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Jack Gallagher & Band take the stage for three performances at The Sofia, Nov. 20 & 21.

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Jack Gallagher & Band bring music, laughter to The Sofia

Mindy Giles News release

SACRAMENTO — What a difference two years make. After retiring the Jack Gallagher & Band in 2019, the pandemic seems to have changed things. All the players are longing to get back together and have some fun.

So, here they go again. The Jack Gallagher Band comes to The Sofia at B Street Theatre Nov. 20 & 21. As always there’s music and the stories about them plus comedy and just an all-around great time.

“The Joke’s on Me” has had a swell run of 11 shows across 11 years. This will be an evening of terrific live music and laughs as Sacramento’s adopted favorite son performs with his all-star band. Along with some long-standing keepers, Gallagher has added new personal faves this year by Gerry Rafferty, Mountain, Dave Edmunds, Michael Nesmith, Vanilla Fudge and The Beatles.

“Music has been a huge part of my life since I was 10 or 12. If I’d spent as much time studying for school as I did memorizing lyrics and reading liner notes, I’d be a rocket scientist,” said the man whom many think Elton John sang about in “Rocket Man.”

Part rock & roll history, part memoir, Gallagher summons up a Jean Shepherd-esque collective consciousness to perform more gems of baby boomer music and to tell the tales that go with them. “I am so lucky to have an amazing band of nationally-known Bay Area musicians playing with me,” Gallagher beams, “The Rubinoos’ Tommy Dunbar and Al Chan, drummer Kevin Hayes (Robert Cray/John Lee Hooker/Van Morrison), keyboardist Allen Leong, Dean Chance on harmonica and the legendary maestro himself, Dick Bright.”

It is clear that his 2015 show, “5 Songs,” commissioned by the B Street Theatre, had its origins from Gallagher’s earlier 24th Street Theatre music concerts and his popular podcast of the same name. In “5 Songs,” Gallagher riffed on songs (accompanied live by renowned guitarist Tommy Dunbar) that had meaning to him, telling stories about the times and places the music and lyrics took him back to.

Across the country, PBS viewers know the Emmy-winning Gallagher from his long running shows, “Money Track,”“Money Moves,” “Off-Limits” and “Kids, Cash and Common Sense.” Network/cable television included his own ABC sitcom “Bringing Up Jack” and an occasional recurring role as Larry David’s doctor on the HBO Original Series “Curb Your Enthusiasm.”

A favorite of talk/variety show hosts and audiences, the nationally known stand-up comedian has made numerous appearances across the years on “The Tonight Show” with both Johnny Carson and Jay Leno, as well as NBC’s “Late Night with Conan O’Brien.”

And a certain generation knows him from the 1991 Bobcat Goldthwait cult classic “Shakes the Clown.”

But it is his one–man monologue shows commissioned by Buck Busfield and the B Street Theatre here in Sacramento that have created and sustained Gallagher’s die-hard fans. His critically acclaimed works — “Letters to Declan” (1998), “Just The Guy” (2003), “What He Left” (2006), “A Different Kind of Cool” (2010), “Complete and Unfinished” (2013), the aforementioned “5 Songs”(2015), “Concussed: Four Days In The Dark” (2017) and “A Stand-Up Guy” (2019) have given the Irish-American writer, monologist and family man a longerform chance to dig for common truths via his autobiographical and comic exposés. Becoming a rock singer with a kick-ass band, well that was a lifelong dream now fulfilled.

Performances are scheduled at 4 & 7 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 20, and 4 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 21, at The Sofia, 2700 Capitol Ave. in Sacramento. Virtual tickets are available for the Sunday performance. Streaming will occur via Vimeo and a link will be emailed prior to the event. Please note, virtual tickets only gain purchasers access to a virtual link, not the show in-person. Doors open 1 hour prior to showtime. All attendees are required to be fully COVID-19 vaccinated. For tickets call (916) 443-5300 or visit bstreettheatre. org/music/the-jokes-on-me-2021reunion-tour.

Bands rock at Outbreak Brewery

News release

The much anticipated Barely Only Deadheads Show featuring three stellar bands is Saturday, Nov. 20, at Outbreak Brewery, 640 Main St. in Placerville. Doors open at 4 p.m. with the show going until 8 p.m.

Show opener is the L-daWg Allstars performing original fusion reggae sounds. New to the scene in 2020, the band was born out of a mutual love of original fusion reggae sound. Ken Masuda (vocals and guitar) is an award-winning West Coast songwriter in San Francisco. He was production mentored by Tower of Power’s Ron E. Beck and vocal coached by Towers of Power’s Lenny Goldstein. David Ladd of Video Jazz (sax, flute and vocals) has toured in Europe recording with Norton Buffalo and Rosemary Clooney. He has also recorded with members of Santana, Tower of Power and Pete Escovedo. Michael Boren (guitar), Richard Lorig (drums), Justin Sarns (percussion) and Rob Brown (bass) formerly of the popular reggae cover group Late For Dinner bring 20 years experience to the group.

Next up is the highly acclaimed festival circuit band Achilles Wheel. The group blurs the lines between genres with a mix of infectious high energy, dance beats and stark lyrical ballads creating roots rock storytelling combined with dance hall psychedelia. Achilles Wheel is Ben Jacobs (keys), Jonny Mojo (guitar and vocals), Paul Kamm (guitar and vocals), Mark McCartney (drums) and Shelby Snow (bass). Check out the band at achilleswheel.com.

The headliner and festival circuit band is the fantastic Joe Craven and the Sometimers. There is no label to accurately describe the music of Joe Craven and the Sometimers. Acid rockgrass? Jazz fusion Americana? To try to box it in would be to crush the exuberant creative spirit that happens when Craven, Jonathan Stoyanoff, Bruce McMillan, Barry Eldridge and Hattie Craven play together. “No genre left behind” is the group’s musical motto and the band members accomplish the task with joyful abandon, playing paradigm shattering free range music that entices and excites.

The event is presented by KFOK Community Radio — 95.1 FM, Outbreak Brewing Co and daWg shows. For tickets go to eventbrite. com/e/barley-only-deadheads-showtickets-152229176565.

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