We have another packed October week of Sarasota area events, including live music, with a two-day festival and a full afternoon of performances benefitting a local musician in need among this concert picks installment.
We start with a Sarasota native returning to play multiple area shows, including the aforementioned benefit concert. There’ll also be Blues Music Award-winning and nominated artists, a festival featuring multiple acts on their way to play the even larger Fest in Gainesville later this month, and a hard rock group with a platinum hit single to its name. Here are this week’s highlights. Event details are subject to change.
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Chris Anderson
Guitarist, singer-songwriter and Sarasota native Chris Anderson will return to the area this week for a headlining show at Englewoods on Dearborn, as well as a benefit at Stottlemyer’s Smokehouse for Twinkle & Rock Soul Radio member Tony LeClerc, who recently suffered a spine injury that’s made it impossible to use his left hand.
Anderson is a former member of Tampa-formed Southern rockers Outlaws and released the 1995 solo album “Old Friend,” whose title track co-penned with Warren Haynes was later recorded by The Allman Brothers Band as the final song on their final studio album, 2003’s “Hittin’ the Note.” Among those performing with Anderson at Stottlemyer’s Smokehouse will be Chris Hicks, currently a member of another fellow Southern rock group, the Marshall Tucker Band.
6:30 p.m. Saturday; Englewoods on Dearborn, 362 W. Dearborn St., Englewood; $10; 941-475-7501; englewoodsondearborn.com; 2-7 p.m. Sunday; Stottlemyer’s Smokehouse, 19 E. Road, Sarasota; $20 suggested donation; 941-312-5969; facebook.com/stottlemyerssmokehouse
Johnny Rawls
Johnny Rawls.
After playing Englewoods on Dearborn, and before returning to the area to play Lakewood Ranch Blues Festival in December, soul-blues guitarist and singer-songwriter Johnny Rawls will visit Bradenton’s Cottonmouth on Sunday.
Rawls is a two-time winner of the Soul Blues Album Blues Music Award, for 2009’s “Ace of Spades” and 2018’s “I’m Still Around.” He has been nominated several other times in that same category, as well as Soul Blues Male Artist, including a nomination in the latter field this year.
3 p.m. Sunday; Cottonmouth Southern Soul Kitchen, 1114 12th St. W., Bradenton; $15; 941-243-3735; facebook.com/cottonmouthsoul
Oscura Pre-Fest Fest
Camp Trash.
Ahead of Gainesville’s 23rd annual punk extravaganza Fest, taking place Oct. 24-26, Bradenton venue Oscura will host this two-day festival featuring bands on their way there. Headlining Wednesday will be Columbus, Ohio emo-punk act HummusVacuum, who’ll join other performers including UK punk rockers Harker.
Indie-punk group Camp Trash — which has its roots in Sarasota-Manatee, though not all its members live there anymore, and will release the new album “Two Hundred Thousand Dollars” on Halloween — will top the bill Thursday, in a lineup that also includes Madison, Wisconsin’s Excuse Me, Who Are You? and Boston’s oldsoul.
6:30 p.m. doors, 7 p.m. show Wednesday and Thursday, Oct. 23; Oscura, 816 Manatee Ave. E., Bradenton; $15 advance, $20 day of (per day), $25 advance, $30 day of (both days); oscura.live
Saving Abel
Saving Abel at the 2019 Beale Street Music Festival in Memphis.
Hard rockers Saving Abel will return to Sarasota’s Big Top Live this week. (This version of the band still features founding guitarists Jason Null and Scott Bartlett; founding vocalist Jared Weeks is touring separately using the Saving Abel name as well.)
The Mississippi-formed group scored a platinum-selling single with “Addicted” from their 2008 self-titled debut album, which they followed with 2010’s “Miss America,” featuring the No. 1 Mainstream Rock Airplay hit “The Sex is Good.” Tampa Bay grunge/alt-rock cover band 90 Surge will also perform.
7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 23; Big Top Live, 975 Cattlemen Road, Sarasota; $26.78 and up; 941-371-2939; bigtoplive.com
J.P. Soars and the Red Hots
J.P. Soars.
Englewoods on Dearborn’s live music lineup this week will also include Boca Raton blues guitarist and singer-songwriter J.P. Soars and the Red Hots. The group earned four Blues Music Awards nominations in 2022: Band of the Year, B.B. King Entertainer and Instrumentalist — Guitar for Soars, and Instrumentalist — Drums for bandmate Chris Peet, who was nominated in the same category earlier this year.
Along with the Red Hots, Soars also plays in the supergroup Southern Hospitality with Grammy-nominated pianist Victor Wainwright and fellow Floridian Damon Fowler.
6:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 23; Englewoods on Dearborn, 362 W. Dearborn St., Englewood; $7; 941-475-7501; englewoodsondearborn.com
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