New York’s Jack Grace Band to play in Niles
New York singer and songwriter Jack Grace will be in town for this week’s Niles Thursday Night Concert.
The free concert begins at 7 p.m. at the Riverfront Park Amphitheater.
The Jack Grace Band played Wednesday night in Marshall and heads next to a couple Chicago hangouts this weekend.
According to a biography at jackgrace.com, Jack Grace “has been most recently known as a country musician, but that designation belies the myriad of influences that shape his sound. It began with an obsession with the Beatles, and as a teenager, he wore out his Zeppelin records like so many of us. Later, when he discovered Neil Young, he wore those discs out too. His first band, Steak, had a Zappa-inspired sound, he was told, when he was barely aware of the iconic figure who couldn’t be bothered to stick to a single formula. Fitting. Later, after discovering he had a baritone eerily reminiscent of the great Johnny Cash, he added some steel to the mix and suddenly everyone was calling him country.”