Events, Activities, and Entertainment Venues in Salt Lake City, Utah.
“That devastating combo of heartbreaking alt-country earnestness and perfect pop-hook craftsmanship is elusive, which makes the victory all the sweeter when a band in your own back yard nails it. Band Of Annuals are that band right now.” (BF) City Weekly
http://www.myspace.com/bandofannuals
The Dead Weather is an American alternative rock supergroup that formed in Nashville, Tennessee in 2009. Comprising vocalist Alison Mosshart (of The Kills), guitarist Dean Fertita (of Queens of the Stone Age), bassist Jack Lawrence (of The Raconteurs and The Greenhornes) and drummer/vocalist Jack White (of The White Stripes and The Raconteurs), the band is due to release their debut album Horehound on June 9, 2009.
http://www.depotslc.com/events/calendar/671
Harmed, a body work by artist Stephanie Wilde (Boise, ID) is about the corporate greed of the few and its devastating effects on the many. She began this series of intimately detailed ink, acrylic and gold leaf works as a response to idle gossip in her backyard: a local corporate CEO misused his power in the mid 1990’s and the scandal made national headlines. Perplexed, Wilde wondered how this individual lost his moral compass. Considering the corporate downfall of companies since Wilde began this body of work, this is a question many of us find ourselves asking of today’s corporate leaders. Depicting the debauchery and excess of those in power as they control and manipulate circumstanced and others, Harmed is about loss: moral, financial and perhaps most disheartening, loss of faith in the corporate world.
The Off Broadway Theatre, celebrating 15 years of comedy, is pleased to announce the opening of The Pirates of Penzance, the famous light-parody and satire, by Gilbert and Sullivan on Friday July 31st. Curtain rises at 7:30 PM. Seating is reserved.
Originally written and premiered in 1879, The Pirates of Penzance is the story of a young lad, Frederic, who, on his twenty-first birthday, newly out of his pirate apprenticeship, soon finds out that though he has technically lived twenty-one years, he was born on leap year and is thus torn between his “sense of duty” to finish his indentures with the haggard lot of pirates (finishing at the age of 63) or to live a new life on the shores of Cornwall, England with the fair-maiden Mabel.
Frederic is played by new-comer, David Peterson. Mabel is played by Rivkah Steele, an Idaho resident, who also is debuting her talent at Off Broadway Theatre. Both David and Rivkah will be available for interviews; please call to schedule.
Open to all musical performers, all ages, any type of music. Come enjoy the music the Salt Lake Valley has to offer.
http://www.mestizocoffeehouse.com
$5 Entry Fee (Kids 6 and under free)
Join us for the best BBQ in the West at Rock N’ Ribs. Competitors from all over the nation come to the Gallivan Center in August to compete in this KCBS sanctioned event. The winner gets a coveted invitation to the BBQ Big Time – The Jack Daniels World Championship Invitational and the American Royal Barbeque (the biggest BBQ contests in the world!).
Learn how the champs cook low and slow at our BBQ demonstrations, have your kids have fun on the jump toys, take a picture with Bobby-Q (our offical mascot), or take a picture at our pig pen with our giant pig’natas. Taste some of the local BBQ vendors style with a $3 sample plate while listening to some of the best local artists in Utah.
BAND LINEUP 2009
Thompson Lane Entertainers
Rumble Dogs
Cameron Rafati
Legendary Porch Pounders
Opal Hill Drive
Kalai
The fresh and fabulous chronicles of “life elevated” at its satirical best. Singing, dancing and edgy stuff you can’t get anywhere else! Saturday’s Voyeur is Salt Lake Acting Company’s only cabaret show of the season. Additional seating with tables is added to create a cabaret-style atmosphere. Food and drink are allowed in the theatre for this production. Saturday’s Voyeur is recommended for mature audiences.
http://www.saltlakeactingcompany.org
There’s not a “haunted” attraction anywhere scarier and more fun than Haunted Village! Want to have the sagebrush scared out of you? Throughout October our creepy houses, shadowy streets, Headless Horseman and assorted spooks will give you a skin crawling, goose bump filled haunting experience!
Have a full-immersion heebie jeebie scare like no other as you wind your way through actual haunted homes and buildings. Be careful, though. Who knows what lurks in Haunted Village? This is a haunting you’ll never forget – just ask anyone who’s been here!
For group reservations call 801-924-7545
The legends of Pop Punk return!
Ticket Prices: $25.00 includes a t-shirt and off road course
Cruiser Fest ’09 is part of the Nascar Camping World Series Race at Miller Motorsports Park. Show and Shine Car Show, Time Trials and laps on the off-road course and RTI challenge. Call 435-271-RACE for tickets, entry and info.
