Shell Yeah! Benefit Series Presents Booker T. Jones
On Thursday, September 10th, Booker T. Jones of Booker T. & The M.G.s will take the stage at the Overton Park Shell for the 90th Birthday Shell-ebration Weekend kick off. Learn more and purchase tickets.
Shell Yeah! Presents Indigo Girls with Linda Perry
On Tuesday, September 29th, the Indigo Girls and Linda Perry will take the stage at the Overton Park Shell as part of the 2026 Shell Yeah! Benefit Series. Tickets on sale 22nd. All proceeds support the Overton Park Shell mission.
Memphis Country Blues Festival presents Christone “Kingfish” Ingram’s The Hard Road Tour (Shell Yeah! Benefit Series)
Price
$30 (+ applicable taxes/fees) GA Advance
$40 (+ applicable taxes/fees) GA Day of Show
Event Times
Doors open 6:30pm
DYLAN TRIPLETT 7:30pm
MATHIAS LATTIN 7:55pm
KINGFISH 8:15pm
About the Artist:
“Ingram plays guitar with dramatic, searing tone and sure-handed authority. And that’s just in the studio; he’s even scarier live.” –NPR Music
“Kingfish is one of the most exciting young guitarists in years, with a sound that encompasses B.B. King, Jimi Hendrix and Prince.” –Rolling Stone
In just six years since his GRAMMY-nominated debut album Kingfish, Christone “Kingfish” Ingram has become a global blues sensation. Born in Clarksdale, Mississippi — just 10 miles from the legendary crossroads of Highways 61 and 49 — he grew up immersed in the blues. Mentored at the Delta Blues Museum, he developed his distinctive sound, influenced by legends like B.B. King, Muddy Waters, Freddie King, Albert King, Jimi Hendrix, and Prince.
Kingfish topped the Billboard Blues Chart for 91 weeks and earned a GRAMMY nomination. In 2021, his follow-up album 662 debuted at #1, earning him his first GRAMMY for Best Contemporary Blues Album. NPR hailed the album as “astounding.” Since his debut, Kingfish has won 12 Blues Music Awards and 11 Living Blues Awards.
In 2023, Kingfish released Live in London, capturing the raw energy of his live shows with powerful guitar work and soul-stirring vocals. The album was praised for its authenticity and emotional depth, showcasing his ability to bring modern blues to a global audience.
Kingfish’s relentless touring, writing, and recording continue to fuel his rise. With his jaw-dropping guitar prowess and captivating vocals, he delivers contemporary blues that resonate worldwide. Whether headlining his own shows or sharing stages with legends like Buddy Guy, Jason Isbell, and The Rolling Stones, Kingfish remains a dynamic force in modern blues.
Know Before You Go - Shell Yeah! Benefit Series:
This concert is part of our Shell Yeah! Benefit Series. No outside food, drinks, coolers or pets are allowed at ticketed events. Reusable water bottles may be brought in to fill up at our water fountains.
All seating is GA outdoor lawn seating. Lawn chairs and blankets are strongly encouraged. No tents or umbrellas.
The two box office entrances are located on Veterans Plaza, on the left side of the Shell near the Zoo entrance, and on Museum Drive between the Brooks Museum and the Overton Park Shell.
Please have your ticket ready and pulled up on your phone before you arrive at the box office to ensure a speedy entry-- your cell service connection may be impacted by large events. Tickets should be loaded into the Ticketmaster app or your Google/Apple Wallet.
Screenshots and confirmation emails are not accepted for entry.
Children 5 and under do not require a ticket.
The Overton Park Shell is wheelchair accessible
No professional photography, video, or audio recording equipment
Because this is a fundraiser, no refunds are available. Thank you for helping to power our FREE concert series
Food Trucks:
Flip Side Asia | Soi Number 9 | Pok Cha | Carmelitas | Hot and Heavy
Sponsored By:
BIG K.R.I.T. with special guest Dame Mufasa (Shell Yeah! Benefit Series)
Learn more and get tickets →
AEG PRESENTS: KRAFTWERK - MULTIMEDIA TOUR 2025 (Shell Yeah! Benefit Series)
6 PM DOORS | 7:15 PM SHOW
About Kraftwerk:
Bringing together music and performance art, Kraftwerk concerts are a true "Gesamtkunstwerk – a total work of art.”
The multi-media project Kraftwerk was started in 1970 by Ralf Hütter and Florian Schneider. They set up their electronic Kling Klang Studio in Düsseldorf, Germany, where they conceived and produced all Kraftwerk albums.
By the mid 1970’s Kraftwerk had achieved international recognition for their revolutionary electronic ‚sound scapes’ and their musical experimentation with robotics and other technical innovations. With their visions of the future, Kraftwerk created the soundtrack for the digital age of the 21st century.
Their compositions, using innovative techniques, synthetic voices and computerised rhythms, have had a major international influence across an entire range of music genres: from Electro to Hip Hop, from Techno to SynthPop.
In their live performances, Kraftwerk – Ralf Hütter, Henning Schmitz, Fritz Hilpert, Falk Grieffenhagen – illustrate their belief in the respective contributions of both man and machine.
Starting with the retrospective of their Catalogue at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 2012, in recent years Kraftwerk have returned full circle back to their origins within the Düsseldorf art scene of the late Sixties.
The concert series at MoMA was followed by further presentations at Tate Modern Turbine Hall (London), Akasaka Blitz (Tokyo) Opera House (Sydney), Walt Disney Concert Hall (Los Angeles), Fondation Louis Vuitton (Paris), Neue National Galerie (Berlin), Guggenheim Museum (Bilbao) and they most recently played 9 nights at LA’s famed Walt Disney Hall.
In 2014 Ralf Hütter and his former partner were honoured with the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.
Artist Socials:
Facebook | Instagram | Youtube
If you want to learn more about Kraftwerk and their products, click here.
Know Before You Go - Shell Yeah! Benefit Series:
This concert is part of our Shell Yeah! Benefit Series. No outside food, drinks, coolers or pets are allowed at ticketed events. Reusable water bottles may be brought in to fill up at our water fountains.
All seating is GA outdoor lawn seating. Lawn chairs and blankets are strongly encouraged. No tents or umbrellas.
Gates open at 6 pm and the show begins at 7:15 pm. The two box office entrances are located on Veterans Plaza, on the left side of the Shell near the Zoo entrance, and on Museum Drive between the Brooks Museum and the Overton Park Shell.
Please have your ticket ready and pulled up on your phone before you arrive at the box office to ensure a speedy entry-- your cell service connection may be impacted by large events. Tickets should be loaded into your Google/Apple Wallet or the Ticketmaster app. Children 5 and under do not require a ticket.
The Overton Park Shell is wheelchair accessible
No professional photography, video, or audio recording equipment
Because this is a fundraiser, no refunds are available. Thank you for helping to power our FREE concert series
Food Trucks:
Green Beetle | Mexico in Memphis | Pok Cha’s Eggrolls | Hot 'N’ Heavy Dogs | Good Groceries Mobile Diner
Sponsored By:
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SMITH & MYERS [of Shinedown](Shell Yeah! Benefit Series)
About the Artist:
Smith & Myers - the duo comprised of Brent Smith and Zach Myers - reimagine beloved chapters of the American songbook alongside their own bold contributions with nothing more than a microphone and an instrument or two. Their eloquent songcraft transmits powerful lyrics, intimate delivery, indelible melodies and glorious vocals uplifted by minimal accompaniment and amplified by maximum emotion. With two hearts and one truth, these lifelong musicians, longstanding friends, and eternal brothers delivered their double album in 2020 in two parts, Smith & Myers Volume 1 and Volume 2, comprised of ten original songs and ten brilliant re-imaginings of Neil Young, Post Malone, INXS, Mark Ronson and Amy Winehouse, The Righteous Brothers, Billie Eilish, Peter Gabriel, Billy Idol, R.E.M. and Oasis. The releases marked Smith & Myers’ first full-lengths as a duo since issuing a pair of acoustic cover EPs, Acoustic Sessions, Part 1 and Acoustic Sessions, Part 2, in 2014. Fans instantly fell in love with the magic that is created between Brent and Zach both in the studio and on stage, with Smith & Myers live shows instantly selling out.
