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SUMMARY:Mystic Dead at the Charlestown Rathskeller
DESCRIPTION:Mystic Dead at the Charlestown Rathskeller brings the music of the Grateful Dead to the woods of Charlestown on Friday\, September 4\, with three hours of extended jams\, improvisation\, and songs drawn from one of rock’s deepest catalogs. \nThe southeastern Connecticut-based six-piece performs from 8 to 11 p.m. at the Rathskeller\, continuing a relationship with the venue that has already brought Mystic Dead to Charlestown multiple times in 2026. \nTickets are $15 in advance\, plus fees\, and $20 at the door. \nFor a band that began with a once-a-month Dead night in Mystic\, it’s another stop in what has become a much bigger trip. \nIt Started With a Dead Night in Mystic\nMystic Dead wasn’t created as a touring tribute act with a business plan. \nIn 2018\, a group of local musicians began getting together once a month to play Grateful Dead music at the Captain Daniel Packer Inne in Mystic. \nIt was supposed to be a Dead night. \nThen people kept coming. \nThe musicians kept playing. \nAnd Mystic Dead was born. \nThe six-piece band has since moved well beyond its Mystic beginnings\, playing clubs\, theaters\, breweries\, festivals and outdoor venues throughout Connecticut and Rhode Island. \nBut the approach established during those early nights remains central to the band. \nMystic Dead doesn’t simply reproduce a list of Grateful Dead songs. \nIt uses them as somewhere to go. \nYou Can’t Really Tribute the Dead Note for Note\nThere is a fundamental problem with trying to recreate a Grateful Dead concert. \nThe Grateful Dead didn’t recreate Grateful Dead concerts. \nSongs changed from night to night. Set lists changed. Tempos shifted. One song could dissolve into another without a clean break. A familiar piece of music might suddenly become the launching point for a long improvisation that had never happened before and would never happen exactly the same way again. \nThat unpredictability became one of the defining characteristics of the band. \nIt also helped create Deadheads. \nFans didn’t simply want to hear “Truckin’\,” “Sugaree\,” “Scarlet Begonias” or “Eyes of the World” again. They wanted to hear what those songs might become tonight. \nMystic Dead takes that philosophy seriously. \nThe band describes its approach as a deep dive into the Grateful Dead catalog while allowing all six musicians the freedom to maintain their own creative individuality. \nThat’s an important distinction. \nThe goal isn’t to make every note sound exactly like a record made 50 years ago. \nIt’s to recreate the possibility that something unexpected can happen between the notes. \nThe Grateful Dead Built a Catalog Made for Exploration\nThe source material gives Mystic Dead plenty of room. \nThe Grateful Dead formed in the San Francisco Bay Area in 1965 and became inseparable from the counterculture developing around Haight-Ashbury. \nBut trying to assign the band a single genre has never worked particularly well. \nRock was there. \nSo were blues\, folk\, country\, bluegrass\, psychedelia\, jazz and traditional American music. \nJerry Garcia\, Bob Weir\, Phil Lesh\, Ron “Pigpen” McKernan and Bill Kreutzmann formed the original core\, with Mickey Hart joining soon afterward. Personnel would change over the band’s 30-year run\, but musical exploration remained constant. \nA song could be tightly constructed one night and stretched far beyond its original boundaries on another. \nThat created a catalog particularly well suited to musicians who want to improvise rather than simply imitate. \nThe Set List Is Only the Beginning\nA conventional tribute concert can work like a jukebox. \nRecognize the opening notes. \nSing the chorus. \nWait for the next hit. \nGrateful Dead music invites something different. \n“Dark Star” became famous partly because its relatively simple structure could open into enormous stretches of improvisation. \n“China Cat Sunflower” and “I Know You Rider” became so closely associated in concert that the transition between them became part of the experience. \n“Scarlet Begonias” could flow into “Fire on the Mountain.” \n“Help on the Way” could lead into “Slipknot!” and then “Franklin’s Tower.” \nThe space between songs could matter as much as the songs themselves. \nThat’s the territory a band like Mystic Dead gets to explore. \nThe destination may be familiar. \nThe route doesn’t have to be. \nThe Deadheads Changed Concert Culture Too\nThe Grateful Dead’s influence goes far beyond its recordings. \nA traveling community grew around the band\, with fans following tours from city to city and trading recordings of performances. \nThe Dead famously allowed fans to record concerts from designated taping areas\, helping create an enormous archive of live performances that circulated among listeners. \nThat culture reinforced an idea that seems obvious now but was unusual at the time: \nA concert didn’t have to be disposable. \nOne night’s version of a song could become something worth seeking out years later. \nFans compared performances\, traded tapes and debated particular versions of songs. \nThe Grateful Dead became a band whose live history could be explored almost endlessly. \nWhen Garcia died in 1995 and the Grateful Dead’s 30-year run ended\, the music didn’t disappear with it. \nFormer members continued performing in different configurations. New generations discovered the recordings. Tribute bands emerged everywhere. \nAnd eventually\, six musicians started playing a monthly Dead night in Mystic. \nMystic Dead Doesn’t Stay in Mystic Anymore\nBy 2026\, Mystic Dead’s calendar stretches well beyond its hometown. \nThe band has played throughout Connecticut and Rhode Island\, with appearances this year at venues ranging from breweries and taverns to Infinity Music Hall in Norfolk. \nSeptember alone includes the Rathskeller show followed by appearances at StageOne in Fairfield\, Mitchell Farm in Salem and Arch Street Tavern in Hartford. \nThat growth makes the band’s name a little deceptive. \nMystic is where it started. \nIt isn’t where it stayed. \nThree Hours Down Back\nThe Charlestown Rathskeller is particularly well suited to this kind of show. \nThe historic tavern dates to 1933 and sits tucked into the woods along Old Coach Road\, away from the busier coastal strips of South County. \nBehind the restaurant is the Rathskeller’s seasonal outdoor entertainment area known as Down Back. \nIt’s a casual setting built for lingering rather than sitting silently through a performance. The grounds include outdoor seating\, lawn games and a large fire pit\, with live music running through the warmer months. \nFor Friday’s show\, that means Mystic Dead has three hours to work with. \nAnd three hours changes what a Grateful Dead tribute can do. \nThere’s room for the familiar songs. \nThere’s also room to let one wander. \nThe Song Doesn’t Have to End Where It Started\nThat’s ultimately the appeal of Mystic Dead. \nThe songs may have been written decades ago. \nThe performance isn’t. \nA good Dead show has always depended on the musicians listening to one another\, recognizing when something interesting is happening and being willing to follow it. \nSometimes the experiment lands. \nSometimes it wanders. \nAnd sometimes a song everybody in the audience has heard hundreds of times suddenly finds a place none of them expected. \nThat’s why\, nearly three decades after six musicians gathered for a monthly Dead night in Mystic\, the Grateful Dead’s music still provides enough territory for another six musicians to explore. \nOn September 4\, they’ll have three hours in the woods of Charlestown to see where it takes them. \nEvent Details\nEvent: Mystic Dead – Grateful Dead Tribute\nDate: Friday\, September 4\, 2026\nTime: 8–11 p.m.\nLocation: The Charlestown Rathskeller\nAddress: 489A Old Coach Road\, Charlestown\, RI 02813\nBand: Mystic Dead\nMusic: Grateful Dead tribute / jam band\nAdvance Tickets: $15 plus Eventbrite fees\nDoor Tickets: $20\nVenue: Outdoor live music at the Charlestown Rathskeller \nMore information is available at the Event Website link below. \nTo purchase tickets\, click the Event Ticketing link below. \n\n  \nFeatured image is an artistic representation inspired by the event and may not depict the actual people\, location\, or activities shown. \n 
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LOCATION:Rathskeller\, 489A Old Coach Rd\, Charlestown\, RI\, 02813\, United States
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SUMMARY:Sugar at the Charlestown Rathskeller
DESCRIPTION:Sugar at the Charlestown Rathskeller brings one of southeastern Connecticut’s longest-running dance bands to the Rathskeller Down Back on Saturday\, September 5\, for three hours of funk\, disco\, soul\, R&B\, hip-hop and pop built around a simple objective: keep people dancing. \nThe eight-piece Stonington-based band performs from 8 to 11 p.m. at the outdoor venue tucked into the woods behind the Charlestown Rathskeller. \nTickets are $20 in advance\, plus fees\, and $25 at the door. \nMore Than 20 Years of Sugar\nSugar has been part of the New England live music scene for more than two decades. \nThat’s a considerable run for a band whose job depends on reading a room. \nUnlike a tribute act devoted to one artist or an original band touring behind a particular album\, Sugar has built its reputation around the dance floor. Its repertoire can move between decades and genres because the songs have to serve the crowd rather than a theme. \nDisco can give way to funk. \nFunk can move into R&B. \nA soul classic can be followed by hip-hop or a modern pop anthem. \nThe common denominator is whether people want to move when they hear it. \nThat approach has taken Sugar from local stages to major regional venues and events\, including performances at Foxwoods and Mohegan Sun. \nBut the band’s roots are much closer to home. \nSugar comes from Stonington. \nEight Musicians Make a Big Dance Band\nSugar’s current lineup includes Marcy Kelly\, Matt Dean\, Nick Cancelmo\, Ben LaRose\, Israel Malek\, Joe Michael\, Ed Mudrak and Collin Larkin. \nThat eight-person lineup gives the band considerably more to work with than the standard guitar-bass-drums configuration. \nThere are multiple vocalists. \nThere are horns. \nThere is percussion. \nAnd there are enough musicians onstage to reproduce songs that depend on layers of rhythm\, harmony and instrumental parts rather than reducing everything to a basic rock-band arrangement. \nThat’s particularly important when you’re moving through funk\, soul and disco. \nA horn line isn’t an extra when you’re playing music built around one. \nNeither is percussion. \nThe larger lineup lets Sugar approach its material as a full dance band rather than simply a cover band working through familiar songs. \nDisco\, Funk\, Hip-Hop\, Soul and R&B\nSugar describes its sound with a wonderfully uncomplicated phrase: \nIt’s a party. \nThe band’s musical territory stretches across disco\, funk\, hip-hop\, soul and R&B\, with rock and contemporary pop entering the mix as well. \nThat opens an enormous songbook. \nA dance band that has been performing for more than 20 years can reach into several generations of music without being locked into any of them. \nThe 1970s brought disco and funk. \nThe 1980s brought dance-pop\, new wave and the rise of MTV. \nThe 1990s opened another world of R&B\, hip-hop and pop. \nThen came another quarter-century of songs. \nFor Sugar\, all of it is available. \nThe question isn’t whether a song fits a particular decade. \nIt’s whether it fits the night. \nThe Horns Change Everything\nThere’s a reason a horn section can transform a dance band. \nSome of the most enduring dance music ever recorded was built around brass. \nEarth\, Wind & Fire used horns as a fundamental part of its sound. So did Chicago and Tower of Power. Funk and soul records frequently used brass for sharp rhythmic punches\, countermelodies and riffs that could be as recognizable as the vocal hook. \nThose arrangements lose something when they’re reduced to guitars and keyboards. \nSugar doesn’t have to make that compromise. \nThe combination of horns\, percussion\, rhythm section and multiple voices gives the band the tools to jump between musical styles without every song being forced through the same arrangement. \nIt also creates something particularly useful outdoors. \nA big sound. \nSugar Has Become a Rathskeller Regular\nSeptember 5 won’t be Sugar’s first trip into the woods of Charlestown. \nNot even close. \nThe band has become a recurring presence at the Rathskeller\, including multiple appearances during the 2026 season. \nSugar played there in June and returned July 31 before another Saturday-night show on September 5. \nThe repeat bookings make sense. \nThe Rathskeller’s Down Back isn’t designed like a traditional concert hall where an audience sits quietly facing a stage. \nIt’s an outdoor gathering space. \nThere are tables\, lawn games and room to move around. A large fire pit becomes part of the setting as the night gets cooler\, and the music shares the grounds with people eating\, drinking\, talking and dancing. \nFor a band whose entire identity revolves around creating a party\, it’s a natural fit. \nDinner Up Front\, Music Down Back\nThe Charlestown Rathskeller has been part of South County since 1933. \nThe historic tavern sits along Old Coach Road\, surrounded by woods rather than a conventional commercial strip. \nOver the years\, the property expanded well beyond the original tavern. \nBehind the restaurant\, the Rathskeller Down Back developed into a seasonal outdoor entertainment area with live music\, lawn games\, outdoor seating and a fire pit. \nThat creates two different experiences on the same property. \nUp front is the old tavern and restaurant. \nDown back is the party. \nFor the September 5 show\, the Rathskeller encourages visitors to arrive early for dinner and drinks before heading outside for the music. \nOnce Sugar starts at 8 p.m.\, there are three hours left for the other part of the plan. \nDance. \nThe Set List Has One Job\nA band can demonstrate technical skill without getting anybody out of a chair. \nThat’s not really the assignment here. \nSugar’s reputation has been built around keeping a dance floor occupied from the beginning of a show to the end. \nThat changes how a set develops. \nThe musicians have to watch the audience. \nIf a particular groove is working\, stay with it. \nIf the room needs something familiar\, find it. \nIf the crowd is ready to move from an older funk or disco song into something recorded decades later\, make the transition. \nA good dance band’s set list isn’t simply a collection of songs prepared before the show. \nIt’s a conversation with the people standing in front of the stage. \nAfter more than two decades of having that conversation\, Sugar gets another three hours with a Charlestown crowd September 5. \nEvent Details\nEvent: Sugar at the Charlestown Rathskeller 2026\nDate: Saturday\, September 5\, 2026\nTime: 8–11 p.m.\nLocation: Rathskeller Down Back at the Charlestown Rathskeller\nAddress: 489A Old Coach Road\, Charlestown\, RI 02813\nBand: Sugar\nHometown: Stonington\, Connecticut\nMusic: Disco\, funk\, soul\, R&B\, hip-hop\, rock and pop\nAdvance Tickets: $20 plus Eventbrite fees\nDoor Tickets: $25\nVenue: Outdoor live music \nMore information is available at the Event Website link below. \nTo purchase tickets\, click the Event Ticketing link below. \n\n  \nFeatured image is an artistic representation inspired by the event and may not depict the actual people\, location\, or activities shown.
