The Kurt Baker Combo

with Kris Rodgers & The Dirty Gems.

Tickets are $5 in advance and $7 day of show.

Doors at 8 pm | Music starts at 9 pm.

21+

All of our tickets are paperless. Purchased tickets will be at will call at the door. All you need to do is arrive with your ID and enjoy the show!

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After many years playing up and down, coast to coast, over the pond and beyond with his group The Leftovers, and solo group The Kurt Baker Band, rock n’ roller power pop musician Kurt Baker decided he needed a new change of scenery and packed his bags for the city of Madrid, Spain. Landing there in 2013 after a successful tour of Spain and France with his American bandmates, Baker began playing solo acoustic gigs around the Iberian peninsula. It wasn’t long before offers were coming in to play more electric gigs in Spain, however the only problem was, Baker’s band was over 3,000 miles away. Hence, the Kurt Baker Combo was formed, a new group consisting of Juancho Lopez on bass guitar (Paul Collins Beat, Peralta, The Crepitos), Jorge Colldan (Holy Sheep, The Flash, Señor No) on guitar and backing vocals, and Sam Malakiam on drums (Alrighters, Los Platillos Volantes). While continuing in the tradition of the power pop sound Baker has been known for, the Combo also brings in elements of Pub Rock, Garage and no holds bar wild rock n’ roll a la The MC5, The Remains, Eddie and the Hotrods and Redd Kross. The group presented their first full length in 2015, a live album titled “Muy Mola Live”, recorded during a wild Monday night concert in Kenosha, Wisconsin. The energy and the hooks of Baker’s setlist regulars like “Don’t Go Falling In Love”, and “Everybody Knows” are pushed into the red, as well as offering new songs like the rollicking “Aorta Baby”, and the mersey beat throwback of “Tried and True”. A tour in support of “Muy Mola Live” took the band to Italy, Holland, Norway, Sweden and many dates across Spain. In the summer of 2015, the group began to prepare songs for their first studio full length. That album, titled “In Orbit” features 10 songs of catchy and irresistible rock n’ roll was released on Little Steven Van Zandt’s Wicked Cool Records in the fall of 2016. «Baby’s Gone Bad» and «All For You» were both named «COOLEST SONG IN WORLD» on The Underground Garage. The «In Orbit» tour saw the Combo play close to 100 shows in 8 countries around the world. A digital only «b-sides and rarities» EP titled «The Lost Weekend» was released in September 2017 on Wicked Cool Record, and that following October the Combo entered the studio with legendary Spanish producer Paco Loco to record their follow up LP to «In Orbit», titled «Let’s Go Wild!», due out early 2018!

Kris Rodgers & The Dirty Gems
Known as “rock n’ roll’s secret weapon”, Kris ‘Fingers’ Rodgers has been a recording & touring sideman in top touring garage rock and power pop acts like The Connection, Scott Sorry, The New Trocaderos, Bullet Proof Lovers, and Kurt Baker Band for years. Kris Rodgers started The Dirty Gems in 2011 as a throwback piano rock n’ roll trio. The trio quickly formed into a full rock outfit in 2014, resulting in their first single, “Headlines” being featured by Little Steven Van Zandt as “Coolest Song in the World” on Steven’s Sirius/XM radio station “The Underground Garage”.