LISA DENTON: OK, Barry, we’re coming up on a big holiday weekend, the unofficial start of summer. There’s a lot going on. Summer Music Weekends start at Rock City, headlined by our “Old Time Traveler” buddy Matt Downer, and more acts to be announced through the summer.
Friday night, there’s the option of an AC/DC tribute band, Back in Black, at Songbirds or the squeaky-clean teen sensation EmiSunshine at Nightfall.
Lisa Denton and Barry Courter
BARRY COURTER: Man, that runs the gamut, doesn’t it: “Hell’s Bells” or “Oh Mary, Where Is Your Baby?”
LISA: Saturday, Lake Winnepesaukah opens its water park, SoakYa, and all weekend the park will host a rally of the Carousel Organ Association. They play calliope music, like you hear on a carousel. I looked up how a calliope works, and it made me snicker. Basically it produces sound by sending a gas through large whistles. Don’t judge me – or the 12-year-old boy who lives inside me.
BARRY: Always keeping it classy. I laughed too, of course. EmiSunshine was here for Riverbend four years ago way back when she was just a kid at 9 years old.