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LOCATION:Rathskeller\, 489A Old Coach Rd\, Charlestown\, RI\, 02813\, United States
CATEGORIES:Rathskeller
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SUMMARY:60's Explosion at the Charlestown Rathskeller
DESCRIPTION:60’s Explosion at the Charlestown Rathskeller turns Sunday afternoon into a trip through one of popular music’s most transformative decades on September 6\, with three hours of British Invasion\, Motown\, psychedelic rock\, and 1960s pop performed outdoors at the Rathskeller Down Back. \nThe music runs from 4 to 7 p.m.\, and admission is free\, with an RSVP encouraged. \nThe premise is simple: take a decade that began with Elvis Presley still making hits\, watched The Beatles change everything\, saw Motown become a hit-making machine\, and ended with Woodstock\, and try to squeeze some of it into three hours. \n60’s Explosion has plenty to choose from. \nBefore the British Invasion\nWhen 1960 began\, nobody knew what was coming. \nRock and roll had already transformed American popular music during the previous decade\, but some of its biggest early stars had disappeared from the scene. Elvis Presley had spent two years in the Army. Buddy Holly had died in 1959. Chuck Berry faced legal problems. Little Richard had stepped away from secular music. \nPopular music didn’t stop\, of course. \nBut the next revolution was already developing thousands of miles away. \nYoung British musicians had grown up listening to American rock and roll\, blues and R&B records. They took those influences\, formed their own bands and eventually began sending the music back across the Atlantic. \nThen four musicians from Liverpool landed in America. \nThe Beatles Opened the Door\nThe Beatles’ arrival in the United States in February 1964 is one of those moments when popular culture seems to divide neatly into before and after. \nJohn Lennon\, Paul McCartney\, George Harrison and Ringo Starr appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show before an enormous American television audience. \nBeatlemania followed. \nSo did the rest of Britain. \nThe Rolling Stones\, The Animals\, The Kinks\, The Who\, Herman’s Hermits\, The Dave Clark Five and other British acts poured onto American radio and record charts. \nThe phenomenon became known as the British Invasion. \nFor American teenagers\, it seemed like an entirely new sound. \nThere was an irony underneath it. \nMuch of the music that inspired these British bands had come from America in the first place. \nThe Rolling Stones Sent American Blues Back Home\nThe Rolling Stones made that connection particularly obvious. \nMick Jagger\, Keith Richards and the early Stones were deeply influenced by American blues and R&B musicians\, including Muddy Waters\, Howlin’ Wolf and Chuck Berry. \nThe band even took its name from a Muddy Waters song. \nAmerican audiences were suddenly hearing young British musicians perform music rooted in American traditions\, sometimes leading listeners back to artists who hadn’t received comparable mainstream attention in their own country. \nThen the Stones developed their own songwriting voice. \n“(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction” arrived in 1965. \nThe opening guitar riff became one of rock’s most recognizable sounds\, and the Stones were no longer simply part of the British Invasion. \nThey were becoming one of the bands that would define rock itself. \nMeanwhile\, Motown Was Building Its Own Hit Machine\nNot every revolution of the 1960s came from guitars plugged into amplifiers. \nIn Detroit\, Berry Gordy’s Motown Records was creating one of the greatest collections of popular music in American history. \nThe Supremes. \nThe Temptations. \nThe Four Tops. \nMarvin Gaye. \nSmokey Robinson and the Miracles. \nMartha and the Vandellas. \nStevie Wonder. \nMotown developed a recognizable sound built around extraordinary songwriting\, rhythm\, melody and musicianship. \nBehind many of those records was the largely uncredited group of Detroit studio musicians later celebrated as the Funk Brothers. \nThe result was a remarkable run of records designed to cross boundaries. \nThey did. \nMotown became part of the soundtrack of America. \nAnd for a band like 60’s Explosion\, those songs provide another side of a decade far too musically diverse to be represented by rock alone. \nThen the Monkees Arrived on Television\nThe Monkees were assembled for television in 1966. \nThat origin led to years of arguments over whether they were a “real” band. \nThe songs made the argument increasingly irrelevant. \n“Last Train to Clarksville.” \n“I’m a Believer.” \n“Pleasant Valley Sunday.” \n“Daydream Believer.” \nThe television series made Davy Jones\, Micky Dolenz\, Michael Nesmith and Peter Tork stars\, but the musicians eventually fought for greater control over their own records and performances. \n60’s Explosion includes The Monkees among the artists it celebrates\, alongside The Beatles\, Rolling Stones and The Grass Roots. \nAnd by the time those records were arriving\, the decade was changing again. \nPop Music Gets Psychedelic\nCompare a hit record from 1963 with one from 1967. \nIt can sound as though considerably more than four years have passed. \nRecording technology improved. Musicians became increasingly interested in using the studio itself as an instrument. Songs became stranger. Albums became more ambitious. \nThe Beatles went from “I Want to Hold Your Hand” to Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band in just a few years. \nPsychedelic rock emerged from scenes in San Francisco\, London and elsewhere. \nJefferson Airplane released “White Rabbit” and “Somebody to Love.” \nThe Doors arrived with “Light My Fire.” \nJimi Hendrix pushed the electric guitar into places listeners had never heard it go. \nThe music reflected a culture changing just as quickly around it. \nThe polished pop of the early ’60s hadn’t disappeared. \nIt simply had to share the decade with something much louder and stranger. \nOne Decade\, Several Musical Revolutions\nThat’s what makes a 1960s show different from simply playing a collection of oldies. \nThe decade didn’t have one sound. \nEarly-’60s pop gave way to the British Invasion while Motown was producing hit after hit in Detroit. Folk music entered the mainstream. Soul exploded. Garage bands appeared everywhere. Psychedelic rock expanded what a rock record could sound like. \nBy August 1969\, hundreds of thousands of people were gathering on a farm in upstate New York for Woodstock. \nLess than six years had passed since The Beatles’ first appearance on Ed Sullivan. \nThe distance between those two moments is extraordinary. \nAnd it’s all “the ’60s.” \n60’s Explosion Brings the Decade Back to the Stage\n60’s Explosion is built around that range. \nThe tribute and party band performs music from the British Invasion\, Motown\, psychedelic rock and the broader pop and rock catalog of the era. \nThe group’s repertoire includes music associated with The Beatles\, The Rolling Stones\, The Monkees and The Grass Roots\, among others. \nThe goal isn’t to impersonate one particular group. \nIt’s to recreate the sound and energy of the decade itself. \nThat also means the afternoon can move quickly between styles. \nA British Invasion song can give way to Motown. \nA piece of straightforward pop can be followed by psychedelic rock. \nAnd a song written more than 60 years ago can still fill a dance floor. \nBack to the Rathskeller for a Second 2026 Show\nThis isn’t 60’s Explosion’s first visit to Charlestown this year. \nThe band played the Rathskeller in June and returns September 6 for another Sunday afternoon performance. \nThe September show runs from 4 to 7 p.m.\, making it part of the Rathskeller’s Sunday afternoon live-music schedule rather than one of its later Friday or Saturday night concerts. \nAdmission is free. \nThe Rathskeller encourages guests to arrive early for lunch or drinks before staying for the performance. \nThree Hours Down Back\nThe setting is far removed from a traditional theater. \nThe Charlestown Rathskeller has been part of the local landscape since 1933\, tucked into the woods along Old Coach Road. \nBehind the historic tavern is Rathskeller Down Back\, its seasonal outdoor entertainment area. \nThe grounds include outdoor seating\, lawn games and a large fire pit\, with live music becoming a regular part of weekends during the warmer months. \nOn September 6\, the soundtrack goes back more than half a century. \nThe Beatles and the Stones. \nMotown and The Monkees. \nPop songs and psychedelic rock. \nThree hours covering a decade in which popular music seemed to reinvent itself every couple of years. \nAnd this time\, you don’t need a time machine. \nYou just need to find the Rathskeller in the woods. \nEvent Details\nEvent: 60’s Explosion at the Charlestown Rathskeller 2026\nDate: Sunday\, September 6\, 2026\nTime: 4–7 p.m.\nLocation: Charlestown Rathskeller\nAddress: 489A Old Coach Road\, Charlestown\, RI 02813\nBand: 60’s Explosion\nMusic: British Invasion\, Motown\, psychedelic rock and 1960s pop and rock\nAdmission: Free\nRSVP: Encouraged\nVenue: Outdoor live music at Rathskeller Down Back \nMore information is available at the Event Website link below. \nTo reserve your spot\, click the Event Ticketing link below. \n\n  \nFeatured image is an artistic representation inspired by the event and may not depict the actual people\, location\, or activities shown. \n 
URL:https://thectbeacon.com/event/60s-explosion-at-the-charlestown-rathskeller-2/
LOCATION:Rathskeller\, 489A Old Coach Rd\, Charlestown\, RI\, 02813\, United States
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SUMMARY:Take It To The Bridge at the Charlestown Rathskeller 2026
DESCRIPTION:Take It To The Bridge at the Charlestown Rathskeller 2026 brings an eight-piece Rhode Island band built for the dance floor to Charlestown on Friday\, September 11. The band takes the stage from 8 to 11 p.m. with a mix of funk\, soul\, pop\, and rock & roll spanning decades. \nTickets are $10 in advance\, plus Eventbrite fees\, or $15 at the door. The Rathskeller encourages concertgoers to arrive early for dinner and drinks before heading Down Back for the show. \nFor anyone who has only encountered Take It To The Bridge at a wedding or private party\, this is a chance to see the full band in its natural public-show setting\, with horns\, multiple vocalists and a rhythm section designed to keep people moving. \nTake It To The Bridge Started With a Wedding\nTake It To The Bridge traces its beginnings to Rhode Island in 2014\, but it didn’t begin with a plan to create one of the state’s established event bands. \nFounders Greg and Christyn Marcotte met while serving in the Rhode Island National Guard in 2009 and married in 2012. A couple of years later\, friends Jill and Aquila asked them to provide the music for their wedding. \nThe Marcottes decided to build a band for the occasion. \nThey recruited musicians Greg knew through teaching and performing around Rhode Island\, including Carl and Scott. Carl recommended former bandmate Colby as lead vocalist\, only for the group to discover that Colby had independently been asked to serve as master of ceremonies at the same wedding. \nThe coincidence helped create the core of a band that stayed together after the wedding was over. \nAnother Rhode Island National Guard connection expanded the lineup in December 2016. John joined the musicians onstage during a New Year’s Eve performance at the Newport Blues Café\, and his performance led to a permanent place in the group. \nMore than a decade after that first wedding\, Take It To The Bridge remains based in Rhode Island and performs at weddings\, private functions and public shows throughout New England. \nWhat’s With the Name?