You can check Facebook, the front desk, and the security gates for updates on cancellations. If the weather is deemed to be too wet or severe to hold the event, the event will be canceled. Concerts are not open to the general public.)Ĭancellation policy for outdoor concerts and movies:
ROCK OPERA BANDS SERIES
(Please note: Innsbrook’s Summer Breeze concert series is only for Innsbrook property owners, their registered guests, and vacationers staying on property at Innsbrook. There’s something magical about being surrounded by loved ones and neighbors as you listen live to your favorite tunes under the stars.Īll of the concerts are held at the outdoor amphitheater at Charrette Creek Commons.
We strive to find musicians who enjoy playing for audiences of ALL ages, so you can bring the entire crew and spend more quality time together after a day on the water or hiking the trails. Kick back on your blankets or in your lawn chairs, reach into your cooler for snacks and refreshments, and enjoy some of the best bands the St. Most weekends in the summer we host a different band for 2 ½ hours of music, camaraderie, and fun for our property owners and their guests. Louis has to offer in a way the whole family will enjoy. Like all good rock-operas or concept records before it, Hazards is more than an album - it’s a theatrical, fully engaging experience.The Summer Breeze concert series presents some of the best music St. The Decemberists seemingly ignored commercial and credibility issues and made the ambitious, thoroughly odd record they wanted to make. These harder-rock songs not only set the mood for the album’s more narratively menacing moments, but also unveil a refreshing sound for The Decemberists more than any other time in its career, the band actually sounds like it’s rocking out and having fun. “A Bower Scene” and “The Queen’s Rebuke/The Crossing” see The Decemberists blasting off into new, distortion-and-solo territory. Meloy has an almost preternatural gift for melody, routinely turning clunky, word-heavy phrases into dulcet melodic lines. Sometimes with concept albums, excessive narrative and structural concerns take top priority and the music suffers. Meloy, meanwhile, is convincing as both the noble hero and the conniving evildoer in “The Rake’s Song.” Each track segues into the next, demanding the album be listened to from start to finish.Įven Wagner would be proud – leitmotifs are used masterfully throughout Hazards (for example, whenever the treacherous queen is about to sing, a brooding, distorted guitar line comes in). My Brightest Diamond’s Shara Worden voices the evil queen with Disney-esque prowess. The chaste-voiced Becky Stark (from the band Lavender Diamond) is the distressed Margaret, taking up lead vocals whenever the story calls for it. Three different vocalists play the three lead characters.
ROCK OPERA BANDS MAC
Fleetwood Mac (Stevie Nicks) Bewitching, pleasantly intoxicating, and unique, Stevie Nicks, Fleetwood Mac frontwoman, remains a pillar and an undisputable influence for women in music and her band.
The way the album structurally mimics a real opera makes the bizarre subject matter much easier to stomach. If you’re looking for rock bands with female sings, Paramore definitely deserves a spot near the top of the list. In less capable hands, an album like this could be disastrous. The story is told not only coherently but poetically – here’s Meloy describing Margaret’s abduction: “All a’gallop with Margaret slung roof crossed withers / Having clamped her innocent fingers in fetters / This villain must calculate crossing the wild river.” But coming from Meloy and his merry band of troubadours, it all fits into place. Maybe that’s why they were able to turn out a rock-, indie- or whatever-opera that’s both musically and thematically compelling.Ĭonceptually, Hazards of Love is a sylvan fairytale describing an evil tree-queen and a fair maiden named Margaret who (I’m fairly sure) gets raped by a morphing fawn and kidnapped. Guitarist Chris Funk once battled Stephen Colbert in a guitar duel on live television. Colin Meloy, the group’s bookish frontman, is well known for his peculiar fondness for arcane and obscure vocabulary (a sample line from 2006’s The Crane Wife: “Its contents watched by Sycorax / and Patagon in parallax”). It’s simply too difficult for most bands to strike that delicate balance between pretension, ambition and actual musical quality when making these beefed-up concept albums.īut it goes without saying that The Decemberists are not a typical band. It’s a necessary label, but an unfortunate one - when an album is touted as any type of “opera,” it’s normally an indulgent, incoherent mess. So The Decemberists have made a 17-track indie-opera.
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