Get To The Gig: Concert Calendar January 2025
Wilmo Rock Circus; Photo Credit, Nathalie Antonov
It’s a new year and you made a resolution to see more live music and support your local music scene? Well we have a concert calendar to help keep you on track and having fun. Check out this eclectic list of local shows from every county in Delaware and beyond and get your tickets today.
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January 11 - The Dirty Grass Players at The Listening Booth
On January 11, new age bluegrass band Dirty Grass Players are bringing their music and eclectic stage performance to The Listening Booth in Lewes. The Dirty Grass Players are an energetic explosion of old- time pickin’, coloured with an inventive, newgrass hand, that is given lyrical life by their soaring vocal harmonies that exist on an ethereal plain. They live at the crossroads between the traditional, which is the backbone of what they do, and the progressive with their innovative forward-thinking approach. Doors are at 7pm and local family band The Fitzee Brothers open the show. For more information and tickets go here.
January 10 - Red Smith & Blue Dawn at The Old State House
Red Smith & Blue Dawn is an Americana Bluegrass band with & country and blues influence. Singer-songwriter, Red Smith, along with Blue Dawn band members bring high energy to a familiar sound. On January 10, The Delaware Friends of Folk are presenting them at historic The Old State House in Dover. This evolving musical line up will feature Red Smith on vocals & guitar, Matt Zuckerman on Dobro, Michelle Monroe on Bass, Joe Perloff on Mandolin and newest member, local music favorite multi-instrumentalist, Skyler Cumbia, on Fiddle. For more information and ticket information, click here.
February 6 - Dustbown Revival at Elkton Music Hall
Dustbowl Revival has always been about pushing the boundaries of what American roots music can be. After spending years on the road, selling out hometown shows at LA’s famed Troubadour, headlining festivals and wowing crowds from Denmark to China, Dustbowl Revival is back touring the states and set to release a new batch of music. The band’s newest album, Is It You, Is It Me, is slated to release January 31 via their own Medium Expectations label and Nashville’s Thirty Tigers. Produced by Sam Kassirer (Lake Street Dive, Josh Ritter, David Ramirez) and engineered by Brian Joseph (Bon Iver, Local Natives, Sufjan Stevens), it represents the latest stage in a band that never stops evolving and refuses to stand still. They bring their energetic big band sound to Elkton Music Hall on February 6 with ZG Smith to open. For more information and tickets visit the venue website, here.
January 30 - Mannequin Pussy at The Queen
As we publish this, there is already a “low ticket warning” for Philadelphia’s own Mannequin Pussy performance at The Queen on January 30th. This high voltage punk rock band has toured around the world and is sticking close to home this winter playing a few dates before heading to the UK. We strongly recommend buying tickets asap before this sells out. For more ticket and show information, go here.
February 6 - Dan + Claudia Zanes with Tyree Austin at The Grand Opera House
Grammy award winner Dan Zanes and vocalist and music therapist Claudia Zanes have been sharing their love of community and social justice music in concerts large and small across the country but it was in their hometown of Baltimore that they recently met Tyree Austin when the three happened to be performing on the same night at a local men’s shelter. Smithsonian Folkways recording artists Dan + Claudia Zanes are bringing Electric guitar…three voices…percussion…flute…trombone. The sound of early rock and roll, jazz vocals, gospel, Haitian folk, sea shanties, and summer camp sing-alongs all twisted together and presented with gusto and an open invitation for people of all ages to be a part of the experience. For more information and tickets, check it out here.
February 14 - Oh He Dead at Arden Gild Hall
WXPN Welcomes D.C.-based funk soul band Oh He Dead with Philadelphia-based, Delaware-born singer-songwriter Sug Daniels Trio to Arden Gild Hall on February 14. This special Valentine’s Day performance comes after Oh He Dead’s free at noon at World Cafe Live, a legendary first performance at Arden in 2023, and the bands seemingly overnight rise to fame. Tickets are sure to move fast so pick them up today here.