Smith & Myers’ Volume 1 and Volume 2, produced by GRAMMY Award-winning producer and songwriter Dave Bassett, encompass vulnerability, fearlessness, honesty, outrage, love and understanding. With no boundaries on what their songwriting could discuss, Brent & Zach explore everything from certain personal topics that they have left largely unexplored until now, to commentary on immigration and children being ripped from their parents, racial injustice, and the nature of social media – focusing not on politics, but on right and wrong and our connection as human beings. This is evidenced by the Volume 1 original single “Not Mad Enough” and the Volume 2 standout “Bad At Love.”
As one-half of the multi-platinum, record-setting band Shinedown, Brent and Zach can often be found topping the rock charts and playing to sold-out arenas around the globe. Shinedown has achieved astronomical success over the last two decades with over 6.5 billion global streams, 23 #1 Active Rock hits, 15 platinum and gold singles, multi-platinum, platinum or gold certification for all of their albums, 10 million albums sold worldwide, and major mainstream media acclaim, including Billboard naming the band #1 on the Greatest Of All Time Mainstream Rock Artists Chart by breaking and maintaining the most ever #1s (19) in the 40-year history of the chart. With Smith & Myers, Brent and Zach illuminate their depth as a duo and showcase a very different yet just as powerful musical side of these two versatile musicians.
Artist Socials:
Know Before You Go - Shell Yeah! Benefit Series:
This concert is part of our Shell Yeah! Benefit Series. No outside food, drinks, coolers or pets are allowed at ticketed events. Reusable water bottles may be brought in to fill up at our water fountains.
Gates open at 5:30pm and the show begins at 7:30. The two box office entrances are located on Veterans Plaza, on the left side of the Shell near the Zoo entrance, and on Museum Drive between the Brooks Museum and the Overton Park Shell.
Please have your ticket ready and pulled up on your phone before you arrive at the box office to ensure a speedy entry-- your cell service connection may be impacted by large events. Tickets should be loaded into your Google/Apple Wallet or the Ticketmaster app. Children 5 and under do not require a ticket.
Lawn chairs and blankets are welcomed and encouraged.
The Overton Park Shell is wheelchair accessible
No professional photography, video, or audio recording equipment
Because this is a fundraiser, no refunds are available. Thank you for helping to power our FREE concert series
Food Trucks:
Moss Be Smoke | Mexico in Memphis | Hot ‘n’ Heavy Dogs | Good Groceries Mobile Dining
Sponsored By:
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*SOLD OUT* Sierra Ferrell [with Nick Shoulders] (Shell Yeah! Benefit Series)
SOLD OUT
SOLD OUT
5:30PM DOORS | 6:30PM NICK SHOULDERS | 7:30PM SIERRA FERRELL
About Sierra Ferrell:
One of the brightest young luminaries in roots music today, Sierra Ferrell brings a dose of beautifully strange magic to everything she touches. Since the arrival of Long Time Coming (her acclaimed debut LP for Rounder Records), the West Virginia-born singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist has earned the Emerging Act of the Year prize at the Americana Honors & Awards, collaborated with the likes of Margo Price and Old Crow Medicine Show, and enchanted audiences all over North America and Europe with her high-spirited and dazzling live performance. On her new album Trail Of Flowers, the Nashville-based artist expands her sound while deepening the urgency of her songs, often revealing a wealth of wisdom within her wildly imaginative storytelling.
Her first full-length since Long Time Coming—a 2021 release that drew praise from outlets like Pitchfork, Paste, Pop Matters, and No Depression—Trail Of Flowers came to life with producers Eddie Spear (Zach Bryan, Brandi Carlile, Chris Stapleton) and Gary Paczosa (Alison Krauss, Dwight Yoakam, Gillian Welch) and with such esteemed musicians as Chris Scruggs. In keeping with a musical upbringing that included playing everywhere from truck stops to boxcars to New Orleans street corners, the album journeys from freewheeling bluegrass to heartrending old-time music to fantastically gritty honky-tonk and beyond, endlessly changing shape to accommodate the immense scope of Ferrell’s eccentric musicality. Mainly recorded at Sound Emporium Studios and featuring guest appearances from singer/songwriters Lukas Nelson and Nikki Lane, Trail Of Flowers ultimately fulfills her longstanding mission of making music that transcends all barriers of time. “I wanted to create something that makes people feel nostalgic for the past, but excited about the future of music,” Ferrell points out.
Instantly proving her extraordinary capacity to merge timeless musicianship with lyrics exploring modern concerns, Trail Of Flowers opens on “American Dreaming”: a world-weary yet soul-stirring track that speaks to the struggle to build a good life in a culture consumed by capitalism. Another song informed by her singular outlook on the modern world, “Fox Hunt” takes the form of a furiously stomping epic driven by galloping rhythms and some feverish fiddle work from Ferrell. On “Rosemary,” she delves further into her old-time roots and delivers the album’s most haunting moment: a stark but spellbinding story-song graced with a few bars of soulful yodeling. A profoundly gifted vocalist, Ferrell often captures an entire world of feeling in just a single line, particularly on tracks like “Dollar Bill Bar”—a swinging but wistful number on which she cycles from longing to regret to devil-may-care attitude with impossible ease. And on “I Could Drive You Crazy,” Ferrell serves up one of the most joyful moments on Trail Of Flowers, sharing a harmony-fueled and singalong-ready love song that’s both self-effacing and gloriously fun.
In selecting a title for her latest body of work, Ferrell chose to reference her deep love of flowers and affinity for surrounding herself with gorgeously colorful blossoms—a perfect reflection of her wondrous inner world. As a listening experience, Trail Of Flowers provides a similar sensation of all-enveloping and off-kilter beauty—one that Ferrell hopes might lift others into a more charmed state of mind. “I’m just trying to put words and melodies together and build it into something people can pour their feelings too, all their happiness and sorrows, so that it changes their reality a little bit and gives them some comfort,” she says. “To me music is like medicine. And whenever I write a song and it feels healing to me, I know it can heal other people too.”
Artist Socials:
Know Before You Go - Shell Yeah! Benefit Series:
This concert is part of our Shell Yeah! Benefit Series. No outside food, drinks, coolers or pets are allowed at ticketed events. Reusable water bottles may be brought in to fill up at our water fountains.
Gates open at 5:30pm and the show begins at 6:30. The two box office entrances are located on Veterans Plaza, on the left side of the Shell near the Zoo entrance, and on Museum Drive between the Brooks Museum and the Overton Park Shell.
Please have your ticket ready and pulled up on your phone before you arrive at the box office to ensure a speedy entry-- your cell service connection may be impacted by large events. Tickets should be loaded into your Google/Apple Wallet or the Ticketmaster app. Children 5 and under do not require a ticket.
Lawn chairs and blankets are welcomed and encouraged.