\nThere’s a little music history tucked into the band’s name. \n“Take it to the bridge” is a phrase famously associated with James Brown’s Get Up (I Feel Like Being a) Sex Machine. Brown calls out instructions to his musicians during the performance\, including directing the band toward the song’s bridge. \nA bridge is the section of a song that breaks away from the repeated verse-and-chorus structure\, often introducing a new progression or musical idea before returning to familiar territory. \nFor Take It To The Bridge\, the name fits the band’s funk and soul roots as well as its approach to live performance: a band less interested in quietly reproducing a playlist than in creating a party around it. \nAn Eight-Piece Band With a Big Repertoire\nThe full Take It To The Bridge lineup performing at the Rathskeller is an eight-piece ensemble. \nFounders Greg and Christyn Marcotte remain part of the group\, with Greg on lead guitar and Christyn contributing trombone and vocals. The current core also includes drummer and general manager Josh DeFedele and lead vocalist Sarah Van Pelt\, along with longtime members and a network of Rhode Island professional musicians. \nThe instrumentation is one reason the band’s repertoire can move around so freely. \nTake It To The Bridge works across funk\, soul\, pop and rock & roll\, rather than limiting itself to a particular decade or artist. Its public performances draw from the same broad repertoire that has made the group a regular choice for weddings and large events. \nThat means the September 11 show isn’t a tribute concert where the audience knows precisely which catalog is coming. The appeal is the opposite: recognizable music from different eras connected by arrangements built around a live rhythm section\, vocals and horns. \nThe Rathskeller describes the result simply as a night of non-stop dancing. \nThe Full Band\, the Bridge and the Trio\nTake It To The Bridge has expanded into several configurations over the years\, which is worth knowing when looking at its local schedule. \nThe September 11 performance is the full Take It To The Bridge band\, not one of its scaled-down versions. \nThe group also operates The Bridge\, a four-piece configuration with a complete rhythm section and vocals intended for smaller rooms\, and a Take It To The Bridge Trio that strips the music down further for more intimate performances. \nIn fact\, the Trio returns to the Rathskeller just nine days after this show\, playing a free Sunday afternoon set on September 20. \nFor Friday night’s performance\, however\, the Rathskeller is getting the larger eight-piece version and the fuller funk-and-soul sound that comes with it. \nDown Back at the Rathskeller\nThe setting is a big part of the night. \nThe Charlestown Rathskeller sits back from Old Coach Road on a wooded property that feels considerably more secluded than its address suggests. \nThe restaurant itself combines a historic tavern atmosphere with a large seasonal outdoor entertainment area known as Down Back. During the warmer months\, the grounds become one of South County’s more distinctive live-music spaces\, with a stage\, outdoor seating\, lawn games and a large fire pit surrounded by trees. \nThe Rathskeller runs live music Down Back throughout the season\, generally from May into October. \nTake It To The Bridge is already familiar with the venue. The full band has made multiple Rathskeller appearances during the 2026 season\, including shows in May\, July and August before returning for the September 11 date. The Trio has its own dates on the schedule as well. \nSo this isn’t simply a touring act dropping into Charlestown for one night. It’s a band with an established relationship with the venue and its audience. \nCome Early and Make Dinner Part of the Night\nWith music beginning at 8 p.m.\, there’s plenty of time to turn the concert into dinner and a show. \nThe Rathskeller opens at noon on Fridays\, and its kitchen operates until 10 p.m. \nThe menu leans into hearty tavern food\, with burgers\, wings and fries alongside New England seafood such as clam chowder\, stuffies\, calamari and fish and chips. Entrées expand into dishes including steak frites\, linguine and clams and jägerschnitzel. \nThe Rathskeller’s fries have become something of a house signature\, while the bar offers draft beer\, wine and cocktails. \nFriday and Saturday nights run later than the kitchen. The Rathskeller remains open until 1 a.m.\, giving anyone who isn’t ready to call it a night when the band finishes at 11 somewhere to stay for another drink. \nA Friday Night Built for Dancing\nThere’s an important distinction between Take It To The Bridge and plenty of bands that play familiar songs. \nThis is an event band. \nThe musicians have spent years playing weddings and celebrations where their job isn’t simply to perform well. They have to read a room\, maintain momentum and convince people who weren’t necessarily planning to dance that sitting down suddenly seems like the less interesting option. \nThe Rathskeller gives that kind of band a fitting setting. \nCome early enough and September 11 can begin with dinner at a table in a wooded Rhode Island tavern. By 8 p.m.\, the action shifts Down Back\, the eight-piece band takes over\, and the rest of the evening belongs to funk\, soul\, pop and rock & roll. \nDetails\nEvent: Take It To The Bridge at the Charlestown Rathskeller 2026\nDate: Friday\, September 11\, 2026\nTime: 8–11 p.m.\nPerformer: Take It To The Bridge\nBand: Eight-piece Rhode Island event band\nMusic: Funk\, soul\, pop and rock & roll spanning multiple decades\nVenue: The Charlestown Rathskeller\nAddress: 489A Old Coach Road\, Charlestown\, RI 02813\nAdvance Tickets: $10 plus Eventbrite fees\nDoor Price: $15\nRefunds: No refunds\nFood: Full Rathskeller restaurant menu available; kitchen open until 10 p.m.\nFriday Venue Hours: Noon–1 a.m.\nPhone: 401-792-1000\nUpcoming Return: Take It To The Bridge Trio performs a free show at the Rathskeller Sunday\, September 20 from 4–7 p.m. \nMore information is available at the Event Website link below. \nTo purchase tickets\, click the Event Ticketing link below. \n  \nFeatured image is an artistic representation inspired by the event and may not depict the actual people\, location\, or activities shown.
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LOCATION:Rathskeller\, 489A Old Coach Rd\, Charlestown\, RI\, 02813\, United States
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SUMMARY:Nutshell with Free Thinkers Are Dangerous at the Rathskeller
DESCRIPTION:Nutshell with Free Thinkers Are Dangerous at the Rathskeller turns the wooded Down Back stage into a slice of the 1990s on Saturday\, September 12\, with a double bill devoted to two bands that took heavy music in very different directions: Alice in Chains and System of a Down. \nBoston-based Nutshell headlines with the dark harmonies\, grinding guitar riffs\, and uneasy beauty of Alice in Chains. Opening act Free Thinkers Are Dangerous takes on System of a Down\, whose collision of metal\, punk\, Armenian musical influences and political absurdism produced some of the strangest songs ever to become mainstream rock hits. \nThe three-hour show begins at 8 p.m. Tickets are $15 in advance plus fees or $20 at the door. \nNutshell Has Been Playing Alice in Chains Since 2005\nThis isn’t a new tribute assembled for the current wave of ’90s nostalgia. \nNutshell traces its history to 2005\, making it the longest-tenured Alice in Chains tribute in New England. \nThe Boston-based group has spent more than two decades performing around New England\, appearing in clubs\, theaters and larger rock venues while concentrating on something particularly difficult to reproduce: the relationship between Alice in Chains’ voices and guitars. \nNutshell’s current lineup is built around lead vocals\, dual guitars and vocals\, bass and drums. The band’s performances range from full electric shows to recreations of Alice in Chains’ celebrated MTV Unplugged material. \nThat gives Nutshell a catalog with enormous dynamic range. \nA set can move from the violence of Them Bones and Man in the Box to Down in a Hole\, No Excuses or Nutshell\, where volume gives way to something much more vulnerable. \nThe tribute band’s name comes from one of the latter. \nAlice in Chains Was Never Quite a Grunge Band\nAlice in Chains is inevitably grouped with Nirvana\, Pearl Jam and Soundgarden as one of the four great bands to emerge from Seattle during the grunge explosion. \nGeography makes that reasonable. \nMusically\, things are more complicated. \nAlice in Chains was considerably heavier than much of the movement surrounding it. Jerry Cantrell’s guitar riffs owed an obvious debt to heavy metal\, while Layne Staley possessed a powerful voice that could move from a low\, haunted melody to an anguished roar. \nThe defining sound\, however\, often came when Cantrell sang with him. \nStaley and Cantrell’s voices could lock into unsettling harmonies that sounded simultaneously beautiful and ominous. That’s why reproducing Alice in Chains convincingly requires more than finding someone who can imitate Staley. \nThe harmonies are part of the architecture of the songs. \nNutshell specifically emphasizes those vocal arrangements in its performances\, along with the guitar tones and emotional weight of the original recordings. \nDirt Turned Darkness Into a Masterpiece\nAlice in Chains had already scored a breakthrough with Facelift in 1990 and Man in the Box\, but 1992’s Dirt became the defining album of the band’s early career. \nIt arrived while alternative rock was exploding into the mainstream. \nThe record contained Would?\, Rooster\, Them Bones\, Angry Chair and Down in a Hole\, but there was little of the youthful liberation normally associated with a rock band becoming famous. \nMuch of Dirt is claustrophobic. \nAddiction\, depression\, war\, anger and self-destruction run through the record. Staley’s struggles with heroin increasingly became part of both his songwriting and his life. \nCantrell wrote Rooster about his father\, Jerry Cantrell Sr.\, a Vietnam veteran whose nickname supplied the title. \nWould? was written in memory of Mother Love Bone singer Andrew Wood\, who died of a heroin overdose in 1990. \nAnd then there was Down in a Hole\, a Cantrell composition whose harmonies between Cantrell and Staley became one of the clearest demonstrations of what made Alice in Chains different from its contemporaries. \nThe album eventually became one of the essential records of the 1990s. \nThe Quiet Alice in Chains Could Be Even Heavier\nOne of the band’s most interesting contradictions emerged when the amplifiers were turned down. \nAlice in Chains released the mostly acoustic EP Sap in 1992 and followed it with Jar of Flies in 1994. \nJar of Flies became the first EP ever to debut at No. 1 on the Billboard 200. \nIt included No Excuses\, I Stay Away and the song that gives Saturday’s tribute band its name: Nutshell. \nThen came the band’s April 1996 appearance on MTV Unplugged. \nBy that point\, Alice in Chains had largely disappeared from touring as Staley’s health and addiction problems worsened. The performance was the band’s first concert in roughly two and a half years. \nSitting under subdued lights with “Alice in Chains” written across the stage\, the group performed Nutshell\, Down in a Hole\, Rooster\, Would? and other songs in arrangements that stripped away the distortion without removing any of the tension. \nThe performance has become one of the most celebrated installments of the entire MTV Unplugged series. \nNutshell has made recreating that acoustic side of Alice in Chains part of its own identity\, alongside the full electric material. \nLayne Staley’s Story Gives the Music a Different Weight Now\nIt’s impossible to hear some of these songs today without knowing how the story ended. \nLayne Staley gradually withdrew from public life during the second half of the 1990s as his addiction worsened. \nHe died in 2002 at age 34. \nAlice in Chains eventually returned with Cantrell\, Sean Kinney and Mike Inez joined by vocalist and guitarist William DuVall. Beginning with Black Gives Way to Blue in 2009\, the revived lineup established a successful second era while acknowledging rather than attempting to erase Staley’s place in the band’s history. \nThe band was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2025. \nFor a tribute act like Nutshell\, that means performing songs whose meaning has changed with time. \nNutshell was already devastating in 1994. \nThree decades later\, it’s difficult not to hear it as something more. \nThen Free Thinkers Are Dangerous Changes the Entire Mood\nIf Nutshell represents brooding Seattle darkness\, Free Thinkers Are Dangerous brings something considerably more frantic to the opening slot. \nThe band performs the music of System of a Down. \nThat means the night can jump from Alice in Chains’ slow\, sludgy riffs and mournful harmonies into music that can change tempo\, mood and genre several times before a song reaches its chorus. \nFree Thinkers Are Dangerous has shared bills with Nutshell before\, including a January 2026 Worcester show with Tool tribute Schism. At that concert\, FTAD opened with a dedicated System of a Down set before Nutshell’s Alice in Chains performance. \nIt’s a pairing that makes sense without the bands sounding particularly alike. \nBoth original groups fall somewhere under the broad alternative-metal umbrella. \nAfter that\, almost everything changes. \nSystem of a Down Was Supposed to Be Too Weird for This to Work\nSystem of a Down emerged from Southern California in the 1990s with four Armenian-American musicians: Serj Tankian\, Daron Malakian\, Shavo Odadjian and John Dolmayan. \nThe band’s sound was difficult to classify from the beginning. \nHeavy metal riffs collided with punk\, progressive rock\, folk-derived melodies and sudden rhythmic shifts. Tankian could move from a whisper to a scream to something approaching operatic singing\, sometimes within the same song. \nMalakian’s writing added another layer of unpredictability. \nAnd the lyrics could move from war\, genocide\, incarceration and political hypocrisy to deliberately surreal nonsense. \nSomehow\, this became commercially enormous. \nChop Suey! arrived in 2001 as the lead single from Toxicity. The album debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200. \nToxicity and Aerials followed as major songs\, and the band’s catalog eventually produced B.Y.O.B.