2025 Concert Calendar: Concerts Near You

After the Zappa plays Zappa show last week, I thought I was SOL for prog shows in south Texas.  BUT, just this morning I found out that Godspeed You is going to headline this year's Psych Fest in Austin.

True, but it's where I live, haha.

cstack3 wrote: Criswell wrote: Just Kraftwerk for me so far - 3/29/25 Auditorium Theater Chicago Do you follow The Arcada Theater in St. Charles IL?  I've seen some AMAZING prog shows there!   Ron Onesti has made bringing prog acts a focus!  https://www.arcadalive.com

I live in Los Angeles, so I guess I have a new calling in life: bringing in a new prog/art rock and/or fusion music festival to the SoCal area!

TerLJack wrote: I'm in Orange County, in SoCal.  There is rarely anything Prog that comes to town.  I see plenty of stuff on the other coast, nothing here.  I used to go to BajaProg most every year.  Sure miss that.  We also used to have a couple of other great festivals.  ProgFest, CalProg, ProgWest...  sure miss that too. I'd love to see a calendar of Prog events anywhere in SoCal.  I would surely go, but most European artists won't travel this far cross country.  I understand, it's hard enough to get across the Atlantic. Quite a few years ago, I went to a house concert with John Young.  We became friends, and now he's in a great band!  He was always great in my opinion! Maybe someone is planning on putting a Prog festival out this way?  We have every other genre of music festival. Sorry to whine, but here I am retired with all this time, and I would love to see live music in the genre I enjoy and connect with a group of like-minded fans.  I made many friends at these festivals that I still keep in contact with today.  I also built up quite a collection of music from Greg Walker and the Musea tables.  There were others, but I forget now.

I miss all those fests, too. I missed the first several ProgFests and finally made it to ProgFest '97 (skipped '99 upstate) and then PF2K. Incredible performances by Codice, Le Orme, Wetton Band, and Kens, among others. ProgWest was smaller but very cool both years, nonetheless. There have been a couple prog night one-offs at a club in DTLA, but I found out too late.

The fest I really looked forward to was Day Out of Time. It was cancelled due to low ticket presales.

Edited by verslibre - January 09 2025 at 12:34

I'm in Orange County, in SoCal.  There is rarely anything Prog that comes to town.  I see plenty of stuff on the other coast, nothing here.  I used to go to BajaProg most every year.  Sure miss that.  We also used to have a couple of other great festivals.  ProgFest, CalProg, ProgWest...  sure miss that too.

Criswell wrote: Criswell wrote: Just Kraftwerk for me so far - 3/29/25 Auditorium Theater Chicago ...Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds also at the Salt Shed in Chicago 4/28/25... (originally thought this was just Prog concerts...)

^ This is The Prog Lounge, so it's very understandable. This is a case where I thought it made more sense to make this in this forum because I would expect the emphasis to be more on Prog, I think this could be useful, and in General Music Discussion it would very probably quickly get neglected. Especially with the popularity of things like "What Are You Listening to Now?" other topics get easily lost.

I also have thought that more people might get the chance to meet each other at concerts if we post about it in such thread. Seems amazing to me considering that I have been visiting this site for more than 20 years, but I have not met one person here yet nor talked to one person on the phone. At the forum I belonged to just before this one, a couple of years in I had met many of them. That said, it so happens that a convention took place near my home and people flew in from the US and Europe to go. And two others lived in Vancouver and so we would get together. I have become far less sociable than I used to be, and I was not very sociable then.

By the way, I don't like to organise my music into prog and non-Prog, or even think in those terms unless I have to for site business, and it just doesn't work with the kinds of music I like. It's mostly art music to me. And I can get the same qualities from Nick Cave and the bad Seeds as I do from music in PA. Buy yeah, I would expect the emphasis to be on Prog and Prog related/ adjacent music. It's also going to be about concerts that certain people into certain kinds of progressive rock/ progressive music like. I don't consider myself to be a Progger, but I like a lot of music in PA and a lot of music that is often put under the prog umbrella.

By the way, not all music talked about in the Prog forums needs to be Prog, but it is expected that would be the major emphasis. I hope people don't get really anal about such stuff but also are not making topics in Prog sections on obvious non-Prog topics. :)

Anyway, those two concerts are two of the concerts I would most like to attend when they are in Vancouver and both are happening on a day that I also would like to see someone else in concert. I suggest that it should be Nick Cave and the Bad Geordie Greeps in concert and Kraftwerk's Beak (which would blow Spock's Beard and Nose away). :)

I have tickets for Laibach (Bologna 28 Feb), Godspeed You! Black Emperor (Bologna 11 March), Heilung (Milano 27 April), and in fact also for Steven Wilson in Rome (I'm not necessarily the biggest fan of his more recent work, but a friend whom I don't meet often enough asked me to go). 

Edited by Lewian - January 08 2025 at 10:10

Just Kraftwerk for me so far - 3/29/25 Auditorium Theater Chicago