Did you know we feature local events on our website? 
We are a complete source for events going on in and around Douglas County.
Just click 'special events' above for a complete list.

FEATURED EVENT:  Counting Crows @ Chastain
SUNDAY, JULY 18, 7:30pm
Tickets are still available - click here to purchase.
Look for a review in next month's issue of Chapel Hill News & Views!
____________________________

COME ONE, COME ALL!
COME SEE A MUSICAL SPECTACLE UNDER A BIG TOP NEAR YOU!

Multi-platinum artists Counting Crows recently announced plans for this summer's tour, THE TRAVELING CIRCUS & MEDICINE SHOW with special guests including Augustana. The tour kicked off July 3rd in Milwaukee, WI at SummerFest. The show is an original formatwhere the two bands (and some special guests along the way) will combine to play together in addition to playing their own sets. Highlights of the tour include stops at many of the best summer amphitheaters in the country. For tickets and on sale info for the tour visit www.countingcrows.com.

Duritz said, "A reporter once asked me why I loved being in a band. I told him as simply as I could: 'I love the jazz of it.' I still do. I love the feeling of surprise and joy when something unexpected happens, when one of my pals plays something new and, in that split second, I hear it and sing new in response. I believe rock and roll should always revolt against itself, always insist on the unexpected, whether it's as simple as verse or a moment in a band's performance or as huge as the appearance of The Dead Boys or Television or N.W.A. or Stew or Dashboard Confessional or Run-DMC to change our whole preconception of what Rock and Roll is. That's why I love THE TRAVELING CIRCUS & MEDICINE SHOW. Playing with Counting Crows and also with all the combos of different guys from different bands gives me the chance to constantly be surprised. The kick of singing with the Augustana guys makes my head spin every night and we're adding an element of hip-hop to the mix as well this summer by bringing NOTAR out with us. Nowadays people think they can only love one kind of music but I want to show them that they can love it all the way I do. I don't know how these different bands are going to fit in one show together but I didn't know that last year either and it was a blast.

Just remember what I said last year: Come out early because from the first moment the curtain rises on the MEDICINE SHOW, we're all going to be up there on that stage together. Come late and you'll miss part of the show. Get there on time and I promise you you'll leave remembering the day the CIRCUS came to town."

Counting Crows hail from the San Francisco Bay area and consist of Adam Duritz (vocals), David Bryson (guitar), Charles Gillingham (keyboards), Dan Vickrey (guitar), Jim Bogios (drums), David Immergluck (guitar) and touring bassist Millard Powers. With over 20 million albums sold worldwide, Eight Top 5 singles, and four records having broken the Top 5 on the Billboard 200, Counting Crows success dates back to their 1993 debut release August And Everything After and the hit single "Mr. Jones." In 2004, the band released their first ever "Best Of" set Films About Ghosts which featured songs from every phase of the Counting Crow's recording career and in 2006 a live record was released, New Amsterdam: Live at Heineken Music Hall 2003. Their most recent record, the double album Saturday Nights & Sunday Mornings was released to critical and popular acclaim in March 2008. Produced by Gil Norton & Brian Deck, the album presents a duality in form and content: Saturday Nights tracks a dissolution and disintegration into madness and Sunday Mornings shows the attempt
at redemption that follows.

Augustana is a San Diego, CA based quintet consisting of Dan Layus (vocals, guitar, piano), Jared Palomar (bass, vocals), Justin South (drums), Chris Sachtleben (lead
guitar, mandolin, lap steel) and John Vincent Fredericks (piano, Hammond b2, vocals). The band's latest release, Can't Love, Can't Hurt, entered Billboard's Top 200 at #21 and debuted in the Top 5 at iTunes. It is the follow-up to the band's 2005 debut record, All the Stars and Boulevards, which reached #1 on the Billboard Heatseekers Chart and featured the RIAA-certified digital platinum hit single, "Boston." Augustana have made appearances on "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno," "The Late Show with David Letterman," "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" and "The Today Show" and have toured with such artists as Snow Patrol, the Stereophonics and Dashboard Confessional.