event The Flat Five
Also Playing: Gerald Dowd and Kelly Hogan and Scott Ligon and K.C. McDonough
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Fri Dec 11
9 pm
http://www.ticketweb.com/snl/VenueListings.action?venueId=13340 The Flat Five, Gerald Dowd, Kelly Hogan, Scott Ligon, K.C. McDonough, and Nora O'Connor at The Hideout
Its members may not be household names, but you'd be hard-pressed to find five musicians with better credentials to form a rootsy pop band than the ones in Chicago act The Flat Five. Singer Kelly Hogan has been a longtime backup singer for Neko Case and a solo artist with a knockout voice for more than decade. Guitarist Nora O'Connor had a place in Andrew Bird's Bowl Of Fire before putting out a sweet, folky solo album of her own in 2004, Til The Dawn. The other components—Scott Ligon, K.C. McDonough, and Gerald Dowd—are all fluent in a scattering of instruments and capable of replicating dauntingly difficult five-part harmonies. And while alt-country or folk may be the common denominator among its members, the quintet seems determined to vary in genre and play anything underneath that enormous umbrella of "pop."
The Hideout 1354 W Wabansia Ave, Chicago, IL
Its members may not be household names, but you'd be hard-pressed to find five musicians with better credentials to form a rootsy pop band than the ones in Chicago act The Flat Five. Singer Kelly Hogan has been a longtime backup singer for Neko Case and a solo artist with a knockout voice for more than decade. Guitarist Nora O'Connor had a place in Andrew Bird's Bowl Of Fire before putting out a sweet, folky solo album of her own in 2004, Til The Dawn. The other components—Scott Ligon, K.C. McDonough, and Gerald Dowd—are all fluent in a scattering of instruments and capable of replicating dauntingly difficult five-part harmonies. And while alt-country or folk may be the common denominator among its members, the quintet seems determined to vary in genre and play anything underneath that enormous umbrella of "pop."
Updated 12/01/2009
