By Michael Swanger scenescribe@mchsi.com
A few all-ages shows of note this week: pop-rock bands Lights and Stars of Track and Field on Friday, Oct. 23 at 5 p.m. at House of Bricks ($10); rock bands Relient K, Copeland and Barcelona on Friday, Oct. 23 at 6 p.m. at People’s Court ($16); and pop-rockers Forever the Sickest Kids and My Favorite Highway play People’s Court on Wednesday, Oct. 28 at 6 p.m. Tickets for all shows are available through IowaTix.
The 7th Annual Tribute to Johnny Cash, featuring performances by Randy Burk and the Prisoners, Menlo (featuring Scott Yoshimura of The Envy Corps), Thankful Dirt, The Dustin Smith Band, Jason Reed and Brian Joens, will be held Saturday, Oct. 24 at 9 p.m. at People’s Court. Tickets are $7 in advance through IowaTix. This year’s concert will be filmed for a documentary to be released in the near future.
The Celtic Music Association hosts a folk music concert by the Maine-based Dave Rowe Trio on Saturday, Oct. 24 at 8 p.m. at Holy Trinity Parish Hall, 2926 Beaver Ave. Tickets are $18 in advance through IowaTix and $20 at the door. Visit www.thecma.org.
Westminster Presbyterian Church’s Anchor Coffee House will host a concert by the Des Moines Community Jazz Center Big Band on Saturday, Oct. 24 at 7 p.m. with Westminster guest artists Clayton Murphy and John Kendeigh. Tickets are $8 in advance and $10 at the door. Call 274-1534.
Fans of classical music won’t want to miss the Des Moines Symphony’s performances Saturday, Oct. 24 at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday, Oct. 25 at 2:30 p.m. at the Civic Center of Greater Des Moines. Guest conductor-composer Bright Sheng and pipa artist Yang Wei will be featured. Tickets are $15-$54. Also, the Drake Symphony Orchestra performs the music of Dvorak and Beethoven for its first concert of the fall semester on Wednesday, Oct. 28 at 7:30 p.m. at Sheslow Auditorium.
Capitol Hill Lutheran Church hosts its eighth season of “Music in the East Village” with a concert of music from the 1920s by the Ballyhoo Foxtrot Orchestra at 3 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 25. Admission is free. Call 244-8913.
Joe Firstman, an acoustic roots-rocker from Los Angeles best known as the house bandleader on NBC’s “Last Call with Carson Daly,” performs Monday, Oct. 26 at 10 p.m. at the Vaudeville Mews. Admission is $10.
Garage-Brit-rockers Locksley plays Tuesday, Oct. 27 at 8 p.m. at the Maintenance Shop in Ames. The band is touring in support of the first single, “Darling, It’s True,” from their forthcoming album, “Be In Love.” Tickets are $9.
Local heavy rockers Destrophy, who signed a four-record deal earlier this year with Victory Records, will release their self-titled Victory debut album on Tuesday, Oct. 27. The album’s first single, “The Way of Your World,” is getting nationwide radio airplay and its video is getting played on MTV2 and Fuse. Another track, “Reconnect,” has been selected by TNA Wrestling as a theme song for their weekly television broadcast.
The Greater Des Moines Music Coalition will host its next Music University session, “Managing the Media,” on Wednesday, Oct. 28 at 7 p.m. at the House of Bricks. The session is designed to help local musicians better understand how to work with the media as well as create press kits. Admission is free. CV
