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FANTASTIC CAT with SPECIAL GUEST THE JELLYBRICKS (ACOUSTIC)

  • The Englewood 1219 Research Boulevard Hummelstown, PA, 17036 (map)

Advanced Tickets: $20 (+tax/fees) (select your seats from venue map during checkout)
Day of Show: $30 (+tax/fees)

Doors: 7:00pm
Show: 8:00pm

  • This is a table seated show with guests selecting their seat locations while purchasing tickets. Please keep in mind that if you do not purchase all tickets at a table, other guests will potentially be seated with you.

  • Dinner services WILL NOT be available in the venue during the show. We encourage all guests to have dinner in the Englewood Brewing taproom downstairs prior to concert time. Visit englewoodbrewing.com to make a reservation.

ADA seating available by request. Contact info@englewoodhershey.com

Please review our venue policy page concerning age restrictions, limited seating, and more.


They said it couldn’t be done. Four different songwriters joining forces to form a single band? There was simply no precedent (outside of CSNY, The Beatles, The Traveling Wilburys, The Highwaymen, Monsters of Folk, etc). And yet Fantastic Cat did it anyway, defying the odds and teaming up to record their highly unanticipated debut, The Very Best Of Fantastic Cat, out now on Blue Rose. Hailed by Rolling Stone as "a wildly satisfying collection of folk-rock, country, Americana, and good old rock & roll," the album gleefully careens between genres and decades, mixing electrified ’60s roots and ’70s AM radio gold as it balances careful craftsmanship and ecstatic abandon in equal measure.

Individually, each member of Fantastic Cat boasts their own impressive resume along with a litany of critical acclaim. The Guardian dubbed Don DiLego “one to watch.” NPR said Anthony D’Amato “sings and writes in the tradition of Bruce Springsteen or Josh Ritter.” Rolling Stone called Brian Dunne’s latest single a “stunner” and praised Mike Montali’s band, Hollis Brown, as “the soundtrack for a late-night drive through the American heartland.” Collectively, though, the four transcend their respective roots, emerging as an instrument-swapping, harmony-trading, tear-jerking, wise-cracking rock and roll cooperative far greater than the sum of its parts.

They say some cats are born fantastic; others have fantasy thrust upon them. These guys are somewhere in the middle.

www.fantasticcatband.com


SPECIAL GUEST ACOUSTIC SET BY THE JELLYBRICKS!

The even-keeled ascent of The Jellybricks is living proof that a band need not be an overnight sensation to feel lucky.

A Rock group in the classic two-guitars-bass-drums tradition, this Harrisburg, Pennsylvania-based crew persevered for two decades before claiming the spotlight with Some Kind Of Lucky, their first album for Wicked Cool Records. “The opportunity to make a new, better record is what always leads us back into the recording studio,” says guitarist/vocalist Larry Kennedy.

The Jellybricks began as a vehicle for Larry’s original songs in the mid-’90s but has steadily evolved over seven releases into a four-headed collaboration with all four writing and singing lead. “Over the course of 23 years together, we’ve become a true brotherhood,” says bassist/vocalist Garrick Chow. “We’ve gotten really good at speaking the same language when it comes to collaborating.”

The band’s hook-laden songs owe debts of inspiration to decades of melodic Rock ’n’ Roll from the ’60s British Invasion through ’70s Punk, ’80s College Rock and ’90s Alternative. Stevie Van Zandt, founder of Wicked Cool Records and the Underground Garage radio properties, began taking notice in recent years, elevating their 2012 track “Rock ’n’ Roll Suicide” to Coolest Song in the World status, an honor they also collected with “About The Weekend” in 2014.

In the wake of heavy airplay on SiriusXM and syndicated terrestrial radio, the band signed to Wicked Cool for a double-A-sided single at the dawn of 2019: the Big Star-influenced road song “Brooklyn” – also notable for being the first track co-written by all four Jellybricks – and swirling call-and-response rocker “D O A.” Both grabbed Coolest Song bragging rights, setting the stage for the new album.

“All four of us write songs which come from different places, and then those songs find their way into our common headspace en route to becoming Jellybricks songs,” relates guitarist/vocalist Bryce Connor. “Our albums always include a stylistic shift or two from song to song,” adds drummer/vocalist Tom Kristich, “but the identifiable vibe and spirit of The Jellybricks shines through no matter the tempo, key or mood.”

Larry Kennedy — guitar, vocals
Garrick Chow — bass guitar, vocals
Bryce Connor — guitar, vocals
Tom Kristich — drums, vocals

www.thejellybricks.com

 

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