Barley House Band

Bucktown Revue is Friday at the RME

The November Bucktown Review will feature a cornucopia of area talent. Guests include the exotic music of Olenka and Otro Mundo; singer-songwriter Tony Hoeppner with Ellis Kell; chanteuse Susan McPeters accompanied by Jonathan Turner on the piano; musical funny man Steve Couch; poet Kristin Abraham; plus MC Scott Tunnicliff; the Barley House Band; and the Brer Bucktown Traveling Tent Show Dramatic Society.

The Bucktown Revue (brought to you by the same cast that created and performed last year's River City Radio Hour programs) is an old-fashioned webcast radio program inspired by the variety-show broadcasts of yesteryear. The monthly performance, available for downloading from Apple iTunes, features live folk music, poetry and humor.

The Bucktown Revue features master of ceremonies Scott Tunnicliff and the Barley House Band as house orchestra.

All shows are in the River Music Experience Performance Hall, 129 Main Street, Davenport, Iowa. Doors open at 6:30 with the show at 7. Admission is $7 per person. Adult refreshments will be available -- in the spirit of Davenport's old-time Bucktown saloon district -- for this family-friendly show, though no spitting, gambling or fighting will be permitted due to insurance regulations.

Broadcasts are recorded live at 7 p.m. the third Friday of each month September through April.

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Bucktown Revue October show posted

Sound files of the first and second acts of the October Bucktown Revue have been posted at the revue website, www.bucktownrevue.com. It was a great show! Check it out.

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At the Bucktown Revue

Here we are having fun at the Bucktown Revue at the RME. The next Bucktown Revue will be 7 p.m. Friday, Oct. 17, in the RME Performance Hall. The October show will feature Just 4 Fun, an old-time and bluegrass band; the contemporary acoustic music of Embassy; Steve Couch's musical humor; poet Dave McMillen; and more antics from the Brer Bucktown Traveling Tent Show Dramatic society.

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We're featured on WOC / Clear Channel!

If you get a chance tune into WOC or some of the Clear Channel stations today or tomorrow. Ace reporter Phil Roberts did a story about the Bucktown Review kicking off Friday at the RME.

Check out an excerpt from the interview. (Thanks, Phil!)

Download woc_interview.mp3

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We're at The Bucktown Revue Friday (Sept. 26)

We’re getting ready for another rousing season of fake radio programs.

Well, they’re not really fake. They are programs, they are recorded, and they are broadcast via the World Wide Web -- thus neatly sidestepping networks, syndicators, program directors, and all of those little details. (Also side-stepping profits, but why worry about a little think like money.)

Perform, record, mix and put it up on iTunes. Nothing to it. 
This year’s show will be at the River Music Experience in downtown Davenport. The RME is the former Peterson Harned Von Maur department store, 129 Main Street, Davenport, Iowa. The facility has been refurbished to have a new lease of life -- which is appropriate, because some of us in the show have been similarly refurbished and made ready for another trot around the track.

The show features folk music, humor and poetry. The guests for the first program include Quad-Cities poet laureate Dale Haake; hammered dulcimer player Linda Shoesmith and Reg Shoesmith; storyteller Steve Marriott; jazz singer Lionel Marcoux and pianist Margaret Skinner; and Irish dancer Katie Davis.

All that for $7 at 7 p.m. this Friday -- Sept. 26. Doors open at 6:30.

The show is brought to you by the same people who performed last year’s edition, The River City Radio Hour. Mr. Scott Tunnicliff continues as MC, and the Barley House Band will similarly extend their acclaimed run as the show’s house orchestra.

The Bucktown Revue will continue monthly through April. For more info, check out the Bucktown Revue’s website, www.bucktownrevue.com.

As a little bonus, here are the rough mixes to two selections off The Barley House Band’s new CD, “The Strand.”

Download Curra_Road.mp3

Download Billy.mp3

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Saturday we're at Riverssance

The Barley House Band returns to the annual Riverssance Festival of Fine Arts in Lindsey Park, Village of East Davenport.

The band will perform on the main stage from noon to 1:30 Saturday, Sept. 20.

MidCoast Fine Arts 21st annual Riverssance Festival of Fine Arts is 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Saturday and 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Sunday in Lindsay Park, E. River Drive and Mound St., Davenport. The festival features artists from across the nation, music, food, wine tasting, and a children's art activities tent.

Admission is $3; free for ages 11 and under. Call (563) 386-7013 for details.