With most of the oil gone from the beach, tourists are back, business is booming, and summertime along the Gulf Coast is going to rock and roll with star-studded concerts lined up for the next several months.
Beach Boys – Saturday, May 14 at …
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With most of the oil gone from the beach, tourists are back, business is booming, and summertime along the Gulf Coast is going to rock and roll with star-studded concerts lined up for the next several months.
Beach Boys – Saturday, May 14 at The Wharf Amphitheatre, 7 p.m.
Few groups last for 50 years, but “Good Vibrations” of this Hawthorne, Calif., band has been entertaining audiences in beach fashion since 1961.
So what better way to celebrate the endless string of hits from The Beach Boys than to join them for a concert at the beach?
Bruce Johnston, along with original members Mike Love, Al Jardine and Brian Wilson will take the stage, performing many of their 36 Top 40 hits, the most by an American rock band.
Hangout Music Festival – Friday thru Sunday, May 20-22
Would you like to rock and roll all weekend long? The second annual Hangout Music Festival will bring in music fans from every state in the union. With well-known acts such as Paul Simon, Foo Fighters and Widespread Panic, this year’s edition is sure to be a music fan favorite. Other artist scheduled include the black Keys, My Morning Jacket, Flamin Lips, Cee Lo Green, Primus, Michael Franti & Spearhead, Pretty Lights, Bassnectar, Girl Talk, Ween Matisyahu, Warren Haynes Band, Umphrey’s McGee, Slightly Stoopid, Drive-By Truckers, Amos Lee, Old Crow Medicine Show, Medeski, Martin & Wood, Galactic, Xavier Rudd, Minue The Bear, Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue, Portugal the Man, Beats Antique, Dead Confederate, Johathan Tyler & Northern Lights, Easy Star All-Stars, Mariachi El Bronx, Truth & Salvage Co, Kristy Lee, Civil Twilight, Rich Aucoin, A Thousand Horses, Jon Black Cas Haley and Roman Street.
Tickets are on sale at www.hangoutmusicfest.com <http://www.hangoutmusicfest.com> .
Kenny Chesney – Saturday, May 21 at The Wharf Amphitheatre, 7 p.m.
With 14 gold albums and more than 30 Billboard Top 10 singles, the popular country music superstar will bring his traveling road show to town. The four-time Country Music Association Entertainer of the Year, has been pumping out hits since 1994 such as “She’s Got It All,” “She Thinks My Tractor’s Sexy,” “There Goes My Life” and “The Good Stuff.”
Born and raised in Luttrell, Tennessee, Chesney is will no-doubt fill up The Wharf Amphitheatre.
Lynyrd Skynyrd with ZZ Top – Sunday, May 29 at The Wharf Amphitheatre, 7 p.m.
Rockers from the 70s will get their fill of tunes from days gone by with Lynyrd Skynyrd and ZZ Top.
With only one remaining original member, Lynyrd Skynyrd is best known in these parts as the band that recorded Alabama’s unofficial state song “Sweet Home Alabama.” Originating in Jacksonville, Fla., Rock and Roll Hall of Fame band continues to electrify audiences across the nation with their southern rock standards such as “What’s Your Name,” “Gimme Three Steps,” and “Freebird.”
Many fans still remember the 1977 plane crash in Mississippi that claimed the lives of original members Ronnie Van Sant, Steve Gaines and Cassie Gaines.
Johnny Van Zant, younger brother of Ronnie, has been the front man for Skynyrd since 1987 and will be front and center at The Wharf when the band hits the stage.
Joining Lynyrd Skynyrd will be the sharp-dressed southern blues-rock trio of Billy Gibbons, Frank Beard and Dusty Hill, known to rock fans as ZZ Top.
From “Sharp Dressed Man” to “Legs,” this Houston-based band has been entertaining for four decades.
