freedom ringin’
Few businesses throw open their doors for live music during summer holidays quite the way that our pals at CD Central do. But for the Fourth, the festivities head downtown - specifically, Phoenix Park - for its annual Independent Music on Independence Day celebration.
This year, the predominantly local lineup includes the electronic soundscapes of Casino Versus Japan (10:30 a.m.), pop stylist Matt Duncan (12 noon) and pop rock fave Chico Fellini (1 p.m.). The music takes a break at 2 p.m. for the downtown parade and resumes with Nashville jam band Moon Taxi (3:15 p.m.). Independent Music on Independence Day concludes with the neo-minimalist sound sculptures of Lexington’s Tiny Fights (4:30 p.m.).
WRFL-FM and The Morris Book Shop are co-sponsors with CD Central of the event. For more information, call (859) 233-3472.
I am a native Kentuckian and freelance journalist who has been writing about contemporary music for the Lexington Herald-Leader since 1980. I have not a lick of honest musical talent myself, just a pair of appreciative ears for jazz, folk, blues, bluegrass, Americana, soul, Celtic, Cajun, chamber, worldbeat, nearly every form of rock 'n' roll imaginable and, when pressed, the occasional tango and polka.