The Overton Park Shell is wheelchair accessible
No professional photography, video, or audio recording equipment
Because this is a fundraiser, no refunds are available. Thank you for helping to power our FREE concert series
Food Trucks:
Soi #9 | Mexico in Memphis | Green Beetle | Hot 'N’ Heavy Dogs | The Check In
Sponsored By:
Shell Yeah! Benefit Concert Series Presents: Drive-By Truckers
DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS
Oct, 7th 2023
General Admission - $30
VIP Tables Available
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SHELL YEAH! IS A FUNDRAISING EVENT BENEFITING THE OVERTON PARK SHELL
The Overton Park Shell is a non-profit organization presenting concerts free for all each year! Our mission is building a stronger Memphis community through music, finding common ground in a diverse audience. All proceeds from Shell Yeah! Benefit Concerts directly support and power our Free Concert Series while keeping the mission of the Overton Park Shell accessible for all. General Admission tickets are $30.
The Overton Park Shell is an outdoor amphitheater with lawn seating. We strongly encourage you to bring your own chairs and/or blankets. Click here to learn more about our visitor experience.
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On the title track to Welcome 2 Club XIII, Drive-By Truckers pay homage to the Muscle Shoals honky-tonk where founding members Patterson Hood and Mike Cooley got their start: a concrete-floored dive lit like a disco, with the nightly promise of penny beer and truly dubious cover bands. “There were no cool bars in town and Club XIII was the best we had—but it wasn’t all that good, and our band wasn’t particularly liked there,” says Hood, referring to the vocalist/guitarists’ former band Adam’s House Cat. “From time to time the owner would throw us a Wednesday night or let us open for a hair-metal band we were a terrible fit for, and everyone would hang out outside until we were done playing. It wasn’t very funny at the time, but it’s funny to us now.” The 14th studio album from Drive-By Truckers—whose lineup also includes keyboardist/guitarist Jay Gonzalez, bassist Matt Patton, and drummer Brad Morgan—Welcome 2 Club XIII looks back on their formative years with both deadpan pragmatism and profound tenderness, instilling each song with the kind of lived-in detail that invites bittersweet reminiscence of your own misspent youth.
Produced by longtime Drive-By Truckers collaborator David Barbe and mainly recorded at his studio in Athens, Georgia, Welcome 2 Club XIII took shape over the course of three frenetic days in summer 2021—a doubly extraordinary feat considering that the band had no prior intentions of making a new album. “We had some shows coming up and decided to get together and practice, since we hadn’t even seen each other in a year and a half because of the pandemic,” Hood recalls. “We started demoing song ideas, and pretty soon we realized we had a whole record. It was all sort of magical.” Featuring background vocals from the likes of Margo Price, R.E.M.’s Mike Mills, and Mississippi-bred singer/songwriter Schaefer Llana, Welcome 2 Club XIII was recorded live with most songs cut in one or two takes, fully harnessing the band’s freewheeling energy. “For us it’s always about just getting together and having fun, but this time there was the added feeling of being set free after a long time of wondering if we’d ever get to do this again,” notes Cooley.
Arriving as the band enters its 26th year, Welcome 2 Club XIII marks a sharp departure from the trenchant commentary of The Unraveling and The New OK (both released in 2020). “All our records are political to some extent, but after making three overtly political records in a row we wanted to do something much more personal,” says Hood. A hypnotic introduction to the album’s sprawling autobiography, “The Driver” kicks off Welcome 2 Club XIII with a seven-minute-long, darkly thrilling epic punctuated with lead-heavy riffs and Llana’s unearthly vocals. “Around the same era of Club XIII, I spent a lot of time driving around late at night when I couldn’t sleep, listening to music loud and often having a beer or two,” says Hood. “Sometimes during those drives I’d have these epiphanies about what to do with my life—like listening to Tim by The Replacements not long after it came out and deciding to drop out of school to try and make this whole band thing work.”
The album’s swinging centerpiece, “Welcome 2 Club XIII” spins a sublimely gritty portrait of the spot Cooley sums up as “part disco, part honky-tonk, part place to score cheap cocaine.” With its litany of inside jokes and references to Foghat and The Jim Carroll Band, the track unfolds as a joyful piece of anti-nostalgia, a sentiment perfectly captured in its sing-along-fueled outro (sample lyric: “Our glory days did kinda suck”). Meanwhile, on “Every Single Storied Flameout,” Cooley shares a far more pensive recollection of his younger years. “I wrote that song when my son was turning 16 and going through a rough patch for a bit,” he says. “Luckily, he’s turned it around and he’s doing great now, but it was a tough time for a while. Part of my way of dealing with it was to take ownership of the example I might’ve set, in the hope of leading him out of it.” Graced with the radiant melodies of a three-piece horn section, the result is a spirited anthem merging Cooley’s unsparing self-reflection with a bit of rambling wisdom (e.g., “That part of you that feels alive is wired and can’t be severed from the damage-seeking part of you that runs it/Just don’t embrace it with a vengeance before you’ve even shaved with a razor that you bought with your own money”).
Although Welcome 2 Club XIII has its moments of real-time observation (including “Maria’s Awful Disclosures,” on which Cooley connects the dots between early-19th-century anti-immigrant agitprop and the noxious paranoia of QAnon), much of the album serves as a free-flowing coming-of-age memoir. “Cooley and I have been playing together for 37 years now,” Hood points out. “That first band might have failed miserably on a commercial level, but I’m really proud of what we did back then. It had a lot to do with who we ended up becoming.” And while Drive-By Truckers never shy away from illuminating the many shades of grief that come with getting older, Welcome 2 Club XIII ultimately embodies a certain world-weary joie de vivre—an element beautifully encapsulated in one of its final lyrics, from the softly stunning “Wilder Days”: “As the sun gets dizzy watching us as we go spinning around/I find it best to laugh at the absurdity of life above the ground/There’s no comfort in survival, but it’s still the best option that I’ve found.”
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Gates open at 6:00pm. Show at 7:30PM.
Tickets to this event are sold on Ticketmaster - $30 GA. Food trucks will be on site and bars will be available for alcoholic and non-alcoholic purchases as well.
No outside food, drinks, coolers or pets are allowed at this event. Empty reusable water bottles may be brought in to fill up at our water refill stations.
Overton Park Shell is an outdoor amphitheater with lawn seating. Please bring your own lawn chairs or blankets.
We ask that you pull up your Ticketmaster e-ticket on your phone before coming to the Overton Park Shell (or take a screenshot) as you are entering our 2 box offices.
Because this is a fundraiser, no refunds are available. Thank you for helping to power our FREE concert series!
Children 5 and under do not require a ticket.
Pets are not allowed at Shell Yeah! Benefit Concerts.
The Overton Park Shell is wheelchair accessible.
All entrants must have a ticket.
No professional photography, video, or audio recording equipment.
The Overton Park Shell will be 'passing the bucket' at the event if you are feeling generous!
VENUE CHANGE | MINGLEWOOD HALL - Shell Yeah! Benefit Concert Series Presents: Drew Holcomb and the Neighbors
DREW HOLCOMB AND THE NEIGHBORS
JULY, 8th 2023
🚨VENUE CHANGE | MINGLEWOOD HALL🚨
After consulting with our partner, National Weather Service Memphis, we have been advised that there is impending weather tomorrow afternoon and evening that will hinder the set up, production, band, and audience safety for our fundraiser. Thankfully, we have a neighboring venue that has generously opened its doors to us allowing the show to go on. We will be moving our Shell Yeah! Benefit Concert featuring Drew Holcomb & The Neighbors to Minglewood Hall (1555 Madison Ave, Memphis, TN 38104).
