Well, hidee, thar, younguns! This here's yer ole Pappi Copperhill. You know how ever' year 'bout this time the Tacoma Art Museum put theyselves up a big ole ice skatin' rink over to Tollefson Plaza? I'm tellin' you it's finer'n a can o' snuff, with all them little 'uns jess skatin' roun' in circles. Shoot, they's prolly ketchin' their death o' colds, but they's grinnin' like a mule eatin' briars. I have put together a bluegrass show fer the skatin ‘rink. The Weekly Volcano calls muh bluegrass and country produkshun "Rhythm & Ice: Down Home Holiday Hoedown." I jess call it a mess o' B-chord fiddle bands playin' in a tent, but that ain't a-whistlin' Dixie.
Saturday, Dec. 6, 7-9 p.m.: Shotgun Kitchen
An almost too obvious entry point for the kind of satirical Americana of Shotgun Kitchen would be their spiritual forefather, John Prine. Expect stories about white-trash-living and country-road-dying performed with appealingly outlaw country-ish instrumentation and vocals. Facebook
Rhythm & Ice: Down Home Holiday Hoedown
- Live Bluegrass/Country/Old-Timey Bands
- 7-9 p.m., Saturdays, Nov. 22-Jan. 3
- Concerts are free, $4-$8 ice skating
- Polar Plaza Ice Rink, Tollefson Plaza
- 17th and Pacific Avenue, downtown Tacoma
- PolarPlaza.com