Songbirds Guitar Museum recently expanded as a live music venue adding intimate performances from a Who's Who list of country, bluegrass, blues, rock and more. Fans sit and enjoying the music around an array of some of the most iconic guitars. Songbirds is a world class collection of guitars housed in one room.
There's more. There is history, The impact of stringed boxes, later electronics and today more advancements in guitars continues changing the music world and culture over the years.
The Songbirds story and success continues to draw worldwide attention. The conversation is always fresh when discussing the impact already marked by Songbirds in the continual advancement ofthe
Chattanooga Live Music scene.
In just the first year Songbirds has drawn the attention of music journalists and publications such as USA Today, Washington Post, Thrill List, Vintage Guitar, Guitar Aficinado, Fodor's, Reverb and more. The local coverage has been phenomenal too. The expansion continued a few weeks ago when Songbirds took the opportunity to literally flip the former Hush Lounge/Revelry Room located in the Choo Choo complex beneath the museum in less than two weeks to maintain some re-booking commitments. Songbird's South stage completed the transformation for the look and feel. Additionally, the museum made large investments on the sound and lighting system for a quality music experience. The South stage will accommodate 500 with a full service drinks and an area for table top seating.
The opening show for the South stage was sold out as were more to follow. The Songbirds events are posted on their website and social media page. The assigned concert events in the museum refer to the North stage, a typically seated area with beverages available.
Recently, very much talked about artist tribute band
Who's Bad currently on their USA tour, played the South stage. It is always enjoyable to engage with Songbirds staff and the artists before and after the concerts. We checked this band out for a closer look,
Who’s Bad’s live performance is described as "an unrivaled celebration of pop music’s one true King. Their power-packed performance of Michael Jackson’s expansive catalog has ignited crowds on every continent and can only be described as a jaw-dropping, musical must-see. As the longest-running Michael Jackson tribute band, and the only one to predate his untimely passing, Who’s Bad has awed even the skeptics, selling out nearly 50 venues in the United Kingdom including London’s O2 in December of 2010, the venue where the King of Pop was slated to end his career with a 50-show 'This Is It' concert series. Beyond this unparalleled achievement, Who’s Bad has checked some of the world’s most famous pavilions off their ‘to-do’ list, selling out their first tour of China with stops at Ningbo’s Grand Theatre and Hunan Grand Theatre in Chengsha. Never neglecting Michael’s U.S. fans, Who’s Bad has packed The House of Blues in Houston, Dallas, and New Orleans; rocked DC’s 930 Club and returned to their native Chapel Hill, NC boasting larger, more eagerly-awaited performances with every romp around the globe. Sold-out shows from Colorado’s Bluebird Theatre and LA’s Gibson Amphitheatre and Romania’s Sala Palatalui to Teatro do Bourbon Country (Porto Alegre, Brazil) tell the story: no corner of the earth is safe from this infectious party production.
"Who's Bad has earned its name by paying studious attention to Michael Jackson’s every original groove and gravity-defying dance move, boasting over 100 years of professional experience and a team of dancers with resumes that include Broadway productions such as Phantom of the Opera. Vamsi Tadepalli (Who’s Bad founder, composer, and saxophonist) assembled a cast of North Carolina’s premiere musicians and, from Who’s Bad’s inception, believed in the band’s boundless possibilities."
(Source material provided by Songbirds and Who's Bad Production with photos by Mark A Herndon/Chattanooga Live Music)
"To live is to be musical, starting with the blood dancing in your veins. Everything living has a rhythm. Do you feel your music?"
Michael Jackson
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