A West Palm pop-rock siren returns for a hometown concert, new exhibits are unveiled for Delray’s First Friday art walk, and a sci-fi masterpiece opens at Lake Worth Beach. Plus, a Jerry Garcia birthday party and more in the coming week.
WEDNESDAY
What: Cassadee Pope
Where: Respectable Street, 518 Clematis St., West Palm Beach
When: 6:30 p.m.
Cost: $20 GA, $70 VIP with meet and greet and tour poster
Contact: 561/832-9999, sub-culture.org/locations/respectable-street
An even more emotional performance than usual is expected from rocker Cassadee Pope at this hometown concert. A West Palm Beach native, Pope graduated from Wellington High School before co-founding the short-lived but influential pop-punk band Hey Monday. A tryout on the third season of “The Voice” led to a mentorship under Blake Shelton, whose tutelage helped her win the season and reshape her sound into a modern country aesthetic; she topped the genre’s charts with her solo debut in 2013. Frame by frame. But country, she now says, was never an ideal style, and earlier this year she announced her abandonment of the genre, partly for political reasons. Her fourth album Hereditary marks a return to infectious pop-rock anthems, which she will perform this week in all their glory, after opening sets for the Foxies and Natalie Taylar.
THURSDAY
What: Jerry Garcia’s Birthday Party
Where: Funky Biscuit, 303 SE Mizner Blvd., Boca Raton
When: 7 p.m.
Cost: $20-25
Contact: 561/395-2929, funkybiscuit.com
Jerome John Garcia was born on August 1, 1942, and left his mortal soul far too young, at age 53, in 1995. In the meantime, as lead guitarist for the Grateful Dead, Garcia played more than 2,300 shows in one of rock music’s most storied careers, essentially inventing the modern jam band and composing such landmarks as “Uncle John’s Band” and “Dark Star.” His insistence on never playing a song the same way twice inspired countless followers, imitators and tribute artists who, like Garcia, drew on jazz improvisation to ensure each performance was unique. In South Florida, no band has honored the Dead’s pioneering spirit more than the tireless Crazy Fingers, who will perform Garcia’s greatest hits and more.
FRIDAY
What: First Friday Art Walk
Where: Downtown Delray Beach
When: 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.
No cost
Contact: 561/243-1077, downtowndelraybeach.com
The first Friday of the month is always cause for celebration in downtown Delray, as 14 area art spaces stay open late, some offering wine and quick bites as well as world-class art. At Arts Warehouse, Friday marks the opening receptions for two solo exhibitions: Katya Neptune’s “Echoes Unveiled,” which features large-scale mixed-media photographic transfers of women and children photographed in Rwanda in 2012 and 2014; and Dominique Denis’s “Coming Home,” whose abstract works reflect her childhood, heritage and lived experience as a Haitian-born artist. At the Cornell Art Museum, there’s still time to check out “Central American Modernism” and “Oceana Phenomena,” while Arts Garage Gallery presents the local photography exhibition “Beauty in the Eye of the Beholder” and solo works by existential painter Hal Yaskulka.
FROM FRIDAY TO SUNDAY
What: Screenings of the film “The Beast”
Where: Stonzek Theater at Lake Worth Playhouse, 713 Lake Ave., Lake Worth Beach
When: 6 p.m. Friday; 1 p.m., 4 p.m. and 7 p.m. Saturday; 2 p.m. and 5 p.m. Sunday
Cost: $9
Contact: 561/296-9382, lakeworthplayhouse.org
One of the most critically acclaimed films to date, “The Beast” was hailed for its bold sci-fi design as well as what many have called a career-defining performance by lead actress Léa Seydoux. In the French-Canadian co-production directed by enfant terrible Bertrand Bonello (“Nocturama”), Seydoux lives in a dystopian future in which emotions have become a threat to a world dominated by AI. In an effort to “purify” her DNA, she enters a machine that transports her to two of her past lives — to Paris during the Belle Époque and to Los Angeles in 2014 — where she falls in love with different iterations of the same wounded soul. A thriller with a wild premise and inventive time-jumping narrative, “The Beast” is playing at the Lake Worth Playhouse for one weekend only.
SATURDAY
What: Emo Karaoke Night
Where: The Banyan Live, 8199 Southern Blvd., Suite B, West Palm Beach
When: 9 p.m.
Cost: $15
Contact: 561/855-0626, thebanyanlive.com
From emotion-driven music festivals to comeback albums from some of its most iconic bands, a subgenre once derided as punk’s overly sensitive cousin has undergone an impressive rehabilitation. It remains a hard-to-define style—one man’s emo is another man’s pop-punk, another man’s post-hardcore—but if you’re a fan of heartfelt, angsty, immediate lyrics, you’ll probably find a song worth picking out at this special karaoke night, where singers get to perform in front of a live band. So revisit Fall Out Boy, My Chemical Romance, Jimmy Eat World, Paramore and their ilk, find the tune that speaks to you, grab the mic, and save your tears for later.
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