, Tom Petty's Heartbreakers, The Doors, Chicago, Toto, Tower of Power and The Meters.

Acclaimed American rock band Blackberry Smoke takes the mainstage at the Capitol Center for the Arts in Downtown Concord, NH on Thursday, September 13 at 7:30PM, as part of its "Find a Light" tour.

Acclaimed American rock band Blackberry Smoke will release The Southern Ground Sessions EP on October 26. Created as an accompaniment to their acclaimed new album, Find A Light, the 6-song EP was recorded live at Southern Ground studio in Nashville, TN and features acoustic versions of five album tracks as well as a rendition of Tom Petty's “You Got Lucky” featuring Amanda Shires. In advance of the release, “Run Away From It All” is premiering today. Stream/share HERE and watch the song's video HERE. 

'Master Class in Suicide Notes Writing' returns to the NY stage with July 26, 27, & 28th at 9PM with a possible extension for  August 2 & 3 at the Manhattan Rep Summer One Act Play Competition. 

When asked how he got Grammy-winning legends George Benson and David Sanborn to perform on his new single, “Stay,” keyboardist David Garfield responds dryly with a gleeful grin, “You ask them.” The third single from Garfield's forthcoming “Jammin' Outside the Box” album is a remake of the Rufus classic featuring the vintage R&B-funk band's former drummerMoon Calhoun singing lead on the song he wrote with Chaka Khan. “Stay” goes for radio adds on June 11 and drops digitally fromCreatchy Records on June 15.    

Blackberry Smoke's acclaimed new album, Find A Light, is the best-selling Country and Americana/Folk album in the country this week with over 16,000 in equivalent album sold. Based on Billboard's multi-metric consumption-which includes traditional album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA) -the record enters at #3 on the Billboard Top Country Albums chart and #2 on the BillboardAmericana/Folk Albums.

Blackberry Smoke will extend their nationwide tour this summer with a series of special co-headlining dates with JJ Grey & Mofro including stops at Charlottesville's Sprint Pavilion, Asheville's ExploreAsheville.com Arena, Milwaukee's Pabst Theater and Cincinnati's PNC Pavilion at Riverbend among many others. Tickets go on-sale this Friday, April 13 at 10:00am local time. See below for complete details.

Blackberry Smoke's highly anticipated new album, Find A Light, is now streaming in full exclusively at Billboard, who describes it as having “a wide stylistic range from heavy rock to gentle balladry and twangy country…” Listen HERE.

Blackberry Smoke's new song “I'll Keep Ramblin'” featuring Robert Randolph recently premiered at Relix. Of the song, lead singer Charlie Starr describes it's, “high-gear, jump-blues/gospel.” Listen/share HERE.  

Hallmark Channel Announces Season Six of WHEN THE HEART CALLS

Following a successful run in Melbourne, Lucy Kirkwood's The Children will arrive in Sydney next month. The superb cast of three of Australia's finest actors -Pamela Rabe (Wentworth), Sarah Peirse (Switzerland) and William Zappa (Rock 'n' Roll) shine in Sydney Theatre Company and Melbourne Theatre Company's co-production, which will open at the Drama Theatre, Sydney Opera House on April 3.

Film maker Paul Michael Bloodgood chronicles the dynamic exploits of 1980's Christian heavy metal band Bloodgood in the fascinating documentary, Trenches of Rock. See the NYC Premiere on March 1, 2018 @7:45pm at Cinema Village (22 East 12th Street) as part New York City's 7th Annual Winter Film Awards International Film Festival.