Nena Anderson pays tribute, Quatro gets down, Nickel Creek comes back, Silent Comedy makes movie, Jonny Tarr drops album

The Belly Up hosts a February 14 tribute to Dolly Parton curated by Nena Anderson and featuring Brawley, with proceeds to benefit the Keep A Breast Foundation. Prizes will be awarded for the best Dolly and Kenny Rogers look-a-likes, with performers to include Pearl Charles, Joey Harris, Sara Petite, Shane Shipley, Molly Jenson, Rheanna Downey, and Tim Petersen.

Chuck Schiele’s band The Quatro made their concert debut in 2019, soon self-producing a three-song debut EP. The group features pedal steel guitarist George Newton, double bassist John Dancks (who worked with Schiele in Salt City Chill), and cellist Heather Kubacki, a former student of Schiele’s from his digital art class at Cazenovia College. An album called Square Peg was recently released on Subcat Records, preceded by a single and video for “Get Down.”

Progressive acoustic music trio Nickel Creek will release Celebrants, their fifth studio album — and their first new full-length in nine years — on March 24. The 18-track album was recorded at Nashville’s RCA Studio A and produced by longtime collaborator Eric Valentine (Queens of the Stone Age, Weezer). Mandolinist Chris Thile describes the lead single “Strangers” as “an exploration of the ostensibly rewarding but often awkward, even excruciating act of catching up with an old friend. Can the connection be reforged? Should it be?”

The February 21 opening night of the Oceanside International Film Festival at Sunshine Brooks Theatre includes the world premiere of I Am Alright: Music, Madness, and the Fall of The Silent Comedy, a candid documentary about the titular local indie rock band. “It tells the story of a very painful chapter of our lives that we have never shared publicly,” according to the group. “We were barely hanging on, then we weren’t hanging on, then we were in free-fall.”

2020 SDMA Best Pop award winner Jonny Tarr will play a release party at OB’s The Holding Company on April 7 for his third album The Rules, recorded and self-produced at his Tarr Towers Studios. Issued on local Pacific Records, it features his own contributions on piano, guitar, and saxophone. “The album is a response to the past few years of world chaos and emotional wreckage, filled with messages of love and hope,” says Tarr.