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Free Summer Concert Series Kicks Off Tonight!

August 9, 2018 By Lisa Grigsby

It’s officially opening weekend for the Levitt Pavilion Dayton!

Starting tonight at 7pm tonight there will be four concerts in a row to kick off the grand opening of this new outdoor venue.  The $5 million dollar venue will host over 30 FREE concerts featuring  rock, blues, jazz, folk, R&B, country, pop and family friendly acts this summer, increasing to over 50 in 2019 when they will have the entire summer to program.  Showtime will be 7pm for Thursday- Saturday shows with the Sunday performance beginning at 3pm.

 

 

What you need to know:

Bring your own lawn chair or blanket.

Bring your own food & drink (yes that includes alcohol- just no glass please).

Your dog is welcome, if it’s well behaved and on a leash.

No smoking on the Levitt Pavilion Dayton lawn, including e-cigarettes or vapor cigarettes.

Wheelchairs can be parked all along the sidewalks or on the lawn. Ramps lead to the lawn on the Jefferson Street side of the park.

Weather Permitting- if a show has to be cancelled due to weather it will be  posted on  Levitt Pavilion website,  Facebook page and Twitter.

 

Don’t have time to pack a picnic?  Some local merchants are posting some great eats to gp making it easy for you to grab before you head to a show.  Here’s what we’ve seen on facebook today:

Crafted and Cured
531 Wayne Ave, Dayton, OH 45410

Offering a carryout package with everything you need for the shows. For only $25, receive two chef paired meat & cheese cones and one fresh canned 32oz Crowlered beer of your choosing. Transportable cone vessels double as cups for your Crowler.

 

 

Trolley Stop 
530 E 5th St, Dayton, Ohio 45402

Let Trolley Stop pack your picnic.
They’ve got hummus, falafel, tabouli, fruit with cottage cheese, chili dogs  and burgers, as well as salads they are happy to pack up for you  all in guilt free packaging!

 

Third Perk Coffeehouse & Wine Bar
46 W 5th St, Dayton, Ohio 45402

Pick up your wines or snack pack from Third Perk.  $5 wines or $10 wine snack packs that include grapes and cheesek

 

Food trucks will also be lined up around the park:

Thursday, August 9 – Drunken Waffle, Twisted Taco, Graeter’s Ice Cream, El Meson

Friday and Saturday – D Fish D Chicken and Gary’s Italian Ice

The Talent For Opening Weekend:

Opening Night: WORLD MUSIC   Gina Chavez .  AUGUST 9, 2018 AT 7 PM

Gina Chavez is blending the sounds of the Americas with tension and grace. As a multi-ethnic Latin pop songstress, Chavez’s passionate collection of bilingual songs traverse cumbia, bossa nova, vintage pop, indie-folk and reggaetón that takes audiences on a journey through the Americas as she discovers her own Latin roots through music. An eight-time Austin Music Award winner, Gina and her band have opened for Grace Potter, GRAMMY winners La Santa Cecilia, Gaby Moreno and Grupo Fantasma, and are winning audiences throughout the U.S. and abroad while on tour as official ambassadors with the U.S. State Department’s American Music Abroad program. She took home the Grand Prize in the 2014 John Lennon Songwriting Contest for Siete-D, a song about her experience volunteering in a gang-dominated suburb of San Salvador where she founded Niñas Arriba, a college fund for young Latinas.

EICHELBERGER JAZZ SERIES: Paul Brown ft. Chris Standring AUGUST 10, 2018 AT 7 PM

Two-time GRAMMY winning jazz guitarist, engineer, and producer Paul Brown career spans over two decades and includes the release of eight solo albums and countless collaborations with well-established smooth jazz artists like George Benson, Jeffrey Osborne and Kirk Whalum. His newest release One Way Backfeatures the #1 hit Put It Where You Want It. The Funky Joint had two #1 hits and was on the jazz charts for a year and a half, solidifying Paul as one of the prominent jazz guitarist on the scene today.

Performances in Dubai, Iceland, Japan, Canada, throughout Europe and the United States he has taken his trademark smooth groove with catchy melodic sound and made his mark on the international jazz scene. The Paul Brown sound is warm and inviting. His music is funky yet has elegance and beauty. He woos the crowd with understated confidence, as every note falls in the perfect place.  Called the “Baby Face of Smooth Jazz,” the 2011 Canadian Smooth Jazz “Best Vocalist” nominee currently has over 60 #1 hits on the Radio & Records’ smooth jazz chart, is considered to be the genre’s #1 producer and has earned the distinction of having a #1 Radio & Records chart hit as both an artist and producer.

