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THURSDAY, APRIL 21, 2022 • THE BULLETIN
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Charley Crockett will bring
country music to Midtown Ballroom
You and I could sit down over a cold one
and debate who’s the best country singer in
the world right now, and neither of us would
be right or wrong. There’s no right or wrong
answer to such a question, of course.
But if one of us was touting Charley
Crockett as the world’s best country singer,
that person would have a pretty strong ar-
gument.
Crockett’s from the borderlands of Texas,
and he cut his teeth performing on the
street in cities across the world. Eventually,
he evolved into a top-shelf blues- and soul-
tinged country singer with a dusky tone to
his voice and a preference for traditional
sounds and throwback vibes.
Crockett rules, in other words, and he’ll
roll into Bend Thursday night for a show at
the Midtown Ballroom. If you want to go,
here’s hoping you already have a
ticket, because this one’s sold
out.
Charley Crockett, with
Vincent Neil Emerson:
Sold out, 8 p.m. Thurs-
day, doors open 7 p.m.,
Midtown Ballroom, 51
NW Greenwood Ave.,
Bend, midtownball-
room.com.
golian instruments to whip
up a frenzied blend of
folk music, rock ‘n’ roll,
heavy metal, deeply
resonant throat
singing and Mon-
golian war cries. In
2019, they became
the first Mongo-
lian musical act
to top a Billboard
chart when their
The Hu will visit Bend
song “Wolf Totem”
reached No. 1 on the
Hard Rock Digital Song
The Hu sound like the cen-
Charley Crockett
Sales list.
terpiece of an old comedy bit:
Their music is boister-
“The Hu are playing Bend’s
ous, droning and heavily percussive, like
Midtown Ballroom next week.”
tribal chanting set to symphonic rock. They
“Who?”
shred in ways that feel new and unique, and
“That’s right!”
yet strangely familiar at the same time.
In fact, The Hu is a band from Ulaan-
Also, I just realized their name is a play
baatar, Mongolia that uses traditional Mon-
on The Who.
The Hu: $27.50, 8 p.m. Tuesday, April 26,
doors open 7 p.m., Midtown Ballroom, 51
NW Greenwood Ave., Bend, midtownball-
room.com.
Worthy will host Bryan Bielanski
If nothing else, Bryan Bielanski is un-
afraid of setting a high bar for his music.
The North Carolina singer-songwriter’s bio
starts like this:
“Imagine Nirvana and the Beatles had a
kid together who became an acoustic rock
singer-songwriter: that’s Bryan Bielanski!”
If you take a spin through Bielanski’s 2022
album “Bryan’s Super Happy Fun Time II,”
you can hear slivers of the Beatles’ pop in-
stinct and psych predilections, plus a healthy
dose of Nirvana’s melodic angst surfacing
regularly in the guy’s strummy rock songs.
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