We’re smack in the middle of the week, and there’s tons of stuff to do, including Radio Free Charleston recording at Third Eye Cabaret Thursday night. Expect a supplemental list on Friday, but for now here’s what we have…

Wednesday

Tonight Time and Distance (RFC 184) celebrate their leader’s birthday tonight as every gathers to blow out candles on Greg McGowan’s cake at The Empty Glass, starting at 10 PM. Five bucks gets you into the party where you can hear Time and Distance as they kick off a new mini-tour. Also on the bill tonight are frequent RFC guests The McGees and future guests, The Red Lights.

The Boulevard Tavern presents The Ford Theater Reunion with The
Trojan Whores and Rick Perdue, tonight starting at 9:30 PM. I’m guessing there’s a five-dollar cover, but don’t hold me to that.

There’s comedy tonight in both Charleston and Huntington. The Blue Parrot presents Tyler Stewart and Josh McDonald, followed by an open mic with up-and-coming local comics. Five dollars gets you in to hear the funny at 9 PM. In Huntington, Black Sheep Burritos hosts their bi-weekly comedy open mic starting at 9 PM. No cover charge is specified.

Thursday

It’s a special night at Third Eye Cabaret, as the Radio Free Charleston crew will be on hand to record highlights of the evening for next week’s show. Things will get started with house band The BrotherSisters, an electric folk trio featuring the triple harmonies of Douglas Imbrogno, Albert Perrone and Marylin McKeown.Then Jamie Skeen plays some amazing electric bass compositions to multi-tracked original tracks. Louis Argento, a heavyweight local singer & songwriter will be on hand, and an expanded line of up Snakebox featuring Kevin Krump, Beth Summers, Alasha Al-Qudwah, Adrian DeQuiros, Frank Spiker and David Stephenson will perform. You can see them on this week’s RFC MINI SHOW

That’s the forty-eighth edition of Third Eye Cabaret, Thursday night, starting at 8 PM at the Cellar, 8 Capitol Street.

Elsewhere Thursday, Mojo’s Comedy Night presents the area’s top new comedians in a cover-free, alcohol-soaked environment, starting at 9 PM, while The Empty Glass presents Tigress, cabaret-style alternative rock from Kingston, New York, at 10 PM, with a five-or-seven dollar cover charge.

Kenneth Brian Band Weekend

The Kenneth Brian Band, with Lillie Mae Rische and Travis Stephens, will make two stops in the area this weekend. Friday night you can catch the band at The Empty Glass at 10 PM with a seven-dollar cover. Saturday you can catch them at The Dunbar Lanes, on Ohio Avenue in Dunbar. starting at 9 PM, again, with a seven-dollar cover. This Nashville-based band has a huge following and features local cool dude, Travis Stephens and Lillie Mae Rische, who also performs with Jack White.

These will be the last area shows by The Kenneth Brian Band before they head out to the West Coast for six months.

Check PopCult Friday for more Stuff To Do.