General Admission - $35
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SHELL YEAH! IS A FUNDRAISING EVENT BENEFITING THE OVERTON PARK SHELL
The Overton Park Shell is a non-profit organization presenting concerts free for all each year! Our mission is building a stronger Memphis community through music, finding common ground in a diverse audience. All proceeds from Shell Yeah! Benefit Concerts directly support and power our Free Concert Series while keeping the mission of the Overton Park Shell accessible for all. General Admission tickets are $35.
Click here to learn more about our visitor experience.
Tickets to the Shell Yeah! Benefit Concert Series make great gifts to clients, employees, and everyone else! We have different ways for your company or organization to get involved no matter what scale works best for you. To learn more about our custom group ticket packages and Hilltop Hospitality deck party packages, email natalieb@overtonparkshell.org today.
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There are no strangers at a Drew Holcomb show. For the better part of two decades, the award-winning songwriter has brought his audience together night after night, turning his shows into celebrations of community, collaboration, and contemporary American roots music. Strangers No More, the ninth album from Drew Holcomb & The Neighbors, celebrates that sense of togetherness. Produced by Cason Cooley, it expands the band's mix of timeless songwriting, modern-day Laurel Canyon folk, amplified Americana, and heartland rock & roll. "All The Money in the World," with its deep-pocketed groove that showcases The Neighbors’ musicality, is punctuated by blasts of brass, marking the band’s first song to feature horns. "That's On You, That's On Me" makes room for barrelhouse piano, slide guitar, and the greasy grit of a juke joint rock band. "On a Roll" and "Possibility" are Springsteen-sized rock & roll melodramas that wail and exalt, their cinematic arrangements built for the large rooms that Holcomb regularly plays these days. "Fly" is a reflective, finger-plucked folksong. Finally, there's "Dance With Everybody,” a lively tribute to the live show that brims with a joyful optimism — a feeling that was often missing during the band’s earlier years, when their shows weren’t nearly as packed. Song by song, Strangers No More offers an all-encompassing view not only of the places Drew Holcomb & The Neighbors have been, but where they're headed next, too. It's an invitation into the band's world. Strangers no more, indeed.
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Gates open at 6:00pm. Show at 7:30PM.
Tickets to this event are sold on Ticketmaster - $35 GA. Food trucks will be on site and bars will be available for alcoholic and non-alcoholic purchases as well.
No outside food, drinks, coolers or pets are allowed at this event. Empty reusable water bottles may be brought in to fill up at our water fountains.
Overton Park Shell is an outdoor amphitheater with lawn seating. Please bring your own lawn chairs or blankets.
We ask that you pull up your Ticketmaster e-ticket on your phone before coming to the Overton Park Shell (or take a screenshot) as you are entering our 2 box offices.
Because this is a fundraiser, no refunds are available. Thank you for helping to power our FREE concert series!
Children 5 and under do not require a ticket.
Pets are not allowed at Shell Yeah! Benefit Concerts.
The Overton Park Shell is wheelchair accessible.
All entrants must have a ticket.
No professional photography, video, or audio recording equipment.
The Overton Park Shell will be 'passing the bucket' at the event if you are feeling generous!
Dance floor will be OPEN for the show.
More Shell Yeah! dates coming soon!
NEW DATE: Shell Yeah! Benefit Concert Series Presents: Squirrel Nut Zippers
THIS SHELL YEAH! BENEFIT CONCERT HAS BEEN RESCHEDULED FROM 4/6 TO 6/2. TICKETS FOR THE ORIGINAL DATE (4/6) WILL STILL BE HONORED FOR THIS NEW DATE.
SQUIRREL NUT ZIPPERS
JUNE 2, 2023
(ORIGINALLY SCHEDULED FOR APRIL, 6th 2023)
General Admission - $35 | Reserved Pod for 6 - $400
FOOD TRUCKS:
Stickem | Soi Number 9 | Green Beetle Food Truck | Pok Cha’s Egg Rolls
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SHELL YEAH! IS A FUNDRAISING EVENT BENEFITING THE OVERTON PARK SHELL
The Overton Park Shell is a non-profit organization presenting concerts free for all each year! Our mission is building a stronger Memphis community through music, finding common ground in a diverse audience. All proceeds from Shell Yeah! Benefit Concerts directly support and power our Free Concert Series while keeping the mission of the Overton Park Shell accessible for all. General Admission tickets are $35, and a limited number of Reserved Pods are available for $400 (which comes with 6 tickets, a “charcuterie experience” from Memphis Grazing, and bottled waters).
Click here to learn more about our visitor experience.
Tickets to the Shell Yeah! Benefit Concert Series make great gifts to clients, employees, and everyone else! We have different ways for your company or organization to get involved no matter what scale works best for you. To learn more about our custom group ticket packages and Hilltop Hospitality deck party packages, email natalieb@overtonparkshell.org today.
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The Squirrel Nut Zippers began their musical journey in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, in the mid 1990’s, as a musician’s escape from the cookie cutter world of modern rock radio at the time. Jimbo Mathus along with wife Katherine Whalen and drummer Chris Phillips formed the band as a casual musical foray playing for friends and family around town. It wasn’t long before the band (which had grown in size) developed a reputation for pioneering a quirky mix of jazz chords, folk music, and punk rock leanings and attracted a national audience.
Outside of the rollicking concerts which were rapidly growing in attendance, NPR was the first significant national media to take notice of the band followed by an appearance on Late Night With Conan O’Brien. With grunge, and alternative rock in full swing back in 1995, the Squirrel Nut Zippers debut album The Inevitable sounded like nothing happening musically at the time. After the bands sophomore release Hot became a surprise commercial success, the group went on to sell more than 3 million albums between 1995 and 2003.
Some highlights of this era include performing on Dick Clarks New years Eve broadcast; playing Carnegie Hall with Tony Bennet; appearing as musical guest on Sesame Street; performing on late night television including Letterman, Leno, Conan; having a custom animated video made by The Simpsons; performing at Bill Clintons Inaugural Presidential Ball; multiple sold out tours, and even getting the keys to the city of Cambridge, MA where the bands namesake candy hails from.
Since those days the Squirrel Nut Zippers have continued to perform to a wide variety of audiences, venues and settings, and have recently released two new studio albums. Beasts Of Burgundy released in 2018 debuted at #4 on the Billboard Jazz Albums Chart to critical acclaim: “There is, of course, jazz of various stripes (mainly pre-WWII varieties) on this deliciously wide-ranging comeback, but there’s so much more: sounds, identifiable and not, emanating from mysterious times and places, not the least of which is New Orleans, their home base, a land that, forever and still, has a mind of its own.” – Relix
Lost Songs of Doc Souchon released in 2020 is a combination of newly written Zippers material, along with a few songs from past times like “Animule Ball” which was originally recorded in 1938 by Jelly Roll Morton. In keeping with that time period, the band turned to their longtime friends at Fleischer Studios (home of Betty Boop) to use some of their historic animations for a video for the track.
The Squirrel Nut Zippers continue to confound audiences with their hybrid stew of Southern roots music, New Orleans Jazz, Vaudeville, Blues and a healthy touch irreverence. Not traditionalists – true originals.
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This show has been rescheduled from 4/6 to 6/2. Tickets from 4/6 WILL BE HONORED at the new date.
Gates open at 6:00pm. Show at 7:30PM.
