Casey Jones Distillery will host a concert and laser light show on Saturday, Aug. 19, celebrating the 50th anniversary of Pink Floyd’s “Dark Side of the Moon” album.
The tribute band American Floyd will play for the concert that’s billed as Lights Out Festival VI on the distillery grounds.
Gates will open at 10 a.m., and food trucks, including Burgasm and Chef Jamie will begin serving at noon. The concert and light show will run from 7 to 10 p.m. The distillery will be open for tours, tastings and bar service.
Advance tickets are available online. General admission is approximately $30 (including tax and a processing fee), and concert-goers are invited to bring lawn chairs. VIP seating for six is approximately $340. It includes a table and six chairs, a VIP area bar, bottled water and ice bucket, party cups and VIP porta potty facilities.
“Dark Side of the Moon” is considered one of the iconic albums of rock music. It was ranked 55th in Rolling Stone magazine’s list of the 500 greatest albums of all time. (Floyd fans might argue it should have ranked higher.)
The English rockers of Pink Floyd played most of the songs on “Dark Side” on tour prior to recording and releasing the album in 1973.
Rolling Stone described the album, “As a culmination of their inner-space explorations of the early 1970s, the Floyd toured the bulk of Dark Side in Britain for months prior to recording. But in the studio, the band articulated bassist Roger Waters’ reveries on the madness of everyday life with melodic precision (“Breathe,” “Us and Them”) and cinematic luster (Clare Torry’s guest vocal aria “The Great Gig in the Sky”). Dark Side is one of the best-produced rock albums ever …”
The American Floyd tribute band is comprised of 11 musicians:
- Mark Hawkins – Guitars, Lead Vocals
- John Williams – Guitar, Lap Steel
- Jim Scott – Sax, Background Vocals
- Andy Miller – Acoustic Guitar, Lead Vocals
- Herman DePriest – Hammond B3, Keyboards
- Issac Frost – Bass Guitar
- Andy Flores – Keyboards, Lead Vocals
- Tim Seay – Drums
- Ann Marie Brown – Backup Vocals
- Lexie Gordon – Backup Vocals
- Lynn Halliburton – Backup Vocals
Casey Jones, a craft distillery, is located on 2815 Witty Lane.
Jennifer P. Brown is co-founder, publisher and editor of Hoptown Chronicle. You can reach her at editor@hoptownchronicle.org. She spent 30 years as a reporter and editor at the Kentucky New Era. She is a co-chair of the national advisory board to the Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues, governing board president for the Kentucky Historical Society, and co-founder of the Kentucky Open Government Coalition.
