TWO porches, TWO completely different Johnny Dowd performances:
Johnny Dowd Band at 1pm featuring Kim Sherwood-Caso
Wooden Lung at 2:45 pm featuring Rocket Morton
Biltmore Bar & Lounge - The Biltmore Bar & Lounge
September 15th at 7:45pm
Biltmore Bar & Lounge - The Biltmore Bar & Lounge
September 16th at 7:45pm
Biltmore Bar & Lounge - The Biltmore Bar & Lounge
September 17th at 7:45pm
Johnny Dowd at the Finger Lakes Festival of Music and Dance, July 18, 8:30 in the Cabaret.
Mini-Mekons feature the veteran Mekon duo of Sally Timms and Jon Langford plus muscular musical support from John “the Pieman” Szymanski and Martin “the Bluehammer” Billheimer.
Their good friend Johnny Dowd is coming up from Ithaca to open the show…
A spin-the-bottle of the arts.
Seven writers, seven readers, seven musicians, creating spontaneous one-time-only seven-minute experiences. Part of the Spring Writes Literary Festival.
It's May and EZ Listening returns to the Room K stage! Part deep listening session, performance spectacle, and jam EZ Listening transports you to a world of sounds that will amaze and delight you! This month we have Johnny Dowd side project Wooden Lung, local noise legend Sunken Cheek and synth clarinetist Gender Extremist! This is a night you won't forget! Join us May 12th at Room K in K-House! Deep Listening7 pm, performances at 8 pm, jam at ??? Tell your friends and enemies they won't want to miss this! See you there!
Great bands and great food and drink. KItchen opens at 4:00, music at 6:00.
Johnny dowd band featuring Mike stark. Vinyl release of “wrong side of Memphis”
We will play the tunes live!
Johnny Dowd, Mike Stark, Amy LaVere and Will Sexton.
Contact Johnny for location: https://www.johnnydowd.com/contact
The final 3 Headed Tour show before Johnny and the Human Shields go to Europe, and at our favorite local haunt no less.
Visit Johnny at his studio on October 11,12 and 19 from 11 to 5.
A little art, a little music, some lagniappe
Johnny joins original Songwriters & Poets Alan Rose, Penelope Voss, Mandy Goldman, Rob Hummel, Alayna Hernandez, Keegan Young & More to celebrate A Membership-Supported Community Listening Room in the Heart of Downtown Ithaca
Catch Johnny and the band from 5:30 till 6:30 on the following days:
Sept 11 - Sept 12
Sept 17 - Sept 18
July 24
Cherry St Tavern Chattanoga TN
https://www.bandsintown.com/e/107103960?app_id=ggl_feed&came_from=289&utm_medium=web&utm_source=ggl_feed&utm_campaign=event&source=ea
July 25
The Camp Huntsville AL
https://www.facebook.com/events/1801882603727113
July 26
Gumtree Museum of Arts Tupelo MS
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/an-evening-at-the-museum-with-amy-lavere-will-sexton-tickets-1431865340779?aff=oddtdtcreator&fbclid=IwY2xjawLro3BleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFqVjl6UzJKREhraG40NER2AR6iD5AgZyJZNa2iJAn4VHok9qxTsVnKbu3LqinCzT9xvZ7FDOTzS0yESP0CaA_aem__ELIFMkzI3myTIAPwEdr5Q
July 27
Mollie Fontaine Lounge Memphis TN
https://www.shazam.com/event/219a414a-797e-4676-80c5-d2a402d3aa30
July 30
The Blue Door Oklahoma City OK
https://www.ticketstorm.com/event/thethreeheadedtouramylaverewillsextonjohnnydowd/bluedoor/oklahomacity/30878/
July 31
Dan’s Silverleaf Denton TX
https://www.facebook.com/events/625613856649987
August 1
The Old Quarter Galveston TX
https://www.facebook.com/share/16cqqMgr6s/
August 2
Sam’s Town Point Austin TX
https://www.facebook.com/share/16vggzTvM4/
Johnny and the band stop by a favorite Chapel Hill venue mid Mekons tour. It’s a family picnic.
Severed Fingers opens.
TOUR DATES, LOCATIONS, AND TICKET LINKS
07/13/25 Sun
Ferndale, MI
Magic Bag
https://www.ticketweb.com/event/magic-bag-presents-mekons-the-magic-bag-tickets/13568504?pl=magicbag
07/14/25 Mon
Pittsburgh, PA
City Winery
07/16/25 Wed
Boston, MA
City Winery
https://citywinery.com/boston/events/mekons-plus-johnny-dowd-4nrctc
07/17/25 Thu
New York, NY
Bowery Ballroom
https://www.ticketmaster.com/event/0000616DCAEB42CE
07/18/25 Fri
Jersey City, NJ
White Eagle Hall
https://wl.seetickets.us/event/mekons/627168?afflky=WhiteEagleHall
07/19/25 Sat
Philadelphia, PA
Philadelphia Ethical Society
https://www.etix.com/ticket/p/38108995/
07/20/25 Sun
Washington, DC
Union Stage
https://www.unionstagepresents.com/shows/mekons/
07/22/25 Tue
Atlanta, GA
City Winery
https://citywinery.com/atlanta/events/the-mekons-hj34hn
07/23/25 Wed
Nashville, TN
City Winery
Check this guy out if you dare. So ran the last line of a profile titled Johnny Dowd Slithers Onto Music Scene back in 1999. That gives you a pretty decent idea of how Johnny Dowds music works slither and dare being the key words. Johnny does both. In the traditions of Waits or Bukowski, he slithers into places most of us dont imagine or see. They might be back alleys, back porches, or just a bar down the street, but wherever he goes he dares to sing out what he sees. Will you dare to listen? Dowd conjures up characters with bluntness and an eye for telling details a true writers songsmith.
Hear Johnny and the band up close and personal.
Contact martyboratin@gmail.com for address and to RSVP.
Doors at 5, opener at 7.
Johnny and the band tell it like it is at the Downstairs. Be there.
Johnny Dowd is an American alternative country musician from Ithaca, New York. Typical of his style are experimental breaks in his songs and gothic and country elements in the lyrics as well as in the music. There is also a strong undercurrent of black humor and the absurd in his work.
Although his early albums were most celebrated in the alternative country community, he has never quite fit into any particular genre. As a singer-songwriter, his music is most often compared to that of Tom Waits, Nick Cave and Captain Beefheart.
He is touring this summer with The Mekons, as well as with Amy LaVere and Will Sexton.
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Opening for Johnny Dowd is Howard Kraskow. Howard plays Americana music inspired by folk, blues, country, rock and pop. He writes about his life, often inspired by melancholy thoughts and feelings but the music and lyrics turn it into a healing, and even uplifting, experience.
Join us in the Grayhaven Gallery Lounge for the opening reception with art and music by Johnny Dowd.
Check out Johnny’s contribution to this group art show, and catch some tunes from the new album. Just Johnny and his guitar.
Johnny Dowd plays his neighborhood bar. C’mon down.
Let’s get down at the downstairs
Grab a beer and catch Johnny’s art work all January. Johnny will play 1/23.
Join Johnny at the opening for his January art show and stay to hear Dom Martyr. (Johnny’s band plays on Jan.23rd)
2nd Annual Wooden Lung Christmas Pageant
Made possible in part with funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, administered by the Community Arts Partnership.
GIRLS ON GRASS, JOHNNY DOWD, CAT CASUAL & THE FINAL WORD
in beautiful Queens, NY’s JONES BAR!
Free - although donations are strongly encouraged.