While Standring became a popular force in contemporary urban jazz with infectious, ubiquitous R&B-driven hits. When it comes time for Standring to start a new project, he seeks out that small, indefinable and sometimes hard-to-articulate moment of inspiration that becomes a catalyst and provides the perfect sonic through line. One can trace the multitude of cool, trippy textures on his new album Sunlight to the sparkling, hypnotic sound of what he calls “swirly guitars”—split between a panning to the left and then the right on the sonic spectrum—that sparked three of the album’s key tracks. He will join Paul Brown as his special guest.

LEVITT NATIONAL TOUR .  Paul Thorn & Blind Boys of Alabama     AUGUST 11, 2018 AT 7 PM

The 2018 Levitt National Tour presents a one-of-a-kind collaboration between acclaimed Southern raconteur Paul Thorn and his five-piece band and GRAMMY-winning gospel legends Blind Boys of Alabama. Billed as the “Mission Temple Fireworks Revival,” the show will include songs off of Thorn’s 2018 album Don’t Let The Devil Ride—which journeys through classic gospel, soul and spirituals, featuring guest vocals by Blind Boys of Alabama. Thorn is celebrated for his muscular brand of roots music—bluesy, rocking and thoroughly Southern American, while speaking universal truths. He has performed on major television shows like Late Night with Conan O’Brien and Jimmy Kimmel Live!; been the subject of numerous National Public Radio (NPR) features; charted multiple times on the Billboard Top 100 and Americana Radio Charts; and performed alongside living legends like Bonnie Raitt, Mark Knopfler, Sting, and John Prine. Co-headliner, Blind Boys of Alabama—dubbed “gospel titans” by Rolling Stone magazine—push musical boundaries with innovative approaches to traditional gospel and contemporary spirituals by songwriters such as Eric Clapton, Prince and Tom Waits. Blind Boys’ 75-plus-year career has been honored with five GRAMMY Awards, induction into the Gospel Music Hall of Fame, and Lifetime Achievement Awards from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (NARAS). They’ve recorded with fellow musical greats Lou Reed, Peter Gabriel, Bonnie Raitt, Willie Nelson, Aaron Neville, Susan Tedeschi, Patty Griffin and Taj Mahal. Blind Boys of Alabama have appeared on The Tonight Show With Jay Leno, Late Night with David Letterman, The Grammy Awards, 60 Minutes, The Colbert Report and many other television shows. Levitt National Tour audiences are in for an electrifying evening of gospel meets blues meets rock!

PNC FAMILY SERIES    Trout Fishing in America   AUGUST 12, 2018 AT 3 PM

Trout Fishing in America is the longstanding, four-time GRAMMY-nominated musical partnership of Keith Grimwood and Ezra Idlet. A willingness to at once make fun of our most annoying daily habits, then to touch our hearts with tender and passionate images of family life, is what makes the connection between Trout Fishing in America and its audiences so compelling and poignant. The most recent family release is Rubber Baby Buggy Bumpers. The CD features tongue twisters, mind-benders, spooky situations and instantly identifiable slices of a kid’s life. In 2017, they changed gears and released a folk/rock CD called The Strangest Times. The project is a return to the roots of the band. The songs explore a wide range of feelings and musical styles that blend seamlessly into an inspired and cohesive work. Their infectious mix of folk/pop and family music is the result of their diverse backgrounds as well as growing up in the musical melting pot that is Texas. Their recordings have garnered three National Indie Awards, multiple Parents Choice and NAPPA Gold awards, the American Library Award, as well as four GRAMMY nominations.

For the entire season line up, click here.

 

Filed Under: Dayton Music, The Featured Articles Tagged With: Dave Hall Plaza, Levitt Pavilion

About Lisa Grigsby

Lisa Grigsby is a Special Events Director with over thirty years experience in promotions, event coordination and public relations.

Owning Jokers Comedy Cafe for 20 years taught Lisa to maintain a sense of humor under pressure. She credits Leadership Dayton for exposing her to the amazing assets of the region and Clothes That Work for being her reason she stayed in Dayton. Her proudest accomplishment as a past president of the Miami Valley Restaurant Association was creating Restaurant Week, a twice a year tradition that continues to grow and benefit local charities as well. As a foodie, it's only natural that she continues to promote local restaurateurs with DaytonDining.

As a Dayton Catalyst, her desire to have ONE community calendar and advocate for the amazing assets of the region helped create the vision for the relaunch of DaytonMostMetro.


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