\, Sugar\, Spiders\, Hypnotize\, Question! and Lonely Day. \nFew mainstream bands of the era sounded remotely like them. \nB.Y.O.B. Put the Iraq War on Rock Radio\nSystem of a Down’s politics were rarely hidden behind vague language. \nThe members’ Armenian heritage informed their activism around recognition of the Armenian genocide. Their music also addressed prisons\, drug policy\, authoritarianism\, media\, war and the people who benefit from it. \nThat reached a particularly large audience with 2005’s B.Y.O.B. \nThe title stands for “Bring Your Own Bombs.” \nThe song asks why political leaders send the poor to fight wars and then erupts into an almost absurdly cheerful chorus about everybody going to a party. \nThe contrast is intentional. \nThe song won the Grammy Award for Best Hard Rock Performance. \nIts parent album\, Mezmerize\, debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200. Later that same year\, companion album Hypnotize did the same. \nSystem of a Down had taken music that sounded as though it shouldn’t fit anywhere on mainstream American radio and turned it into some of the biggest hard rock of the decade. \nTwo Tributes\, Two Completely Different Kinds of Heavy\nThat’s what makes the Charlestown pairing more interesting than simply booking two tribute bands. \nAlice in Chains and System of a Down demonstrate how broad “heavy music” became during the 1990s and early 2000s. \nAlice in Chains could build a song around repetition\, weight and atmosphere. System of a Down might change direction three times in 30 seconds. \nLayne Staley and Jerry Cantrell created tightly interlocked harmonies. \nSerj Tankian and Daron Malakian could sound as though they were having an argument in the middle of the song. \nAlice in Chains made despair feel enormous. \nSystem of a Down could make political rage sound manic\, funny and terrifying at the same time. \nNutshell and Free Thinkers Are Dangerous put both approaches on the same stage Saturday night. \nCome Early and Make a Night of It\nThe Charlestown Rathskeller is particularly well suited to shows that don’t require everyone to arrive five minutes before the first chord. \nThe tavern sits back from Old Coach Road in a wooded setting\, with its seasonal Down Back entertainment area adding an outdoor stage\, fire pit\, lawn games and room to spread out. \nThe kitchen is open from noon to 10 p.m. on Saturdays\, while the Rathskeller itself remains open until 1 a.m. \nThat creates plenty of room to arrive before the 8 p.m. show for dinner. \nThe menu leans into tavern food and New England favorites\, including burgers\, fish and chips\, clam chowder\, stuffies\, calamari and the Rathskeller’s well-known fries\, alongside steaks and dishes such as jägerschnitzel. \nThen head Down Back. \nFree Thinkers Are Dangerous provides the chaos. \nNutshell supplies the darkness. \nAnd somewhere along the way\, there’s a pretty good chance several hundred people are going to yell the opening of Man in the Box together. \nDetails\nEvent: Nutshell with Free Thinkers Are Dangerous at the Charlestown Rathskeller\nDate: Saturday\, September 12\, 2026\nTime: 8–11 p.m.\nHeadliner: Nutshell\, tribute to Alice in Chains\nOpening Band: Free Thinkers Are Dangerous\, tribute to System of a Down\nMusic: Grunge / alternative metal / hard rock\nAdmission: $15 online plus Eventbrite fees; $20 at the door\nVenue: The Charlestown Rathskeller\nAddress: 489A Old Coach Road\, Charlestown\, RI 02813\nSaturday Hours: Noon–1 a.m.\nKitchen: Noon–10 p.m.\nPhone: 401-792-1000\nRefund Policy: Eventbrite currently lists refunds up to seven days before the event \nMore information is available at the Event Website link below. \nTo purchase tickets\, click the Event Ticketing link below. \n  \n  \nFeatured image is an artistic representation inspired by the event and may not depict the actual people\, location\, or activities shown.
URL:https://thectbeacon.com/event/nutshell-with-free-thinkers-are-dangerous-at-the-rathskeller/
LOCATION:Rathskeller\, 489A Old Coach Rd\, Charlestown\, RI\, 02813\, United States
CATEGORIES:Rathskeller
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SUMMARY:Jus-Tus at the Charlestown Rathskeller 2026
DESCRIPTION:Jus-Tus at the Charlestown Rathskeller 2026 brings Motown\, soul\, R&B\, classic rock\, and blues to the woods of Charlestown on Sunday\, September 13\, with a free afternoon performance from 4 to 7 p.m. \nJus-Tus is a familiar presence at the Rathskeller\, where the duo has become particularly well suited to Sunday afternoons Down Back. Rather than the high-volume tribute bands and rock shows that fill many Friday and Saturday nights\, Jus-Tus leans into bluesy vocals\, guitar\, and songs that have been around long enough for much of the crowd to know them by heart. \nAdmission is free. Guests can RSVP in advance through Eventbrite or simply show up\, with the Rathskeller suggesting an early arrival for lunch or drinks before the music begins. \nMotown\, Soul and R&B With a Classic-Rock Side\nThe Rathskeller has described Jus-Tus as a local duo with decades of musical chemistry\, and its appearances there reveal a broader repertoire than the usual shorthand of “classic vibes.” \nAt its 2025 season-closing concert\, the venue described Jus-Tus as performing Motown\, soul and R&B hits that cross generations. For its 2026 appearances\, the Rathskeller has highlighted the duo’s bluesy vocals and smooth guitar\, while its June Art Festival performance was promoted around a mix of classic rock and blues. \nPut those descriptions together and the picture becomes clearer. \nThis isn’t a narrowly defined blues act or a band devoted to one era. Jus-Tus works from the American songbook that grew out of soul\, Motown\, rhythm and blues\, blues and classic rock\, with arrangements scaled to the intimacy of a duo. \nThat makes the group a different proposition from many of the acts appearing on the Rathskeller’s late-summer calendar. The weekend begins September 11 with eight-piece funk\, soul and rock band Take It To The Bridge. Saturday turns considerably heavier with Alice in Chains tribute Nutshell and System of a Down tribute Free Thinkers Are Dangerous. \nThen Sunday afternoon belongs to Jus-Tus. \nA Duo the Rathskeller Keeps Bringing Back\nThe September 13 performance isn’t a one-off booking. \nJus-Tus has become one of the recurring acts in the Rathskeller’s outdoor music series\, with multiple appearances during the 2026 season. \nThe duo played a free Sunday show on May 10\, returned June 28 as the musical act for the Rathskeller’s annual Art Festival and came back again August 2. September 13 marks another Sunday afternoon appearance as the outdoor season moves toward fall. \nThat recurring relationship says something useful about what to expect. \nJus-Tus isn’t being booked to turn Down Back into a massive concert. Its role is closer to providing the soundtrack for the entire property: music substantial enough to sit and watch\, but relaxed enough that people can eat\, have a drink\, talk with friends and spend an afternoon outside without every other part of the experience competing with the stage. \nThe Rathskeller describes the duo’s shows as laid-back but fully engaging. \nFor a Sunday from 4 to 7 p.m.\, that’s probably the point. \nDown Back in the Woods\nThe setting helps. \nThe Charlestown Rathskeller sits at 489A Old Coach Road\, tucked into a wooded property away from the busier commercial strips of South County. \nBehind the restaurant is Down Back\, the Rathskeller’s seasonal outdoor entertainment area. The grounds include a stage\, outdoor seating\, lawn games and a large central fire pit\, creating something closer to a backyard music venue than a conventional restaurant patio. \nDuring the warmer months\, the Rathskeller builds much of its entertainment schedule around the space\, with live music generally running from spring into fall. \nThe programming can change considerably from one night to the next. Tribute bands\, rock groups\, country acts\, funk and soul bands and smaller acoustic performers all appear on the calendar. \nSeptember is particularly busy. Following Jus-Tus\, the schedule continues with Aquanett on September 18\, Blizzard of Ozz on September 19\, the Take It To The Bridge Trio on September 20\, Nick Casey on September 25\, Steve Smith & The Nakeds on September 26 and Roc-Kin’-On on September 27. \nIt’s essentially a final full month of outdoor music before cooler weather begins taking over South County. \nMake Lunch or Dinner Part of It\nBecause Jus-Tus doesn’t begin until 4 p.m.\, the show falls directly between lunch and dinner. \nThe Rathskeller opens at noon on Sundays\, and the kitchen remains open until 10 p.m.\, so there’s no need to choose between eating and catching the band. \nThe menu mixes pub food with New England staples and more substantial entrées. Burgers\, wings and the Rathskeller’s signature fries share the menu with clam chowder\, stuffies\, calamari\, fish and chips\, linguine and clams\, steak frites and jägerschnitzel. \nThere’s a full bar as well\, with beer\, wine and cocktails. \nFor the best choice of outdoor seating\, arriving before the 4 p.m. start makes sense. Down Back operates more like festival-style outdoor seating than a traditional theater\, and a free show doesn’t come with an assigned table or chair. \nCome early\, order something\, find a comfortable spot and settle in. \nOne of the Easier Sunday Plans of September\nThere are events that require planning: timed admission\, advance tickets\, parking strategies and schedules that need to be studied before leaving home. \nThis isn’t one of them. \nJus-Tus starts at 4. Admission costs nothing. The restaurant is already open. Food and drinks are available on the property. The band plays for three hours\, and the Rathskeller remains open after the final song. \nEven the music fits the lack of complication. \nMotown and soul. R&B and blues. Classic rock. Guitar and vocals. Familiar songs played by a local duo that has spent enough time on the Rathskeller stage to know the room — or\, in this case\, the backyard. \nSometimes Sunday afternoon doesn’t need a more elaborate plan than that. \nDetails\nEvent: Jus-Tus at the Charlestown Rathskeller 2026\nDate: Sunday\, September 13\, 2026\nTime: 4–7 p.m.\nPerformer: Jus-Tus\nMusic: Motown\, soul\, R&B\, classic rock and blues\nAdmission: Free\nRSVP: Free advance RSVP available through Eventbrite; walk-ins are also welcome\nVenue: The Charlestown Rathskeller\nAddress: 489A Old Coach Road\, Charlestown\, RI 02813\nSetting: Seasonal outdoor live music at the Rathskeller’s Down Back entertainment area\nFood: Full restaurant menu available\nSunday Hours: Noon–10 p.m.\nKitchen Hours: Noon–10 p.m.\nPhone: 401-792-1000 \nMore information is available at the Event Website link below. \nFor free advance registration\, click the Event Ticketing link below. \n  \n  \nFeatured image is an artistic representation inspired by the event and may not depict the actual people\, location\, or activities shown.
