The House of Blues' Backstage venue will host a free concert May 20 featuring the ex-Live frontman.
Live back in the day. Kowalczyk is front left.
ATLANTIC CITY — One of York, Pennsylvania's favorite sons, Ed Kowalczyk, former leader of the highly successful '90s rock outfit Live, is on his own these days but will be around plenty of fans when he is slated to appear for a free concert in Atlantic City on May 20 at the House of Blues at Showboat.
Kowalczyk is also embracing his Christian roots.
Not only is Kowalczyk making his debut at a Christian rock festival in New Hampshire this summer, (the annual Soulfest, "New England's premier Christian music and worship festival," being held Aug. 3-6 at Gunstock Mountain in Gilford, New Hampshire), he is also performing solo throughout the summer, including a slew of free concerts.
Along with the Atlantic City show, some of the other freebies include Boston's EarthFest on May 21, where Kowalczyk shares the bill with OK Go and Sponge; Musikfest in Bethlehem, Pa., dubbed "the largest non-gated, free music festival in the nation,” on Aug. 14; a free outdoor concert in Dayton, Ohio, in July and many more scheduled dates.
The House of Blues show will take place at the venue's Backstage. The event is being described by organizers as "an unprecedented, free performance at Backstage at Showboat, the casino’s high-energy gaming and entertainment venue."
Although Backstage "has been primarily known for hosting a wide range of the region’s hottest cover bands," since debuting last year, parent company Caesars Entertainment Atlantic City is excited to be adding a rock heavyweight into the mix.
“This is the first of its kind," says Jason Spencer, the regional director of entertainment for Caesars Entertainment Atlantic City.
"Never have we had an act of this magnitude perform at Backstage. With Ed Kowalczyk, Backstage can now boast the fact that not only is it the prime spot for House of Blues headliners to kick back and play some blackjack, but also a stage to multi-million-album-selling artists.”
On March 10 heads will bang at The House of Blues Casino at Showboat Atlantic City as the casino’s Party Pit plays host to the band, Filter. Known for their hard style and deep lyrical content, Filter will perform their greatest hits beginning at 10pm.
he quarterfinals are this Thursday, Sept. 1, and the semifinals are the following Thursday, Sept. 8. The championship round will take place Sept. 15.
IN THE CLIMATE OF TODAY'S music industry, it's the exception not the rule for a band to be putting out a new record every few years on the same record label that it started out with 15 years before. And unless they're U2, it's even harder to imagine that the band is still selling out shows around the world, content and at the height of their game. A band has to be more than good to pull this off. It has to have something that people get; that they understand, that they crave. Apparently, Live has all of these things. The four York, Pa. boys who got their start as a William Penn Senior High School band called Public Affection have certainly persevered in a shaky music industry that embraced them when they first landed on the scene in 1991 with the album, Mental Jewelry. Whereas most of the grunge bands that Live went up against back then on MTV have since faded from the spotlight, Live is still on the radio, on the road and on the charts. This is despite a significant shift in the band's lyrical content on their latest album, Birds of Pray. Although it's been hailed...
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