Bombino
Summer is finally warming up and so too are Madison's live music venues this week with shows by Rachael Yamagata, Bombino, and Jon Pardi. The calendar also includes: the Corporate Prom fundraiser for South Central Wisconsin Move to Amend and a Wednesday Nite at the Lab talk titled "A World Without Anitibiotics."
Monday 6.10
NOTEWORTHY: Alcoholics Anonymous founded in Akron, Ohio, 1935.
High Noon Saloon, 8 pm
This smoky-voiced singer certainly knows how to write for a soundtrack. One of her best-known songs, "Be Be Your Love," appeared on both The L Word and So You Think You Can Dance, and her latest material has been featured on 30 Rock and One Life to Live. With Sanders Bohlke.
Tuesday 6.11
NOTEWORTHY: National Guard accompanies two African American students to University of Alabama after Gov. George Wallace tries to prevent them from registering, 1963.
Wednesday 6.12
High Noon Saloon, 6 pm
Don a sharp tux, a frilly gown or an intimidating power suit to protest the corporate personhood that resulted from Citizens United. Amplify the fun by seeing if musical guests Sean Michael Dargan, Metabaque, Flash Jackson and Joe Fred Paprocki perform Huey Lewis' "Hip to Be Square" or other selections from the movie American Psycho.
Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery, 7 pm
You've seen stories about the failure of antibiotics in the news. Here, UW professors from various disciplines -- Jacqueline Gerhart, Mark Cook and Warren Rose -- shed light on the problem.
Majestic Theatre, 8 pm
Born into a nomadic encampment in North Africa, this meditative musician knows what it means to be a rolling stone. He launched his career while traveling from Niger to California to Burkina Faso, with the help of a desert-blues cover of the Rolling Stones' "Hey Negrita." With El Valiente.
Thursday 6.13
Majestic Theatre, 8 pm
The 28-year-old musician has just stepped into the limelight, landing two singles on the Billboard country charts in the past few months.