Concerts from the Couch Spends Summer at The Gateway
The Mundi Project and Discovery Gateway Children s Museum are teaming up to bring their virtual concert series to the real world starting this month, for a series that will appear monthly through August. While the series started out as indeed from the couch of the featured artists, it s now as are many other pandemic-born traditions continuing in the outdoors of the post-ish pandemic world. It kicks off On the Plaza at The Gateway on Friday, June 11 with Jazzy Olivo, at 6:30 p.m. Olivo is a well-established jazz and soul queen around town, known for her bilingual singing talents and distinctive flare. She ll be followed by the sounds of Puerto Rican Bomba music by way of local group Momba Marilé on June 31 at 2 p.m., as part of Discovery Health s health fair that day. The summer series rounds out on Aug. 13 with the winds-focused chamber group Aspen Winds at 6:30 p.m. All shows are $5 per person, and $20 per family (up to eight
Below are just a few notable local things to check out on Bandcamp this Bandcamp Day. If you’re unfamiliar with the holiday (it’s a holiday now, in my mind), it’s the first Friday of the month where Bandcamp waives fees for all artists, giving them a larger cut off of all purchases of their music made on the platform. It’s a tradition that sprang up around this time last year, when it quickly became apparent that artists of all stripes were going to struggle through this pandemic without the ability to tour and make money that way. Since, Bandcamp Friday has been a great monthly tradition among music lovers, a chance to indulge in merch, digital files and physical music purchases with the knowledge that the artist one loves is getting all that moo-lah. This is a short list because here at City Weekly, we cover a lot of local artists, so if you’re at a loss of where to start, start by recalling any local music pick you enjoyed reading about this last year that introduced you
Uphere Records
A quick scan on the UPHERE! Records Instagram page shows what looks like a well-established label going off left and right about their artists, a small-but-growing scrappy collection of young, mostly Utah County-based musicians. But UPHERE! is itself also young and scrappy, founded just a few months ago in November 2020 by two friends in their early 20s. Brady Flores and Tom Petersen were both born and bred in the area, and though Flores describes UPHERE! as just a couple of young bucks making cassette tapes, the duo has quickly jumped into a shared vision for Utah music inspired by the people around them, and those who shaped it in the recent past.