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LOCATION:Rathskeller\, 489A Old Coach Rd\, Charlestown\, RI\, 02813\, United States
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SUMMARY:Aquanett Brings the Big Hair\, Big Guitars and ’80s Metal Back to the Charlestown Rathskeller
DESCRIPTION:Aquanett at the Charlestown Rathskeller turns the Rathskeller’s outdoor stage into a full-blown ’80s rock show Friday\, September 18\, with three hours of Bon Jovi\, Def Leppard\, Mötley Crüe\, Whitesnake\, Poison\, Aerosmith and the other bands that ruled rock radio and MTV. \nAquanett takes the stage from 8 to 11 p.m. at the Charlestown Rathskeller’s wooded Down Back music venue. \nTickets are $15 in advance plus Eventbrite fees or $20 at the door\, and this is a 21+ outdoor show. \nThe Rathskeller suggests arriving early for dinner and drinks. \nThat might be the calmest part of the evening. \nAquanett Has Been Doing This Since the ’80s Were Still a Recent Memory\nThere are plenty of bands playing ’80s covers. \nAquanett has spent more than a quarter-century trying to recreate what it actually felt like to attend an ’80s hard-rock concert. \nThe Springfield\, Massachusetts-based group formed in late 1999 and played its first shows in early 2000. \nThat timing is interesting. \nThe members weren’t looking back on the ’80s from 40 years away. They launched Aquanett less than a decade after Nirvana\, Pearl Jam and the alternative-rock explosion had pushed much of the music they loved out of the mainstream. \nThey went in the opposite direction. \nBig guitar solos. \nBig choruses. \nLights. \nCostumes. \nSpecial effects. \nAnd\, naturally\, very big hair. \nAquanett celebrated its 20th anniversary in 2020 and has continued touring throughout the Northeast since then. \nThis Isn’t an ’80s Pop Dance Party\nThe decade was big enough to contain Madonna\, Duran Duran\, Cyndi Lauper\, Prince\, Michael Jackson and New Kids on the Block. \nThat’s not Aquanett’s neighborhood. \nTheir show is rooted firmly in the hard rock and metal side of the 1980s\, particularly the bands that turned Los Angeles’ Sunset Strip into rock-and-roll mythology. \nThink Bon Jovi\, Whitesnake\, Mötley Crüe\, Guns N’ Roses\, Def Leppard and Poison. \nAdd Aerosmith and other arena-rock heavyweights and you get a much better idea of what Friday night will sound like. \nThis is music built around distorted guitars\, soaring vocals\, enormous hooks and choruses specifically engineered for several thousand people to sing simultaneously. \nAquanett brings that attitude to a considerably more intimate backyard in Charlestown. \nThe Band Wants to Recreate the Concert\, Not Just the Songs\nAquanett’s own description makes a point of separating the group from a conventional cover band standing in the corner of a bar. \nThe musicians use a complete stage production with lighting\, effects\, costumes and theatrical presentation intended to evoke the excess of an actual 1980s rock concert. \nThat’s an important distinction. \nA convincing version of a Def Leppard song is one thing. \nRecreating the era requires some spectacle. \nThe clothes mattered. \nThe poses mattered. \nThe guitar heroics mattered. \nMTV mattered enormously. \nBy the middle of the decade\, a band’s image and its music had become almost inseparable. \nAquanett leans into all of it. \nMTV Changed What a Rock Star Looked Like\nWhen MTV went on the air in 1981\, it gave rock musicians something previous generations didn’t have: a national television outlet playing music videos around the clock. \nSuddenly\, sounding like a rock star wasn’t enough. \nYou needed to look like one. \nFor the hard-rock bands that followed\, subtlety wasn’t particularly useful. \nHair grew. \nStages grew. \nPyrotechnics grew. \nMusic videos became miniature movies. \nBands such as Mötley Crüe\, Poison and Bon Jovi understood that perfectly\, while Def Leppard became one of the defining rock acts of the MTV era. \nBy the late ’80s\, Guns N’ Roses had injected something darker and more dangerous into the formula. \nAquanett’s show draws from that whole period rather than treating the decade as one interchangeable collection of nostalgic hits. \nMeet the Current Aquanett\nAquanett currently lists Madison Humel\, Michael Abdow\, David Ward\, Matthew Macri\, Rick Thompson and Edmond H. Dupont III as its performing lineup\, with Ian Jones handling sound engineering. \nHumel is the newest chapter in the band’s history. \nA longtime vocalist who grew up around music\, she developed through theater\, singing competitions and choral ensembles before spending more than a decade performing with bands\, established musicians and tribute acts. \nShe studied with local musician Livio Gravini and credits him with teaching her to make authenticity the foundation of a performance. \nThat becomes particularly important when you’re stepping into songs originally sung by some of the most recognizable rock vocalists of the 1980s. \nMichael Abdow Has a Career Far Beyond the Tribute Circuit\nGuitarist Michael Abdow brings some serious progressive-metal credentials to the stage. \nHe’s an international recording and touring musician\, songwriter and producer whose work includes Fates Warning and longtime Fates Warning vocalist Ray Alder. \nAcross his career\, Abdow has released four solo albums\, appeared on numerous other recordings and toured on four continents. \nHe’s also been featured in major guitar publications for his technical and melodic playing. \nAnd he’s been doing this particular gig for a long time. \nAbdow joined Aquanett in 2008. \nFor a band recreating an era in which the lead guitarist was often nearly as important as the singer\, having a player with that background makes a difference. \nDavid Ward Has Been There Since the Beginning\nGuitarist David Ward goes back to Aquanett’s formation. \nWard grew up studying the guitar styles of Van Halen\, Ozzy Osbourne and Iron Maiden\, later taking private lessons\, attending a Connecticut guitar workshop and studying music theory at Holyoke Community College. \nDuring the 1990s\, he played in hard-rock and metal bands including Sweet Tragedy\, Aces High and Straw Dogs. \nThen came Aquanett. \nWard joined the Springfield-area project in late 1999\, just as the group was taking shape\, and played its first shows in early 2000. \nHe’s remained with it for more than two decades. \nAlong the way\, Ward has even played alongside Mötley Crüe vocalist Vince Neil and Extreme drummer Paul Geary. \nFor someone who built his playing around the music of that period\, those are pretty appropriate names to have on the résumé. \nAquanett Has Survived Longer Than the Era It Recreates\nThere’s an amusing bit of arithmetic here. \nThe period most people think of as the classic hair-metal explosion didn’t last very long. \nBy the early 1990s\, musical tastes were changing rapidly. Grunge and alternative rock became dominant\, and many of the bands that had filled arenas only a few years earlier suddenly seemed to belong to another age. \nAquanett itself has now existed for more than 26 years. \nThat’s considerably longer than the period of popular music it recreates. \nAnd the audience hasn’t disappeared. \nIf anything\, several generations can now recognize the songs. \nSome remember buying the records when they were new. \nOthers discovered them through older siblings or parents. \nSome weren’t alive until years after the last can of Aqua Net had been emptied backstage. \nThe choruses still work. \nThe Rathskeller Has Already Brought Aquanett Back This Year\nSeptember 18 isn’t Aquanett’s first trip to Charlestown in 2026. \nThe band played the Rathskeller on June 20\, and its return less than three months later says something about the fit between band and venue. \nAquanett’s own current tour calendar lists the Charlestown show between dates across Massachusetts\, Connecticut\, Rhode Island\, New York and New Hampshire. \nEarlier this month\, the group played its annual Labor Day weekend show at the Windjammer in Westerly\, followed by appearances at the Three County Fair and MGM Springfield. \nAfter Charlestown\, the tour heads to Saratoga Springs and Clinton\, Massachusetts. \nSo this isn’t a local band occasionally assembling for an ’80s night. \nAquanett maintains an active regional touring schedule. \nDown Back Is Built for This Kind of Night\nThe Charlestown Rathskeller is a restaurant\, tavern and live-music venue tucked into the woods at 489A Old Coach Road. \nIts history stretches back to 1933\, when the Rathskeller began life as a speakeasy-era establishment. \nThe modern property combines a restored dining room and tavern with an outdoor patio\, bars and its seasonal Down Back entertainment area. \nDown Back sits across the backyard from the restaurant. \nThere’s an outdoor stage\, backyard bar\, burger shack\, bonfire and room for lawn games including cornhole and bocce. \nIt’s intentionally less polished than an indoor theater. \nThat’s part of the attraction. \nYou can arrive early\, eat\, have a drink and then head outside for the show rather than treating dinner and the concert as two completely separate outings. \nCome Early if You Want Dinner\nThe Rathskeller’s kitchen is open until 10 p.m. Friday\, while the tavern itself remains open until 1 a.m. \nThe restaurant’s regular menu leans toward hearty tavern food: burgers and sandwiches\, grilled meats\, seafood and shareable appetizers. \nThe venue specifically encourages Aquanett ticket holders to arrive early for dinner and drinks before the 8 p.m. show. \nThat’s probably the better plan if you’re actually hungry. \nOnce Aquanett gets going\, abandoning your spot halfway through Pour Some Sugar on Me because you suddenly remembered dinner may seem like a questionable life choice. \nFriday’s Show Is Outside\nOne detail worth knowing before buying a ticket: this is an outdoor performance. \nAquanett’s concert listing identifies the September 18 Rathskeller date as a 21+ outside show. \nThe Down Back setting is one of the reasons the Rathskeller has become such a busy warm-weather music venue\, but outdoor concerts inevitably come with weather considerations. \nAnyone attending should check the venue and band’s event pages before leaving if Friday’s forecast becomes questionable. \nNo separate rain location or rain-date arrangement is advertised in the current ticket information. \n$15 Now or $20 at the Door\nAdvance tickets are $15 plus Eventbrite fees. \nAdmission rises to $20 at the door. \nThe show runs from 8 to 11 p.m. \nEventbrite lists a refund policy allowing refunds until seven days before the event\, so that window is effectively closed for anyone buying during event week. \nThe Rathskeller also warns that tickets may sell quickly. \nThis is not an all-ages event. \nAquanett’s own listing specifies 21+ for the Charlestown performance. \nThere May Be No Better Setting for Three Hours of Musical Excess\nThe joke about ’80s hair metal is that everything was too much. \nToo much hair. \nToo many guitar solos. \nToo much spandex. \nToo many lights. \nToo much hairspray. \nToo much everything. \nThat’s also exactly why the music remains so much fun to revisit. \nNobody wrote Livin’ on a Prayer hoping the audience would quietly appreciate its restraint. \nThese were songs built to be played loudly in a room full of people who already knew the chorus. \nAquanett has spent more than 25 years preserving that part of the experience. \nOn September 18\, they’ll bring it outside to a stage in the woods of Charlestown. \nTease the hair accordingly. \nDetails\nEvent: Aquanett at the Charlestown Rathskeller\nDate: Friday\, September 18\, 2026\nTime: 8–11 p.m.\nLocation: The Charlestown Rathskeller\, Down Back outdoor music venue\nAddress: 489A Old Coach Road\, Charlestown\, RI 02813\nBand: Aquanett\nMusic: 1980s hard rock and metal tribute\nCurrent Band Members: Madison Humel\, Michael Abdow\, David Ward\, Matthew Macri\, Rick Thompson and Edmond H. Dupont III\nAge: 21+\nAdvance Tickets: $15 plus Eventbrite fees\nDoor Price: $20\nSetting: Outdoor show\nFood: The Rathskeller serves lunch and dinner; the venue encourages concertgoers to arrive early for dinner and drinks\nKitchen Hours Friday: Noon–10 p.m.\nRathskeller Friday Hours: Noon–1 a.m.\nParking: On-site parking is available at the Rathskeller\nWeather: Outdoor event; check with the venue for any weather-related changes\nContact: 401-792-1000 \nMore information is available at the Event Website link below. \nTo purchase tickets\, click the Event Ticketing link below. \n  \n  \nFeatured image is an artistic representation inspired by the event and may not depict the actual people\, location\, or activities shown.