Tickets to this event are sold on Ticketmaster with $35 GA and $400 Reserved Pods (6 tickets, a “charcuterie experience” from Memphis Grazing, and bottled waters). Only 15 Pods available. Food trucks will be on site and bars will be available for alcoholic and non-alcoholic purchases as well.
No outside food, drinks, coolers or pets are allowed at this event. Empty reusable water bottles may be brought in to fill up at our water fountains.
Overton Park Shell is an outdoor amphitheater with lawn seating. Please bring your own lawn chairs or blankets.
We ask that you pull up your Ticketmaster e-ticket on your phone before coming to the Overton Park Shell (or take a screenshot) as you are entering our 2 box offices.
Because this is a fundraiser, no refunds are available. Thank you for helping to power our FREE concert series!
Children 5 and under do not require a ticket.
Pets are not allowed at Shell Yeah! Benefit Concerts.
The Overton Park Shell is wheelchair accessible.
All entrants must have a ticket.
No professional photography, video, or audio recording equipment.
The Overton Park Shell will be 'passing the bucket' at the event if you are feeling generous!
More Shell Yeah! Benefit Series dates coming soon . . .
Shell Yeah! Benefit Concert Series Presents: Wendy Moten
WENDY MOTEN
MAY, 13th 2023
General Admission - $35
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SHELL YEAH! IS A FUNDRAISING EVENT BENEFITING THE OVERTON PARK SHELL
The Overton Park Shell is a non-profit organization presenting concerts free for all each year! Our mission is building a stronger Memphis community through music, finding common ground in a diverse audience. All proceeds from Shell Yeah! Benefit Concerts directly support and power our Free Concert Series while keeping the mission of the Overton Park Shell accessible for all. General Admission tickets are $35.
Click here to learn more about our visitor experience.
Tickets to the Shell Yeah! Benefit Concert Series make great gifts to clients, employees, and everyone else! We have different ways for your company or organization to get involved no matter what scale works best for you. To learn more about our custom group ticket packages and Hilltop Hospitality deck party packages, email natalieb@overtonparkshell.org today.
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When Wendy Moten completed her triumphant blind audition for The Voice in 2021 (and all four judges had turned their chairs around and started begging the singer to join their team), Ariana Grande said the most important thing said that day. “You are spectacular, and I need you to be in the foreground. It’s time.”
You see, Wendy Moten has spent most of her decades in music in roles the industry calls “background vocals,” but that will be deceptive to those who don’t know how demanding, exposed and vital the BGV role can be. She’s sung intimate duets before thousands with superstars Vince Gill and Julio Iglesias. She has mastered the Nashville studio system, where singers are expected to match the feel and tone of songs they’ve just heard for the first time. And she’s been tapped as a lead vocalist for the Time Jumpers, the most exclusive live country music residency in Nashville. But that just scratches the surface of Wendy’s experience.
She’ll tell you that her career has been “unconventional,” but from a distance, Moten’s life in music feels not only logical, but like an Americana parable. Raised in Memphis on church music, country, soul and pop, Moten sang professionally in a range of roles from her teenage years. She planned to go into business and law, but a talent scout overheard her cutting a jingle in a recording studio and ushered her into an R&B deal with EMI in the 1990s. That led to top ten singles in the US and UK and headlining dates around the world. But Wendy found a rewarding path singing harmony. Besides Iglesias and Gill, she’s toured with Tim McGraw, Faith Hill and Martina McBride. And she’s recorded duets with Michael McDonald, Kirk Whalum, Peabo Bryson and Larry Carlton.
She could have cruised for the rest of her working life, but it speaks to her character that Moten, a lifelong learner and searcher, would achieve her greatest career landmarks in her 50s. She was invited to be a full-time member of The Time Jumpers, an elite crew of Nashville musicians that’s won Grammy awards and national press while playing the same venue week after sold-out week for 20 years. She started a fruitful relationship with the Grand Ole Opry in 2019, and she was a featured artist in the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum’s Musician Spotlight series.
Then during the pandemic stasis of 2020, she reached out of her comfort zone and auditioned for The Voice. On that most successful of all the latter-day TV talent showcases, even after a scary fall on set that led to a broken elbow, she carried on and came within a few votes of winning the entire season. Blake Shelton, her show coach, said at the close of the finale, “This is Wendy’s moment. She’s one of the greatest vocalists on ‘The Voice,’ ever.”
Wendy now lives her dream, singing diverse American songs that have meant the most to her over the years - classics from the pop standards songbook, from R&B, from soul and from country music, a genre she fell for as a girl growing up near the Mississippi River. “I consider myself a bridge from Memphis to Nashville to the rest of the world,” she says. And now America has witnessed that when she is the one in the spotlight, she’s got the voice to deliver on that lofty hope.
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Gates open at 6:00pm. Show at 7:30PM.
Tickets to this event are sold on Ticketmaster - $35 GA. Food trucks will be on site and bars will be available for alcoholic and non-alcoholic purchases as well.
No outside food, drinks, coolers or pets are allowed at this event. Empty reusable water bottles may be brought in to fill up at our water fountains.
Overton Park Shell is an outdoor amphitheater with lawn seating. Please bring your own lawn chairs or blankets.
We ask that you pull up your Ticketmaster e-ticket on your phone before coming to the Overton Park Shell (or take a screenshot) as you are entering our 2 box offices.
Because this is a fundraiser, no refunds are available. Thank you for helping to power our FREE concert series!
Children 5 and under do not require a ticket.
Pets are not allowed at Shell Yeah! Benefit Concerts.
The Overton Park Shell is wheelchair accessible.
All entrants must have a ticket.
No professional photography, video, or audio recording equipment.
The Overton Park Shell will be 'passing the bucket' at the event if you are feeling generous!
Dance floor will be OPEN for the show.
More Shell Yeah! dates coming soon!
Food Trucks:
Moss Be Smoke | Dynamic Duo | The Green Beetle | Sips and Sammies
Dawes & Bahamas - Shell Yeah! Benefit Concert Series
SHELL YEAH! BENEFIT CONCERT SERIES
PRESENTED BY FEDEXFORUM
Dawes & Bahamas
September 23rd, 2022
General Admission - $37.50 | VIP Pod for 6 - $400
SHELL YEAH! IS A FUNDRAISING EVENT BENEFITING
THE OVERTON PARK SHELL
The Overton Park Shell is a non-profit organization presenting concerts free for all each year! Our mission is building a stronger Memphis community through music, finding common ground in a diverse audience. All proceeds from Shell Yeah! Benefit Concerts directly support and power our Free Concert Series while keeping the mission of the Overton Park Shell accessible for all. General Admission tickets are $37.50, and a limited number of VIP Pods are available for $400 (which comes with 6 tickets and a “charcuterie experience” from Memphis Grazing, and bottled waters).
Click here to learn more about our visitor experience.
Tickets to the Shell Yeah! Benefit Concert Series make great gifts to clients, employees, and everyone else! We have different ways for your company or organization to get involved no matter what scale works best for you. To learn more about our custom group ticket packages and Hilltop Hospitality deck party packages, email lauren@overtonparkshell.org today.
AN EVENING WITH DAWES & BAHAMAS:
An Evening with Dawes and Bahamas ‘Performing Together’ on a unique co-headline tour through the South & Midwest with a few points in between. This tour is Dawes & Bahamas collaborating all night long at every show. Dawes will back Bahamas during his set each night, and Bahamas will join Dawes for their set each night. There won’t be a support act. We’re presenting an evening of Dawes and Bahamas music in an alternative, never before seen or heard performance. There will be two sets separated by an intermission each night. We hope you join us.
