Coralee and the Townies from left, Fred Sexton (lead guitar), Scott Wilmoth (bass), David White (drums), Coralee, Smith Donaldson (rhythm guitar), and Ray Smith (keyboard) will play Thursday Night Live on Sept. 5. © 2011 Herald-Leader staff photo by Mark Cornelison.
While the weather seems to be having a hard time getting oriented to the idea it’s spring, the Downtown Lexington Corporation isn’t as it has dropped the lineup for this year’s Thursday Night Live parties, April 4 to Oct. 31. As always, TNL is 4:30 to 8 p.m. Thursdays in the Fifth-Third Pavilion at Cheapside Park, between Main and Short streets, just west of Upper Street, adjacent to the old courthouse building. Bands play 5:30 to 7:30. There are plenty of food and beverage vendors at the event, and each week all tips will go to a select not-for-profit group.
Here are the bands and not-for-profits for each week.
April 4 – Payback (James Brown tribute band), Kentucky Pink Connection
April 11 – Swing Street, Lexington Blackstone RFC
April 18 – Those Crosstown Rivals, Blue Grass Trust for Historic Preservation
April 25 – McNeese, Downtown Lexington Management District
May 2 – Domino, Hospice of the Bluegrass
May 9 – The Squirrels, Community Action Council
May 16 – Girls Guns & Glory, Bike Lexington
May 23 – The Johnson Brothers, The Dolphins
May 30 – Scott Said & The Backroads , Rotary of Lexington
June 6 – Bluegrass Collective, Kentucky Equine Humane Society
June 13 – Kenny Owens, Living Arts and Science Center
June 20 – The Twiggenbury’s, PFLAG Lexington
June 27 – Ralph Curtis, Tribute Artists, Kentucky Cystic Fibrosis
July 4 – Catch 22, International Book Project
July 11 – Better off Dead, Habitat for Humanity
July 18 – Superfecta, Bluegrass Conservancy
July 25 – The Tim Talbert Project, Urban League Young Professionals
Aug. 1 – Conch Republic, Bluegrass Council of the Blind
Aug. 8 – Rebel Without A Cause, United Way of the Bluegrass
Aug. 15 – Sixtyfourwest, Benchmark Family Services
Aug. 22 – Kenny Owens & Group Therapy, Central Music Academy
Aug. 29 – The Big Maracas, VIPS
Sept. 5 – Coralee & The Townies, Faith Feeds
Sept. 12 – The Sensations, Movable Feast
Sept. 19 – Prefab Rehab, Lexington Ballet
Sept. 26 – Blind Corn Liquor Pickers, Lexington Art League
Oct. 3 – Chris Campbell Band, Susan G. Komen Lexington
Oct. 10 – The Swells, Lexington Humane Society
Oct. 17 – The City, Lyric Theatre
Oct. 24 – Born Cross Eyed, Lexington Public Library
Oct. 31 – Radio 80, High Street YMCA
