GTG Fest 2022: October 21&22 in Lansing, MI A celebration of DIY music and community curated by GTG Records.
OCT 21, DOORS AT 8, $5 COVER: 8:15-9:30 Wild Honey and Friends (feat. Harborcoat, Drinking Mercury) 9:30-10:00 Little Things 10:00-10:30 No Skull 10:30-11:00 The Quirk 11:00-11:30 Cutlass Supreme 11:30-12:00 She/Her/Hers 12:00-12:30 The Stick Arounds 12:30-1:00 The Hunky Newcomers
OCT 22, DOORS AT 8, $5 COVER: 8:30-9:00 LoLo / Hattie Plural 9:00-9:30 Cameo Headlands 9:30-10:00 Narc Out The Reds 10:00-10:30 Sweet Pea 10:30-11:00 Lazy Genius 11:00-11:30 Ladyship Warship 11:30-12:00 A Rueful Noise 12:00-12:30 The Plurals 12:30-1:00 The Jackpine Snag
Jeremy Porter and The Tucos Shows: 4/14 @ Green Lantern (Lexington, KY) 4/15 @ The Loud (Huntington, WV) 4/16 @ Taffy’s (Eaton, OH) 4/19 @ PJ’s Lager House (Detroit, MI)
The Wild Honey Collective Shows: 4/16 @ LowellArts (Lowell, MI) 4/21 @ Hop River Brewing (Ft Wayne, IN) 4/22 @ Hotel Music Fest (Conneaut Lake, PA) 4/23 @ Stoopfest (Lansing, MI)
4/23 2 PM show @ The Record Lounge/Record Store Day (Lansing, MI) 4/28 Acoustic @ Beards Brewery (Petoskey, MI) 4/29 @ The Workshop Brewing Company (Traverse City, MI) 4/30 @ Short’s Brewing Company (Bellaire, MI)
Those two shows are part of the Capital City Film Festival 2022, which includes a series of six shows at The Avenue featuring artists like Chirp, NWRH, Ozay Moore, James Gardin, Lipstick Jodi, Mark Lavengood, Jen Sygit and more from 4/7-4/16. Read about the fest in general here and check out their whole schedule of movies and music here.
THEN…
4/22 – Harborcoat @ Dogwood Center (Fremont, MI)
4/22 & 4/23 – STOOPFEST(Lansing) feat Screaming Females, Sidney Gish, Frontier Ruckus and many, many more! (Including Cavalcade, Wild Honey and A Rueful Nosie)
4/29 – GTG House Show w/ Mistic Mountian, Two Houses, Foxgrave (Lansing)
4/30 – Narc Out The Reds, A Rueful Noise @ The Avenue
Does that cover it?? Lots of shows! Great stuff. As always, folks are in the studio and GTG Family labelPhonophore Records just released a tribute to Guided By Voicesfeaturing brand new recordings from The Stick Arounds, The Plurals, Jeremy Porter and The Tucos, Harborcoat, Isaac Vander Schuur, The Wild Honey Collective, Gumsmack, A Rueful Noise, The Soods, No Skull, Cutlass Supreme and many more… 23 tracks!
The Tucos are closing out their busy fall with a great hometown show at PJ’s Lager House on December 4. This will also be the final show for bassist Bob but the Tucos show ain’t slowin’ down – we’re already talking about 2022 releases and, of course, touring.
Bonus show – The Stick Arounds will be playing 4 sets at Horrocks Beer Garden on December 4 as well. Plenty of chances to get your powerpop in the mitten this weekend!
Lots of great events at our home base of The Avenue this month. Thursday November 4th features GTG family Mistic Mountian (Nich Plural, Blaine “And His Keyboard”), and LoLo (Pudvay, Hunky, Knights, et al), November 5th is a sticky sweet Stick Arounds night, November 12 features the first-ish show by Cutlass Supreme (Frank and Earnestish), November 24 will have a cover band of Baratonos, Plurals, Aymors ‘n such, and every weekend is chock full of a wide variety of music! Whoo!