L.A. Beat

There are several big shows this week.
The biggest shows of the week features Joel Plaskett who will be playing  April 9-10 at the Geomatic Attic.
 Plaskett is a well known maritime rock musician and former Thrush Hermit frontman who will be performing as a duo for these shows. The April 10 show sold out almost immediately so the April 9 one was added. E-mail Mike Spencer at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . Tickets are $20 for members, $32.50  for non members or $35 at the door.
The University of Lethbridge Headbanger’s Association ends their first season, April 9 at the university with an all ages show next to the Zoo featuring Datura, Chaos Logic, Enceladus and Pathogen. Tickets are $10. Also for metalheads, classic Canadian metalheads Helix will be performing at Average Joes, April 9.
It’s a busy weekend for the Lethbridge Folk Club as well. They have  their open mic at the Wolf’s Den, on Friday followed by Calgary Celtic band Tir Na N’og the next night.
It is also a good weekend for drummers and anybody interested in making noise by hitting things.
April 10  is the third annual day of percussion at the university, so to mark that there will be drum workshops all day from 9:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. by a variety of  world drum educators and performers.
Also for drummers, Global Drums has two shows at the University Theatre, April 9 and 10 including Mike Michalkow from Yamaha, the Japanese Taiko drums group and a Brazilian Samba with Malcolm and Barbara Lim plus the Steel Drum band which  combines two drum groups. The University Wind Orchestra will join them all on stage at 8 p.m. each night. Tickets are $15 regular, $10 for students/ Seniors. Also at the university this week, the University of Lethbridge Jazz ensemble has a show at the University Theatre, April 7.
Gunsmoke, an Ontario rockabilly band will be playing at Henotic, April 7 with Alleycat Blues and Deathspot Radio.
There are a couple great Monday shows too on April 12. Matthew Barber, who had a minor hit a few years ago called ‘The Soft One’ will be at the Slice with Peter Katz.
 Also Monday, B.C folk and roots act Fish and Bird will be at Henotic with the Sure Things.
Hip Hop fans will want to be at the Blarney Stone on Monday for Del the Funky Homosapien, April 12.
 the California rapper also  is in a  group called Gorrillaz.
It’s another good week for open mics.  Treeline hosts  the open mic at the Slice tonight, while Henotic has a “magnificent ” Winnipeg band hosting their open mic on Wednesday. Roots /country/bluegrass band the Magnificent 7s are the hosts this week.
 Of course there are two open mics on Thursday, at the Good Earth Coffee House and  at Beaches Pub and Grill. There are two Friday open mics as well — at the Wolf’s Den, where they have an open stage on the second and fourth Friday of the month and  the Bar One Lounge next to the Sandman Inn  has moved their Sunday open mic to Fridays.