Doors: 6:00pm
DAWES & BAHAMAS Set 1: 7:30-9:00pm
Intermission: 9:00-9:15pm
DAWES & BAHAMAS Set 2: 9:15-10:30pm
ABOUT DAWES:
MISADVENTURES OF DOOMSCROLLER, the 8th studio album from Dawes, represents an adventurous new turn for the band, evincing a more ambitious, exploratory approach towards recording than ever before. Produced by longtime collaborator Jonathan Wilson (Billy Strings, Father John Misty, Angel Olsen), the band shook their normal approach to record making and what you hear is the result.
Taylor Goldsmith, the band’s songwriter, lead vocalist and guitarist describes the new album in this way: “We’ve always prided ourselves on being minimalists. With this record we set out on being MAXIMALISTS. Still a quartet. Still not letting these songs hide behind any tricks or effects. But really letting the songs breathe and stretch and live however they want to. We decided to stop having any regard for short attention spans. Our ambitions go beyond the musical with this one. Every time a take was completed felt like a major accomplishment. We wanted to honor the traditional length of a vinyl record – 40-45 minutes – but disregard any concern for numbers of tracks. The way Miles or Herbie often did. Documenting the songs is only half of the picture. For this record they’re also the platform for us to jump off from and get lost in. This whole album felt a little beyond our comfort zone and I’m really proud of what that’s done to the music. I think the best way I can say it is - we wanted this record to be less a collection of songs and more a collection of music.”
ABOUT BAHAMAS:
The fifth album from Bahamas, Sad Hunk takes its title from a nickname bestowed upon the artist by his wife in reaction to how he was being portrayed in the media, “Something like ten years ago I did a photo shoot, and in all the pictures they sent back, I was lit half in shadow, looking all brooding and mysterious,” says the award-winning singer/songwriter otherwise known as Afie Jurvanen. “When my wife saw the photos the first thing she said was, ‘Whoa—sad hunk,’ and after that it became sort of a joke among our friends.”
It’s a fitting backstory for an album that embodies an undaunted self-awareness, each track graced with Bahamas’s wry wit and unabashed heart. In sketching Sad Hunk’s delicately composed batch of songs, Jurvanen drew much inspiration from his home life and all the joy and struggle that comes with building a family together. Having recently moved to the coast of Nova Scotia with his wife and two daughters, the Ontario native inevitably imbued the album with his surroundings, even while committing to a sometimes-painful sincerity in his lyrics. “I definitely use music to work things out for myself,” says Jurvanen. “It’s possible I’m too open sometimes, but I really don’t know any better way to be. If I tried to just go write fun songs about hot dogs or something, I’d probably fail.”
For all its moments of heavy-hearted reflection, Sad Hunk ultimately channels a certain lightness, the pure elation in expressing what often goes unspoken. “You say things in songs that you’d never, ever say in conversation,” Jurvanen notes. “But it feels really good to say those things. I don’t know why telling people the most basic things you’re thinking is so hard sometimes, but it is. ”In sharing the album with the world, Jurvanen hopes that his songs might inspire others to embrace their own sad-hunk tendencies. “We’re all sad hunks—we’re all these broken beautiful human beings,” he says. “The idea that there’s only one way to live life is so backward. So instead of listening to the noise, just get in touch with what’s inside and find something you love to do, and then do it well. And don’t let yourself be hard. Just be soft. Be as soft with each other as you possibly can.”
A FEW SPECIAL NOTES ABOUT THIS EVENT:
Gates open at 6:00pm. Show at 7:30PM.
Tickets to this event are sold on Ticketmaster with $37.50 GA and $400 VIP Pods (6 tickets, a “charcuterie experience” from Memphis Grazing, and bottled waters). Only 15 Pods available. Food trucks will be on site and bars will be available for alcoholic and non-alcoholic purchases as well.
No outside food, drinks, coolers or pets are allowed at this event. Empty reusable water bottles may be brought in to fill up at our water fountains.
Overton Park Shell is an outdoor amphitheater with lawn seating. Please bring your own lawn chairs or blankets.
We ask that you pull up your Ticketmaster e-ticket on your phone before coming to the Overton Park Shell (or take a screenshot) as you are entering our 2 box offices.
Because this is a fundraiser, no refunds are available. Thank you for helping to power our FREE concert series!
Children 5 and under do not require a ticket.
Pets are not allowed at Shell Yeah! Benefit Concerts.
The Overton Park Shell is wheelchair accessible.
All entrants must have a ticket.
No professional photography, video, or audio recording equipment.
The Overton Park Shell will be 'passing the bucket' at the event if you are feeling generous!
More benefit concert dates: June 16, July 16, Sept 15, Sept 23.
Dance floor will be OPEN for the show.
Sponsors:
Shell Yeah! Benefit Concert Series Presents: Almost Elton John Masquerade Ball
SHELL YEAH! BENEFIT CONCERT SERIES
PRESENTED BY FEDEXFORUM
ALMOST ELTON JOHN MASQUERADE BALL
Sept, 15th 2022
Whether it’s the glasses, a sparkly jacket, wings, or sequined Dodgers uniform, join us at The Shell all decked out in your best Elton John costume if you want to win "Best Costume!” This Dance Party/Costume Contest will be hosted by Chef Eli Townsend, and will feature delicious themed cocktails from The Tipsy Tumbler! Our 3 Celebrity Queen Judges—Holly Walnutz, Khari Kane, and Jinesys Sinclaire—will be choosing the top 3 costumes of the night, so "bring your look and make it fierce!"
Winners will receive prizes from Chef Eli, Tipsy Tumbler, and The Shell! So bring your huge shades, some heels, and your best Pinball Wizard vibes because you might just win! This will be a party you’ll never forget.
*While the Costume Contest will be a blast, dressing up is not mandatory
General Admission - $25 | VIP Pod for 6 - $400
SHELL YEAH! IS A FUNDRAISING EVENT BENEFITING
THE OVERTON PARK SHELL
The Overton Park Shell is a non-profit organization presenting concerts free for all each year! Our mission is building a stronger Memphis community through music, finding common ground in a diverse audience. All proceeds from Shell Yeah! Benefit Concerts directly support and power our Free Concert Series while keeping the mission of the Overton Park Shell accessible for all. General Admission tickets are $25, and a limited number of VIP Pods are available for $400 (which comes with 6 tickets and a “charcuterie experience” from Memphis Grazing, and bottled waters).
Click here to learn more about our visitor experience.
Tickets to the Shell Yeah! Benefit Concert Series make great gifts to clients, employees, and everyone else! We have different ways for your company or organization to get involved no matter what scale works best for you. To learn more about our custom group ticket packages and Hilltop Hospitality deck party packages, email lauren@overtonparkshell.org today.
About Almost Elton John:
Jerred Price, aka "Almost" Elton John, will blow you away with his tribute to his idol, hero, and friend: SIR ELTON JOHN! Jerred is a self taught pianist/singer who first started playing piano at the age of three. In 2014, he started headlining his own show at Hard Rock Cafe on world famous Beale Street in Memphis, TN. As his crowds grew, so did his venue. Jerred now is an artist in Residency at the legendary Lafayette's Music Room which has been graced by the presence of such artist as Billy Joel, KISS, Leon Russell, and more!
