Morning In May (MIM) finds himself at the forefront of reinventing 2007's emo.
Known for descriptive lyrics that bring their songs to life in a cinematic way, MIM puts on theatrically driven performances. With tours including Warped Tour 18' and others alongside names such as Hawthorne Heights, Underoath and August Burns. With consistent tour being prominent in MIM's career, they've managed to use their music and social media platforms as a way of staying connected with their fan base through the years.
Johnny's Happy Spot is a multi-media/multi-disciplinary art presentation about a young man getting lost on his way his way home from his 9 to 5. Johnny is a musician, and his only dream in life is to play Hawaiian music on his ukulele. One afternoon, on his way home, he steps onto the wrong bus which takes him into different dimensions of his own reality. He must battle multiple obstacles to complete his journey to his happy spot. This is a one night only performance and will be filmed for the creation of an experimental film. Expect experimental/ambient/noise music with visual artistry and modern interpretive dance. COSTUMES are ENCOURAGED!
Since 1996 Michael Anderson has evolved from experiments in early industrial tape culture to the production of fragile bedroom noise folk with expansive cinematic textures in his project Drekka. Having released dozens of cassettes, CDs, and LPs on his own Bluesanct label as well as numerous other labels internationally, Anderson has traveled, collaborated, and relocated, all the while collecting memories and building a very personal archive of corresponding sound. Drekka's music is made through continually delving into this archive: digging up and repurposing old recordings, live performances, and forgotten snippets of out-of-touch friends' voices. It is a project that experiments not only with sound, but also with memory as a subject and a process. Like Tarkovsky's The Mirror or the more abstract works of Coil and Cindytalk, Drekka is both a sonic experiment and an assemblage of memories - at one moment dissonant and intimidating, and the next warm, hospitable, and ultimately soothing.
Transylvanian Lip Treatment present Rocky Horror Picture Show US 1975 | digital | Dir: Jim Sharman | 100min | R
Midnight / doors 11:00p
$8 (advance) / $10 (at the door)
17+ unless accompanying parent or adult guardian
This campy cult classic is the most popular midnight movie of all time. A corn-fed all-American couple
stumbles onto a creepy castle one night when their car breaks down, entering a world they never dreamed existed. The castle turns out to be inhabited by a collection of kinky Transylvanian freaks led by a mad bisexual transvestite. The film gained notoriety as the most successful midnight movie ever, in which hundreds of cult fans show up in costume and act out scenes from the movie.
You are not allowed to bring your own props. Prop kits are available at the show. Prop kits include rice (during the wedding scene at the very beginning, throw yours in celebration), a newspaper (during the rain scene, keep dry), noise maker (during the creation speech, celebrate and MAKE SOME NOISE), toilet paper (when the doctor breaks through the lab wall, hurl your "scotts" tissue), and toast (make your toast during the birthday dinner...toss it), will be available at the show for $4. YOU ARE ENCOURAGED TO COME IN COSTUME.
Doors open at 11:00pm. Virgin sacrifice before the show. The movie begins at Midnight.
Next Midnight Picture Show: Saturday, September 13.
the Irving Theater welcomes Thomas Carr Howe All-Class Reunion along Johnson Avenue next to the Irving Theater
5:00p to 11L00p
FREE
all ages
Join us for the fiftenth annual Thomas Carr Howe High School All Class Reunion and Block Party on the street next to the theater. An all evening party with food, drinks, great music from Audio Diner and Blue Alchemy and, of course, old friends.
Tim Grimm is a bit of a Renaissance man in the performing arts world, forging a rich and varied career that blends his love of songwriting, travel, and acting in theatre, film and television. For most of his 25-year career as a storytelling balladeer in the tradition of John Prine, Woody Guthrie, and Bob Dylan, Tim has written primarily about community, history, family, and social issues - often framed by his strong sense of place and the many years he spent on the family farm he built in rural Indiana. His songs are filled with rural characters and landscapes, written and sung with vivid warmth and intimacy.
Tim;s new album, "Bones Of Trees", matches the fire and fury of Folk music traditions as he updates the genre with contemporary political issues and observations. "Bones Of Trees" curates the many moods of Folk music when the album politicizes a story-song tribute to Woody Guthrie in ("Woody's Landlord Revisited") while the acoustic picking quiets to hear the tale of Liverpool son Frances Toliver as he enters a World War holiday celebration with "Christmas in the Trenches". Musicians with guitars can spin a song. A folk musician tells a story that enters our consciousness, an audio worm wriggling to safety as it burrows into our consciousness. Tim Grimm is a champion for the guitar player as three-chord prophet and don't-shot-the-messenger troubadours.
When Christian singer-songwriter Jennifer Knapp came out as gay in 2010, she was confronted by a pastor on national television for her “sin.” The terrifying prospect of coming out in a faith-based environment made it seem nearly impossible for her to carry on with her music career. Yet, after realizing real faith knows no boundaries, she let go of the mold she so desperately once tried to fit into.
At The Bull, a Gainesville bar and music venue, on March 27, Knapp performed a short set list with a lasting impact. With the feeling of a listening room, Knapp connected to fans who have been listening to her music for over 20 years and strangers who never knew her name until that night.
At the start of her career, Knapp wrote music about her upbringing. She was surrounded by people who repeatedly told her who she should be, rather than her finding that out for herself. She processed her own development under the influence of her church community and, because of that, she didn’t know who she really wanted to be in light of those ideas, she said.
