Fire Play will be keeping the rock-and-roll flame burning at some diverse venues over the next few months
Fontana’s (and other upcoming venues)
105 Eldridge St.
Friday, September 2, $8, 8:00
212-334-6740
www.fireplayband.com
www.fontanasnyc.com
Formed on the Lower East Side in 2009, Fire Play burns it up with a classic rock sound infused with pop, country, blues, and surf elements, evoking the late 1970s and early 1980s with such stompers as “Hole in Your Heart,” “You Light the Fire,” and “You Never Will.” Jazzy lead singer Sari Schwartz, orchestral drummer Jay Alexander, folkie bassist Cid Rivera, and guitar rockers Chris Hanson and Rob Adelman play feel-good music that gets your body grooving, and they’ll be doing it in a wide range of places over the next few months. On September 2, they’ll be at Fontana’s with the Daimons, Chris Duggan, Graveyard Lovers, and Modern Primitives. On September 10, they’ll be on Governors Island for Pig Island II ($70), a celebration of all things pork, featuring twenty local chefs serving up eighty hogs. On October 29, Fire Play will be at the Local 269 on East Houston St., followed by a trio of performances at the Ward-Nasse Gallery on Prince St. on November 5 and December 3 and 17, squeezing in an appearance at Desmond’s Tavern on December 9, making for one of the strangest tours we can think of in recent memory.