Jerred was the featured performer at Elton John's 60th Birthday celebration in New York City at the Elton John AIDS Foundation's "Lunch Around The World" event. Jerred's mannerisms, vocals, outfits, and piano playing will think you are in front of the Rocket Man himself. Crowds of 50 to 50,000+, he has done them all!
A FEW SPECIAL NOTES ABOUT THIS EVENT:
Gates open at 6:00pm. Show at 7:30PM.
Tickets to this event are sold on Ticketmaster with $25 GA and $400 VIP Pods (6 tickets, a “charcuterie experience” from Memphis Grazing, and bottled waters). Only 15 Pods available. Food trucks will be on site and bars will be available for alcoholic and non-alcoholic purchases as well.
No outside food, drinks, coolers or pets are allowed at this event. Empty reusable water bottles may be brought in to fill up at our water fountains.
We ask that you pull up your Ticketmaster e-ticket on your phone before coming to the Overton Park Shell (or take a screenshot) as you are entering our 2 box offices.
Because this is a fundraiser, no refunds are available. Thank you for helping to power our FREE concert series!
Children 5 and under do not require a ticket.
Pets are not allowed at Shell Yeah! Benefit Concerts.
Lawn chairs and blankets are welcome.
The Overton Park Shell is wheelchair accessible.
All entrants must have a ticket.
No professional photography, video, or audio recording equipment.
The Overton Park Shell will be 'passing the bucket' at the event if you are feeling generous!
More benefit concert dates: June 16, July 16, Sept 15, Sept 23.
Dance floor will be OPEN for the show.
Sponsors:
Shell Yeah! Benefit Concert Series Presents: St. Paul & The Broken Bones
SHELL YEAH! BENEFIT CONCERT SERIES
PRESENTED BY FEDEXFORUM
ST. PAUL & THE BROKEN BONES
July, 16th 2022
General Admission - $45 | VIP Pod for 6 - $400
SHELL YEAH! IS A FUNDRAISING EVENT BENEFITING
THE OVERTON PARK SHELL
The Overton Park Shell is a non-profit organization presenting concerts free for all each year! Our mission is building a stronger Memphis community through music, finding common ground in a diverse audience. All proceeds from Shell Yeah! Benefit Concerts directly support and power our Free Concert Series while keeping the mission of the Overton Park Shell accessible for all. General Admission tickets are $45, and a limited number of VIP Pods are available for $400 (which comes with 6 tickets and a “charcuterie experience” from Memphis Grazing, and bottled waters).
Click here to learn more about our visitor experience.
Tickets to the Shell Yeah! Benefit Concert Series make great gifts to clients, employees, and everyone else! We have different ways for your company or organization to get involved no matter what scale works best for you. To learn more about our custom group ticket packages and Hilltop Hospitality deck party packages, email lauren@overtonparkshell.org today.
About St. Paul & The Broken Bones:
A fever dream in sonic form, St. Paul & The Broken Bones’ new album The Alien Coast represents the most adventurous and original output yet from an ever-evolving musical powerhouse. In a profound shift for the Alabama-bred eight-piece—Paul Janeway (vocals), Jesse Phillips (bass), Browan Lollar (guitar), Kevin Leon (drums), Al Gamble (keyboards), Allen Branstetter (trumpet), Chad Fisher (trombone), and Amari Ansari (saxophone)—the band’s fourth full-length and first for ATO Records strays far from the time-bending soul of past work like their 2014 debut, arriving at a convergence of soul and psychedelia, stoner metal and funk. At turns explosive, elegant, and unhinged, that sound makes for a majestic backdrop to St. Paul & The Broken Bones’ visceral exploration of the strangest dimensions of the human psyche.
“This album was birthed through the idea of falling asleep in a hotel and having a sequence of nightmares, then waking up and missing home so badly,” says Janeway. In creating the ultravivid dreamscape threaded throughout The Alien Coast, the band’s chief lyricist drew inspiration from such disparate sources as Greek mythology, dystopian sci-fi, 17th century Italian sculpture, and colonial-period history books. “The title actually came from reading about the history of the Gulf of Mexico, which is home for us,” Janeway notes. “When the settlers—or invaders, really—first came to the Gulf Coast they couldn’t figure out what it was, and started referring to it as the Alien Coast. That term really stuck with me, partly because it feels almost apocalyptic.”
Produced by Matt Ross-Spang, The Alien Coast is the first album St. Paul & The Broken Bones have ever recorded in their hometown of Birmingham. Working at Communicating Vessels studio, the band took unlimited time to bring each idiosyncratic and intricately detailed track to life. In that process, they joined forces with Birmingham-based hip-hop artist Randall Turner and experimented with beatmaking and sampling, and significantly dialed back their use of horns. “Our horn players are so immensely talented, and we wanted them to be able to work with other instruments and really be a part of expanding our palette,” says Janeway. Lollar adds: “We’d wandered off the path in the past, but this record felt like we were going for broke—like every single song is us moving forward.” The result: a body of work that defies all expectations, yet showcases the galvanizing musicianship that’s repeatedly earned the band massive acclaim, three Billboard 200 debuts, performances on countless TV shows ranging from The Late Show with Stephen Colbert (in fact as Colbert’s first musical guest) to Austin City Limits, and such milestones as opening for The Rolling Stones.
Kicking off with the raw gospel fury of “3000 AD Mass” and its conjuring of fire and brimstone, The Alien Coast wastes no time in revealing its wildly grandiose quality. On “Bermejo and The Devil,” St. Paul & The Broken Bones fully immerse the listener in their warped wonderland, presenting a sinister yet seductive track sparked from Janeway’s then-recent viewing of Bartolomé Bermejo’s Saint Michael Triumphs over the Devil at The National Gallery in London (“You absolutely have to see the devil in this painting—it’s terrifying,” he says). With its hypnotic tones and eerily hushed vocals, “Bermejo and The Devil” encapsulates The Alien Coast’s spirited refusal to adhere to traditional song structure. “We were very conscientious about not artificially imposing structure on any of these songs, and tried to focus on preserving whatever felt good when we initially constructed them,” Phillips points out.
As the album’s ominous mood intensifies, The Alien Coast next offers up “Minotaur,” a falsetto-laced track partly inspired by Picasso’s use of the mythical beast as his alter ego in a series of paintings from the 1930s. Rooted in a guitar loop that Lollar dreamed up on a tour bus in Europe, the song serves as a soulful meditation on identity and trauma. “‘Minotaur’ is about fearing something within you, and the loneliness that comes from that,” says Janeway. “Especially if you grew up in an abusive situation, there can be this feeling of having something in you that you don’t want to encounter or even recognize.”
Throughout The Alien Coast, St. Paul & The Broken Bones achieve the sublime feat of examining deeply heavy subject matter while radiating an effusive joy, an element that echoes the pure freedom of their creative process. On “The Last Dance,” for instance, the band worked from a beat and bassline Phillips spontaneously composed on his newly bought Korg minilogue analog synth, eventually giving rise to an apocalyptic dance anthem woven with timely wisdom (“Lose yourself in a song that doesn’t make you want to cry/God knows we need it right now”). A left-of-center R&B number spurred from a guitar part brought in by Ansari, “Ghost in Smoke” speaks to the struggle to stay present in chaotic times, unfolding in languid rhythms and jagged textures. And on its cinematic title track, The Alien Coast delivers a sprawling slow-burner spiked with social commentary (“Brainwaves now are digitized/Download so we think alike”), ultimately reaching a breathtaking grandeur at its bridge. “The bridge to ‘Alien Coast’ is one of the best things we’ve ever recorded,” says Janeway, noting that Gamble contributed that section. “It’s a song about trying to find your place when it seems like everything is against you, and the bridge feels like the skies opening up and being overwhelmed by the beauty of The Alien Coast.”
