EARL & THEM

  • EARL & THEM

NIGHTFLYING 30th ANNIVERSARY
9 p.m., Stickyz. $5

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Nightflying, the free, bi-monthly music and bar guide is an Arkansas institution. Those pulp grain papers are everywhere, promoting the gig-hopping blues and classic rock acts around the state since 1980. Now, looking at its 30th year, Nightflying is set to celebrate its birthday — a ripe, old age for such an alternative publication — with a long, rolling lineup full of the brand of music it champions: Earl Cate (of The Cate Brothers) brings his outfit, Earl & Them; bluegrass badasses Pope County Bootleggers; the roots rockers of the Joe Pitts Band; Bonnie Montgomery’s driving Dixie act, Montgomery Trucking; modern rockers Typhoid Mary; the backwoods sounds of Bluegrass Bombers; soul-blues from the veterans of Salt & Pepper; former Black Oak Arkansas and Krokus bassist Andy Tanas; the piano stylings of Bob Boyd; and pickin’ and grinnin’ from Bob Hayes and Bud Bell. And they’re still adding new acts to the night’s bill. If you’re looking for a lot of bang for not much buck, look no further.