Headlining: Phineas Gage

Cheekily described as "music for happy brains," Phineas Gage is an Americana folk band who borrows its name from Phineas P. Gage, a courageous Vermont railroad worker who amazingly survived a large iron rod driven straight through his head. A mystery to the world of medicine and a celebrity to his state in the mid-19th century, the music of tonight's modern local band titled in his honor is one who has commandeered its sounds from the woods and front porches of men playing upbeat ditties at a county fair in 1848. With a few guitars and a mandolin, expect to hear upbeat back-country classics that sound like the harmonies of workin' men and pretty ladies. Indeed, the ghost of Phineas Gage sure is going to make your noggin do a dance. Get a listen of the stuff we're howlin' about right over here.