Rock Music, Axe Throwing & Bonaventure

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OUR APOLOGIES BUT DUE TO UNFORSEEN CIRCUMSTANCES THE MANAGEMENT HAS CANCELLED THIS EVENT & WE WILL RESCHEDULE AT A FUTURE DATE!

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Continuing in the vein of previous shows with David J (Bauhaus, Love & Rockets) and most recently The Harp Twins, this forthcoming October 9th will prove to be another sell out performance talked about for years!

Rocky Road Touring and Savannah’s Master of Macabre Shannon Scott presents the Halloween kickoff event of the season at Southbound Brewery with neighboring Blade & Bull, Voted Savannah’s Premiere axe throwing beer joint! Ticket holders receive 10% off of Blade & Bull’s axe blade lanes! Added bonus are Bonaventure Cemetery Journey’s Tour Tickets compliments of Shannon Scott Tours. Tickets can be used at any time or grab a tour before you leave town by emailing Shannon Scott directly with proof of concert purchase! Shannon Scott will be doing a special tour for ticket holders on Sunday October 10th at 2PM if you can make it!

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The Bellewether Syndicate is a Chicago based band of a decade and household name to those who recognize underground, Goth and darker poet rock royalty. In this case the new House is comprised of William Faith (Christian Death, Mephisto Waltz, Shadow Project) of celebrated Faith And Muse and counterpart, long time beloved Chicago DJ host of Nocturna, Sarah “Scary Lady Sarah” Faith. Sarah has DJ’d the famed Convergence festival multiple times along with Wave Gothic Treffen in Leipzig, the largest Goth festival in the world. Together with Paul Sin (bass) and Philly Peroxide (keyboards/percussion) and Stevyn Grey (drums), this collective proof that musicians evolve sound and genre making them more relative and of the times than ever!

Rosegarden Funeral Party, the trio hailing from Texas is often branded as Texas Goth Rock or “post punk,” all of which may be true, but this tight pyramid of players consisting of lead singer, Leah Lane, bassist Will Farrier and drummer Dylan Stamas is an explosive collaboration of well heeled minstrels that have refined said “goth” or “post punk” sound to a new level of stone driving rock! And vocalist beauty Leah Lane both during raucous rants and love ballads makes one wonder if The Motel’s Martha Davis and David Bowie had a love child where Joan Jett was godmother and Siouxsie Sioux part-time au pair? This is the band to watch and you get to say you were there early on the launchpad taking in their rocket launch and grooving on the fumes!
Opening act Candy Opera is a Savannah based creation of long time native (son of Savannah’s greatest jazz musician, Ken Palmer), Phillip Polk Palmer (Port City Blues) who’s croonery crew like musical succubus, have siphoned from the low country lands, a dark, surreal film noir sound enveloped in a bluesy veil that will set the tone for this show and give the whole thing Savannah street and swamp credentials!

 

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Bonaventure After Hours: My Skully Valentine

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One of the phrases I use quite a bit, “Bonaventure is for lovers.” Its a phrase that either makes people smile or in my case as cemetery storyteller in an old Southern city garners some scornful or cringey looks. I, however, am of the school of thought and have always found them to be romantic places. In high school when I worked as a groundskeeper in Rantoul, Illinois’ Maplewood Cemetery, I thought nothing of taking a girl on a date there. I’d bake a quiche, grab a blanket and drive just outside of town to the little 1840’s patch on a hill surrounded by budding cornfields under the stars. There was this one modern granite vault that was perfect for throwing a blanket over. We’d climb up spread out and dine. Ah, good times. Even if I’m now the voice that says, “Kids, don’t climb on the vaults.” 

I’m not sure how widespread this was in history, but at least in Savannah, if a man were serious about a woman in the whole “Til’ death do us part,” thing, the tradition was to go to the cemetery to propose to her. The couple’s families would wait outside of the gates, and if she said, “Yes,” they walked out holding hands. If she declined, I guess they had other formalities. Its no wonder Bonaventure has so many weddings then. I remember one Halloween weekend? There were 19 over a few days and 6 or 7 on the actual Halloween date. Good times. I myself told a story at a wedding in Bonaventure 2 years ago on Halloween night and gifted the couple a story at the grave I plan to feature on the upcoming “Bonaventure After Hours: My Skully Valentine” event, February 16th, 5 PM to 8 PM. Its not a story I often do publicly but I positively love and covet it and only share it on special occasions so am excited to break it out again!

Which, yes, this will be a special Bonaventure After Hours where I will highlight stories of couples and even some singles who were perhaps too unbridled for marital bonds but had some adventures all of the same! Naturally, per “real life” and my style, these stories will range from what happens when the love was written by someone above, and then what happens when it full on flies off the rails and nobody gets out unscathed! Either way, guests will find the whole experience leaving them insatiable and everyone will want a cigarette following the adventure. Yes, that good.

This 2.5 Hour spectacle includes the Official Event Poster, “Love, Truth & Stories,” signed by myself and runs $44.95. This event WILL SELL OUT & as of this posting we’re more than halfway there so get your tickets now at 912.319.5600 or just click BOOK NOW anywhere on the website! Come fall in love with Bonaventure and what we do!

Listen To Shannon recite his lover’s tribute, “Media of Two.”

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