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LOCATION:Rathskeller\, 489A Old Coach Rd\, Charlestown\, RI\, 02813\, United States
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SUMMARY:Blizzard of Ozz Brings the Randy Rhoads Era of Ozzy Osbourne to the Charlestown Rathskeller
DESCRIPTION:Blizzard of Ozz (Ozzy Osbourne Tribute) at the Charlestown Rathskeller brings the music of Ozzy Osbourne to Charlestown on Saturday\, September 19\, with a tribute band that goes considerably deeper than a greatest-hits impersonation. \nThe concert runs from 8 to 11 p.m. at the Charlestown Rathskeller\, with tickets priced at $15 in advance plus Eventbrite fees or $20 at the door. \nBlizzard of Ozz builds its show around the early years of Osbourne’s solo career and\, in particular\, the extraordinary music he created with guitarist Randy Rhoads. \nThat means Crazy Train and Mr. Crowley\, certainly. But the band’s repertoire extends through both of the Osbourne/Rhoads albums\, later Ozzy favorites and selected Black Sabbath material. \nFor anyone who thinks an Ozzy tribute begins and ends with shouting “All aboard!” before the opening riff of Crazy Train\, this band has considerably more planned. \nBlizzard of Ozz Starts With Randy Rhoads\nThe band’s name tells you exactly where its priorities lie. \nOzzy Osbourne released his debut solo album\, Blizzard of Ozz\, in 1980 after his departure from Black Sabbath. \nThe album introduced a new musical partnership between Osbourne and Randy Rhoads\, a young California guitarist whose combination of heavy-metal aggression and classically influenced technique helped establish a dramatically different sound for Ozzy’s solo career. \nThe record produced some of Osbourne’s defining songs\, including Crazy Train\, Mr. Crowley\, I Don’t Know and Suicide Solution. \nIt was followed by Diary of a Madman in 1981\, with songs including Flying High Again\, Over the Mountain and the title track. \nThen everything stopped. \nRhoads was killed in a plane crash in Florida on March 19\, 1982. He was 25. \nMore than four decades later\, those two albums remain the musical foundation of Blizzard of Ozz. \nThe tribute band’s stated mission is not simply recreating Ozzy’s appearance and famous songs. It places particular emphasis on preserving the music Osbourne and Rhoads created together. \nThis Band Can Play Both Rhoads Albums in Their Entirety\nThat’s an important distinction. \nBlizzard of Ozz has developed a repertoire that includes every song from Blizzard of Ozz and Diary of a Madman. \nFor a general audience\, the familiar songs provide the immediate payoff. \nCrazy Train has one of the most recognizable guitar riffs in heavy metal. Mr. Crowley remains one of the great showcases of Rhoads’ playing. Flying High Again became another cornerstone of Osbourne’s early solo catalog. \nBut fans who know the albums rather than simply the radio hits get the deeper cuts too. \nThe band’s full repertoire allows it to explore the period when Osbourne was reinventing himself after Black Sabbath and Rhoads was helping create a new vocabulary for heavy-metal guitar. \nThat’s why the guitar chair matters so much in this particular tribute. \nDamiano Christian Has the Randy Rhoads Assignment\nGuitarist Damiano Christian handles the role. \nBlizzard of Ozz describes Christian’s playing as deliberately faithful to Rhoads’ style\, and his job goes beyond reproducing the famous opening riff to Crazy Train. \nRhoads’ playing combined rapid alternate picking\, legato passages\, harmonics\, tapping\, intricate chord voicings and techniques drawn from classical guitar. His solos could be melodic and carefully constructed while still sounding explosive. \nGetting the notes approximately right isn’t enough if you’re building a band specifically around this era. \nThe phrasing and tone are part of the music. \nChristian’s role is therefore closer to reconstruction than imitation: recreating guitar parts that generations of metal players have spent decades studying. \nMark Lavoie Takes on Ozzy\nAt the microphone is Mark Lavoie\, who performs the Osbourne role. \nThat’s another difficult assignment because Ozzy’s voice has always been unusually recognizable. \nHe wasn’t a conventional technically polished hard-rock singer. His slightly nasal tone\, phrasing and ability to carry melodies over enormous guitar riffs made his voice immediately identifiable\, first with Black Sabbath and then on his solo records. \nA successful tribute has to capture enough of that character to make the songs feel right without turning the entire performance into parody. \nBlizzard of Ozz’s current lineup pairs Lavoie with Christian on guitar\, Paul Sylvia on bass and Kenny Evans on drums. \nTogether\, the four-piece recreates the basic architecture of the classic Ozzy solo band: voice\, guitar\, bass and drums\, with the guitar occupying a particularly prominent place in the arrangements. \nThe Set Doesn’t Stop in 1982\nRhoads is the band’s musical center of gravity\, but Blizzard of Ozz doesn’t end the story with his death. \nOzzy Osbourne continued recording and touring for decades with a remarkable succession of guitarists. \nBlizzard of Ozz reaches into those later periods as well. \nThe band’s advertised repertoire includes Bark at the Moon\, No More Tears and Mama\, I’m Coming Home\, taking the show into the Jake E. Lee and Zakk Wylde chapters of Osbourne’s career. \nAnd then there’s Black Sabbath. \nBlizzard of Ozz also works selected Sabbath material into its performances for fans who want to hear the music that established Osbourne before his solo career began. \nThe band specifically lists Paranoid among the songs it performs. \nThe result is effectively a tour through Ozzy’s career\, but one viewed through the lens of the Randy Rhoads years rather than a generic collection of heavy-metal hits. \nSaturday’s Concert Is Actually the Second Attempt\nThere’s another wrinkle to the Charlestown show. \nBlizzard of Ozz was originally scheduled to play the Rathskeller on July 18. \nThat performance was canceled because of weather. \nThe band now lists the September 19 Charlestown date as the rescheduled July 18 show. \nThat’s particularly relevant at the Rathskeller because its larger seasonal concerts take place outdoors. \nSeptember 19 gives the band and the venue another shot at bringing the Ozzy show into the woods of Charlestown before the outdoor concert season winds down. \nDown Back Is Built for Nights Like This\nThe Charlestown Rathskeller at 489A Old Coach Road is both a restaurant and a seasonal live-music destination. \nThe property traces its tavern history back to the early 20th century and sits away from the main commercial strips\, surrounded by woods. \nIts outdoor Down Back area transforms the property into something closer to a small festival ground during concert nights. \nThere’s a stage\, outdoor space\, lawn games and the Rathskeller’s enormous fire pit. \nIt’s a different environment from seeing a metal tribute inside a conventional nightclub. \nAnd the setting should work particularly well once darkness settles in. \nA band playing Mr. Crowley\, Bark at the Moon and Paranoid on an outdoor stage in the woods doesn’t exactly need much additional atmosphere. \nCome Early and Make Dinner Part of the Night\nThe Rathskeller is encouraging concertgoers to arrive early for dinner and drinks. \nThat’s practical advice. \nThe restaurant is open until 1 a.m. on Saturdays\, while the kitchen is scheduled to serve until 10 p.m. \nIts menu runs through burgers and pub food into steaks and seafood\, with items such as New England clam chowder\, calamari\, mussels\, fish and chips\, steak frites and the Rathskeller’s well-known fries. \nArriving before the 8 p.m. show gives you time to eat without trying to coordinate dinner with a three-hour concert. \nIt also gives you a better chance to settle into the outdoor concert area before the band starts. \nOzzy’s Music Has Outlived Almost Everything Around It\nThere’s a reason tribute bands can build entire shows around this particular catalog. \nThe music survived its era. \nCrazy Train was released more than 45 years ago. Blizzard of Ozz and Diary of a Madman came from a period when heavy metal was still defining what it would become during the 1980s. \nRhoads didn’t live long enough to see how influential his playing would become. \nOsbourne did. \nHe continued performing for decades\, became a cultural figure far beyond heavy metal and was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame twice: first as a member of Black Sabbath and later as a solo artist. \nOzzy Osbourne died in July 2025 at age 76\, just weeks after performing at the massive Back to the Beginning farewell concert in Birmingham\, England. \nThat inevitably changed the character of Ozzy tribute shows. \nThe music is no longer celebrating the career of an artist who might conceivably appear on another stage someday. \nIt’s preserving it. \nFor Blizzard of Ozz\, though\, that mission was already familiar. \nThe band had spent years preserving the work of Randy Rhoads. \nNow the same songs carry the legacy of both men. \nThree Hours of Ozzy in the Woods\nThere isn’t much ambiguity about what Saturday night is supposed to be. \nThis isn’t a broad classic-rock tribute with a couple of Ozzy songs tucked into the set. \nBlizzard of Ozz has built the entire night around him. \nThe early solo albums. \nThe Randy Rhoads guitar parts. \nThe later hits. \nAnd enough Black Sabbath to reach back to where the story started. \nFor three hours Saturday night\, the Charlestown woods are going to sound considerably heavier than usual. \nDetails\nEvent: Blizzard of Ozz (Ozzy Osbourne Tribute) at the Charlestown Rathskeller\nDate: Saturday\, September 19\, 2026\nTime: 8–11 p.m.\nLocation: The Charlestown Rathskeller\nAddress: 489A Old Coach Road\, Charlestown\, RI 02813\nBand: Blizzard of Ozz\nTribute: Ozzy Osbourne\, with a particular focus on the Randy Rhoads era\nBand Members: Mark Lavoie\, vocals; Damiano Christian\, guitar; Paul Sylvia\, bass; Kenny Evans\, drums\nAdvance Tickets: $15 plus Eventbrite fees\nDoor Price: $20\nOriginal Date: July 18\, 2026; canceled because of weather and rescheduled to September 19\nVenue Hours Saturday: Noon–1 a.m.\nKitchen Hours: Noon–10 p.m.\nVenue Phone: 401-792-1000\nVenue Email: info@rathskellertavern.com\nMusic Contact: music@rathskellertavern.com\nWeather: This is an outdoor concert. Check the venue’s current event information if weather is questionable. \nMore information is available at the Event Website link below. \nTo purchase tickets\, click the Event Ticketing link below. \n  \n  \nFeatured image is an artistic representation inspired by the event and may not depict the actual people\, location\, or activities shown.