After the psychedelic reverie of “Popcorn Ceiling”—“the moment when you wake up from the nightmare,” according to Janeway—The Alien Coast closes out with the sweetly spellbinding “Love Letter From A Red Roof Inn.” “It’s a song to my wife, about being stuck in this shitty hotel and wishing I could be with her, and we ended up making it whispery like you’re talking softly into the telephone,” Janeway says. Originated by Ansari, the impossibly tender epic marks yet another instance of St. Paul & The Broken Bones following their instincts to glorious result. “At first it felt like that song didn’t really fit, but it felt so good that we just kept going,” says Phillips. “It turned into the perfect way to end the record, and to create a bridge for whatever comes next.”
As Phillips explains, The Alien Coast mostly took shape from a highly collaborative process in which band members freely share the song sketches and instrumental pieces they’ve developed on their own. “We source ideas from everyone, and let each idea be what it wants to be instead of directing the aesthetic of the songs too much,” he says. “At the risk of sounding dangerously hippie-dippy, it’s about catching a vibe and experimenting ‘till you find something good, then just chasing that to its fruition.” That free-form approach allowed for countless moments of ingenuity, such as the subtly inventive parts contributed by Lollar. “Even though I’m the guitar player, I specifically set out to write these songs on piano and synthesizer, which are much more mysterious to me,” he says, naming hybrid artists like Anderson .Paak and Gorillaz among latest inspirations. “This album has some of the more strange musical ideas I’ve ever come up with, and I’m proud that we were all excited to swing for the fences and not really worry about getting too weird.”
With the release of The Alien Coast, one of St. Paul & The Broken Bones’ greatest ambitions is to provide their audience with the same sense of unbridled possibility and purposeful abandon they felt in making the album. “I hope the record takes people on a journey and tests their boundaries a bit,” says Janeway. “I’d love for it to be almost like a gateway drug, where it opens a door that people weren’t willing to open—or maybe weren’t even aware of—and through that they get to experience all these beautiful moments they never would’ve expected.”
A FEW SPECIAL NOTES ABOUT THIS EVENT:
Gates open at 6:00pm. Show at 7:30PM.
Tickets to this event are sold on Ticketmaster with $45 GA and $400 VIP Pods (6 tickets, a “charcuterie experience” from Memphis Grazing, and bottled waters). Only 15 Pods available. Food trucks will be on site and bars will be available for alcoholic and non-alcoholic purchases as well.
No outside food, drinks, coolers or pets are allowed at this event. Empty reusable water bottles may be brought in to fill up at our water fountains.
Overton Park Shell is an outdoor amphitheater with lawn seating. Please bring your own lawn chairs or blankets.
We ask that you pull up your Ticketmaster e-ticket on your phone before coming to the Overton Park Shell (or take a screenshot) as you are entering our 2 box offices.
Because this is a fundraiser, no refunds are available. Thank you for helping to power our FREE concert series!
Children 5 and under do not require a ticket.
Pets are not allowed at Shell Yeah! Benefit Concerts.
The Overton Park Shell is wheelchair accessible.
All entrants must have a ticket.
No professional photography, video, or audio recording equipment.
The Overton Park Shell will be 'passing the bucket' at the event if you are feeling generous!
More benefit concert dates: June 16, July 16, Sept 15, Sept 23.
Dance floor will be OPEN for the show.
Durand Jones & The Indications - Shell Yeah! Benefit Concert Series
SHELL YEAH! BENEFIT CONCERT SERIES
PRESENTED BY FEDEXFORUM
DURAND JONES & THE INDICATIONS
June, 16th 2022
General Admission - $45 | VIP Pod for 6 - $400
SHELL YEAH! IS A FUNDRAISING EVENT BENEFITING
THE OVERTON PARK SHELL
The Overton Park Shell is a non-profit organization presenting concerts free for all each year! Our mission is building a stronger Memphis community through music, finding common ground in a diverse audience. All proceeds from Shell Yeah! Benefit Concerts directly support and power our Free Concert Series while keeping the mission of the Overton Park Shell accessible for all. General Admission tickets are $45, and a limited number of VIP Pods are available for $400 (which comes with 6 tickets and a “charcuterie experience” from Memphis Grazing, and bottled waters).
Click here to learn more about our visitor experience.
Tickets to the Shell Yeah! Benefit Concert Series make great gifts to clients, employees, and everyone else! We have different ways for your company or organization to get involved no matter what scale works best for you. To learn more about our custom group ticket packages, table sponsorships, and Hilltop Hospitality deck party packages, email lauren@overtonparkshell.org today.
About Durand Jones & The Indications:
Durand Jones & The Indications are equally beloved for their energetic, joyous shows, dual lead singers, and thoughtful songwriting. From an Indiana basement (where the band recorded their 2016 self-titled debut LP as college students), the band has catapulted into the soul limelight and onto an international stage. Pushing beyond the boundaries of the funk and soul on their previous releases, The Indications' third album, Private Space, unlocks the door to a wider range of sounds and launches boldly into a world of synthy modern soul and disco beats dotted with strings. Anchored by a crate-digging sensibility and the high-low harmonies of Aaron Frazer and Durand Jones, Private Space shows The Indications' mastery at melding revival sounds with a modern attitude. It's an organic, timeless record that's as fresh as clean kicks and familiar as your favorite well-worn LP.
A FEW SPECIAL NOTES ABOUT THIS EVENT:
Gates open at 6:00pm. Show at 7:30PM.
Tickets to this event are sold on Ticketmaster with $45 GA and $400 VIP Pods (6 tickets, a “charcuterie experience” from Memphis Grazing, and bottled waters). Only 15 Pods available. Food trucks will be on site and bars will be available for alcoholic and non-alcoholic purchases as well.
No outside food, drinks, coolers or pets are allowed at this event. Reusable water bottles may be brought in to fill up at our water fountains.
We ask that you pull up your Ticketmaster e-ticket on your phone before coming to the Overton Park Shell (or take a screenshot) as you are entering our 2 box offices.
Because this is a fundraiser, no refunds are available. Thank you for helping to power our FREE concert series!
Children 5 and under do not require a ticket
Lawn chairs and blankets are welcome.
Bring water bottles, fans, or misters because it’s going to be a hot one!
The Overton Park Shell is wheelchair accessible.
All entrants must have a ticket.
No professional photography, video, or audio recording equipment.
The Overton Park Shell will be 'passing the bucket' at the event if you are feeling generous!
More benefit concert dates: June 16, July 16, Sept 15, Sept 23.
Dance floor will be OPEN for the show.
Orion Shell Yeah! Benefit Concert Series Presented by Roadshow BMW: Lucero
This is a show in our Orion Shell Yeah! Benefit Concert Series: Tasty Compositions presented by Roadshow BMW. All proceeds from our fundraiser concerts support the continued preservation of our historic bandshell while keeping the mission of the Levitt Shell accessible for all.
Visit https://www.levittshell.org/lucero to learn more.
Orion Shell Yeah! Benefit Concert Series Presented by Roadshow BMW: Bobby Rush
This is a show in our Orion Shell Yeah! Benefit Concert Series: Tasty Compositions presented by Roadshow BMW. All proceeds from our fundraiser concerts support the continued preservation of our historic bandshell while keeping the mission of the Levitt Shell accessible for all.
Visit https://www.levittshell.org/bobbyrush to learn more.