Backyard Band leader Anwan “Big G” Glover puts it this way: “The crank is like a combination of drums, conga, keyboard—and the energy onstage. It’s hard to explain,” he says.

Big names in music will stop by Bands in the Backyard this summer. Brothers Osbourne, Flo Rida, Fetty Wap, Larry Fleet, The Powell Brothers, The Cadillac Three and Carly Pearce will perform at the ...

For Bands in the Backyard, 2020 was supposed to be a big year.. Tommy Giodone looked forward to bringing back the Pueblo music festival he started in 2013. He didn’t host the event in 2018 and ...

Backyard Band front man Anwar “Big G” Glover gripped his hand around the microphone and shouted ... Their aim is to create a lasting home for an art form born in the city in the mid-1970s ...

In what would turn out to be one of their last gigs before the pandemic, the chamber-folk band Darlingside played the second annual The Town and the City Festival in Lowell back in 2019. “We ...

To kick off the 2024-2025 season, the Dennis C. Moss Cultural Arts Center is thrilled to announce “Backyard Bash X: Day of the Dead,” a FREE Mexican-themed celebration featuring the Selena ...

This weekend is one of the most exciting for Dayton arts and music fans because it’s First Friday and Art in the City on Saturday. It’s still possible to experience live local music, even in ...

There’s no denying that Adele‘s inescapable single “Hello” is a near-perfect song, so transcendent that it can bring quarreling families together in a serene, trance-like manner. I didn ...

This rock band hopes their new tour gives big concert venues a run for their money. The most memorable part of these teens’ prom happened after the dance, when they stumbled upon a house on fire.

Bands in the Backyard takes place on 55 acres of land with one main stage and over 10 bars. Last year's festival was canceled due to COVID-19 health and safety concerns.