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LOCATION:Rathskeller\, 489A Old Coach Rd\, Charlestown\, RI\, 02813\, United States
CATEGORIES:Rathskeller
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SUMMARY:Take It To The Bridge (Trio) at the Charlestown Rathskeller Turns an Eight-Piece Party Band Into a Sunday Afternoon Groove
DESCRIPTION:Take It To The Bridge (Trio) at the Charlestown Rathskeller takes a band normally built for packed dance floors and pares it down to three musicians for a free Sunday afternoon show in Charlestown. \nThe trio plays Sunday\, September 20\, from 4 to 7 p.m. at the Charlestown Rathskeller\, bringing acoustic arrangements of songs drawn from the funk\, soul\, pop and rock repertoire of the full Take It To The Bridge. \nAdmission is free\, although the Rathskeller is asking guests to RSVP in advance. \nIt’s also an interesting change of scale. The full Take It To The Bridge is an eight-piece Rhode Island event band designed to make a lot of sound. \nThe trio has to accomplish the same basic mission with considerably less machinery. \nTake It To The Bridge Usually Arrives With Eight Musicians\nTake It To The Bridge has been performing around Rhode Island and southern New England since 2014. \nThe full band works primarily in the event and wedding circuit\, where versatility matters. Its repertoire moves across decades and genres rather than attempting to establish one narrowly defined sound. \nFunk can lead into soul. Pop can give way to rock & roll. Older songs can sit beside contemporary material. \nThe band’s full configuration uses eight musicians\, giving it the personnel to create the kind of layered arrangements\, vocal harmonies and rhythmic punch expected from a large event band. \nThat’s the version that played the Rathskeller just nine days before this trio appearance. \nOn September 11\, Take It To The Bridge brought the full eight-piece band to the venue for a Friday-night concert. \nSunday’s show is deliberately different. \nThree Musicians Changes More Than the Volume\nThe Rathskeller describes the trio as three members of the main band performing “stripped-down” versions of familiar songs. \nThat’s more significant than simply turning down the amplifiers. \nSongs arranged for a large band have places for multiple instruments\, vocals and rhythm parts. Reduce that to three musicians and someone has to decide which pieces of the original arrangement are essential. \nA horn line might disappear. \nA guitar or keyboard can suddenly have considerably more room. \nBacking vocals become more exposed. \nAnd the rhythm has to work without all the layers that normally help propel a large dance band. \nThe result can reveal something about a familiar song that gets lost in a bigger arrangement: whether the melody and groove still work when most of the decoration is gone. \nTake It To The Bridge calls its trio performances soulful interpretations of familiar hits rather than simply miniature versions of its full-band show. \nThe Groove Is Still the Point\nDon’t mistake “acoustic” or “stripped down” for background music. \nTake It To The Bridge built its reputation as a dance-oriented band. \nThe full group’s repertoire is rooted heavily in music where rhythm matters\, particularly funk and soul\, while stretching into pop and rock & roll. \nThe trio format preserves that emphasis. \nInstead of trying to reproduce every element of the eight-piece arrangements\, the smaller lineup can lean harder on the groove underneath them. \nThat makes the Sunday-afternoon format a natural fit. \nThe goal isn’t necessarily the all-out energy of a Friday-night dance floor. It’s familiar music played closely enough that you can pay attention to what the musicians are doing while still having enough rhythmic life to keep the afternoon moving. \nThis Is One of Several Trio Dates on the Band’s Calendar\nThe Rathskeller show isn’t a one-time experiment. \nTake It To The Bridge has been using the trio as a distinct version of the band\, with additional 2026 trio performances appearing on its schedule. \nThe group returns to the smaller format at Sakonnet Vineyard in Little Compton on October 4\, while the larger band continues handling weddings\, private events and public performances. \nThe schedule illustrates the difference between the two configurations. \nOne weekend can find the full group working a large wedding or gala. Another afternoon can put three members outdoors at a vineyard or tavern. \nIt’s the same musical catalog adapted to a very different room and audience. \nThe Rathskeller Has Already Become Familiar Territory\nTake It To The Bridge has been a recurring presence at the Charlestown Rathskeller. \nThe full band appeared there on September 11\, while the trio also played the venue earlier this summer on July 26. \nThat makes Sunday’s show less of an introduction than another variation on an established relationship between the band and the venue. \nAnd the Rathskeller’s outdoor setup is particularly well suited to the trio version. \nThe property sits back from Old Coach Road in a wooded setting\, with its seasonal Down Back entertainment area providing space for live music\, outdoor seating\, lawn games and the venue’s large fire pit. \nA Sunday afternoon there doesn’t have to function like a conventional concert. \nYou can arrive for food\, find a place outside\, have a drink and let the music become part of the afternoon. \nMake Dinner the Second Half of the Show\nThe timing works particularly well for anyone who wants to combine the concert with a meal. \nThe Rathskeller opens at noon on Sunday\, four hours before the music begins\, and remains open until 10 p.m. The kitchen is also scheduled until 10. \nThat gives you several options. \nCome early for a late lunch and stay for the band. \nArrive around showtime and eat while the trio plays. \nOr treat the 4-to-7 concert as the first half of the evening and move inside for dinner afterward. \nThe Rathskeller’s menu leans into hearty tavern food with burgers\, seafood and pub standards\, along with dishes including New England clam chowder\, calamari\, mussels\, fish and chips\, steak frites and other substantial plates. \nThe venue is also known for its fries\, which can be considerably more elaborate than the phrase “side of fries” suggests. \nSunday Is Free\nThere’s another substantial difference between Sunday’s trio performance and the full band’s September 11 Rathskeller concert. \nThe earlier eight-piece show was ticketed at $10 in advance and $15 at the door. \nThe trio show is free. \nThe Rathskeller and Eventbrite both list free admission for September 20. \nThe venue is nevertheless accepting advance RSVPs through Eventbrite. That doesn’t turn the afternoon into a paid ticketed event\, but registering gives the venue an idea of attendance. \nWith outdoor seating generally operating on a first-come basis\, arriving early remains sensible if you care where you sit. \nIt’s the Quieter Cousin of a Saturday Night at the Rathskeller\nThe Rathskeller has a particularly busy live-music weekend planned. \nFriday brings ’80s tribute band Aquanett. \nSaturday belongs to Blizzard of Ozz and the music of Ozzy Osbourne. \nThen Sunday afternoon changes the temperature completely. \nInstead of big hair\, metal riffs and a full-scale nighttime concert\, Take It To The Bridge arrives with three musicians and a collection of songs rearranged for a smaller setting. \nThat’s one of the advantages of a venue programming music across an entire weekend. \nNot every show needs to operate at maximum volume. \nSometimes a few musicians\, a good song and a Sunday afternoon in the woods are enough. \nDetails\nEvent: Take It To The Bridge (Trio) at the Charlestown Rathskeller\nDate: Sunday\, September 20\, 2026\nTime: 4–7 p.m.\nLocation: The Charlestown Rathskeller\nAddress: 489A Old Coach Road\, Charlestown\, RI 02813\nAdmission: Free\nRSVP: Advance RSVP requested through Eventbrite\nMusic: Acoustic and stripped-down interpretations of funk\, soul\, pop and rock hits\nBand: Three members of the eight-piece Take It To The Bridge\nVenue Opens: Noon\nSunday Closing: 10 p.m.\nKitchen: Noon–10 p.m.\nPhone: 401-792-1000\nGeneral Contact: info@rathskellertavern.com\nMusic Contact: music@rathskellertavern.com\nSetting: Outdoor seasonal live-music area; seating is generally first come\nWeather: Check the venue’s current event information if weather could affect the outdoor performance. \nMore information is available at the Event Website link below. \nTo reserve your spot\, click the Event Registration link below. \n  \n  \nFeatured image is an artistic representation inspired by the event and may not depict the actual people\, location\, or activities shown.
URL:https://thectbeacon.com/event/take-it-to-the-bridge-trio-at-the-charlestown-rathskeller-turns-an-eight-piece-party-band-into-a-sunday-afternoon-groove/
LOCATION:Rathskeller\, 489A Old Coach Rd\, Charlestown\, RI\, 02813\, United States
CATEGORIES:Rathskeller
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SUMMARY:Nick Casey Brings Old-School Country Back Home to Rhode Island
DESCRIPTION:Nick Casey Brings Old-School Country Back Home to Rhode Island Friday\, Sept. 25\, when the Rhode Island singer-songwriter and his band take over the outdoor Down Back stage at the Charlestown Rathskeller for three hours of country\, roots and rock. \nThe 8 p.m. show puts a local artist with a decidedly old-school approach to country music into a setting built for exactly this kind of Friday night: a stage in the woods\, drinks nearby and enough room for a full band to turn things up. \nCasey isn’t trying to make country music sound like contemporary pop. His music reaches backward toward the storytelling\, baritone voices and lived-in sound of artists such as Johnny Cash\, Merle Haggard\, Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson. \nBut that’s only part of the story. \nThe Rhode Island musician has spent more than a decade building from coffee shops and open mics into a career that has taken him and The Whole Damn Band far beyond New England. \nFrom Rhode Island Coffee Shops to a Full Country Band\nCasey began performing at 16\, initially playing coffee shops\, open mics and busking on local streets. \nMusic was already part of the family. His mother\, Mary Ellen Casey\, is a Rhode Island folk singer-songwriter\, and Casey has said that Bruce Springsteen’s performance style was what first made him want to pick up a guitar himself. \nCountry became his direction. \nSince 2013\, Casey has performed throughout New England\, developing a style centered on traditional country sounds and a low baritone that Providence Monthly once compared to Johnny Cash\, with storytelling reminiscent of Haggard\, Jennings and Nelson. \nEventually\, those small performances grew into Nick Casey & The Whole Damn Band\, and the group began traveling well beyond Rhode Island. \nThey’ve played national stages as far west as Kansas and Montana and have opened for country artists including HARDY\, Joe Nichols\, Kameron Marlowe and William Michael Morgan. \nFriday’s Rathskeller date is billed as a full-band performance. \nA Mohegan Sun Win Helped Push Things Forward\nOne of Casey’s significant regional breakthroughs came in 2018 when the band entered Mohegan Sun’s Locals Live competition. \nThe annual contest brings regional acts into the Wolf Den and puts performers from different genres against one another before a live audience. \nCasey and his band won. \nTwo years later\, they released their debut album\, Ghosts Like Me\, establishing a recorded version of the traditional-country direction Casey had been developing onstage. \nHe later stripped things back for the acoustic solo album When I’m Alone. \nRecognition followed. Casey received six New England Music Awards nominations and was named Male Performer of the Year in 2023. \nHis more recent full-length album\, All Over the American Land\, brings the band back into the picture. \nCountry With Some Dirt Under Its Boots\nThe Rathskeller describes Casey’s show as a mixture of country\, roots and rock\, which is probably more useful than trying to squeeze his music into a narrower country category. \nThe foundation is traditional\, but this isn’t a historical reenactment. \nCasey’s shows mix originals with classic hits and newer favorites\, and the full band gives the material considerably more weight than his acoustic performances. \nThat should suit Rathskeller Down Back\, the tavern’s seasonal outdoor concert space tucked into the wooded property behind the restaurant. \nIt’s a deliberately informal place to see a band. There’s a stage\, outdoor seating\, lawn space\, games and a large fire pit rather than rows of theater seats. \nThe Rathskeller encourages concertgoers to arrive early for dinner and drinks before heading out back for the show. \nThree Hours Under the Stars\nCasey and the band are scheduled from 8 to 11 p.m.\, making this a full Friday-night show rather than a short concert set. \nAdvance tickets are $10 plus Eventbrite fees. Admission increases to $15 at the door. \nFor Casey\, it’s another stop in a career that has expanded considerably beyond the state where it started. But this particular night brings the whole operation back home: a Rhode Island country singer\, his full band and an outdoor stage in the woods of South County. \nMore information is available at the Event Website link below. \nTo purchase tickets\, click the Event Ticketing link below. \nDetails\nEvent: Nick Casey at the Charlestown Rathskeller 2026\nDate: Friday\, Sept. 25\, 2026\nTime: 8–11 p.m.\nVenue: Charlestown Rathskeller / Rathskeller Down Back\nAddress: 489A Old Coach Road\, Charlestown\, RI 02813\nPerformance: Full-band show\nMusic: Country\, Americana\, roots and rock\nAdvance Tickets: $10 plus Eventbrite fees\nDoor Admission: $15\nFood & Drinks: The Rathskeller encourages guests to arrive early for dinner and drinks; the kitchen is scheduled to remain open until 10 p.m.\nSeating: Down Back uses festival-style seating rather than reserved seats\nSetting: Outdoor seasonal concert venue \n  \n  \nFeatured image is an artistic representation inspired by the event and may not depict the actual people\, location\, or activities shown.
