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40 | FEBRUARY 15, 2018
THE REPUBLICAN
RACHELLE FERNANDEZ
BAR FLY
Dueling Pianos (Funk ’n’ Dive) Dueling Pianos (Keys on Main) Friday Night Fun (All-Request Dance) w/ DJ Wees (Area 51) Funkin’ Friday w/ DJ Rude Boy & Bad Boy Brian (Johnny’s on Second) Hot Noise (The Red Door)
KARAOKE
Karaoke (Willie’s Lounge)
SATURDAY 2/17 LIVE MUSIC
A-Mac & The Height (Funk ’n’ Dive) B. D. Howes (Deer Valley) Changing Lanes Experience (Canyons Village) Chubby Checker & The Wildcats (Egyptian Theatre) Crook & The Bluff (The Yes Hell) Deadmau5 + Rinzen (Park City Live) The Gamma Rays (Brewskis)
Jayy & Dame + Blest Poetik (The Loading Dock) Joshy Soul & The Cool (Lake Effect) Junction City Blues Band (Garage on Beck) Junior & Transportation (The Cabin) LP + Noah Kahan (Metro Music Hall) see p. 34 N-U-ENDO (Club 90) Neck Deep + Seaway + Creeper + Speak Low If You Speak Love (The Complex) R.LUM.R + Gibbz (Kilby Court) Radio Moscow + Amplified Heat + Green River Blues (The State Room) see p. 34 Rail Town (The Westerner) The Reverend & The Revelry (Harp & Hound) Rostam + Joy Again (Urban Lounge) Royal Bliss (The Royal) Shuffle (The Spur) Spazmatics (Liquid Joe’s) Stonefed (Hog Wallow)
Once my eyes adjust to the low lighting, I realize this Irish pub is huge. Maybe the nondescript façade is meant to keep hipsters away, and keep the pub full of patrons from the neighborhood, like the bar on the Showtime series Shameless. I mean, the pub does have a Russian woman behind the bar. But she’s different from the street-smart former sex worker on the show; she’s college-educated, and an accomplished violinist. She’s just one of many people of this caliber here on a Saturday night. Once my agoraphobia settles, I order an ale and start chatting with a couple of college students, software engineering majors. I am always amazed by computer folk, though I’m often lost in the technical language they use when describing their field of study. I pretend to understand until I see a chance to make like a social butterfly and flutter off in search of a conversation more my speed. But in reality, I’m more like that neighborhood-bar newcomer, awkwardly trying to find my place. Eventually I land on a stool next to a homesick Bosnian native who longs to return to his country and a local that can’t wait to leave town. Before we get too deep into that conversation, I notice a cabinet full of board games behind the bar. As I peruse the selection, someone challenges me to play Pokémon Master Trainer. I accept—but we’re too far into our delicious bloody marys and brown ales to read the handbook. Whatever, we say, and make up the rules as we go. (Rachelle Fernandez) The Republican, 917 S. State, 801-595-1916, facebook.com/therepublican801
The Strike + House of Lewis (Velour) Tony Holiday & The Velvetones (Barbary Coast) You Topple Over (Johnny’s on Second) Wild Country (Outlaw Saloon) Winter Grain + Folk Hogan (The Ice Haüs) Zepparella (O.P. Rockwell)
Sky Saturdays w/ DJ Ikon (Sky)
DJ, OPEN MIC, SESSION, PIANO LOUNGE
LIVE MUSIC
Alternative/Top 40/ EDM w/ DJ Twitch (Area 51) Après Ski (The Cabin) Burlesque & The Beats (Prohibition) Dueling Pianos (Keys on Main) Dueling Pianos feat. Troy & Jules (Tavernacle) DJ Joel (Twist) DJ Juggy (Bourbon House) DJ Latu (The Green Pig) DJ Mr. Ramirez (Lake Effect) Gothic + Industrial + 80s w/ Courtney (Area 51)
KARAOKE
Karaoke (Willie’s Lounge) Karaoke w/ B-RAD (Club 90)
SUNDAY 2/18 Andy Frasco & The U.N. (O.P. Rockwell) Che Zuro (Deer Valley) Chubby Checker & The Wildcats (Egyptian Theatre) Elektric Voodoo (The Yes Hell) J.I.D. + EarthGang (Kilby Court) Judd Warrick (Snowbird) Live Bluegrass (Club 90) The Nods + Eleventh Door + 90s Television (Urban Lounge) Patrick Ryan (The Spur) PNB Rock + Lil Baby (The Complex) Shannon Runyon (Legends at Park City Mountain)