Free Concert Features Five Bands

The Dunkirk Cultural District a partnership between the Adams Art Gallery, The Dunkirk Historical Lighthouse Museum and Veteran’s Park, and the Dunkirk Historical Society has announced that as their first joint venture they are putting on a free concert at The Dunkirk Lighthouse.

“We want to do this for the community; this community has been there for our organizations now we want to give something back.” said Dave Brisca the Vice President of the lighthouse. The concert will be on August 20th the gates will open at 3pm and the concert will go until 11pm.

Five bands will be performing through out the event. Opening the show around 4pm will be “The Outsiders” with their tribute to Punk Rock legends The Ramones, loud, fast and hard is their motto. Next up will be an acoustic set by “Three Dollar Bill” playing a mix of folk and original material. “Cloud Called Nine” will take the stage third playing their original mix of Rock, Jazz and Blues; it’s all three and none of the above all at the same time. Getting the crowd warmed up for the main act will be “Brainard Project” an original band playing classic rock, despite only playing together for a few months they sound like they been together for decades. Closing out the show will be “The Town Pants” This Vancouver based band combines aspects of Irish traditional, acoustic pop, roots Americana, even Australian and Mexican influences, to create their own unique brand of “West Coast Celtic.”

With a decades worth of headlining roots and folk festivals to selling out nights at rock venues, Maximum/EMI recording artists The Town Pants own brand of "Celtic roots rock rebel" spans five albums so far, and backed up with and a legendary live show that's garnered them fans internationally from Ottawa to Oslo. The group played multiple performances at home for the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver and is on tour throughout North America this summer promoting their latest album "Shore Leave" that's been getting rave reviews.

The band features the dual lead vocals of brothers Duane and Dave Keogh on guitar and banjo respectively, tin whistle virtuoso Aaron Chapman, Ivanka Watkin on fiddle, bassist John Senchuck and drummer Gilles Nadon on the "contraption kit". Rarely does a band have this combination of passion, energy animation and spirit that all makes for some of the most imaginative songwriting by some seriously talented players that you'll find in the genre.

“We’ve know The Town Pants for years from the Great Blue Heron Music Festival, and the other four bands have all played at the gallery for our “Rock the Gallery” concert series. When I approached Duane about doing this show he was all for it, bringing on all this great local talent was the next logical step. Now we have a first class show and everyone can see it for free.” said Christopher Schaeffer President of Access to the Arts, Inc. “With five different bands playing five different musical styles there is something for everyone, from babes in arms to great grandparents.”

Bring a blanket or some camp chairs and sit on the lawn. Food and Beverages will be available along with raffle tickets and merchandise, no outside coolers please. All proceeds to benefit the Dunkirk Cultural District and its member organizations. For more information got to www.adamsart.org

Pictured, The Town Pants at the Elmira Irish Festival
Photo provided by Adams Art Gallery