URL:https://thectbeacon.com/event/nick-casey-brings-old-school-country-back-home-to-rhode-island/
LOCATION:Rathskeller\, 489A Old Coach Rd\, Charlestown\, RI\, 02813\, United States
CATEGORIES:Rathskeller
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SUMMARY:Steve Smith & The Nakeds Bring 53 Years of Rhode Island R&B to the Charlestown Rathskeller (cancelled)
DESCRIPTION:NOTE: This event has been cancelled due to the nor’easter.\nSteve Smith & The Nakeds Bring 53 Years of Rhode Island R&B to the Charlestown Rathskeller Saturday\, Sept. 26\, when one of the state’s longest-running bands takes over the Rathskeller’s Down Back stage for three hours of horns\, rock & roll\, soul and rhythm & blues. \nThe 10-piece band performs from 8 to 11 p.m.\, bringing more than half a century of Rhode Island music history to the wooded outdoor venue in Charlestown. Tickets are $10 in advance and $15 at the door. \nOn the Road Since 1973\nSteve Smith & The Nakeds trace their beginnings to 1973\, when the group started performing as Naked Truth. \nMore than five decades later\, this is still a big band in the literal sense. The current lineup combines a four-piece rhythm section with five horns and Steve Smith on lead vocals and harmonica. \nThat horn section is fundamental to the band’s identity. Saxophones\, trumpet and trombone give the group the punch of classic American soul and R&B rather than the leaner sound of a typical rock cover band. \nOver the years\, The Nakeds have played thousands of shows\, moving from the New England college and club circuit to major stages while building the kind of regional following that allows a band to keep working for more than 50 years. \nThe Rhode Island Music Hall of Fame inducted Steve Smith & The Nakeds in 2013. \nA Connection to the Big Man\nOne particularly notable chapter in the band’s history came through Clarence Clemons. \nBest known as the saxophonist whose larger-than-life presence and sound became inseparable from Bruce Springsteen’s E Street Band\, Clemons also performed and recorded with Steve Smith & The Nakeds. \nThe relationship went well beyond a one-night guest appearance. Clemons toured with the group when his Springsteen schedule allowed\, while Clemons and E Street Band guitarist Nils Lofgren contributed material to the Nakeds’ Never Say Never album. \nIt became one of several connections between a homegrown Rhode Island band and a much larger national music world. \n“I’m Huge” Finds a Second Life\nThe band’s longevity has also produced some unexpected twists. \nSteve Smith & The Nakeds recorded the tongue-in-cheek original “I’m Huge (And The Babes Go Wild)” years before the song suddenly reached an entirely new audience when it appeared on Family Guy in 2008. \nThe exposure revived interest in the song and helped introduce a band formed in the early 1970s to listeners who weren’t alive for much of its original run. \nThe Nakeds’ music has also appeared in movies\, while the band’s career has included national television appearances and performances ranging from local clubs and festivals to an appearance with President Bill Clinton. \nBut the center of the operation has remained New England and live performance. \nDown Back at the Rathskeller\nSaturday’s setting fits that tradition particularly well. \nThe Charlestown Rathskeller’s Down Back area takes the music outside\, surrounded by the trees and grounds behind the historic tavern. Instead of a formal theater show\, this is a Saturday night built around dinner\, drinks and three hours of live music. \nThe Rathskeller encourages concertgoers to arrive early for food and drinks before heading Down Back for the 8 p.m. performance. \nAnd while a 53-year history gives Steve Smith & The Nakeds plenty of material for nostalgia\, the band isn’t being resurrected for an anniversary tour. \nThey’re still doing what they’ve been doing since 1973: putting a large horn section behind rhythm & blues\, soul and rock & roll and taking it to a live audience. \nMore information is available at the Event Website link below. \nTo purchase tickets\, click the Event Ticketing link below. \nDetails\nEvent: Steve Smith & The Nakeds at the Charlestown Rathskeller\nDate: Saturday\, Sept. 26\, 2026\nTime: 8–11 p.m.\nVenue: Charlestown Rathskeller — Down Back\nAddress: 489A Old Coach Road\, Charlestown\, RI 02813\nMusic: R&B\, soul and rock & roll\nAdvance Admission: $10 plus applicable ticketing fees\nAt the Door: $15\nFood & Drinks: Available at the Rathskeller; arriving early for dinner and drinks is encouraged. \n  \nFeatured image is an artistic representation inspired by the event and may not depict the actual people\, location\, or activities shown.
URL:https://thectbeacon.com/event/steve-smith-the-nakeds-bring-53-years-of-rhode-island-rb-to-the-charlestown-rathskeller/
LOCATION:Rathskeller\, 489A Old Coach Rd\, Charlestown\, RI\, 02813\, United States
CATEGORIES:Rathskeller
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SUMMARY:Roc-Kin’-On Brings Four Decades of Party Rock to the Charlestown Rathskeller (cancelled)
DESCRIPTION:NOTE: This event has been cancelled due to the nor’easter.\nRoc-Kin’-On Brings Four Decades of Party Rock to the Charlestown Rathskeller Sunday\, Sept. 27\, with three hours of classic rock\, country\, and pop-rock built for an afternoon of dancing\, singing along\, and stretching the weekend a little longer. \nThe five-piece New England cover band takes over the Rathskeller’s outdoor stage from 4 to 7 p.m.\, with free admission and food and drinks available throughout the afternoon. \nAnd this show has been a few months in the making. \nRoc-Kin’-On was originally scheduled to play the Rathskeller over Memorial Day weekend. Rain forced the May 24 performance to be canceled\, and the band was rescheduled for Sept. 27. \nFour months later\, they’re finally getting their Sunday afternoon Down Back. \nA Setlist That Can Jump 40 Years in a Few Songs\nRoc-Kin’-On doesn’t tie itself to a single decade. \nThe band’s repertoire reaches across the 1970s\, ’80s\, ’90s and 2000s\, mixing classic rock with country\, pop-rock\, and danceable party songs. \nThat broad approach is intentional. \nRoc-Kin’-On has been performing together for more than a decade\, developing its identity around songs audiences already know and getting those audiences involved in the show. \nRather than presenting a narrowly defined tribute to one artist or era\, the group can move between generations during the same performance. \nThat makes the band a particularly good fit for an afternoon at the Rathskeller\, where the audience can range from people who came specifically for the music to diners who wandered Down Back after lunch and decided to stay. \nThe band describes its Sept. 27 set as rock favorites from the ’70s through the 2000s. \nThe Rathskeller goes a little broader\, describing Roc-Kin’-On as a high-energy rock and party band playing classic rock favorites\, timeless hits and danceable anthems. \nEither description gets to the same point. \nThis isn’t a sit-down-and-listen kind of show. \nFrom Eastern Connecticut to a New England Party Band\nRoc-Kin’-On began as an Eastern Connecticut favorite before expanding its schedule throughout New England. \nMore than a decade of playing together has taken the group through bars\, clubs\, festivals and entertainment venues around the region. \nThe band continues to maintain an active schedule well beyond summer. \nAfter Charlestown\, its currently announced dates stretch into December\, with shows in Rhode Island\, Connecticut and Massachusetts. \nThat kind of schedule matters for a cover band. \nPlaying familiar songs is only half the job. A successful party band has to read a room\, understand when to change gears and know how to turn people who weren’t necessarily planning to dance into part of the show. \nRoc-Kin’-On has built its reputation around that interaction. \nThe Show That Rain Postponed\nSunday’s performance was supposed to happen much earlier. \nRoc-Kin’-On had been booked for the Rathskeller on May 24\, part of the venue’s Memorial Day weekend schedule. \nWeather intervened. \nBecause Down Back is an outdoor venue\, the show was canceled and moved all the way to Sept. 27. \nThe new date lands in an interesting part of the Rathskeller season. \nLate September still belongs to the outdoor concert calendar\, but the atmosphere has started changing. The afternoon light fades earlier\, temperatures become more comfortable around the fire and the number of weekends left Down Back can suddenly be counted rather than assumed. \nFor Roc-Kin’-On\, it means the postponed beginning-of-summer performance has effectively become an early-fall Sunday show. \nThe Rathskeller Has Been Doing This Since Long Before Outdoor Concerts Were Trendy\nThe Charlestown Rathskeller isn’t a purpose-built concert venue. \nIts history reaches back to 1933\, when the secluded property became associated with the kind of tucked-away tavern atmosphere that would eventually become part of its identity. \nToday\, the restored restaurant retains that old tavern character inside while the property behind it has evolved into something very different. \nRathskeller Down Back is the seasonal outdoor side of the operation. \nThe wooded grounds include a performance stage\, backyard bar\, Burger Shack\, fire pit and lawn games including cornhole and bocce. \nThe result falls somewhere between a restaurant backyard\, beer garden and small outdoor music festival. \nThere isn’t traditional theater seating. \nThe setup is deliberately informal\, with festival-style seating and guests moving between tables\, the bar\, games and the area in front of the stage. \nThat gives the Rathskeller something most conventional music venues can’t offer. \nYou can arrive well before the first song. \nCome for Lunch\, Stay for the Band\nThe Rathskeller opens at noon on Sundays\, four hours before Roc-Kin’-On starts. \nThe kitchen remains open until 10 p.m.\, so the afternoon can easily begin with lunch before moving outside for the show. \nThe restaurant’s menu leans toward hearty New England tavern food\, including burgers\, seafood\, steaks\, sandwiches and pub fare. The property also operates outdoor food and drink service during its Down Back season. \nThen there are the games and the fire pit. \nThat combination explains why the Rathskeller’s Sunday concerts feel different from its Friday and Saturday night shows. \nA 4 p.m. start makes the music part of an afternoon rather than the destination at the end of the night. \nEat. Grab a drink. Play a game. Find somewhere outside. Hear a band. \nAnd in this case\, there’s no ticket price standing in the way. \nFree Show\, RSVP Optional\nAdmission to Roc-Kin’-On is free. \nThe Rathskeller encourages guests to RSVP through Eventbrite\, but the earlier listing for the rescheduled performance also indicated that guests could simply show up. \nWith outdoor seating operating festival-style\, arriving early remains the better strategy for anyone who wants a preferred spot. \nWeather is also worth watching. \nThe original May performance was canceled because of rain\, and Down Back remains an outdoor venue. The Rathskeller posts schedule changes when weather affects a performance. \nAssuming September cooperates better than May did\, Roc-Kin’-On finally gets its three hours onstage Sunday afternoon. \nFour decades of rock songs. \nThree hours of music. \nOne show that took four months longer than expected to happen. \nMore information is available at the Event Website link below. \nTo RSVP for free\, click the Event Ticketing link below. \nDetails\nEvent: Roc-Kin’-On at the Charlestown Rathskeller\nDate: Sunday\, Sept. 27\, 2026\nTime: 4–7 p.m.\nLocation: Charlestown Rathskeller / Rathskeller Down Back\nAddress: 489A Old Coach Road\, Charlestown\, RI 02813\nAdmission: Free\nRSVP: Free RSVP available through Eventbrite\nBand: Roc-Kin’-On\nBand Size: Five-piece\nMusic: Classic rock\, country\, ’80s\, ’90s\, 2000s pop-rock and dance/party favorites\nSetting: Outdoor seasonal music venue on the Rathskeller grounds\nSeating: Festival-style; arrive early for a preferred spot\nRestaurant Hours Sunday: Noon–10 p.m.\nKitchen: Open noon–10 p.m.\nFood & Drinks: Available for purchase\nWeather: Outdoor performance; schedule may change because of weather\nBackground: Rescheduled from the band’s May 24 performance\, which was canceled because of weather\nContact: Charlestown Rathskeller\, 401-792-1000 \n  \n  \nFeatured image is an artistic representation inspired by the event and may not depict the actual people\, location\, or activities shown.
URL:https://thectbeacon.com/event/roc-kin-on-brings-four-decades-of-party-rock-to-the-charlestown-rathskeller/
LOCATION:Rathskeller\, 489A Old Coach Rd\, Charlestown\, RI\, 02813\, United States
CATEGORIES:Rathskeller
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