Columbia City Paper

Thursday Feb. 5, New Brookland Tavern 

Flo-town natives
Sequoyah Prep School promise to charm your pants off with mellow and
well-crafted –but still kinda rocking—tunes from their recently
released Ghost Town LP. (To say nothing of their older stuff.) This
show is on the home state leg of a semi national tour, so be sure to
catch these guys before the rest of the country discovers them and they
really blow up and stay on the road all year.

Dead Confederate Friday Feb 6 

Headliners
   You certainly can’t go wrong with the Vic Chestnut and Elf Power
show at the Art Bar on February 5th, but the pick this issues goes to
another Athens-based act, Dead Confederate.  This alt-country meets
grunge band is worth the price of admission.  Fans like to say they
sound like My Morning Jacket meets Nirvana.  I could blather on, but
it’s an apt comparison.
-Bryan Alexander   

Harptallica, Saturday, Feb. 7 –New Brookland Tavern 

Harptallica was founded in 2006 when Ashley Lancz Toman and Patricia Kline, two students at the Eastman School of Music in New York State, decided to arrange Metallica’s “Fade to Black” for two harps. Two years later, the girls have recorded a cover album and play gigs across the country.
Metal purists may bristle at the fact that Toman first heard of Metallica during a music theory class in college. And the two definitely have the look of band geeks turned metal. Still the arrangements are well done and the show promises to be fun, if only because it’s not something you’re likely to hear everyday. Harptallica also gains brownie points in my book for focusing on older Metallica fare. There’s lots of stuff from Ride the Lightning and Master of Puppets. (“Orion” actually sounds pretty cool on a harp. I’ve heard they do “Battery,” too.)
So, uh, get ready to chug some white wine spritzers and mingle! Whoo!!
Harpist Mollie Marcuson is slated to fill in for Kline during the January and February leg of the tour.

For the entire New Brookland Tavern schedule visit newbrooklandtavern.com  

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