This “soul-searching” train of thought is what ultimately drove now 50-year-old Knapp to pick up the guitar in the first place. In those early days, she thought of music as a way of healing herself, but later, she found it’s an invitation for others to experience growth as well.
Transylvanian Lip Treatment present Rocky Horror Picture Show US 1975 | digital | Dir: Jim Sharman | 100min | R
Midnight / doors 11:00p
$8 (advance) / $10 (at the door)
17+ unless accompanying parent or adult guardian
This campy cult classic is the most popular midnight movie of all time. A corn-fed all-American couple
stumbles onto a creepy castle one night when their car breaks down, entering a world they never dreamed existed. The castle turns out to be inhabited by a collection of kinky Transylvanian freaks led by a mad bisexual transvestite. The film gained notoriety as the most successful midnight movie ever, in which hundreds of cult fans show up in costume and act out scenes from the movie.
You are not allowed to bring your own props. Prop kits are available at the show. Prop kits include rice (during the wedding scene at the very beginning, throw yours in celebration), a newspaper (during the rain scene, keep dry), noise maker (during the creation speech, celebrate and MAKE SOME NOISE), toilet paper (when the doctor breaks through the lab wall, hurl your "scotts" tissue), and toast (make your toast during the birthday dinner...toss it), will be available at the show for $4. YOU ARE ENCOURAGED TO COME IN COSTUME.
Doors open at 11:00pm. Virgin sacrifice before the show. The movie begins at Midnight.
Mythology evokes images of gods, titans, demons, and beasts of every kind. Yet, it's the spark of humanity that keeps us telling and retelling myths. It's these stories of seduction, inheritance, and hubris that Nashville- based folk duo Haunted Like Human rekindle in the 14 songs on their third album American Mythology. Since the release of 2021's Tall Tales & Fables, Dale Chapman and Cody Clark have been refining their sound rather than departing from it. The result is a shapely set of songs that borrow from universal lore in order to reveal intimate truths. Led by Chapman’s warmly capacious voice and Clark's classical techniques on a steel-string guitar, the pair prove they write songs like novelists write their books, using careful detail and well-shaped characters to tell even the heaviest of stories. Whatever the topic, the songs shine with restrained arrangements and entwined harmonies. This duo tells stories so well that there's no need to cloak them with heavy-handed production or vocal processing. Instead, Haunted Like Human lets the humanity shine through.
Secondhand Shows present Anthony Gomes High Voltage Blues
8:00p / doors 7:00p
$30 (advance) / $35 (day of show)
all ages
"Gomes is a power player who is at his best when his
gear is in the scorched earth between blues and rock. After all, it's the electric guitar; sometimes tickling
it is not enough." - Guitar World
With a guitar slung over his shoulder and the amps turned up full tilt,
Anthony Gomes electrifies blues and rock at a 21st century
crossroads of his own. The Canadian vocalist, guitarist, songwriter and producer wails with all the force of a
hurricane in the Mississippi Delta and enough fret-burning fireworks to leave his strings in flames.
Over the years, he's toppled the Billboard Blues Chart at #1, earned the endorsement of legends such as B.B. King, tallied tens of millions of streams, and packed shows on multiple continents. In 2022, he makes his Rat Pak Records debut with High Voltage Blues, amplifying his soul and spirit like never before.
Looking for an actual 21st Century guitar hero? Here he is.
D U R I N G T H E
Irving Theater welcomes and Melchior Marionettes present Slightly Haunted Puppet Show featuringThe Melchior Marionettes
6:30p / doors 6:00p
FREE
all ages
Representing three generations of puppeteers, The Melchior Marionettes have been a favorite for over 50 years. For the eighteenth year these magical puppets will be entertaining both young and old Irvingtonians during Halloween. The Halloween program features beautiful hand- crafted and costumed marionettes performing in full view of the audience. The cast includes dancing ghosts and skeletons, a juggling scarecrow, and Esmerelda the witch, while Dracula welcomes visitors from a second story ghost house.
Since 1952, they have been performing throughout the US Midwest, Canada, Mexico and Europe. Most recently, they performed in Shanghai, China, at Century Park for their National Day Celebration. Beautiful hand crafted and costumed marionettes are performed in full view of the audience. This show has been an extremely popular event for children and we expect a large crowd.
D U R I N G T H E
the Irving Theater welcomes and Melchior Marionettes present Slightly Haunted Puppet Show featuring theMelchior Marionettes
6:30p / doors 6:00p
FREE
all ages
Representing three generations of puppeteers, The Melchior Marionettes have been a favorite for over 50 years. For the eighteenth year these magical puppets will be entertaining both young and old Irvingtonians during Halloween. The Halloween program features beautiful hand- crafted and costumed marionettes performing in full view of the audience. The cast includes dancing ghosts and skeletons, a juggling scarecrow, and Esmerelda the witch, while Dracula welcomes visitors from a second story ghost house.
Since 1952, they have been performing throughout the US Midwest, Canada, Mexico and Europe. Most recently, they performed in Shanghai, China, at Century Park for their National Day Celebration. Beautiful hand crafted and costumed marionettes are performed in full view of the audience. This show has been an extremely popular event for children and we expect a large crowd.
7:00p / doors 6:00p
$10 (advance) / $16 (day of show)
all ages
