This summer, the Downtown Boise Alive After Five Summer Concert Series celebrates 24 years of providing Boise with fun and music. The event takes place from 5 to 8 p.m. every Wednesday on the Grove Plaza in downtown Boise now through Sept. 29 (Record Exchange Day featuring BeauSoleil avec Michael Doucet). This free summer concert series is a community favorite in downtown Boise.

The DBA is excited to offer an exciting lineup of bands on the Bud Light Stage for this season. This week’s headliner is Chuck Prophet along with local openers Sleepy Seeds.

Chuck Prophet shapes his restless career with inimitable subtle flair: a vivid parade of razor-edged one-liners camouflaged in a slack-jawed drawl, songs about heartbreak and everyman heroism, drenched in twisted lines of rude Telecaster.

When the early stages of a financial melt-down coincided with a rare San Francisco heat wave in the summer of 2008, with the window open wide and Dwight Twilley, Iggy, Thin Lizzy and the Knack blaring out the hi-fi, Prophet wrote a collection of political songs for non-political people. Later, in April 2009, he journeyed to Mexico City, where, in the clutches of a Swine Flu panic and earthquakes, he recorded ¡Let Freedom Ring!, his most incendiary record, every bit as urgent as the title demands.

His search for a new perspective paid off, much like at eighteen when he left his native Whittier, Calif., for San Francisco, which he still calls home, and before too long joined Green on Red, a gang of interloping Arizonans with no small impact on L.A.’s Paisley Underground. During an eight-year run with Green on Red, he cut his first major label session with legendary Memphis producer Jim Dickinson, burned through a couple of big record deals, and ventured a debut solo effort, Brother Aldo (1990). These were the first steps in the career that shaped Prophet into a prolific rock ‘n’ roll classicist.

But now, he has created his career high-water mark. ¡Let Freedom Ring! wanders into the fractured, surreal state of the American Dream and emerges with the most vital document of Prophet’s vision, a reflection of life and love for troubled times.

Purchase music from the headliner at The Record Exchange Alive After Five booth! We also have ticket giveaways, freebies, coupons and other fun waiting at our AA5 booth. Stop by and say hi!

Go Listen Boise organizes the lineup of local openers for Alive After Five, pairing some of Boise’s best musicians with the headliners each week. GLB also maintains an information booth at AA5 so you can learn more about the organization and when and where you can see local music.

For the full summer lineup, click HERE. You can also read Idaho Statesman music critic Michael Deeds’ annual AA5 preview, which includes band descriptions and other useful information such as what you’ll be able to eat each week.

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