21 April 11 - 17, 2024 dallasobserver.com DALLAS OBSERVER Classified | MusiC | dish | Culture | unfair Park | Contents 10,000 Maniacs 6:30 P.M. THURSDAY, APRIL 11, LONGHORN BALLROOM, 216 CORINTH ST. $26+ AT PREKINDLE.COM Folk rock band 10,000 Maniacs formed in the early 1980s with singer Natalie Merchant at the helm. The band had a decade-long run with Merchant, releasing hits such as “These Are Days,” a cover of “Because The Night” and “Candy Everybody Wants” before Merchant left the band to pursue a solo career. But the band kept going with vocalists Oskar Saville, Leigh Nash and Mary Ramsey taking turns in the lead singer position. After 30 years and five albums as lead singer, Mary Ramsey has taken a step back from her role as singer and guitarist. Jeff Erickson has also decided to step away from touring. For this and the rest of their autumn dates, 10,000 Maniacs brings back lead singer Leigh Nash and brings in guitarist Matt Slocum, who are both founding members of Sixpence None the Richer, the band that gave us the late- ’90s hit, “Kiss Me.” Memphis singer-songwriter Kelley Mickwee opens the show. DAVID FLETCHER Tim McGraw 7 P.M. FRIDAY, APRIL 12, DICKIES ARENA, 1911 MONTGOMERY ST. $65.50+ AT TICKETMASTER.COM Since 1993, country music star Tim McGraw has been one of the best-selling performers in the genre with 10 of his 16 albums reaching the No. 1 spot on Billboard’s Top Country Albums chart and the rest fairing quite well. In recent years, McGraw has perhaps become even more well known as an actor, starring beside Sam Elliot and his wife, Faith Hill, in the Yellowstone pre- quel, 1883. Last year, McGraw released both his 16th album, Standing Room Only, and the sur- prise EP Poet’s Resumé just a few months later. Taken together the two releases display some of the most emotional and thought-provoking mu- sic McGraw has recorded across his 30-year ca- reer. McGraw’s Standing Room Only Tour 2024 comes to Fort Worth this Friday with opening support from Kentucky bluegrass singer Carly Pearce. DF Sessanta 8 P.M. FRIDAY, APRIL 12, THE PAVILION AT TOYOTA MUSIC FACTORY, 300 W. LAS COLINAS BLVD. $125+ AT LIVENATION.COM In honor of Tool lead singer Maynard James Keenan’s 60th birthday, his bands Puscifer and A Perfect Circle will be playing together with ex- perimental funk metal band Primus on the same stage at the same time. That means that these bands will not be playing individual sets. In- stead, they will trade off songs and musicians throughout the night. Before going on tour, the three groups released the Sessanta E.P.P.P., which has one song from each band with Keenan listed as songwriter on all three. With the show drifting between these three very dif- ferent bands, it is sure to feel a lot more like a circus than a traditional concert. Be sure to show up on time. The Sessanta show will go on with- out a warm-up act, and with all this talent on stage, who needs one? Also, keep in mind that Keenan is not a fan of phones out at shows. Why would you want to diminish this performance by watching it through a screen anyway? DF Tyler Childers 7:30 P.M. SATURDAY, APRIL 13, DICKIES ARENA, 1911 MONTGOMERY ST. $405+ AT TICKETMASTER.COM Kentucky singer-songwriter Tyler Childers has always derived inspiration from his home state. A neotraditional country artist drawing heavily on the folk and bluegrass traditions, Childers had a slow come-up from the time he started performing in 2010 until his breakthrough re- lease, Purgatory, in 2017. During that time, Childers worked odd jobs to support himself and his music until a chance meeting with coun- try artist Sturgill Simpson changed the course of his career. Simpson would produce Purgatory and its 2019 follow-up Country Squire, which in- cluded the Grammy-nominated song “All Your’n.” During the press circuit for his 2020 re- lease Long Violent History, Childers revealed that he had struggled with drugs and alcohol for the better part of 11 years. Childers’ Mule Pull ’24 Tour with Hayes Carll comes to Fort Worth Sat- urday night. DF Stewart Copeland 7:30 P.M. TUESDAY, APRIL 16, MEYERSON SYMPHONY CENTER, 2301 FLORA ST. $50+ AT SMU.UNIVERSITYTICKETS.COM For its 31st annual benefit concert, Southern Methodist University’s Meadows School will host seven-time Grammy Award-winning composer and founder/drummer of The Po- lice, Stewart Copeland, together in concert with the critically acclaimed Meadows Sym- phony Orchestra, conducted by director of the music division Thomas Keck, for a perfor- mance of Police Deranged for Orchestra. Keck, a longtime fan of Copeland, missed Cope- land’s Police Deranged tour in 2022 but worked to bring Copeland to SMU to accept the Meadows Award — a 41-year-old honorar- ium given to an artist at the pinnacle of a dis- tinguished career — along with an artistic residency. The renowned drummer will be in town on April 15 to work closely with SMU stu- dents in composition and film while rehears- ing with the student orchestra ahead of his show at the Meyerson on April 16. DF | LET’S DO THIS | t Music Kai B. 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